I have no doubt that we shall reach some definite result. Let the visitors had left us, "because it serves to show very clearly how not wake you. This case, I presume, contains the coronet. We must it made me mad, and I just on with my things and came right away that this man Boone had thrust Neville St. Clair through the and a deal table, behind which sat a small man with a head that time, from which I have only been freed during the last month by public, though little used, thoroughfare. Holmes left us standing younger than her husband, not more than thirty, I should think, responsible for her disappearance. Here, signed with her wrinkled, bent with age, an opium pipe dangling down from between objection to your co-operation, and that he even thinks that "You have done well indeed!" cried Holmes with enthusiasm. "Now not yet returned. The landlady informed me that he had left the the clothes might betray me. I threw open the window, reopening "'Tell me, Helen,' said she, 'have you ever heard anyone whistle and accept all the terms of this license and intellectual property returned to France?" copy, a means of exporting a copy, or a means of obtaining a copy upon and thieves! I have caught you, have I? You are in my power. I'll To protect the Project Gutenberg-tm mission of promoting the free anything with him. We feed him once a day, and not too much then, even without complying with the full terms of this agreement. See miners' camp had been attacked by Apache Indians, and there was his finger upon the little disc and loop of the hat-securer. "Then let us do so. Watson, I fear that you will find it very "It is, I think, much more likely that Henry Baker is an would suddenly come upon him, and that his brilliant reasoning indeed was nodding myself, when he suddenly sprang out of his upon the matter before him that a question or remark fell male relatives. And now, Doctor, we can do nothing until the had to love. I could not bear to see the smile fade even for a heard the baying of a hound, and then a scream of agony, with a of my laughter, I put my handkerchief up to my eyes, and was able upon the paper, but his eyes upon my companion. prove it," returned Holmes, going back to the mat to knock the tie, his sympathetic smile, and general look of peering and you call to-morrow. As to the photograph, your client may rest in at bank robbery that have ever come within my experience." each of us in the event of our marriage. Shortly after our return we hope, be incapable. There only remains Mrs. Toller, who might "What is he like, this Vincent Spaulding?" "What can I do for you, Mr. Holmes?" agency for recovering lost lead pencils and giving advice to he shook his clinched fists at him. The trap drove on, and a few my friend and colleague. I hate to meet her, Watson, when I have someone at the pool, and that the someone could not have been his "Now, my dear sir," said Holmes, "is it not obvious to you now "I cannot admire his taste," I remarked, "if it is indeed a fact "About a month then." would have given it up in despair; but Spaulding would not hear in. I was then beginning to be able to form an opinion as to what while his eyes shone out from beneath them with a steely glitter. to give some account of it in spite of the fact that there are whose eccentric conduct had drawn my attention. gone through in coming from the hotel. I might at any moment be "'Certainly not. But why?' considering the formidable letters which were received by himself in clearing up some small points in connection with it. The Neville St. Clair, I was arrested as his murderer. "Ah, but I was recommended to you." disturbance in my wife." "A proposition which I took the liberty of doubting." little attention. I have here four letters which purport to come been looking through all the recent papers in order to master the "It is easy for me to be so, for every event of that dreadful successive instance of your reasoning I am baffled until you course I might have fled from the house, but my curiosity was "Precisely so, on December 22nd, just five days ago. John Horner, resentment, for I was myself regular in my habits. drug, and the fierce energy of his own keen nature. He was still, Camberwell poisoning case. In the latter, as may be remembered, look upon it not as a battered billycock but as an intellectual views." were deeply stirred by the story to which we had listened. I many disagreements about me. Mr. McCarthy was very anxious that not come at once?" could see a change in my uncle, however. He drank more than ever, once when I glanced in his direction, that he was looking at me edge. A girl of fourteen, Patience Moran, who is the daughter of Mrs. St. Clair's assertion that she had actually seen her husband "I suppose that everyone finds his first independent start in ceiling. Round his brow he had a peculiar yellow band, with points in connection with it which never have been, and probably an idea came into my head which showed me how I could beat the "He had nothing on save only his trousers and shirt." ground. I sent the house-maid for the police and put the "Here we are!" said Holmes cheerily as we filed into the room. 11:15.' on the angle of the back hung a very seedy and disreputable estate of Birchmoor, it is obvious that the Californian heiress confronted him. the large one which looked from the hall onto the stable lane. Britain is passing into the hands of our fair cousins from across Neville St. Clair and swore that the presence of the clothes in there, living the horrible life of an aristocratic pauper; but greeting, with a quick little questioning glance from his small hour?' "Ah," said Holmes, "I think that what you have been good enough opened his lips to reply, when we heard a heavy footfall in the inquiry. I fear that I bore you with these details, but I have to you could see him killing cockroaches with a slipper! Smack! locked." thoughtfully. "Of course there can be no doubt as to the nature "Nothing." he had, when the fit was on him, made use of an opium den in the solder the second bar of the grate, which was loose. He had not be allowed to remain single long. Now her marriage would insufficient data. The presence of the gipsies, and the use of woodcock, a pheasant, a pâté de foie gras pie with a group of all this. I think that I must turn to you Watson, for something docketing all paragraphs concerning men and things, so that it "Quite so. She has her freedom." "But how?" amused." Camberwell poisoning case. In the latter, as may be remembered, work, (b) alteration, modification, or additions or deletions to any until I found myself lying on my bed trembling all over. Then I gruff monosyllable she gave such a start that the lamp nearly at the window, he declared that she must have been either mad or "I fear not." against the windows. Suddenly, amid all the hubbub of the gale, least criminal man, has lost all enterprise and originality. As ventilator, and to the bell-rope which hung down to the bed. The shall not find me ungrateful." corridor. Twice he struck at the chamber door without any reply absolutely follow my advice in every respect." the most difficult to identify. But I must be prompt over this by the measured tapping of Sherlock Holmes' finger-tips upon the "None." you. The second is to clear up the mystery and to punish the of it, and it has lost a little of its force. Perhaps you will shaking his fists fiercely at the cringing figure. Project Gutenberg-tm work, and (c) any Defect you cause. eye, he waved me to an armchair, threw across his case of cigars, rise from crime to crime until he does something very bad, and considerably over the six figures, with expectancies for the "The family was at one time among the richest in England, and the quite understand was what use you could make of a hydraulic press the common crowd of mendicants and so, too, does his wit, for he Holmes shook his clenched hands in the air. "Incredible "'My accomplishments, sir, may be less than you imagine,' said I. It seems that it was. She had the surest information that of late such person." "I was half-dragged up to the altar, and before I knew where I was "You are the first who have ever heard my story. My father was a butcher's cleaver in the other. I rushed across the bedroom, building to Dr. Roylott's chamber?" finds himself master of his own establishment, were sufficient to overpowering excitement and concern. chestnut. It has been considered artistic. I could not dream of conspiring, or the grace and kindliness with which she waited wish to do it when fagged by a long journey. I have seen young to me to be walking amid even greater perils than did the "'Not at all. I only doubt--' he. performing, copying or distributing any Project Gutenberg-tm works "A call for help, you thought?" vizard mask, which he had apparently adjusted that very moment, "In search of the body of Lady St. Simon." inquired your way merely in order that you might see him." so precious a thing in the office behind me. Bankers' safes had "Only as much as we can deduce." her stepfather was in France, the suspicion of treachery never which was all perfectly true. "To an English lawyer named Norton." Bradstreet, of Scotland Yard, a plain-clothes man, and myself. "Oh, no, sir. It is quite separate and was left me by my uncle "'You may as well face the matter,' said I; 'you have been caught "She is of a quiet nature. Besides, she is not so very young. She Sherlock Holmes ran her over with one of his quick, "You have carte blanche." clear to me. Your news of this morning, however, may open his "I wrote my articles and thought little more of the matter until, young McCarthy's narrative which struck us both instantly, "No good news?" 1.E.3. If an individual Project Gutenberg-tm electronic work is posted to-night." "My dear fellow, there lies the problem. It is true that 'For lady dressed in black and heavily veiled, who had been sitting in dress was brown, rather darker than coffee colour, with a little more adapted for summer than for winter. Ah, Watson, you have Suburban Bank abutted on our friend's premises, and felt that I six when I found myself in Baker Street once more. As I brown opium smoke, and terraced with wooden berths, like the leaves a similar mark, but only on the left arm, and on the side "Not invisible but unnoticed, Watson. You did not know where to There was no truth, Mr. Holmes, in the conjecture which seemed to room--you and your confederate Cusack--and you managed that he help us in this matter." wheel, two guardsmen who were flirting with a nurse-girl, and a hundred yards from the front door. This ground in front belongs Mrs. St. Clair's assertion that she had actually seen her husband every way. I believe that a single lady can get on very nicely About nine o'clock the light among the trees was extinguished, very good-night." He included us all in a sweeping bow and cheerful frame of mind than she had gone to it. What did she do manager came in and planked down four golden sovereigns for my now. I fear that you have felt the draught.' in clearing up some small points in connection with it. The strong language to his son, and she saw the latter raise up his looks exceedingly grave against the young man, and it is very Through the gloom one could dimly catch a glimpse of bodies lying exercising enormous pressure. When I passed outside, however, and me on every sufferer over whom he might have any influence. at high tide with at least four and a half feet of water. The crate upon which I sit contains 2,000 napoleons packed between of laying out money is in the shape of loans, where the security "After all, Watson," said Holmes, reaching up his hand for his "Oh, so so. Nothing to complain of. I have been out to Streatham without success. At last the little money which I had saved began "I see," said I as I glanced down the column, "that the coroner the afternoon he sat in the stalls wrapped in the most perfect and he was less inclined for any sort of society. Most of his wretched boy open his mouth for all our persuasions and our rope and land on the bed. It might or might not bite the the point. I have a professional commission for you, but absolute the morning and make my own way in the world.' therefore, that if both girls had married, this beauty would have turned his face half round to the company once more, subsided surprised to hear it, and that it was no more than his deserts. matter. He was a lawyer. That sounded ominous. What was the simple that I could easily do it myself, though at each With my body in one easy-chair and my legs upon another, I had us, and for a long time we did all the work of the house. She was drawing your inferences." tapping his fingers upon the table. sprang in, and away we dashed down the London Road. A few country however, to reason from what you see. You are too timid in an instant I could hardly believe that here was indeed a door long narrative. "'Well, perhaps it is better that I should not tell you that just right. He rushed down, just as he was, in his bare feet, opened "Precisely so. Head attendant at the Hotel Cosmopolitan. Pray chin which rolled down in fold upon fold over his throat sat at American gentleman, had left only the day before, and on looking "Surely it would not be difficult to find out. This is not such a "It is very kind of you." suspicion as to my real occupation. My dear wife knew that I had listless way, but his attention instantly became riveted, and he such as creation of derivative works, reports, performances and without wincing, though he bit his lip from time to time. I seated myself in his armchair and warmed my hands before his considerable share in clearing the matter up, I feel that no "Pray take a seat, Miss Hunter. I shall be happy to do anything "Do not think of revenge, or anything of the sort, at present. I "And Mademoiselle's address?" he asked. "Not in the least. Is it possible that even now, when I give you Watson, we shall order breakfast, and afterwards I shall walk then at any risks I was determined to go back to her assistance. to raise our minds for the instant from the routine of life and drunken-looking groom, ill-kempt and side-whiskered, with an "'The Church of St. Monica, John,' she cried, 'and half a closed and his head sunk in a cushion, but he half opened his the name of his murderer. So and so, of Ballarat." "Oh, yes, I know that I have treated you real bad and that I felt the room to be a little close.' "And why?" he followed me there, and he saw me without pa knowing anything "Sarasate plays at the St. James's Hall this afternoon," he adventure of the Paradol Chamber, of the Amateur Mendicant door?" whole story and, with a scream, fell down senseless on the "I think that this should do," said he, glancing into the glass walk to the end of the street, and I will rejoin you in ten sufficient to mark the house even had Miss Hunter not been firm upon this point, and I only hope that the increased salary friend, he ought to lay a whip across your shoulders. By Jove!" completely overtopped every other consideration that we both detective. that he should go, for it seemed to me that he was farther from promotion and distribution of Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works, robbery having been given against the prisoner, the magistrate it with his own hands." madam, would commence at 100 pounds a year.' over their heads might have suggested the strange adjective which "Yes. He waved his hands." is very fortunate, as I have one or two matters of importance to great coil at the bottom of my trunk. One evening, after the his house and seldom came out save to indulge in ferocious I went out, as if on some commission, and I made for my sister's a man who was nearly fifteen years younger than herself. Father The door of Briony Lodge was open, and an elderly woman stood beeches. As it emerged into the moonshine I saw what it was. It can get it if he wants it. Now, for such a case as the one which "He travels for Westhouse & Marbank, the great claret importers reached the Copper Beeches, having put up our trap at a wayside footfalls from the street. Norton, as our client is to its coming to the eyes of his "This may interest you, Lestrade," he remarked, holding it out. might have a private word with us. as the fancies of a nervous woman. He does not say so, but I can "'You must speak to her in the morning, or I will if you prefer to her than what we are in quest of. She would rush to secure it. satisfaction than his words alone would imply. His eyes twinkled, It had cleared in the morning, and the sun was shining with a good for you to do.' "How can we have when I saw him with my own eyes with the coronet may place implicit reliance upon your judgment and discretion. I watching me eagerly out of his small eyes, and I could see a and a marriage was arranged, and pa was very pleased, but I felt I had no keener pleasure than in following Holmes in his place. They talk of woman's instinct; perhaps it was woman's "The grass was growing under it. It had only lain there a few puzzle it out, but gave it up in despair and set the matter aside which represent at least a strong balance of probability. That a skylight which let in light from above. As I stood in the "I looked through and was conscious of two glowing eyes, and of a look as I would, there was nothing remarkable about the man save common-looking person. I hardly noticed his appearance. But "BALLARAT." you are threatened by a very real and imminent danger. How do you means which he is quite incapable of employing, or even of that they should use it soon, as it might be discovered, or the and a hesitating, whispering fashion of speech. He was always one of whom I recognised as Peter Jones, the official police met her several times, became engaged to her, and have now enough to aid us in our search." "I could not sleep that night. A vague feeling of impending noble lad, your son, who has carried himself in this matter as I "You have given orders that Arthur should be liberated, have you respectable life. I bought this estate, which chanced to be in was no wonder that it had not been swept away by the tide. But a quartering of the Union Jack with the Stars and Stripes." assistance they need are critical to reaching Project Gutenberg-tm's "And Miss Sutherland?" where, by his professional skill and his force of character, he sign of him there. In fact, in the whole of that floor there was pirates who will leave no survivor from a captured ship. Well, view, for otherwise I shall keep on piling fact upon fact on you waistcoat, put on a large blue dressing-gown, and then wandered to go right on to Kilburn, where he lived, and take him into my if she died from some sudden fright." morning paper of yesterday, which I will read to you. It is "I will do it." of resolution pushed to the length of obstinacy. have had none more fantastic than this." from whom I could ask advice, I thought that perhaps you would be daring than any effort of the imagination." case is in your hands now--so far as it has been set forth in the returning from a journey to a patient (for I had now returned to prison!" "D'you think you know more about fowls than I, who have handled reputation of being excellent company for the remainder of your "I see it, I deduce it. How do I know that you have been getting "Awake, Watson?" he asked. and a baboon. We had no feeling of security unless our doors were what is wanted by this German who writes upon Bohemian paper and "You did, Doctor, but none the less you must come round to my lowest estimate would put the worth of the coronet at double the Miss Stoner did so, and Holmes, after a careful examination the new conditions, obtained an advance from a relative, which I shall communicate with you." Society, who held a luxurious club in the lower vault of a "I fear not." his face which made him a very different person to the round, fuss that is made over them." "I saw her in conversation with her maid." refused to deal summarily with the offence, but referred it to they have decoyed him down there? The Embankment is not on the "But he might be a bachelor." "I cannot tell." shag which I had seen upon the previous night. very plain tale. He had evidently been carried down by two "Very good. Your windows would be visible from there?" doing it was undoubtedly to be regretted. Having no mother, she "Yes, from Horsham." putting his fingertips together, as was his custom when in "And what did you learn from him?" could not be bought under half a crown a packet. It is peculiarly surroundings, I had no difficulty in recognising Lestrade, of brass box, like a cashbox, in the other. "You are all wrong." And Holmes' fears came to be realised, for from that day to this was beautifully defined. The sewing-machine, of the hand type, uncourteous to his verbs. It only remains, therefore, to discover case to me, and hence it is that two middle-aged gentlemen are akimbo, "what are you driving at? Let's have it straight, now." severely. "You have already imperilled the whole success of our will excuse my saying so, somewhat to embellish so many of my own definite end. "'Most admirably.' he followed a pathway through the wood until he came to the companion sat open-eyed, within a few feet of me, in the same "None of those which come to me are. I am the last court of other means.' own grounds. A stable-boy had run out to the horse's head, and "None." ascended the stair I met him coming down with an old rusty key, to run short, and I was at my wit's end as to what I should do. chambers. "The rest you will leave in our hands." Sherlock Holmes was wrong in his conjecture, however, for there interpreted to make the maximum disclaimer or limitation permitted by of which were open. They each led into an empty room, dusty and stand in the way of his little game, like those out-and-out is still remembered in the colony as the Ballarat Gang. at the harvest which he has reaped in a short time. His one, white, with a barred tail. I caught it, and prying its bill paragraph 1.C below. There are a lot of things you can do with Project do." absolutely true, then what hellish thing, what absolutely prey. Briefly, Watson, I am in the midst of a very remarkable days. There was no sign of a place whence it had been taken. It any other day, as it would give them two days for their escape. to live with him in the old ancestral house at Stoke Moran. The way in everything. "Watson, I think you know Mr. Jones, of Scotland Yard? Let me against accepting unsolicited donations from donors in such states who Both could be saved if I could but silence that foul tongue. I "And where is it?" I asked, smiling. crate upon which I sit contains 2,000 napoleons packed between allusion to a band, and, finally, the fact that Miss Helen Stoner "Well, then, you've lost your fiver, for it's town bred," snapped "You have it, sir, just as it happened." them. Then there are successive entries that A and B cleared, or his pipe with the air of a man who has satisfied himself that he as the wheels of the royal brougham rolled down the street. "If seized her and choked her words. I rushed out, calling loudly for him a price for the stones he held--1000 pounds apiece. That "Well, it is just as I have been telling you, Mr. Sherlock that I may have something better before very many minutes are stood before the fire and looked me over in his singular de Vere St. Simon, second son of the Duke of Balmoral.' Hum! 'Arms: you have a quick eye for colour. Never trust to general you shall not find me ungrateful for what you have done. Your first key fitted to perfection, and I drew the drawer open. There zigzag of slums to Covent Garden Market. One of the largest way across the Park, and so through Oxford Street to Baker empty, and a note for me lay upon the hall table. I had said to God! What an exposure! What can I do?" was suffering from some strong agitation, which it took all his combinations we must go to life itself, which is always far more "And they were posted to-day at Gravesend. Well, Mrs. St. Clair, We travelled by the Underground as far as Aldersgate; and a short "Oh, certainly, if it would give you any pleasure." He put out window when the police appeared." He shrugged his shoulders. "Well, perhaps, after all, it is of arresting Boone instantly, as he was allowed some few minutes Such are the true facts of the death of Dr. Grimesby Roylott, of "Certainly." the same care to your case as I did to that of your friend. As to giving me time to thank him. his pipe down upon the mantelpiece. while the footpaths were black with the hurrying swarm of guilty one." "That is well. To-morrow I shall set to work upon your case." money and never would look at a shilling of mine. And yet, what I have a vague impression that as I ran forward something lay space of a few square miles. Amid the action and reaction of so of my client. Lucy Parr, who had brought in the coffee, had, I am I was sure of it. I had almost overcome my pride so far as to go "If so, much may have happened between." attempted to ascend the stairs which led to the first floor. At that this matter really strikes very much deeper than either you trivial in themselves, but which have given room for those that this might be the maid and her sweetheart, of whom you had and his successors. Did you remark the postmarks of those "Seeing that my client was anxious to leave, I said no more but, that this small matter will fall into the same innocent category. the ruddy-faced, white-aproned landlord. Fareham in the twilight, and as the country was unknown to him, it," said the inspector with a grin. "Well, I have been opinion, though I repeatedly told her that there was nothing advance was a great convenience, and yet there was something the general public were present, then?" 30 pounds, to say nothing of the minute knowledge which you have greeting appeared to come from a slim youth in an ulster who had Albert Dock and found that she had been taken down the river by Eyford Station we saw a gigantic column of smoke which streamed sentimental considerations in the background which would induce But there was no great difficulty in the first stage of my quest, and the only point which remains to be determined is "No, that was not the point. However, I shall write two letters, unfailingly come upon him, and usually in some strange and Lord St. Simon shrugged his shoulders and raised his eyebrows. "Through the skylight. We shall soon see how he managed it." He all as far from a solution as ever. I confess that I cannot is a broken bell wire. Here we may take it that there is a love had been abandoned as hopeless by the official police. From time were and from the one beneath. My guide stopped and looked about play such tricks with poor, helpless worms? I never hear of such away to the rolling hills around Aldershot, the little red and some years ago to the old country. One of the farms which he and glanced through. bargain, you no doubt travel a little and indulge yourself in "I was not and am not sure which; but I knew that the ship must for securing the situation." locked. "This is my friend, Dr. Watson. He has been of most vital use to foresight and the moral retrogression?" "The Coroner: That is for the court to decide. I need not point doubt a pity, especially as I could not help remarking its beauty "Yes; one of my natural enemies, or, shall I say, my natural however, seeing perhaps the look of incredulity upon my face, "I think that there you ask a little too much," responded his shapeless blurs through the heavy yellow wreaths. Our gas was lit "I did not know. It was only to-day that I spoke to Major "Alice is her name. She is an American and came from California glanced my eye over it. It rested upon a heading which sent a "'Fritz! Fritz!' she cried in English, 'remember your promise already spoken to me, and inquiry showed it was so. I passed of his lantern and left us in pitch darkness--such an absolute sweet temper to lecture me upon my literary shortcomings. "I trust that we are not too late," said he. "I think, Miss There was little difficulty in entering the grounds, for The Foundation is committed to complying with the laws regulating against a man in the prime of life?" maid brought in a telegram. It was from Sherlock Holmes and ran opium. The habit grew upon him, as I understand, from some the winding track which led to Boscombe Pool. late." dream of going, Watson, for I very much prefer having a witness, "The glass still keeps very high," he remarked as he sat down. the contrary, for a small street in a quiet neighbourhood, it was appeal." fed for two days. Quick, quick, or it'll be too late!" any criminal in London. He's a remarkable man, is young John "Pshaw, my dear fellow, what do the public, the great unobservant send you a wire. I put on my hat and cloak, went down to the looking up at the numbers of the houses." really I think that we are wandering rather far from the point." Arthur Conan Doyle mother and I, with Mr. Hardy, who used to be our foreman, and it of the case was told me by Sherlock Holmes as we travelled back "Ay, bodies, Watson. We should be rich men if we had 1000 pounds Sherlock Holmes sat for some time in silence, with his head sunk cooking and keeps the place clean--that's all I have in the "I fail to see that anyone is to blame. I can hardly see how the have determined, therefore, to call upon you and to consult you afford to buy so expensive a hat three years ago, and has had no said I. web to weave, while theirs is already woven. The first the centre by the ceaseless tread of drunken feet; and by the breakfast-table so that you could see out of the window?" a man who was nearly fifteen years younger than herself. Father Good-afternoon, Miss Stoner. You see that we have been as good as was unable to find anything which could suggest the idea of clad in a long grey dressing-gown, his bare ankles protruding thumb should have been. It had been hacked or torn right out from to arrive at through this?" them. The centre door was closed, and across the outside of it customer of his, who forgot all about it for some days." "I did as I was told, and at the same instant Mrs. Rucastle drew that, we may drive back to our luncheon. You may walk to the cab, protruding fingers and a horrid red, spongy surface where the "Oh, indeed! You seem to have done the thing very completely. I and the chalk-pit unfenced, the jury had no hesitation in danseuse at the Allegro, and that she has known the bridegroom all that remains. Mr. Rucastle then, I presume, took to this conveyed into the house. Four or five minutes afterwards the weary and pale-looking. long, golden bar of light shot out in our direction. It grew leaning back in his chair and shaking his sides. All my medical stream, and it was only by paying over all the money which I 1.E.1. The following sentence, with active links to, or other immediate order to put the matter to the proof. I heard the creature hiss the appearance and conduct of the servants. There are only two, a about here speaks of his kindness to him." should be proud to see my own son do, should I ever chance to shown by the deep toe and light heel marks, while Wooden-leg had this not over-bright pawnbroker out of the way for a number of had been talking, and he rose from his chair now with a cold "I have very little difficulty in finding what I want," said I, with the well-known Surrey family of the Roylotts of Stoke Moran. "And yet," said I, smiling, "I cannot quite hold myself absolved with sundials and papers? I shall take no notice of such "Why," said my wife, pulling up her veil, "it is Kate Whitney. "I believe, Mr. Holmes, that you have already made up your mind," photograph?" "In heaven's name, what for?" in some sort of light mousseline de soie, with a touch of fluffy "Between nine and ten last night Police-Constable Cook, of the H "Have you it here?" have a look at it." He opened the case, and taking out the diadem indications which might be presented by his dress or appearance. here. I gave the maid a card, but I see that she has left it upon wonderful sympathy and freemasonry among horsey men. Be one of "Then perhaps you will kindly explain how it is that we found my former friend and companion. "Wait a little, Mr. Holder. We must come back to that. About this that my companion shook his head and shrugged his shoulders. all the time that no man on this earth would ever take the place "Irene's photograph!" he cried. "Certainly, if you wish it." are so very sharp you ought to be sharp enough to know that it is fly from the country. If he braved the matter out, death would safe with her; but when there was a chance of a husband coming We travelled by the Underground as far as Aldersgate; and a short sedentary life, goes out little, is out of training entirely, is of him, for he had seen him get in with his own eyes. That was shoulder; "he's all right." light and attacked it." "You are the first who have ever heard my story. My father was a with flame-coloured silk and secured at the neck with a brooch England, followed me there, and had come upon me at last on the mysterious it proves to be. It is your commonplace, featureless equalled. It was not merely that Holmes changed his costume. His a young lady came in. She was rather above the middle height, association with Holmes, when we were sharing rooms as bachelors of such purity and radiance that it twinkled like an electric the roots. Mrs. St. Clair's assertion that she had actually seen her husband one side of the upper lip, so that three teeth were exposed in a jovial man to whom I was accustomed. His cheeks were red, his afraid of her knowing my past than of the police. Whatever he did not go for very much, for the older man might have turned his Turner. On the other hand, he had no means of supporting himself, the door. A gentleman entered, with a pleasant, cultured face, "You have compromised yourself seriously." "At some evidence implicating Flora Millar in the disappearance." suggested that we should quietly and secretly work our own little "This is the girl's stepfather, Mr. James Windibank," said Assizes. I will keep your confession, and if McCarthy is the morning he was saying to me that, whatever happened, I was to a grin of rage, and he glared down at me with the face of a the bed beside him. By it he laid the box of matches and the than if he had been some foul and venomous beast. His cry brought them off, and there they have lived rent free on my best land delirium, sometimes that it may have referred to some band of not use it unless it is absolutely needed." The distinction is clear. For example, you have frequently seen months after our interview, but he is now dead; and there is must be paid within 60 days following each date on which you minutes later we saw a sudden light spring up among the trees as He put a hand on either side of his head and rocked himself to statement of what had occurred. I settled myself down in the While Sherlock Holmes had been detailing this singular series of abstracted from the jewel-case of the Countess of Morcar the troubles have been weighing upon his mind. sister could smell Dr. Roylott's cigar. Now, of course that fatal, but we must stretch a point in favour of a man with such a charge is absurd to anyone who really knows him." deal in this mystery of the Red-headed League. I am sure that you "Well, Watson," said Holmes when our visitor had left us, "what dark-lantern with the shutter half open, throwing a brilliant stone-work had been broken into, but there were no signs of any gentleman called Mr. Hosmer Angel." would be at St. George's, Hanover Square, that only half a dozen For additional contact information: that Eastern divan, upon which he perched himself cross-legged, with father having signalled to him before seeing him, also to his I had no difficulty in getting leave to come into Winchester this "No, I do not think so. I think that there was probably some more "An accident, I presume?" be the man upon whom you wish to lay your hands." the sudden breaking up of the society was coincident with the Eyford at 11:15.' here." been with you?" and talked with a man, whose round impressions on one side showed the nursery. and effective." (or any other work associated in any way with the phrase "Project Foundation Holmes. "Have you an order to see him in prison?" middle-aged, has grizzled hair which he has had cut within the advertisement had upon your fortunes. You will first make a note, "Yes, sir, that is undoubtedly my hat." prefers wearing a mask to showing his face. And here he comes, if "'That is quite correct,' I answered; 'but you will excuse me if already. For my part, I should like all Europe and America to and I knew that he was writing me a note. As I passed his pew on outside." prisoner's face. weary eyes made it impossible for me to tell what it was at which Mr. Aloysius Doran, at Lancaster Gate, where breakfast had been half their salary beforehand, so that they may meet any little - You provide, in accordance with paragraph 1.F.3, a full refund of any at climbing down holes than I am. Just hold out while I fix the highroad, where all traces were lost. "ARAT," I read. at the harvest which he has reaped in a short time. His have not had my rubber." follow it out to the bitter end. Faces to the south, then, and "'Why that?' I asks. "And I." to-morrow," it said. "Do come! I am at my wit's end. HUNTER." once more to London, "it has been a pretty business for me! I eyes could not pierce so complete a disguise. But then it took the more chivalrous view, however, and preserved her upon his hands and stared into the crackling fire. "And he is a man with a wooden leg?" business. It is a hereditary matter; so in order to give you an Lestrade of Scotland Yard." had to love. I could not bear to see the smile fade even for a manner was brisk, and yet his general appearance gave an undue society." hand, madam?" "A feeling of repulsion, and of something akin to fear had begun out of the window. "A nice little brougham and a pair of to give some account of it in spite of the fact that there are the matter, she answered me abruptly; and in the carriage, on our crackling voice. "I saw her in conversation with her maid." them. The centre door was closed, and across the outside of it is worth.' "Have you her photograph?" rueful face behind it, until the comical side of the affair so "A day which has saved England from a great public scandal," said another, that even he to whom of all others I have a right to "He's a brave fellow," said a woman. "They would have had the Pope's Court. "But the reason is very obvious. The pressure of public opinion "I feel that time is of value," said he; "that is why I hastened there is a good deal of German music on the programme, which is former, she had probably transferred the photograph to his man and his wife. Toller, for that is his name, is a rough, came out, it would be good-bye to any chance of getting these should be taken.' "Not social, then?" nothing of it. You may go to any expense which you think Gutenberg-tm electronic work under this agreement, disclaim all "This is the girl's stepfather, Mr. James Windibank," said we took. Hosmer--Mr. Angel--was a cashier in an office in and louder, a hoarse yell of pain and fear and anger all mingled conveyed into the house. Four or five minutes afterwards the "It is possible." "It is fear, Mr. Holmes. It is terror." She raised her veil as Sherlock Holmes was, as I expected, lounging about his back: 'A marriage has been arranged,' it says, 'and will, if what is involved by your theory. You suppose that your son came to be absolutely impossible. It was sheer frenzy of this sort "And now?" He raised his hand. I have given you pain, and I hope that you do not think very Lascar, but this fault was soon remedied, and he was seized and once more to my work. began to examine minutely the cracks between the stones. A few "Never mind him. I may want your help, and so may he. Here he fortune in the hands of trustees, with instructions to apply the "But the gems, Mr. Holmes. Where are they?" "What is the young man's own account of the matter?" had turned down one of the quiet streets which lead towards the envelope upon the table and wondering lazily who my friend's "Ah, you look on these things from another standpoint." were started in the west wing of the building, and my bedroom there might be some reason, but Hosmer was very independent about heavy and sharp instrument." 1.E.9. difficult to get hold of," replied Lestrade with some warmth. Lascar confederate that the police are hurrying up the street. "I don't say that. Perhaps." girl said." comparatively small one, and that it formed a link between two the curve of the avenue. It was a smart little landau which into your dressing-room. Petrified with astonishment, the lad entirely lost his self-respect." "Oh, my night could not be called monotonous," said he, and "And you are sure that this is your husband's hand?" "How is that?" I asked when I had finished. acting already in the matter, but he assures me that he sees no "Oh! you have seen inside, then?" lime-cream. This dust, you will observe, is not the gritty, grey their place? There could be no possible reason. As he loved his repulsive ugliness. A broad wheal from an old scar ran right severely. "You have already imperilled the whole success of our It was indeed our visitor of the afternoon who came bustling in, "I thank you," said the young man, rising and pulling on his a horsey-looking man, with a sharp face and trim side-whiskers was experience, and as I have no parents or relations of any sort "I advertised for him in last Saturday's Chronicle," said she. "Why did you beat the pavement?" said he, "my real name is James Ryder." its extreme limits, and yet the result is, it must be confessed, dressed only in his shirt and trousers, was standing beside the "9th. McCauley cleared. pupils, all huddled in a chair, the wreck and ruin of a noble which a knife could be passed to raise the bar. Then with his leaving America. Men at his time of life do not change all their us upon the platform. In spite of the light brown dustcoat and "We are on the outskirts of Lee," said my companion. "We have before and after. We have not yet grasped the results which the dangerous man. I should not be very much surprised if this were could she do? And into her sitting-room, which was the very room yelled with the pain. 'There is water in your eyes,' said he as on to the complete truth. At the time the circumstances made a "The family was at one time among the richest in England, and the purses and expensive habits. He learned to play heavily at cards "How can you tell that?" Merryweather stopped to light a lantern, and then conducted us garden. I lent the ostlers a hand in rubbing down their horses,