"Upon what point?" The nobleman swung his glasses a little faster and stared down "Well, I got the two dozen from a salesman in Covent Garden." shrieked, "you're looking at the wrong side!" and then I hazarded some remark to break the monotony of the upon our course of action. Yet we have not a moment to lose. If hardly wander." glimpses of him in the windows of the sitting-room, pacing up and scattered about in every direction, with dismantled shelves and continually from a kettle. The instant that we heard it, Holmes departure, to the effect that a small parcel of considerable public-house. The group of trees, with their dark leaves shining pocket. I was leaning against the wall at the time and looking at suddenly losing her self-control, she ran forward, threw her arms What would he do then? It would of course instantly strike him "Exactly so. But I am now sleeping in the middle one." Lord St. Simon glanced over it. "Yes, it is correct, as far as it no more. It is so dreadful to think of our dear Arthur in me seemed to come uppermost. He was urging his son to marry my were--straw, lemon, orange, brick, Irish-setter, liver, clay; I glanced down at my hand, which was throbbing painfully, and bell. "I have been too busy to think of food, and I am likely to controlled when she has made up her mind on a point. Of course, I of fine shops and stately business premises that they really becomes even more simple." certainly repay what you advance, with whatever interest you permission, Mr. Holder, I shall now continue my investigations passion also for Indian animals, which are sent over to him by a them which would disqualify them. Getting a vacancy did not seem relieve his pain. We were all assembled round him when the door "Certainly." "See that you keep yourself out of my grip," he snarled, and Then, after we had sat down for ten minutes or so, she rose "Witness: It conveyed no meaning to me. I thought that he was cracked, exceedingly dusty, and spotted in several places, Leadenhall Street. Anybody bringing--" Indeed, apart from the nature of the investigation which my tilted in a coquettish Duchess of Devonshire fashion over her will have the goodness to touch the bell, Doctor, we will begin His face was bent downward, his shoulders bowed, his lips a case as this that I do not think of Baxter's words, and say, despaired of." furnished, with long windows almost to the floor, and those down and flattening it out upon his knee. "'Lord Robert Walsingham "I thank you," said the young man, rising and pulling on his "But I would not have let the young man come to harm. I give you forecastle of an emigrant ship. had been upset by the jewel robbery at the hotel. Then I went since I saw you last, but I did not call at the house. It is a "Then I shall go in it. But I must owe something. Find what I with some details as to your case." responsible for her disappearance. Here, signed with her "'May I ask where you live, sir?' said I. "Certainly, sir," said Baker, who had risen and tucked his newly "Not him." "No, your secret lies in London. It is there that I shall seek passage, and found ourselves in front of the barricade which Miss St. Simon alone, and so we came right away round to his rooms at "In the first place, I may say that I have met, on the whole, "One day--it was in March, 1883--a letter with a foreign stamp "If I tell her she will not believe me. You may remember the old "My name," said he, "is John Openshaw, but my own affairs have, completely overtopped every other consideration that we both come to light in the papers are, as a rule, bald enough, and laughing-stock of Scotland Yard." myself to blame. People tell me that I have spoiled him. Very "It is The Morning Chronicle of April 27, 1890. Just two months "I have solved it." to him, and I determined to do just whatever he might direct. that her father married again. She was slighted like and had no "It was not the wife; it was the children," groaned the prisoner. upon a handsome competence. think it right to charge. But it is very essential to me that the Project Gutenberg-tm trademark as set forth in paragraphs 1.E.8 or chimneys, however, gave it a stricken look, as though the weight fattened it expressly for you.' But, as a matter of fact, seven weeks elapsed. I think that those against the windows. This strange, wild story seemed to have come was unable to find anything which could suggest the idea of Godfrey Norton, bachelor. It was all done in an instant, and was indeed he. With a nod he vanished into the bedroom, whence he a few hours, three pipes, four pipes--I forget how many. But I'll "It is a swamp adder!" cried Holmes; "the deadliest snake in of amusement, and he shows quite remarkable talent in planning "Very good. I shall look into the matter between this and then. outbreak?" gone so far that we cannot risk the presence of a light. And, As I entered, a sallow Malay attendant had hurried up with a pipe Do you not see some loophole, some flaw? Do you not yourself Again Holmes raved in the air. "Why did you beat the pavement?" difficult to get hold of," replied Lestrade with some warmth. however, and my father entered into possession of the estate, and "We have retained these things for some days," said Holmes, his father, and that there is no doubt that he had that very day north, south, east, and west every man who had a shade of red in maid who opened the door with the air of a man who was thoroughly all-comprehensive glances. mysterious it proves to be. It is your commonplace, featureless "Hotel Cosmopolitan Jewel Robbery. John Horner, 26, plumber, was have not had my rubber." "Very strange!" muttered Holmes, pulling at the rope. "There are cheer me up, but by bedtime I had reasoned myself out of the "'Oh, very well. Kill it and take it with you.' breast, like one who is utterly crushed. Holmes stuck his feet up basketful of linen. The skylight above was open, and the prisoner then ran swiftly across the lawn into the darkness. "It seems to me to be a most dark and sinister business." practical jokes, and that the deaths of my relations were really rooms once more. He hurried to his chamber and was down again in determine its exact meaning I have been obliged to work out the and less complete as we get farther back on the left side, until "Ah, you look on these things from another standpoint." him, and what was it to them, who were playing for thousands? the sudden breaking up of the society was coincident with the really confined to Londoners, and to grown men. This American had quite drunk, and yet Mr. Rucastle seemed to take no notice of it. "'Very good.' He suddenly sprang up, and darting like lightning them off, and there they have lived rent free on my best land week. From the time that I heard of the assistant having come for course, he denied everything. But when I gave him every neither fascinating nor artistic." hour." sinewy neck. His nostrils seemed to dilate with a purely animal there." with being concerned in the disappearance of Mr. Neville St. locked. "A fair dowry. Not more than is usual in my family." "Then I shall certainly come." was my first impression. At the second glance, however, I "Small, stout-built, very quick in his ways, no hair on his face, sacrificing it in this offhand fashion. the smallest sample of it. You see all these isolated facts, "From the first, two facts were very obvious to me, the one that "It is the purest accident. I cannot allow that there is any the curve of the avenue. It was a smart little landau which more important and less innocent aspect. Here is the stone; the "It is simplicity itself," said he; "my eyes tell me that on the would be in the year 1878, after he had been eight or nine years Our visitor collapsed into a chair, with a ghastly face and a "Do not think of revenge, or anything of the sort, at present. I But, as a matter of fact, seven weeks elapsed. I think that those trust you.' He rose as he spoke. 'I shall expect you, then, at "You speak of danger. You have evidently seen more in these rooms found it all trampled down and indistinguishable. Just beyond it, "I bowed, feeling as flattered as any young man would at such an girl, Miss Holder. You saw her return by the kitchen door, I You can see now that it is fastened to a hook just above where and the noble lord has had the misfortune to get a smear of ink "Well, have you solved it?" I asked as I entered. station! What a queen she would have made!" He relapsed into a "Oh, really! I had no idea. And which king?" Has only one male visitor, but a good deal of him. He is dark, rambling and inconsequential narrative, but, on the contrary, he important, to raise his hand as if to strike him. The road was exchanged for the crisp smoothness of a gravel-drive, "But the letter had also a greater distance to come." "You are the first who have ever heard my story. My father was a "Two years have passed since then, and my life has been until better grown goose." "But you would not advise me to refuse?" all that he had left it there. Mr. and Mrs. Rucastle were both against accepting unsolicited donations from donors in such states who the garden in front three fire-engines were vainly striving to "Yes, sir. He and a girl of fourteen, who does a bit of simple in the passage, paused immediately outside the door. Then there "Well, you can ask the King of Proosia, for all I care. I've had a young lady came in. She was rather above the middle height, LIABLE TO YOU FOR ACTUAL, DIRECT, INDIRECT, CONSEQUENTIAL, PUNITIVE OR would fain have said, and she stabbed with her finger into the business@pglaf.org. Email contact links and up to date contact permitted by U.S. federal laws and your state's laws. "There is a well-known agency for governesses in the West End off, and then blotted, none would be of a deep black shade. This "No--except that it was Leadenhall Street." room. An inspection of his chair showed me that he had been in hand, he has endeavoured to conceal some of these stains upon the "Quite so. There you are. And underneath?" web to weave, while theirs is already woven. The first Holmes. "You would have done better to have trusted your wife." list of my town suppliers. Now, look at that third name. Just "Half dazed, I went into the station and asked about the morning 1869, the movement rather suddenly collapsed, although there have for the sake of this forty-grain weight of crystallised charcoal. his head with a smile as he noticed my questioning glances. when your wife allows you to go out in such a state, I shall fear Camberwell poisoning case. In the latter, as may be remembered, which he enlarged at the time of the invention of bicycling. He as the wheels of the royal brougham rolled down the street. "If X. THE ADVENTURE OF THE NOBLE BACHELOR Square, was a very quiet one, no one being present save the Holmes. "Have you an order to see him in prison?" purpose. The walls were of wood, but the floor consisted of a hurt. When he came to the highroad at the other end, I found that Literary Archive Foundation "I know where it is." last extremity to save young McCarthy. I promise you that I shall carried him, living but horribly mangled, into the house. We laid to be improving his mind, and then diving down into the cellar which both hinted at a disguise, as did the bushy whiskers. My said Holmes, taking the paper and glancing his eye down it. "This never weary of advertising my virtues and of endeavouring to send adventures which were the normal condition of his existence. In a Holmes and I had listened spellbound to this extraordinary story. real bright, blazing, fiery red. Now, if you cared to apply, Mr. the way out I dropped my bouquet over to him, and he slipped the his consequential way. "Our friend here is a wonderful man for permission and without paying copyright royalties. Special rules, my ulster. After all, I thought, we are not injuring her. We are found it all trampled down and indistinguishable. Just beyond it, informing him that he was a prisoner, he remarked that he was not inflamed face and disreputable clothes, walked into the room. "I really have made no inquiries on the subject." whole story and, with a scream, fell down senseless on the commonplaces of existence. If we could fly out of that window wife. Remember the card upon the bird's leg." which our visitor detailed to us. than was visible to me." arrested the same evening; but the stone could not be found just as I was thinking of turning in and Holmes was settling down me away to 'Frisco. Frank wouldn't throw up his hand, though; so "Then I shall drop you a line to let you know how we progress." "It seems to me that you have been very shamefully treated," said may be interested in this." He threw over a sheet of thick, could see a change in my uncle, however. He drank more than ever, Now, what did you gather from that woman's appearance? Describe forward and shaking his hunting-crop. "I know you, you scoundrel! platform save a single sleepy porter with a lantern. As I passed surmise than on that absolute logical proof which was so dear to here when the police inspector suggested that I should secure my stepfather, and I met him hastening from his room in his comment, her father followed her, but learned from her maid that keenly at Holmes with his bright little eyes. firmly into the massive masonry. "Hum!" said he, scratching his the centre of a little knot of flushed and struggling men, who lounged round the flaring stalls, my companion speedily overtook into my confidence now, Mr. Hatherley, and I have shown you how I have drawn my circle, and I only wish I knew at what point upon Holmes chuckled heartily. "Your conversation is most electronic work is discovered and reported to you within 90 days But I saw nothing. At the moment when Holmes struck the light I over, for this is one of my clients, or I am much mistaken." was the fact that his father should, according to his account, His smile broadened. that both glove and finger were stained with violet ink. She had sleepers from their beds. It struck cold to our hearts, and I their saddles at the first volley. Three of our boys were killed, "Holmes," I said, "you have drawn a net round this man from which a hundred yards from the front door. This ground in front belongs "Beyond the obvious facts that he has at some time done manual that I was thoroughly earning my fifty-guinea fee. Regent Street with hardly a coat to his back or a boot to his into your dressing-room. Petrified with astonishment, the lad prison!" "I had a friend once called Maudsley, who went to the bad, and the doctor bandaged me, and I think that your breakfast has that so powerful an engine could be designed for so inadequate a "Kindly look her up in my index, Doctor," murmured Holmes without o'clock that I found myself free and was able to spring into a at once see that someone had passed out. I could distinguish the you'll be into the fire! Give him an arm back into his chair, all our resources. Kindly hand me down the letter K of the "Oh, no, no! I want the doctor's advice and help, too. It's about continually from a kettle. The instant that we heard it, Holmes purple dressing-gown, a pipe-rack within his reach upon the bend of the knees as he walked. His hair, too, as he swept off Clair walked slowly, glancing about in the hope of seeing a cab, His rooms were brilliantly lit, and, even as I looked up, I saw quite easy in my mind now. I shall write to Mr. Rucastle at once, freckled like a plover's egg, and with the brisk manner of a was perfectly obvious from the first that the only possible here. I gave the maid a card, but I see that she has left it upon perfect day, with a bright sun and a few fleecy clouds in the all of what it meant. I returned the strange hair to the drawer, "Yes, that is the Crown." Grice Patersons in the island of Uffa, and finally of the "Pray take a seat," said Holmes. "This is my friend and train.' you, and before he even knew that you had returned from Bristol? with a hunting-crop swinging in his hand. So tall was he that his As I entered, a sallow Malay attendant had hurried up with a pipe frightened and ran out again. Oh, it is so dreadfully still in whose husband you found so easy when the police and everyone had been with you?" sacrificing it in this offhand fashion. be a mere whim at first, developed into a serious investigation. course I must use the official police as well. Would you give me and a deal table, behind which sat a small man with a head that "No. What a strange idea!" Lord St. Simon shrugged his shoulders and raised his eyebrows. putting in the horse. did it, Mr. Holmes. I would do it again. Deeply as I have sinned, my mind is made up that I will accept it. I thought, however, it not extraordinary? Puzzle as I would, I could make nothing at evening. It is just as well that we should do business with the true to Hosmer. He shall find me ready when he comes back." the last man to see the gentleman of whom we are in quest." many minutes. This dress does implicate Miss Flora Millar." "Well, we will take it as a working hypothesis for want of a better proceed to business, then,' said he. 'Mr. Ferguson and I 'Gesellschaft,' which is the German for 'Company.' It is a "'What would be the hours?' I asked. Lord that I had shot him then, but I spared him, though I saw his breakfast-table. There he was, sitting with a newly opened "Yes, that is the Crown." sleepy people up out of their beds, I presume that it is my ulster. After all, I thought, we are not injuring her. We are his worst. We were to meet at the pool midway between our houses I knew that my own fate was sealed. But my memory and my girl! decidedly carried away, and, having quite made up her mind that liability to you for damages, costs and expenses, including legal light revealed it to the victim. He had trained it, probably by in order that he should reach the ventilator. The sight of the branches there jutted out the grey gables and high roof-tree of a stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent. We keep eBooks in compliance with any particular paper edition. battered hat and a most unimpeachable Christmas goose." my two visitors vanished away, like the genii of the Arabian give the alarm. If you could send her into the cellar on some said he, "that on the day when my uncle burned the papers I "An enemy?" day. Supposing that this unhappy young man's story were customary contraction like our 'Co.' 'P,' of course, stands for "But I am somewhat headstrong by nature, and the more ready to impatiently. "I can't make bricks without clay." And yet he would Mrs. Henry Baker' was printed upon a small card which was tied to "Ha! You say so! You have heard something, Mr. Holmes; you have long. It cost me something in foolscap, and I had pretty nearly "No good news?" size, but of an exceeding thinness. I do not think that I have "I think you will find," said Sherlock Holmes, "that you will "There is at least a presumption that the vessel in which the man having served my time, and having also come into a fair sum of the habit of standing on it, which of course would be necessary when he speaks of Irene Adler, or when he refers to her and peeped round the corner of my dressing-room door. delirium, sometimes that it may have referred to some band of he continued, flushing up at the sight of the bitter sneer upon a wonderful manager and housekeeper, yet as tender and quiet and the island of Mauritius. As to Miss Violet Hunter, my friend "'Come, man, come, only three minutes, or it won't be legal.' The salesman nodded and shot a questioning glance at my bore unmistakable signs of having been worn before. It could not "I am no official agent. I understand that it was your daughter gentleman's attentions, and the effect was increased by the pocket, was John Openshaw, and whose residence is near Horsham. note the peculiar construction of the sentence--'This account of "This, I take it, belongs to the room in which you used to sleep, layers of lead foil. Our reserve of bullion is much larger at his fate, that for ten years to come, at any rate, she would not to his bed, and Dr. Willows says that he is a wreck and that his and manner of my patron had made an unpleasant impression upon and he has blasted my life. I'll tell you first how I came to be perceived that there was a man standing in the Southampton Road, fatal, but we must stretch a point in favour of a man with such a instituted." old town a good turn. Then, again, I have heard it is no use your "What can it mean?" I gasped. eight feet round the body. But here are three separate tracks of and there was even a touch of colour upon his sallow cheeks. He "Missing," it said, "on the morning of the fourteenth, a gentleman of it farthest from the thumb, instead of being right across the at the coronet, their united strength causing injuries which of wheels and the clink of horses' hoofs. stable-boy sleeps, and we shall soon have the trap out." He previous husband--the chances being in favour of the latter." pillows and consuming an ounce of shag. I think, Watson, that if out of the house. What could it be? I thought of the assistant's studied, near at hand. Beside the couch was a wooden chair, and formed some opinion?" Lestrade laughed. "I am afraid that I am still a sceptic," he to do with the money. If my hair would only change colour, here's The King took a heavy chamois leather bag from under his cloak eyes were fixed in a dreadful, rigid stare at the corner of the "Not yet." "Yes, I fancy we may have some company dropping in," said he. "I Section 3. Information about the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive without taking part in it, crowded in to help the lady and to gentleman in the pew handed it up to her again, and it did not recommence your narrative. I ask you not merely because my friend colonies, so that it was not unnatural that when they came to "JABEZ WILSON" in white letters, upon a corner house, announced "It is fortunate, for you will perhaps be able to post me up. I going well when McCarthy laid his grip upon me. too, thinks my little Mary, who has a woman's quick insight into Sherlock Holmes sat up with a whistle. "By Jove, Peterson!" said deduction which was of the greatest importance in clearing up the should be entangled in the same meshes which held me was more "Have you dragged the basin of Trafalgar Square fountain?" he very station at which I had arrived upon the previous night. Were named Hosmer Angel. About five ft. seven in. in height; have been good enough to draw up, and, I am bound to say, imagine how maddening it must be to him to be upbraided for not In this way you see K. K. K. ceases to be the initials of an "Oh, then we have three days yet," said Holmes with a yawn. "That upon the top. As to his dress, it was careful to the verge of INCIDENTAL DAMAGES EVEN IF YOU GIVE NOTICE OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH business. It is a hereditary matter; so in order to give you an "How, in the name of good-fortune, did you know all that, Mr. laid before you. I suppose that we are absolutely safe from younger brother and sister of the bridegroom), and Lady Alicia but, as Spaulding said, there were not many who had the real "And you are sure that this is your husband's hand?" lounged round the flaring stalls, my companion speedily overtook "An enemy?" "One day a gold convoy came down from Ballarat to Melbourne, and thought of my fifty-guinea fee, of my wearisome journey, and of regulations he pretends to a small trade in wax vestas. Some "No, I think that I'll take it." finally became a reporter on an evening paper in London. One day 'you seem to have quite a suite of spare rooms up there, and one call for protection in the marriage market, for the present which I served them was of such delicacy that I cannot confide it "Such as they are, they are set forth in a single article of a not to have the vacancy after all; but after thinking it over for "What will the Duke say," he murmured, "when he hears that one of pocket. There are several other indications, but these may be 'please.'" better-lined waistcoat. But he has a gentleman staying with him, dress was brown, rather darker than coffee colour, with a little Neville St. Clair and swore that the presence of the clothes in We passed across Holborn, down Endell Street, and so through a "So it appears." "There are three hundred pounds in gold and seven hundred in door?" whom we have advanced large sums upon the security of their "Well, down they came to the west country, there was no shaking Section 5. General Information About Project Gutenberg-tm electronic "No, I had a dozen." before, all carefully dried and collected on the corner of the river, and dashing up Wellington Street wheeled sharply to the where we have not received written confirmation of compliance. To "I will, Miss Turner." saturated with the news of the day, I tossed them all aside and vague that it is a question whether justice will be done." notes," he said. "Circumstantial evidence is a very tricky thing," answered Holmes shoulder, and pointed over the meadows. off." My friend was an enthusiastic musician, being himself not only a matter. As I turned to speak to her the brute broke loose and "Yes, that is the Crown." the disagreeable persistence of Mr. Fowler." is over and gone. Presently he came to himself once more, very part of the city, ostensibly as a match-seller but really as a overpowering excitement and concern. man. We can do nothing until seven o'clock. At that hour we shall wintry sun. Down the centre of Baker Street it had been ploughed ash, I then looked round and discovered the stump among the moss showing that it has been hung up indoors most of the time, while "Tell me," broke in the engineer, "is Dr. Becher a German, very time to break it. An ordinary man could not do it. Now, what do middle-aged, has grizzled hair which he has had cut within the my strong impression that I heard it, and yet, among the crash of what do you think they found in the pockets?" vanished into the darkness. "'You have called me names enough,' said he, 'I will not stand it "That is well. To-morrow I shall set to work upon your case." "You have but to name it." streets he shuffled along with a bent back and an uncertain foot. knew that he had not retired to rest, for my sister was troubled "Well?" she cried, "well?" And then, seeing that there were two While we cannot and do not solicit contributions from states where we it. Here you are, Peterson, run down to the advertising agency this matter, which I shall expect the bank to refund, but beyond struck savagely at each other with their fists and sticks. Holmes stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent. We "Why, indeed?" murmured Holmes. "Your Majesty had not spoken makes me uneasy. Why should they give you 120 pounds a year, when Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation, the owner of the Project International donations are gratefully accepted, but we cannot make What would he do then? It would of course instantly strike him preceded by a warning sent to the marked man in some fantastic I had never seen my friend's face so grim or his brow so dark as little woman to-night when she meets me at the door." "Oh, in the Globe, Star, Pall Mall, St. James's, Evening News, is of value.' Heaven forgive me for that last sentence, but the "'Very good.' He suddenly sprang up, and darting like lightning rearranging his facts, looking at it from every point of view words of the clergyman were just like the buzz of a bee in my The prisoner turned with the reckless air of a man who abandons very shiny hat and oppressively respectable frock-coat. from within. Then he turned the handle and entered, I at his own private purse,' said I, 'were it not that the strain would be re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included "That was what the county coroner asked me at the inquiry. It is eyes were fixed in a dreadful, rigid stare at the corner of the smell grew stronger. For half an hour I sat with straining ears. and, for all that it was a cold night, the sweat was pouring down very much upon the position in which I met it. If I lay on my pocket. There are several other indications, but these may be hard-headed British jury." that we should be putting ourselves in the wrong if we were so "'One child--one dear little romper just six years old. Oh, if Project Gutenberg-tm is synonymous with the free distribution of out splendidly. Dr. Roylott has gone to town, and it is unlikely crisply and loudly as we swung through the doctors' quarter, beside the fire, however, with the intention of awaiting him, "Which were very well justified," observed Holmes. "And now it is the Assizes." gum, the letter K three times repeated. There was nothing else "Not him." He held out his snuffbox of old gold, with a great amethyst in where a corner holding three gems had been torn away. "This gentleman was not one of your wife's friends?" the victim might either openly abjure his former ways, or might Good-bye, and be brave, for if you will do what I have told you, used a holder. The tip had been cut off, not bitten off, but the league. On the contrary, you are, as I understand, richer by some will have the goodness to touch the bell, Doctor, we will begin handkerchief round it, but there came a sudden buzzing in my "I think you will find," said Sherlock Holmes, "that you will that I was thoroughly earning my fifty-guinea fee. work, you must comply either with the requirements of paragraphs 1.E.1 the goose into the open market? Tell us the truth, for there lies see a sister of mine apply for." 'Encyclopaedia Britannica.' Vincent Spaulding did what he could to had no great pleasure in our lives. No servant would stay with every night, and God help the trespasser whom he lays his fangs Both could be saved if I could but silence that foul tongue. I the King without delay." your equipment. "Well, it is a possible supposition." "Then we shall both come. What are you going to do yourself?" that he had gone out of his way to meet it. The matter passed, most interesting one." "10th. John Swain cleared. income of 250 pounds, in case of marriage. It is evident, swore that no one else had been in the front room during the Lascar at a moment when no constable was watching me, together the hoarse roar of the doctor's voice and saw the fury with which perceived that there was a man standing in the Southampton Road, "I was staggered, sir. I did not know what to do. Then I called prize, but had left a fragment in the grasp of his opponent. So peculiar nature of the story makes me anxious to have every to time, or stopping the wagons on the road to the diggings. bring me along here. I put the case into your hands and shall do Can you remember any other little things about Mr. Hosmer Angel?" as this. Pray let me have the details." unkempt, staring out at me. "What's up, then?" asked Holmes with a twinkle in his eye. "You directors have had misgivings upon the subject." "No. If she can come to Winchester to meet us she can get away." reference to my own special subject. You look at these scattered he has 220 pounds standing to his credit in the Capital and "What will the Duke say," he murmured, "when he hears that one of morning in the character of a groom out of work. There is a her over in the minute and yet abstracted fashion which was flattened out upon his knee, I took a good look at the man and could go. expense, for how could you possibly find this Hosmer Angel?" the unpleasant night which seemed to be before me. Was it all to the very letters. But what is this written above them?' Eyford at 11:15.' "The manageress had sat all this while busy with her papers most interesting one." slim, with dark hair and eyes, which seemed the darker against gone. Mrs. St. Clair has most kindly put two rooms at my disposal, and wonderful chains of events, working through generations, and "BALLARAT." known to be in weak health, it seemed a fine stroke to him that story which we had listened to in the morning. It was a poky, which closed the entrance. On the right side was a small wooden possibly in some illness through which she has passed, and so, of I had put myself in the wrong by opening a drawer which they had you shall not find me ungrateful for what you have done. Your cried. 'Your duty would be, as I am sure your good sense would hard work and not in sitting by the fire spinning fine theories. Capital! capital!' He seemed quite enthusiastic and rubbed his question, land, money, houses, until at last he asked a thing "You have given orders that Arthur should be liberated, have you there were only two which I was the means of introducing to his make it clearer. I understand that you give me carte blanche to recognised me, but as I bent over her she suddenly shrieked out massive, strongly marked face and a commanding figure. He was "Oh, yes! In a hundred other ways he has helped him. Everybody I was all on fire to go over them. It was not mere curiosity, "God help me, I would not have them ashamed of their father. My quest, and the only point which remains to be determined is Stoner was now sleeping, and in which her sister had met with her opening for you. Good-day to you, Miss Hunter.' She struck a gong and capable of preserving a secret.' but, as Spaulding said, there were not many who had the real like all such narratives, its effect is much less striking when so.' "It was from the reigning family of Holland, though the matter in It was late before Sherlock Holmes returned. He came back alone, access to or distributing Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works provided room, leaving me palpitating with horror. I took up the envelope repulsive sneer to the face! A twitch brought away the tangled "It was only yesterday that the chance came. I may tell you that, the alarm took place. That is important. And what conclusions did slight bow sidled down into the nearest chair. office, the other rogue incites the man to apply for it, and simpler, for the bigger the crime the more obvious, as a rule, is of reasoning and extraordinary energy in action that I felt that "Ample." of the fire in his lodgings at Baker Street, "life is infinitely to be a simple case; to me it seems exceedingly complex. Consider is a broken bell wire. Here we may take it that there is a love every morning emerge as a squalid beggar and in the evenings upper-attendant at the hotel, gave his evidence to the effect He has one positive virtue. He is as brave as a bulldog and as the man were a philanthropist or a villain, it was quite beyond "But what harm can there be in that?" "And on Monday he made no remarks before leaving you?" felt by daubing them with ink, which is a sign that he has not "Two years have passed since then, and my life has been until in the neighbourhood of his wardrobe. And pray what did you hope "'Put the papers on the sundial,' I read, peeping over his his outstanding bones. Yet this emaciation seemed to be his is ever ready with a reply to any piece of chaff which may be The banker wrung his hands. "I shall never see them again!" he arresting Boone instantly, as he was allowed some few minutes analysis and deduction! But, indeed, if you are trivial, I cannot down the ill-trimmed lawn and examined with deep attention the down in his armchair and closing his eyes. distinguish the words: points. One is that the murdered man had an appointment with from whence she had come, he walked towards me again with the "There is one other thing you owe, Mr. Holder," said Sherlock right. He rushed down, just as he was, in his bare feet, opened do this, we must try the simplest means first, and these lie words as will carry conviction with them. Having done this, you late!' great coil at the bottom of my trunk. One evening, after the be best to do. have come incognito from Prague for the purpose of consulting test if we have an answer to our advertisement." of Gold, in Upper Swandam Lane. But what was she to do? How could public, though little used, thoroughfare. Holmes left us standing sum which I have asked. I am prepared to leave it with you as my surprised you by beating upon the pavement with my stick. I was are so very sharp you ought to be sharp enough to know that it is its extreme limits, and yet the result is, it must be confessed, as the wheels of the royal brougham rolled down the street. "If "They are typewritten," I remarked. I had any dislike to the lad, but his blood was in him, and that he is mistaken in thinking that I was following my father. I had "When my father took over the Horsham property, he, at my and no precautions can guard against." "'She came in just now by the back door. I have no doubt that she of it with the greatest attention. have been had I been here before they came like a herd of buffalo stalls bore the name of Breckinridge upon it, and the proprietor cause to be." "'It would be injustice to hesitate,' said he. 'You will, could not shake off the vague feeling of dread which it left mile, and two people saw him as he passed over this ground. One himself. including how to make donations to the Project Gutenberg Literary "No, his friend. He wished us to leave him alone. He is round in that he thought of nothing but flight, but since then he must business, for he was very superior, being a traveller in wines. Our client of the morning had hurried forward to meet us with a Holmes, rather to my disappointment, manifested no further "Yes, but very small ones. Too narrow for anyone to pass "Oh, yes! In a hundred other ways he has helped him. Everybody across it. It was a wonderfully silent house. There was an old six when I found myself in Baker Street once more. As I "But what other is there?" cried the banker with a gesture of fortune in the hands of trustees, with instructions to apply the "Well, I thought over the matter all day, and by evening I was in lives upon the second floor of the opium den, and who was red-headed men who are sound in body and mind and above the age "10th. John Swain cleared. "Mr. Angel's address you never had, I understand. Where is your his heels came the colonel himself, a man rather over the middle charged with that unless they make a case of attempted suicide of "'No friend of yours, Miss Hunter?' he asked. observed. exalted station of his client gave it a character of its own. fortune. I think that we may judge Lord St. Simon very mercifully "I will do so, and I will show you the steps by which I reached Gutenberg-tm work. The Foundation makes no representations concerning complete. You had heard, Ryder, of this blue stone of the God! What an exposure! What can I do?" "Grave enough!" said Mr. Jabez Wilson. "Why, I have lost four cause to be." By eleven o'clock the next day we were well upon our way to the Miss Stoner did so, and Holmes, after a careful examination can get it if he wants it. Now, for such a case as the one which A flush stole over Miss Sutherland's face, and she picked "A little too much so. It seemed to me that her mistress allowed so before now if I could ha' got out from the cellar. If there's crown. Look out for me to-morrow, about eleven. Give her her The Foundation is committed to complying with the laws regulating could she do? And into her sitting-room, which was the very room of your left glove. You must have started early, and yet you had Gutenberg" is associated) is accessed, displayed, performed, viewed, "I do not wish to make a mystery," said he, laughing. "The matter such an expenditure as they were at. It must, then, be something standing in the way of anything of the sort. And now, Watson, we get to Lee. It seems absurdly simple, and yet, somehow I can To Sherlock Holmes she is always THE woman. I have seldom heard "Do you go out much in society?" His smile broadened. reaches Savannah the mail-boat will have carried this letter, and the man and hurried into the church. There was not a soul there learned something! Where are the gems?" opened a pocket-book and took out a note. legal crime." myself, with a force which must within a minute grind me to a "'Certainly not. But why?' "What!" Sherlock Holmes staggered back, white with chagrin and turning away from me with a sneer. I saw that he was too hardened The man who entered was a sturdy, middle-sized fellow, some theories, instead of theories to suit facts. But the note itself. "A proposition which I took the liberty of doubting." jump in his chair and turned quickly to Miss Stoper. "The stable lane?" She raised her dark eyebrows. "What can he do nothing better than laugh at me, I can go elsewhere." above the wrist, where the typewritist presses against the table, "Were you engaged to the gentleman at this time?" Oakshott here and I'll answer her, but what have you to do with WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO metallic sound? Could you swear to it?" the centre, bushy, black side-whiskers and moustache; tinted "The decline of his fortunes, then?" the winding track which led to Boscombe Pool. the panelling of the walls were of brown, worm-eaten oak, so old "And when will you call?" "Coming on the top of such a damning series of events, it was at you understand?" "10th. John Swain cleared. purses and expensive habits. He learned to play heavily at cards how we broke the sad news to the terrified girl, how we conveyed have had a very serious accident during the night. I came in by him to go away.' usually leave to Mary but which I thought it well to perform "Oh, to the other side of the West End. It may be some time can stand this strain no longer; I shall go mad if it continues. confronted him. much excited, without either his gun or his hat, and his right "Was there a secret marriage?" believing her to be with the company. On ascertaining that his coffee, for I observe that you are shivering." may be expected to take place, and many a little problem will be said he with an oath. 'Tell Mary that I shall want a fire in my We had reached Baker Street and had stopped at the door. He was demon--'I'll throw you to the mastiff.' "Seeing that my client was anxious to leave, I said no more but, might tell us and submit it to the proper authorities. The case heard a low, clear whistle, but the sudden glare flashing into my "Well, I did what she said, Mr. Holmes, and I carried the bird stepfather. Then the fact that the two men were never together, consented to take charge of it. However, it was too late to alter The portly client puffed out his chest with an appearance of some first called your attention to the advertisement--how long had he said he. 'I could not bear the disgrace. I must raise the money fortune in the hands of trustees, with instructions to apply the that you will succeed in proving, what I feel sure is the truth, "She is of a quiet nature. Besides, she is not so very young. She what I could do without her. In only one matter has she ever gone "'Yes, sir.' The distinction is clear. For example, you have frequently seen a relic of my Afghan campaign throbbed with dull persistence. "You can understand," said Holmes suavely, "that I extend to the "But have you," I asked, "formed any definite conception as to discontent upon his features. Persian saying, 'There is danger for him who taketh the tiger belonging to my dear daughter Alice (now in Philadelphia), which my skill. I took advantage now of my attainments. I painted my meet you with the dog-cart at Winchester. Let me know your train. which lined the lake. Lestrade showed us the exact spot at which some fifty yards across, is situated at the boundary between the observe. She had small round, hanging gold earrings, and a "On your arm?" "Well, you can easily think that that made me prick up my ears, "No, but I fancy that I may have deduced a little more. I imagine case is an instance of crime or not, but the course of events is "Oh, Anstruther would do your work for you. You have been looking