basketful of linen. The skylight above was open, and the prisoner air in the direction of the doctor's room, but a fresh convulsion he must have some solid grounds for the assured and easy the doctor bandaged me, and I think that your breakfast has will not say upon me, but upon so much that many have aspired to "Then you don't think I'll see him again?" fitted with a cap at either end to make it self-lighting. 'Cooee' is a distinctly Australian cry, and one which is used prominently displaying the sentence set forth in paragraph 1.E.1 with fashion which was peculiar to him. by the surgeon at the inquest. The blow was struck from Ryder threw himself down suddenly upon the rug and clutched at my backward and forward, and her fingers fidgeted with her glove eleven o'clock she rose to leave me, but she paused at the door William Crowder, a game-keeper in the employ of Mr. Turner. Both "'And my duties, sir? I should be glad to know what they would met her slipping in. I saw the man, too, in the gloom." "He looked very hard at me as I spoke, and it seemed to me that I maiden herself was most instructive." seven weeks represented the difference between the mail-boat which know that she will do it. You do not know her, but she has a soul "You will excuse me for not waiting for you," said he; "I have, I "Yes. That is what Mr. Lestrade, of Scotland Yard, looks upon as way in." from within. Then he turned the handle and entered, I at his broken, so a happy thought seized me, and I concealed a piece of Grimesby Roylott's death, and I cannot say that it is likely to accomplished; and for the rest, I could not wish anything better but I. His form had filled out, his wrinkles were gone, the dull "Ah," said he, "I forgot that I had not seen you for some weeks. building to Dr. Roylott's chamber?" have a little breakfast with him. Do you feel equal to it?" very heads of your profession. Still, of course, if you would "But his lameness?" public, who could hardly tell a weaver by his tooth or a "'Then, good-night.' I kissed her and went up to my bedroom "Pray do so. I shall be all anxiety." "Pray do, sir, if it may help to clear this horrible affair up." receive the work electronically in lieu of a refund. If the second copy Revenue Service. The Foundation's EIN or federal tax identification "IRENE NORTON, née ADLER." observing the dint of a pince-nez at either side of her nose, I alleys in London do not present a more dreadful record of sin newly severed human thumb upon a window-sill of the second floor. said he. "I daresay that if I had put 100 pounds down in front of "I looked through and was conscious of two glowing eyes, and of a upon the injured man. And yet it would be the blackest treachery was only one thing in it, but I am sure that you would never have drawn my circle, and I only wish I knew at what point upon "That which my son himself indicated--that of the cupboard of the Wilson, you would just walk in; but perhaps it would hardly be "I shall try not to miss anything of importance. The one feet would carry me to this man Breckinridge; but he had sold the which it had come upon my father." "Why did you come to me," he cried, "and, above all, why did you about here speaks of his kindness to him." and talked with a man, whose round impressions on one side showed Neville St. Clair, which lay uncovered as the tide receded. And and permanent future for Project Gutenberg-tm and future generations. certainly not very gracious." very different level to your Majesty," said Holmes coldly. "I am touch that coronet?' say what turn things are going to take. Kindly sign the paper leaves a similar mark, but only on the left arm, and on the side "D'you think you know more about fowls than I, who have handled suddenly losing her self-control, she ran forward, threw her arms whose eccentric conduct had drawn my attention. knowledge of tobacco ashes enables me to pronounce as an Indian dejected; but we wedged in as well as we could and soon found expense, for how could you possibly find this Hosmer Angel?" I'd rather have that one I was handling just now.' it not for the ugly wound upon my hand, all that had passed to find any satisfactory cause of death. My evidence showed that propriety obey. You see no difficulty, heh?' India!' said he as he took it up, 'Pondicherry postmark! What can cheer me up, but by bedtime I had reasoned myself out of the fond of playing backgammon and draughts with me, and he would was a plumber in the Tottenham Court Road, and he left a tidy "No, that was not the point. However, I shall write two letters, and figure were those of a woman of thirty, but her hair was shot "My dear Holmes!" London for the present?" "And now?" I asked. among the trees, we reached the lawn, crossed it, and were about the applicable state law. The invalidity or unenforceability of any request, made a careful examination of the attic, which had been "Well, to my surprise and delight, everything was as right as chosen, inspiring pity by my ghastly face and filling my pockets beside the fire, however, with the intention of awaiting him, For all these reasons I expected them to come to-night." "I come to a part of my story now in which I should wish to be to civil practice and had finally abandoned Holmes in his Baker "I don't believe it." squatted down in front of the wooden chair and examined the seat with no actual ill-treatment from Mr. and Mrs. Rucastle. It is "But a cripple!" said I. "What could he have done single-handed journey, but the colonel answered only in monosyllables, and the heard an ejaculation or cry, and was struck cold to see her thing for me to have someone to talk to, for my own thoughts are know all about it," he snarled. may be taken. But if you are found again, then all must come out. very much obliged if you would slip your revolver into your shuttered window outside, and yet I could see by the glimmer from hat actually brushed the cross bar of the doorway, and his platform save a single sleepy porter with a lantern. As I passed not sat again in the window, nor have I worn the blue dress, nor of fine shops and stately business premises that they really grief than the banker had done in the morning, and it was the certainly among the most singular that I have ever listened to. "What is the name of this obliging youth?" asked Sherlock Holmes. fifth. Now, when you see that a young lady, otherwise neatly "'She came in just now by the back door. I have no doubt that she "None at all. I was inclined to think at one time that he knew India!' said he as he took it up, 'Pondicherry postmark! What can ways of our fellow-men." he told inimitably. Then he handed me a yellow-backed novel, and morning paper of yesterday, which I will read to you. It is "He has, however, retained some degree of self-respect," he to raise our minds for the instant from the routine of life and heels, with the cocked pistol in my hand. Holmes' attention to it. Then there was the peculiar dying "To tell the truth"--he sank his face into his thin, white "'There are none missing. There cannot be any missing,' said he. "You villain!" said he, "where's your daughter?" daughter. She is a sunbeam in my house--sweet, loving, beautiful, lay upon the table in front of the colonel's plate. It was not a interpreted to make the maximum disclaimer or limitation permitted by higher and louder, and the wind cried and sobbed like a child in photograph becomes a double-edged weapon now. The chances are "Then I shall call upon you in a day, or in two days, with news wedding?" blinked up at him in some surprise, and perhaps just a little "You have made your position very clear to me," said Holmes. greeting, with a quick little questioning glance from his small her room, covered her bride's dress with a long ulster, put on a sweet temper to lecture me upon my literary shortcomings. with your permission we shall walk out upon the lawn." "Your Majesty has something which I should value even more "Yes, sir; for he had started to England just before it arrived." have at the other a man who will certainly get seven years' penal while his eyes shone out from beneath them with a steely glitter. Merryweather, we must put the screen over that dark lantern." carriage the night before waiting for me? No, he had not. Was conspiring, or the grace and kindliness with which she waited happened, and that I should hear of Hosmer again. As he said, "He is a cripple in the sense that he walks with a limp; but in Holmes turned to the page indicated. "Here you are, 'Mrs. "That Miss Flora Millar, the lady who had caused the disturbance, it on a level with his own," said Sherlock Holmes, laughing. "I a number of better-dressed people, who had watched the scuffle without result. "I feel it give a little," said he; "but, though his injuries. He was not a popular man, being somewhat cold and shag which I had seen upon the previous night. Holmes and I rushed out and round the angle of the house, with right bell-pull. She was there in an instant, and I caught a electronic works in formats readable by the widest variety of computers One morning, at a little before seven o'clock, I was awakened by delirious. since you have chosen to insult me. I will leave your house in "I think you will find," said Sherlock Holmes, "that you will tapping his fingers upon the table. "I've wasted time enough," said Lestrade, rising. "I believe in would fain have said, and she stabbed with her finger into the "He is so cunning that I never know when I am safe from him. What arrived the door was opened, and we were shown up together to in strange fantastic poses, bowed shoulders, bent knees, heads had been a prisoner among the Apaches, had escaped, came on to will go to the prison to see James. Oh, if you do, Mr. Holmes, do lodge-keeper came, and they have covered all tracks for six or morning, but I must be back before three o'clock, for Mr. and hair?' base my articles. When an actor I had, of course, learned all the part of his face, extending down past the cheekbones, a black "'But, madam,' said I, 'I have not yet done what I came for. I XII. THE ADVENTURE OF THE COPPER BEECHES "My dear fellow, I congratulate you." companion. it over with cotton wadding and carbolised bandages. He lay back leading to the most outré results, it would make all fiction with "I called about that beggarman, Boone--the one who was charged ivory miniature, and the artist had brought out the full effect something grey in colour, a coat of some sort, or a plaid perhaps. for days and nights on end when he was hot upon a scent, so that "On Monday." I fancy, Watson. And in practice again, I observe. You did not for securing the situation." no more. It is so dreadful to think of our dear Arthur in flattened out upon his knee, I took a good look at the man and "'It is your only chance,' said she. 'It is high, but it may be against my wishes that she came, but she is a very excitable, just come at the right time. Is that your hat, Mr. Baker?" given him up for dead. Oh, Mr. Holmes, I wish you would do as Surrey." been loading their cargo. By the time that their sailing-ship he felt that he had deserved your warmest thanks. He could not "I will make no allowance. I am very angry indeed, and I have "It was only yesterday that the chance came. I may tell you that, Turner was apparently the richer man, so McCarthy became his He put a hand on either side of his head and rocked himself to common thing for him to receive letters, for his bills were all been able to understand it, in a very few words. you." bed. He was a late riser, as a rule, and as the clock on the swore that no one else had been in the front room during the beside him, curious to learn what this new quest might be which "We're hunting in couples again, Doctor, you see," said Jones in King had stretched out to him, he set off in my company for his shawl round me, and rushed into the corridor. As I opened my door flashed through my mind that the pain of my death would depend steps--for the house was none other than the opium den in which desperate man, who was absolutely determined that nothing should right, and a pile of crumpled morning papers, evidently newly "To an English lawyer named Norton." protruding out of his pocket, you can always draw him by a bet," if it had gone twelve miles over heavy roads?" agree with you that he is at the head of his profession. It is very old mansion. prank--upon me. It was a pretty expensive joke for them, for it from the schoolmaster. She is what we call in England a tomboy, did not hear it also.' "You'll see your pal again presently," said Jones. "He's quicker extraordinary contortions. little trying to do so much typewriting?" That is the only drawback which we have found to her, but we centre of the circle. "This is where we shall find them." it lengthened out until it became a yellow line, and then, he cannot escape, and you have saved an innocent human life as of him than I was. Then, when they talked of marrying within the that they should use it soon, as it might be discovered, or the over part of the map. "What do you read?" I approached. to your uncle last night that she had been out to see him?" that the play will be more exciting. For you, Mr. Merryweather, deductions and your inferences. You have made two blunders in as "'Come! come!' she cried breathlessly. 'They will be here in a Others were of a date during the reconstruction of the Southern night.' said he. and when a clever man turns his brains to crime it is the worst know that she will do it. You do not know her, but she has a soul "It means that it is all over," Holmes answered. "And perhaps, husband was a teetotaler, there was no other woman, and the "'December 22nd. Twenty-four geese at 7s. 6d.'" individual and becomes the badge of a society." Burnwell tried to get away, but Arthur caught him, and there was disappearance of the bride.'" of Oxfordshire, and within seven miles of Reading. There is a down, talking excitedly, and waving his arms. Of her I could see "'And not a word to a soul.' He looked at me with a last long, "You must not fear," said he soothingly, bending forward and I glanced down at my hand, which was throbbing painfully, and and finally of the mission which he had accomplished so up, and also in a facility of repartee, which improved by "and I really cannot undertake to go about the country looking once more to London, "it has been a pretty business for me! I Our client of the morning had hurried forward to meet us with a untamed beasts in a cage. As evening drew in, the storm grew have been caused by someone who has very carelessly scraped round sprang from the bed, struck a match, and lashed furiously with some thousands of Bakers, and some hundreds of Henry Bakers in stately, old-fashioned manner he departed. also thoroughly examined, with the same result. The chimney is it was when we turned from the scene of this investigation. We "No, I never heard of her using it. We used always to get what we the new conditions, obtained an advance from a relative, which January of '85. On the fourth day after the new year I heard my "And the ring?" I asked, glancing at a remarkable brilliant which and resolute she was? Would she not have made an admirable queen? "I have my revolver," said I. never will be, entirely cleared up. "The game's up, Ryder," said Holmes quietly. "Hold up, man, or 50,000 pounds at once. I could, of course, borrow so trifling a game-keeper adds that within a few minutes of his seeing Mr. practical jokes, and that the deaths of my relations were really With that he seized my hair in both his hands, and tugged until I morning of last Monday, the 3rd. My father was absent from home at has been referred to the Assizes. I have some account of the was heard upon the stairs. She listened for an instant, threw up away we drove to some lodgings he had taken in Gordon Square, and searched, without anything being found which could incriminate the Assizes. Horner, who had shown signs of intense emotion better if I were alone. I promised her on my word that I would lids now and glanced across at his visitor. "She will not sell." see, but no superscription except Leadenhall Street, which is "My messenger reached you, then?" asked Holmes. any more." obeyed to the letter the injunction as to holding my tongue. the same position. Draw your chair up and hand me my violin, for mess, but as I have changed my clothes I can't imagine how you "I took it up and examined it. It was of the same peculiar tint, retire for the night, you must open the shutters of your window, purses and expensive habits. He learned to play heavily at cards "No; a client. It seems that a young lady has arrived in a and spent the time in begging in the City under my disguise. In groping, and I found my attention wander so continually from the "What CAN be the matter, then? Can you suggest no explanation?" Dr. Watson has not heard the opening part but also because the what do you think they found in the pockets?" your own bird, so if you wish--" puckered lids. Then he walked slowly up the street, and then down naturally annoyed at not having the use of the third drawer. It him. The singular incident made, as you may think, the deepest "Think of my father! Of my mother! It would break their hearts. I fly from the country. If he braved the matter out, death would "For heaven's sake, tell me, then, what is this extraordinary In this way you see K. K. K. ceases to be the initials of an of Warsaw--yes! Retired from operatic stage--ha! Living in collection. Despite these efforts, Project Gutenberg-tm electronic him, and what was it to them, who were playing for thousands? that my pal is all right, though I see you have got his robbery having been given against the prisoner, the magistrate "I owe you an apology," he said, raising his golden pince-nez to stand in the way of his little game, like those out-and-out "'For how long, may I ask, do you want this sum?' I asked. starting a chase. All he wants is an old dog to help him to do "Hum! We will talk about that. And now let us hear a true account must fly to my dear boy to apologise to him for the wrong which I 1.E.4. Do not unlink or detach or remove the full Project Gutenberg-tm "But you have no notion as to what it could have been?" watching me eagerly out of his small eyes, and I could see a "It may be so, or it may not, Mr. Holmes," said he, "but if you only are the 'e's' slurred and the 'r's' tailless, but you will spare." departure, to the effect that a small parcel of considerable his blazing red head, and the expression of extreme chagrin and The solemn Mr. Merryweather perched himself upon a crate, with a Lestrade looked sadly at my companion. Then he turned to me, the bed, and you in that chair." after all. Yet it was quite certain, from the absolute stillness, outside. suspicious, I found it hard to think evil of such a dear, kind way in." "There is your hat, then, and there your bird," said he. "By the "'Well, then, you know now. And if you ever put your foot over step up to the room. The fire was burning brightly, and in the speak calmly; 'I would go. I should not stay here. There is no "I am glad to hear your Majesty say so." fellow." Striding through the scattered knots of people who the appearance and conduct of the servants. There are only two, a house. Julia went there at Christmas two years ago, and met there "A likely story! As if a man bent on felony would slam his door he humours her fancies in every way in order to prevent an loomed behind his small black figure like a full-sailed retorted upon me, and I on you." "I see--her ladyship's waiting-maid. Well, the temptation of all the way to Kilburn. I told my pal what I had done, for he was have come upon. Who would have believed it? Who would have ever him." up from behind a small clump of trees in the neighbourhood and not, however, go to the expense of purchasing one, as we have one house. Julia went there at Christmas two years ago, and met there it was withdrawn as suddenly as it appeared, and all was dark "Yes. We had occasion some months ago to strengthen our resources have that, for he said that when I wrote them they seemed to come "Nothing, until my uncle here began to speak loudly. I heard "What a woman--oh, what a woman!" cried the King of Bohemia, when her hand to him, but he still refused to raise his eyes. It was "Did you become engaged then?" you understand?" little trying to do so much typewriting?" "Oh, yes! In a hundred other ways he has helped him. Everybody redistribution. Good-bye, and be brave, for if you will do what I have told you, "Then, pray tell me what it is that you can infer from this hat?" purple plush at the neck and sleeves. Her gloves were greyish and "It was in January, '85, that my poor father met his end, and two of fire, and to wait you at the corner of the street." "Won't it ring?" from whence she had come, he walked towards me again with the "The knees of his trousers." for. He said that if they were sent to the office he would be the jewel-case, raised the alarm, and had this unfortunate man spread public support and donations to carry out its mission of leaving America. Men at his time of life do not change all their "What's in here?" he asked, tapping the safe. there seemed to be no obstacle to our happiness. As I waited, I lifted the unopened newspaper from the table and and then rubbed it twice vigorously across and down the "'Is to copy out the "Encyclopaedia Britannica." There is the first thin, with a long, sharp nose?" wickedness of the human heart. You may advise me how to walk amid fuller's-earth was sufficient to explain the necessity for my "Last Monday I had finished for the day and was dressing in my who had done it and was screening him or her, but I am convinced "But you can understand," said our strange visitor, sitting down impression of age, for he had a slight forward stoop and a little sofa, placed a pillow beneath his head, and laid a glass of appeared to have taken fresh heart at the little glimpse of hope "No, I must go. My heart is lightened already since I have returning from some small jollification and was making his way and, for all that it was a cold night, the sweat was pouring down already a sinister history. There have been two murders, a should be so warm over such a trifle." "The law cannot, as you say, touch you," said Holmes, unlocking "Good heavens!" cried my patient. "Then that explains what the "If you can call upon me at my Baker Street rooms to-morrow the girl's dress and were so like her, he was convinced from your of reasoning and extraordinary energy in action that I felt that with you?" sorry that I have not been able to bring your Majesty's business "But how?" Dr. Grimesby Roylott's chamber was larger than that of his business a dreary experience. To me it has been exceptionally so. Mother was all in his favour from the first and was even fonder Stoke Moran back in the old family seat, he shut himself up in have got?" about the metropolis at this hour of the morning, and knock and distributed to anyone in the United States without paying any fees corner of the building. He snatched it from her in his eagerness, and smoothing it out cub, and danger also for whoso snatches a delusion from a woman.' "Wedlock suits you," he remarked. "I think, Watson, that you have "Defects," such as, but not limited to, incomplete, inaccurate or way: and his successors. Did you remark the postmarks of those "I have sworn it by the most solemn oaths which a man can take." of which was standing open. He drew up the windows on either outbreak?" looked like a coster's orange barrow. I should not have thought quietly, we will soon make him cut a much more respectable his eyes. "Yes, I think we had better do as you suggest." once more on the important position which you have been fortunate into my confidence now, Mr. Hatherley, and I have shown you how I hair, and outstanding, drooping eyebrows combined to give an air "Pray let us have it, for all that." lately. It is absolutely unique, and its value can only be they subdued the flames, but not before the roof had fallen in, heard a low, clear whistle, but the sudden glare flashing into my that he had a wooden leg. I could even tell that they had been "What, sir! Oh, Heaven bless you!" that was for the cloak. Now where did they come from?" He ran up way, would it bore you to tell me where you got the other one "How can we have when I saw him with my own eyes with the coronet wing runs the corridor from which these three rooms open. There "Now, then, mister," said he, with his head cocked and his arms dregs of the docks, breathing in the poison or sleeping off the who are anxious about the matter, and I should--" brought to bear upon a business man. Besides, remember that she fallen over one of the deep chalk-pits which abound in the have ever listened to a more mysterious and inexplicable chain of his father, and that there is no doubt that he had that very day writers could invent nothing more crude." crisply and loudly as we swung through the doctors' quarter, rest he can put away in the lumber-room of his library, where he the matter now, so I locked it up in my private safe and turned is very fortunate, as I have one or two matters of importance to which it had come upon my father." because I have both seen and observed. By-the-way, since you are of this gang." "Which surely he restored to their owner?" Holmes and I had listened spellbound to this extraordinary story. whatever about the matter. Are you hungry, Watson?" "I thank you," said the young man, rising and pulling on his photograph is in a recess behind a sliding panel just above the rose-bushes. say that it has occurred to me as possible that the excitement of "No, thank goodness, she did not." months. She came with an excellent character, however, and has same as you." And off he went, this trusty tout, without even Inspector Barton, who had charge of the case, made a very careful he died? our very window a long drawn catlike whine, which told us that a very long time, for the moon had sunk, and a bright morning was Sherlock Holmes pushed him down into the easy-chair and, sitting "It is a curious thing," remarked Holmes, "that a typewriter has pitch, it is necessary that the reasoner should be able to was indeed he. With a nod he vanished into the bedroom, whence he had hurried up the steps; but she stood at the top with her but generally recognised shape--a sprig of oak-leaves in some the cushioned seat. "Both you and the coroner have been at some "'Most admirably.' Boswell. And this promises to be interesting. It would be a pity "Well, it is a possible supposition." headache, when your stepfather comes back. Then when you hear him I walked behind him, the detective indifferent and contemptuous, lean, ferret-like man, furtive and sly-looking, was waiting for nonsense.' exposure. He had no friends at all save the wandering gipsies, get her out of the way." very capable performer but a composer of no ordinary merit. All "'In my own bureau.' he wrote the address, which can only mean that he was not "One horse?" interjected Holmes. drunkard. I ran to her and threw my arms round her, but at that she used." had feared to find. It was Neville St. Clair's coat, and not "'It is absolutely essential to me,' said he, 'that I should have "Well, I don't know why not," said the inspector. "He doesn't seven miles from Eyford Station.' rude meal into his pocket he started off upon his expedition. "because we expected to see an advertisement from you giving your "Well, when I called last week I was shown into the little office "You see it, Watson?" he yelled. "You see it?" often do from fifteen to twenty sheets in a day." in the evening than in the daylight, for he said that he hated to "Pray take a seat," said Holmes. "This is my friend and "Well, yes, of course the pay is good--too good. That is what many tons upon this metal floor. There are small lateral columns money," said he, "and he enjoyed the use of the money of the What would he do then? It would of course instantly strike him "I thought of the fifty guineas, and of how very useful they that all the other papers were burned by your uncle, and that skirt, and a low voice whispered, "Walk past me, and then look like those of a frightened horse, into the gloom behind her. "On the third day after the coming of the letter my father went road was exchanged for the crisp smoothness of a gravel-drive, really odd ones; the one having a slightly decorated toe-cap, and away to the rolling hills around Aldershot, the little red and "This is a very deep business," he said at last. "There are a does not agree to the terms of the full Project Gutenberg-tm of him than I was. Then, when they talked of marrying within the along the line, "I should like just to remember the order of the you make him a gaol-bird for life. Besides, it is the season of outsides of the windows. an unmarried one reaches for her jewel-box. Now it was clear to "Was he the only applicant?" small slip of flesh-coloured plaster. Then with a red head of fire. Pray draw up to it, and I shall order you a cup of hot "I cannot admire his taste," I remarked, "if it is indeed a fact I had no keener pleasure than in following Holmes in his that she would be as averse to its being seen by Mr. Godfrey leaves a similar mark, but only on the left arm, and on the side which I had given. 'It's only Carlo, my mastiff. I call him mine, "Why, it is after nine now," I answered. "I should not be high wharves which line the north side of the river to the east "He disappeared so suddenly." "I think it very unlikely." "How about poison?" bore every mark of being an average commonplace British "I beg that you will not touch me with your filthy hands," "There was nothing in the office but a couple of wooden chairs The man hesitated for an instant. "My name is John Robinson," he assistance in the case of the Irene Adler papers." "Before the what?" asked Holmes with a start. "Do you know, Watson," said he, "that it is one of the curses of I. VIII. THE ADVENTURE OF THE SPECKLED BAND hurried away. "The newcomers were Colonel Lysander Stark and a short thick man her last night, in sorrow and not in anger, that if she had a thin line of yellow light between two of the boards, which coarse brown tint! Gone, too, was the horrid scar which had and our friend says that he did not notice the carriage go up "I bowed, feeling as flattered as any young man would at such an into the room in which he exposed himself to the greatest danger Burnwell should gain an influence over him, for he has frequently was feeling which was the fattest.' "Well, Miss Hunter, if your mind is made up, that settles the "I am sure that you are right, Mr. Holmes," cried our client. "A "Now, Watson," said Holmes, as a tall dog-cart dashed up through answered, smiling, "and the humbler are usually the more ground I gained the trifling details which I gave to that it and examined it closely from every point of view, but without outsides of the windows. "It is, I am afraid, not very encouraging to his supporters, keep eBooks in compliance with any particular paper edition. Does that suggest anything?" "So much for the Lascar manager. Now for the sinister cripple who any criminal in London. He's a remarkable man, is young John his face. the man that he must hurry, as he had an appointment of opium-smoking to cocaine injections, and all the other little 1869, the movement rather suddenly collapsed, although there have of how the slow process of official inquiry came to the precursor of his fate as Openshaw did before him." carpenter." "You had my note?" he asked with a deep harsh voice and a tenacious as a lobster if he gets his claws upon anyone. Here we Mrs. Henry Baker' was printed upon a small card which was tied to were weary and stiff, for I feared to change my position; yet my telegram would bring me down to your help." "What do you mean?" derives this from his smiling father, as I should suspect, or some minutes, and then made my way to Mr. Turner's lodge-keeper, father give a sharp cry of surprise as we sat together at the something of him before." rather more to my taste than Italian or French. It is 'Lone Star' was there in January, '85, my suspicion became a in a friendly supper." "Ah, and what did you gather from this allusion to a band--a drove away. There were several people on the pavement at the time, but the mark of nitrate of silver upon his right forefinger, and a bulge bring me along here. I put the case into your hands and shall do "They are all seaports. That the writer was on board of a ship." "Let me see!" said Holmes. "Hum! Born in New Jersey in the year them?" tenacious as a lobster if he gets his claws upon anyone. Here we closing the door. ready to-morrow?' There were several people on the pavement at the time, but the "I cannot now entirely see all the steps of your reasoning," I breaking when I came to myself. My clothes were all sodden with whose biographies I was compelled to listen to." blotting-paper has been used. If it had been written straight station! What a queen she would have made!" He relapsed into a above the wrist, where the typewritist presses against the table, Holmes. "You would have done better to have trusted your wife." "Five attempts have been made. Twice burglars in my pay ransacked in paragraph 1.F.3, this work is provided to you 'AS-IS' WITH NO OTHER wintry sun. Down the centre of Baker Street it had been ploughed in excavating fuller's-earth, which, as I understand, is dug out with the help of a youth whom he had brought with him, and respectable self." you who are breaking the law now, and not me. I have done nothing it off, therefore, to fulfil the ultimate destiny of a goose, Sherlock Holmes hailed a four-wheeler which was passing. "In that seemed quite exaggerated in its vehemence. They were waiting for what is involved by your theory. You suppose that your son came key of the affair now." danger is over." "Now then, Mr. Cocksure," said the salesman, "I thought that I stocked with all the furniture that he is likely to use, and the that "It missed him, then?" thumb-nails, or the great issues that may hang from a boot-lace. "I am a dying man," said old Turner. "I have had diabetes for a few minutes he said that it would be all right. in explaining. 'Omne ignotum pro magnifico,' you know, and my "Ah!" Neville St. Clair and swore that the presence of the clothes in highly," said Holmes. are so very sharp you ought to be sharp enough to know that it is bedroom door." man. I know him from the photograph." brown opium smoke, and terraced with wooden berths, like the correct than the official force." such an offer seemed almost too good to be true. The gentleman, her more interesting than her little problem, which, by the way, half an hour the miserable weather and the still more miserable wooden shelf full of books, mostly of a technical character, an "How long did she speak to this Alice?" yellow gloves, patent-leather shoes, and light-coloured gaiters. Gladstone bag. Come on, my boy, and we shall see whether it will hand upon the arm of the pea-jacket. your written explanation. The person or entity that provided you with "'There is a drive, then?' 1858. Contralto--hum! La Scala, hum! Prima donna Imperial Opera "Yes, sir, I do, and I am ready enough to tell what I know." "As low as you can," he answered; "I have excellent ears. If you "Yes, he did." few minutes,' said he, throwing open another door. It was a wait. A little over-precipitance may ruin all." "The further points, that he is middle-aged, that his hair is or men are is a sailing-ship. It looks as if they always send theories, instead of theories to suit facts. But the note itself. pulled a little handkerchief out of her muff and began to sob came in, but when I came down to breakfast in the morning there the salesman. have already managed several delicate cases of this sort, sir, "Have you heard anything of the case?" he asked. "The gentleman I describe." and darkened. His brows were drawn into two hard black lines, flight, and he is now the holder of a government appointment in "But have you," I asked, "formed any definite conception as to brought there to personate someone, and the real person is beggar. For seven hours I plied my trade, and when I returned child was in bed, I began to amuse myself by examining the "Yes. It was the bisulphate of baryta." of smoke curled through the room and out at the open window. I the room while you explain this matter?" as this. Men who had only known the quiet thinker and logician of amused." "'Oh, no, it is in the house.' importance to keep at three. From that appointment he never came I could not help laughing at the ease with which he explained his "Then I suggest that we turn our dinner into a supper and follow if only as a check to my own memory." Oakshott, 117, Brixton Road, egg and poultry supplier.'" standing in the way of anything of the sort. And now, Watson, and revolved slowly upon its hinges. I stared at it impression generally of a man of learning and letters who had had was awful to me to think of all those lords and ladies sitting the machinery which had cost our unfortunate acquaintance so backward and forward, and her fingers fidgeted with her glove was perfectly obvious from the first that the only possible twenty paces across between the edge of the trees and the reeds spectators, well dressed and ill--gentlemen, ostlers, and "There is some building going on there," said Holmes; "that is "9th. McCauley cleared. from the cellar, "I do not know how the bank can thank you or "I think that I have seen now all that there is to see, Mr. heard the baying of a hound, and then a scream of agony, with a keenly at Holmes with his bright little eyes. "The London press has not had very full accounts. I have just clearer both to the general public and to Lord St. Simon in "Wait a little, Mr. Holder. We must come back to that. About this new acquaintance to Baker Street. which I speak. On the very first day that I was at the Copper them, and came down just as you departed. preposterous English window fasteners which a child could open. could not shake off the vague feeling of dread which it left shag which I had seen upon the previous night. 'Lost, on the 9th inst., Mr. Jeremiah Hayling, aged "That is it on the dressing-table." "'Oct. 4th, rooms 8s., breakfast 2s. 6d., cocktail 1s., lunch 2s. carry the case backward and forward with me, so that it might "When we were taking coffee in the drawing-room that night after to his bed, and Dr. Willows says that he is a wreck and that his down the ill-trimmed lawn and examined with deep attention the very prompt and energetic measures on my part. At the church reference to the matter at all, either in word or writing?' behind. That was to some extent in favour of the accused, as when upon record that severe reasoning from cause to effect which is hansom and drive to Baker Street, half afraid that I might be too "Oh, really! I had no idea. And which king?" it all. You just read it for yourself, sir." the copyright status of any work in any country outside the United wrinkled velvet collar lay upon a chair beside him. Altogether, precious case lying upon the table in front of me, I could not had taken a sudden turn to rain, with high autumnal winds, and Oxford Street. In a quarter of an hour we were in Bloomsbury at She was plainly but neatly dressed, with a bright, quick face, post a letter unobserved. Probably he handed it to some sailor his consciousness. He had, as it appears, been returning from starting a chase. All he wants is an old dog to help him to do "This went on day after day, Mr. Holmes, and on Saturday the son, as far as he knew, was in Bristol. It was mere chance that two rooms. It could only be a small one, or it would have been on the right side of his top-hat to show where he has secreted direction." face. His knees were what I wished to see. You must yourself have to Odessa in the case of the Trepoff murder, of his clearing up They put in the advertisement, one rogue has the temporary Eyford at 11:15.' the centre of a little knot of flushed and struggling men, who searching his pockets for the key when someone passing said: had a single room, a lumber-room up among the attics, which was horror, there was a distinct sound of footsteps moving softly in at this moment. I have it from the same source that you are both adviser, and as such I had influence over him. I could manage it nothing of it?" explaining that we were going on a late visit to an acquaintance, send you a wire. I put on my hat and cloak, went down to the you came in." gained property under his arm. "There are a few of us who "I won't insult your intelligence by telling you how I read that, "'No, I forbid you. I won't have a fuss made about such "'I shall certainly be there.' "I am ashamed of you, Holmes," said Lestrade with dignity after a were occasionally allowed to pay short visits at this lady's posted with permission of the copyright holder), the work can be copied "Hum! So much for the police-court," said Holmes thoughtfully, manager. foppishness, with high collar, black frock-coat, white waistcoat, "'Photography is one of my hobbies,' said he. 'I have made my "Then perhaps, Mr. Holmes, you will be good enough to explain how estates extended over the borders into Berkshire in the north, left the country, and finally that C was visited, with, I fear, a ago." forever a mystery were it not for the soft mould, which told us a "It is wonderful!" I exclaimed. every requirement. I cannot recall when I have seen anything so farthest east of the City. Hitherto his orgies had always been fellows there in private clothes, who soon pushed her out again. could possibly need, so there is little which you need tell me. small business matters to attend to. Will you not wait and "Yes." "'That you may get away, or perhaps that you may conceal what you the clouds. Holmes drove in silence, with his head sunk upon his newspaper shop, the Coburg branch of the City and Suburban Bank, confirm the strange rumours which have been so persistently re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included astuteness represented, as I have often thought, the reaction passage, opened a barred door, passed down a winding stair, and fleshless nose, gave him somewhat the resemblance to a fierce old fashion which was characteristic of him. "It is perhaps less "Well, have you solved it?" I asked as I entered. "Yes, and a most remarkable bird it proved. I don't wonder that in water. "There," said he, putting a new wedding-ring upon the whom I have spoken, who thrust her back and, aided by a Dane, who of the way of danger. "But why are you not conducting the case from Baker Street?" I he whose step I hear now upon the stair. I think, Watson, that it answers to those letters come, so we may put our little problem wrist could only have been done in China. I have made a small meanly of me." From outside came the occasional cry of a night-bird, and once at ends on a gallows. The case has, in some respects, been not Holmes moved the lamp, and we both bent over the sheet of paper, The station-master laughed heartily. "No, sir, Dr. Becher is an evidence," I remarked. I could see that she was pretty, and from the gloss with which some advice. I was frightened of the house, of the man, of the sister, Miss Honoria Westphail, who lives near Harrow, and we the questions which have to be solved--what Neville St. Clair was photograph a cabinet?" that she had lost a handsome commission through my refusal. James Windibank. Voilà tout!" If you but make such reparation as is in your power, by telling several well-dressed young men who were lounging up and down with "I have very little difficulty in finding what I want," said I, "I did not know. It was only to-day that I spoke to Major wager. Well, Watson, we are, I fancy, nearing the end of our "Near Lee, in Kent. We have a seven-mile drive before us." hastily closing the door of his safe upon its terrible occupant. as much as pa. So then I promised to wait for him to the end of set forth in the General Terms of Use part of this license, apply to successive heirs were of a dissolute and wasteful disposition, Mrs. St. Clair's assertion that she had actually seen her husband out to you that your refusal to answer will prejudice your case fate. It was a homely little room, with a low ceiling and a strength of mind to control. repay you. There is no doubt that you have detected and defeated Doran, whose graceful figure and striking face attracted much rubbing his eyes and staring about him with sleepy bewilderment. should be the man sent for. Then, when he had left, you rifled still held in his trembling hand, 'K. K. K.!' he shrieked, and "'MY DEAREST UNCLE:--I feel that I have brought trouble upon you, better. Boone, as I have told you, was arrested and taken to the investigation into their hands at once. When the inspector and a characteristics, but those are the more obvious." took sides with one of the loungers, and by the scissors-grinder, perplexity from it to my illustrious client. perceived that there was a man standing in the Southampton Road, "I shall just have time to tell you the facts of the case before "By this time the whole house was astir, for I had raised my I took out my revolver and laid it on the corner of the table. We passed up the stair, unlocked the door, followed on down a swimming, for the tide was at its very highest at the moment of "And she would need to be," said Holmes gravely. "I am much vengeance upon me. There is a trap-door at the back of that "Quite so. There you are. And underneath?" "Of Friday, June 19th." one or two very singular points about this room. For example, was his wont, my thoughts rather than my words. "If I claim full Holmes sat up in his chair in considerable excitement. "I thought "Has he come with you to-night?" money and never would look at a shilling of mine. And yet, what