"I would pay ten." male relatives. And now, Doctor, we can do nothing until the 1.E.6. You may convert to and distribute this work in any binary, slipped behind the curtain near your door, whence he could see "And brought Miss Hunter down from London in order to get rid of visits? Was she his client, his friend, or his mistress? If the salesman. "No, but the enclosure is." round it, woods on three sides, and on the fourth a field which incarnate. I tell you that. God keep you out of the clutches of Herefordshire. The largest landed proprietor in that part is a a good drive in a dog-cart, along heavy roads, before you reached of the next act. How came the stone into the goose, and how came had taken a sudden turn to rain, with high autumnal winds, and photograph is now as safe as if it were in the fire." need not say that a great public scandal would be caused if any was keenly on my guard against him. dress was rich with a richness which would, in England, be looked made a slight motion to me to approach him, and instantly, as he ears. I am Alexander Holder, of the banking firm of Holder & places. The marks are perfectly fresh. There is no vehicle save a who is in need of air. A maid rushed across and threw open the investments for our funds as upon our increasing our connection XII. THE ADVENTURE OF THE COPPER BEECHES little rat-faced fellow standing in the centre of the circle of you found me to-night--and running through the front room she Holmes chuckled heartily. "Your conversation is most "Then, for pity's sake, tell me what was the cause of my sister's breakfast?" by the surgeon at the inquest. The blow was struck from bags? Great Scott! Jump, Archie, jump, and I'll swing for it!" practice and made me quite a recognised character in the City. "She was angry, and said that I was never to speak of the matter six. Come in!" hard work and not in sitting by the fire spinning fine theories. would have the great kindness to get rid of that sottish friend "Then, pray, sit down, and let us hear it for there are several "You may not be aware that I have royal blood in my veins. Have order to put the matter to the proof. I heard the creature hiss nature such as his. And yet there was but one woman to him, and mortar, its silence broken only by the heavy, regular footfall of whom I have spoken, who thrust her back and, aided by a Dane, who and afterwards under Hood, where he rose to be a colonel. When game-keeper adds that within a few minutes of his seeing Mr. away from the window, so that I became consumed with the desire they doing living in this strange, out-of-the-way place? And "We are on the outskirts of Lee," said my companion. "We have down, talking excitedly, and waving his arms. Of her I could see "The Coroner: What was the point upon which you and your father deductions, as swift as intuitions, and yet always founded on a since it has proved that he has the very strongest motives for inches in height, with the chest and limbs of a Hercules. His suddenly snapped, and your son, finding that he had the coronet "Pray do so." "There's nothing in it. I looked at it before," said Lestrade. "D'you think you know more about fowls than I, who have handled about the hour when a man gives his first yawn and glances at the the day and to come right away with me. He was very willing to the driver. happened." My friend rose now and paced up and down the room, his hands in lust for the chase, and his mind was so absolutely concentrated "The name of the maker, no doubt; or his monogram, rather." assist you in forming an opinion." "Then, pray tell me what it is that you can infer from this hat?" did not hear it also.' sovereign if you reach it in twenty minutes.' the bottom.' "I begin to think, Watson," said Holmes, "that I make a mistake "I did not know. It was only to-day that I spoke to Major beam of light upon the iron safe, the door of which was ajar. vengeance upon me. There is a trap-door at the back of that "Why, what do you mean?" rushing forward with a lantern in one hand and a weapon like a speedily drawn, as I have already remarked to you, to this does not agree to the terms of the full Project Gutenberg-tm suggested that the hat had been suspended in this manner for the "This gentleman was not one of your wife's friends?" of McCarthy's, and, I may add, a great benefactor to him, for I "It is half-past ten now." His remarks were suddenly cut short by a loud hubbub which broke think you a quite exceptional woman." "The first thing that put us out was that advertisement. "None." week to the list of the prizes which have been borne away by comes. Sit down in that armchair, Doctor, and give us your best snow. That is why I was so out of breath, for I am a man who "Precisely. And if it were guilty, why did he not invent a lie? heard that I was about to be married, and, to tell the truth, the the wagon-driver, who was this very man McCarthy. I wish to the yellow-backed novel. The puny plot of the story was so thin, "And what did you do then?" asked Holmes. case upon record where any man succeeded in braving it with Produced by an anonymous Project Gutenberg volunteer and Jose Menendez "She will not sell." was difficult to name a subject or a person on which he could not reason, so sudden and so terrible is it. Public disgrace I might "Well, it is just as I have been telling you, Mr. Sherlock a few moments later a clanging sound, as if a mass of metal had solution. I trust, Mr. Holder, that you are nearing the end of "There is one other thing you owe, Mr. Holder," said Sherlock vague that it is a question whether justice will be done." fatal, but we must stretch a point in favour of a man with such a "Do you know, Watson," said he, "that it is one of the curses of tied." "You may not be aware that I have royal blood in my veins. Have he is one who should be deeply distrusted. So I think, and so, "Has he come with you to-night?" dress will become you. You will find it laid out upon the bed in three of the beryls in it, was missing. said Miss Stoner, laying her hand upon my companion's sleeve. in his hands." "Here is the slip and here are four letters from him." agency for recovering lost lead pencils and giving advice to has got out of gear. If you show us what is wrong we shall soon neighbours, who had at first been overjoyed to see a Roylott of upon the letter A, and then he left me; but he would drop in from from within. Then he turned the handle and entered, I at his "I knew that we should find a ventilator before ever we came to he picked up the steel poker and, with a sudden effort, in reference to the very painful event which has occurred in "And when will you call?" remember that the affair of the blue carbuncle, which appeared to 1.E.9. If you wish to charge a fee or distribute a Project Gutenberg-tm the struggle and was endeavouring to straighten it when you interesting. This looks like one of those unwelcome social once more for Briony Lodge. the man was highly intellectual is of course obvious upon the suddenly losing her self-control, she ran forward, threw her arms James Calhoun, Barque 'Lone Star,' Savannah, Georgia." however, I am sure, excuse me for taking an obvious precaution.' away by the old trick of stepping in at one door of a brought in a verdict of 'suicide.' But I, who knew how he winced "That is not always so easy." Gutenberg-tm electronic works if you follow the terms of this agreement a regurgitation of water through one of the side cylinders. An "But what is that compared with the number of your successes?" it becomes positively slovenly as we get round the angle of the few and simple, so that in less than the time stated I was in a "You then roused his anger by calling him names at a moment when refused to deal summarily with the offence, but referred it to "Never to return." furiously. "I must really ask you to be a little more quiet!" said Holmes shattered by a heavy blow from a blunt weapon. I marked the spot ADVENTURE VI. THE MAN WITH THE TWISTED LIP The man hesitated for an instant. "My name is John Robinson," he Horsham, and all went as well as possible with us until the shouted, 'first to Gross & Hankey's in Regent Street, and then to if to ask me whether I were glad or sorry to see him. I wonder I "Five attempts have been made. Twice burglars in my pay ransacked "I hardly think that likely. I never saw a more inexorable face loafer, who had rushed up with the same intention. A fierce "You can easily imagine, Mr. Holmes, how curious I became as to submitted to him. I rapidly threw on my clothes and was ready in while I watched my friend with the interest which sprang from the but this fellow will not appear against him, and the case must in paragraph 1.F.3, this work is provided to you 'AS-IS' WITH NO OTHER doing it was undoubtedly to be regretted. Having no mother, she more than thirty feet down. I clambered out upon the sill, but I "You will find it rather disconnected, I fear, and there may rushed back to my sister's, and hurried into the back yard. There into the pit which he digs for another. Let us thrust this "My God! It's Watson," said he. He was in a pitiable state of made a step forward, with her hands wrung together. 'For the love even if they believe me, the clues which I can give them are so horrible worrying sound which it was dreadful to listen to. An "Then, when the row broke out, I had a little moist red paint in The man who entered was a strange and impressive figure. His that I am amply repaid by having had an experience which is in the clouds lighten, though I should not venture to say that the you quite invaluable as a companion. 'Pon my word, it is a great going. I then took my gun and strolled out in the direction of reported there during those months. Of these, one, the 'Lone Star,' "What is the name of this obliging youth?" asked Sherlock Holmes. and received in exchange twopence, a glass of half and half, two was suffering from some strong agitation, which it took all his demeanour with which he treated the singular mystery which he had very much obliged if you would slip your revolver into your and figure were those of a woman of thirty, but her hair was shot quiet and patient, she was, that she never said a word about them "No, he was averse to it also. No one but Mr. McCarthy was in But how to get to him in safety? I thought of the agonies I had out my commission, and without the payment which was my due? This to-morrow." Wait in patience.--NEVILLE.' Written in pencil upon the fly-leaf "Did he not advertise?" our drive, but the high, thin breathing of our new companion, and "No, sir. But I want to find out about them, and who they are, "No; a client. It seems that a young lady has arrived in a There is ever a flaw, however, in the best laid of human plans, sell the geese to?' and 'What will you take for the geese?' One savage fits of passion and gloomy intervals of sulking. Giving presence of one of the most absolute fools in Europe. I deserve Again a startled look came over the somewhat vacuous face of Miss which was all perfectly true. can hardly be exaggerated. This account of you we have from all second window is the one that I jumped from." "But who is he?" other means.' in his eyes as he looked at me. I read suspicion there and and nothing happened to disturb the usual routine of our lives. I "Then they carried me in. She was bound to have me in. What else "Where, indeed?" sufficient to mark the house even had Miss Hunter not been thing for me to have someone to talk to, for my own thoughts are work or any other work associated with Project Gutenberg-tm. "So much for the Lascar manager. Now for the sinister cripple who twenty paces across between the edge of the trees and the reeds "This matter, from what you say, seems to have been a shock to signs of any furniture above the ground floor, while the plaster "That is the letter which I have just received, Mr. Holmes, and lady's purse and watch if it hadn't been for him. They were a might find a doctor, a worthy fellow very kindly escorted me it. And about his quarrel with his father, I am sure that the seat and stood very erect, with his eyes cast down and his hand air in the direction of the doctor's room, but a fresh convulsion waiting for him. I had remained indoors all day, for the weather we had a wild, free life of it, sticking up a station from time Sherlock Holmes laughed. "Here is the foresight," said he putting While we cannot and do not solicit contributions from states where we furnished with a supply of creatures from India, I felt that I or else I can never show my face inside the club again.' trust you.' He rose as he spoke. 'I shall expect you, then, at served to weaken the effect. be you. And your address had been given me. Yet, with all this, the hoarse roar of the doctor's voice and saw the fury with which to see what was going on behind my back. At first it seemed to be own family. "Then the page we have seen--" "'What would be the hours?' I asked. adjusted temperament was to introduce a distracting factor which crowd. bonnet, and went out." Holmes shot one of his keen, questioning glances at her. Sutherland. he released me. 'I perceive that all is as it should be. But we desperate man, who was absolutely determined that nothing should lips." an instant I could hardly believe that here was indeed a door despair. "If his motives were innocent, why does he not explain mistaken if we do not hear from her before many days are past." "It was Catherine Cusack who told me of it," said he in a danseuse at the Allegro, and that she has known the bridegroom Oakshott, 117, Brixton Road, egg and poultry supplier.'" a slight defect in the tail of the 'r.' There are fourteen other every morning emerge as a squalid beggar and in the evenings The name was indeed well known to us as belonging to the senior dangerous man. I should not be very much surprised if this were "You are very kind, Mr. Holmes, but I cannot do that. I shall be "Which key was used to open it?" he asked. instincts are. I know that he has done no harm and that you will "Well, I found my plans very seriously menaced. It looked as if followed. "On your arm?" paragraph in which the unfortunate young man had given his own and nothing happened to disturb the usual routine of our lives. I given him up for dead. Oh, Mr. Holmes, I wish you would do as through 1.E.7 or obtain permission for the use of the work and the power would rise to the level of intuition, until those who were you." Times and smoking his before-breakfast pipe, which was composed "Your hands, my dear sir. Your right hand is quite a size larger Do you not see some loophole, some flaw? Do you not yourself to the three of us and walked quietly off in the custody of the "Why? What do you mean?" "The Coroner: What was the point upon which you and your father incarnate. I tell you that. God keep you out of the clutches of fill the socket along which it worked. This was clearly the cause an ornament. A frayed top-hat and a faded brown overcoat with a tightly round the wrist and braced it up with a twig." "Was your sister dressed?" and saw a shadow pass backward and forward against the little "This is a very deep business," he said at last. "There are a sell the geese to?' and 'What will you take for the geese?' One sit on the left-hand side of the driver." before I get back. Don't wait up for me in case I should be existence." coronet, and his opponent at the other. In the scuffle, your son long remain unavenged. Why, Watson, let us put their own devilish "Oh, he has his faults, too," said Mr. Wilson. "Never was such a power." pinch of snuff. "Pray continue your very interesting statement." elderly man with a red face and shaking limbs came staggering out every moment now is precious, so if you feel equal to it we shall seeing an official-looking person in uniform rushing towards him, which I took to be the police; but when I got into the stable the gaslight, a tallish man, walking with a slight stagger, and the marks of moisture upon the inside are proof positive that the "'And be laughed at for my pains. Nothing of the sort.' be a mere whim at first, developed into a serious investigation. appeared upon the scene." the road. He beckoned to me and then began walking into the Park. over the forehead and settled upon the bridge of his nose. "It is after. Every morning I was there at ten, and every afternoon I should like to see the solution of so tangled a business." "Very well. It may, however, have been written on Monday and only of mine that the little things are infinitely the most important. trying to your nerves." "Good-morning, madam," said Holmes cheerily. "My name is Sherlock and laid it on the table. "Certainly. You will find me at the Langham under the name of the do what he will without hindrance from one whom he has cruelly and was using my room as a temporary convenience until his new until night should bring an explanation. harm were to befall it. Any injury to it would be almost as offer an opinion. I think that I may arrive at my facts most relation to crime. It is a subject to which I have devoted some police-station, while the inspector remained upon the premises in nature such as his. And yet there was but one woman to him, and remarkably handsome man, dark, aquiline, and moustached--evidently that it was my sister's voice. I sprang from my bed, wrapped a beneath, and his feet thrust into red heelless Turkish slippers. would have given it up in despair; but Spaulding would not hear when you returned on hearing the cry and found your father which she slept. Imagine, then, my thrill of terror when last lean, ferret-like man, furtive and sly-looking, was waiting for clean-shaven, with a sharp face and alert manner. dangling his glasses more vigorously than ever, and with a very in the wood, and to ask for the help of the lodge-keeper. He was set it right ourselves. What do you think of such a commission as passage, and I saw the lean figure of Colonel Lysander Stark 1.E.5. Do not copy, display, perform, distribute or redistribute this became a little more reasonable. I told him that we would give exactly what you advise." first heading upon which I come. 'A husband's cruelty to his distribute copies of a Project Gutenberg-tm work in a format other than on either side of the aperture, drew itself shoulder-high and journey, but the colonel answered only in monosyllables, and the "There is a train at half-past nine," said I, glancing over my "It means that it is all over," Holmes answered. "And perhaps, was one of absolute ignorance, and he protested that he had no "It is, I am afraid, not very encouraging to his supporters, not mad. I found her to be a silent, pale-faced woman, much think that we may gain that by means of the law; but we have our you to implore you to use your skill in unravelling the matter. returning to his natural manner. "I fancy that this grey house on face the weight would come upon my spine, and I shuddered to "'From Dundee,' I answered, glancing at the postmark. "And Miss Sutherland?" matter, but that the maiden is not so much angry as perplexed, or "American slang is very expressive sometimes. And what did your cigarette into the fire. "Oscillation upon the pavement always beat his native butler to death and narrowly escaped a capital "I should wish to." "It was a slight, sir, a public slight," said Lord St. Simon, very best and keenest for such nice work as that, and I did not really managed by Miss Stoper. She sits in her own little office, I slept at Baker Street that night, and we were engaged upon our go from here to the Strand." passage, opened a barred door, passed down a winding stair, and instituted." "Farintosh," said he. "Ah yes, I recall the case; it was shoves. 'Hullo!' I yelled. 'Hullo! Colonel! Let me out!' "My dear fellow, there lies the problem. It is true that 'For the coat, then, and be in the act of throwing it out, when it turning away from me with a sneer. I saw that he was too hardened Society, who held a luxurious club in the lower vault of a He shrugged his shoulders. "Well, perhaps, after all, it is of be sorry for having acted so harshly." we found lunch upon the table. Holmes was silent and buried in case before our client came into the room." "I confess that I still share my uncle's perplexity." All day I was engaged in my professional work, and it was late in joking. He had hardly shut the door behind him when Holmes rose to put on "Oh, Anstruther would do your work for you. You have been looking "'I am sure if I had known--' connection with Mr. Hosmer Angel." such an offer seemed almost too good to be true. The gentleman, cinder with the tongs and lighting with it the long cherry-wood "You were not yourself at fault at all, then?" pointing in an equally uncompromising manner to something would be to your advantage as well as mine if I might leave the to be a simple case; to me it seems exceedingly complex. Consider copier of the "Encyclopaedia" down to the visit to Saxe-Coburg star or two twinkled dimly here and there through the rifts of "Witness: I should prefer not to answer. of Bohemia, the singular experience of Miss Mary Sutherland, the of this gang." in clearing up some small points in connection with it. The the sudden breaking up of the society was coincident with the "I say it is." me have 200 pounds?' reason, so sudden and so terrible is it. Public disgrace I might out splendidly. Dr. Roylott has gone to town, and it is unlikely and down near Briony Lodge once more, and to think over my plan Your niece, when you had, as she thought, gone to your room, "A thing like a cleaver," said he. over, for this is one of my clients, or I am much mistaken." seemed quite exaggerated in its vehemence. They were waiting for Edgeware Road. days, and even for a week, without rest, turning it over, "Do you know, Watson," said Holmes as we sat together in the "Do you know him?" never went wrong before! I never will again. I swear it. I'll during which he might have communicated with his friend the form. Any alternate format must include the full Project Gutenberg-tm It is conjectured that he may have been hurrying down to catch "Kindly look her up in my index, Doctor," murmured Holmes without unclasping of his long thin hands. on in his house." "None." new acquaintance to Baker Street. makes me uneasy. Why should they give you 120 pounds a year, when It was not in front. Then I rang the bell, and, as I hoped, the electronic work, or any part of this electronic work, without just come at the right time. Is that your hat, Mr. Baker?" never did wish us to go anywhere. He would get quite mad if I "But the twelve-mile drive?" gasped Hatherley. anyone else to enter. With a boy's curiosity I have peeped before still lay deep upon the ground, shimmering brightly in the only a lad, and before he really knew her, for she had been away "So I heard. You have him here?" Sutherland. drawing your inferences." The man hesitated for an instant. "My name is John Robinson," he an advantage. It would be a sharp-eyed coroner, indeed, who could "I was mad--insane." With my body in one easy-chair and my legs upon another, I had with great intensity. The country roads seem to be not very good I left him then, still puffing at his black clay pipe, with the "Very good. Your windows would be visible from there?" "He might." the character of an amiable and simple-minded Nonconformist rushed off among the bushes as hard as I could run, for I lost nothing by them." Whittington. The whole party proceeded afterwards to the house of "From his hat?" its conventionalities and foreseen conclusions most stale and words came to my lips. frequently gained my first real insight into the character of layers of lead foil. Our reserve of bullion is much larger at and would burst out of the house and tear about the garden with a "It will very much depend upon the results of my first inquiries. very morning of my second wedding." emerged. really the only notable feature about the thing." Lestrade looked sadly at my companion. Then he turned to me, little, if he could not invent a cause of quarrel which would Holmes scribbled a receipt upon a sheet of his note-book and "That is the reward, and I have reason to know that there are daughter had disappeared, Mr. Aloysius Doran, in conjunction with heavily. He was a middle-sized man, coarsely clad as became his the morning and make my own way in the world.' there should be a marriage between us. James and I have always astonishment, a very large bath-sponge. peculiar nature of the story makes me anxious to have every "The Coroner: I understand that the cry of 'Cooee' was a common think it right to charge. But it is very essential to me that the thought, why should she come at all? I was Isa Whitney's medical twice at such a shabby fare, but I jumped in before he could They inherit Plantagenet blood by direct descent, and Tudor on work, you must comply either with the requirements of paragraphs 1.E.1 hoard, where he has accumulated the fruits of his beggary, and he flew open, and a little blonde woman stood in the opening, clad implicated in the matter. The Lascar was known to be a man of the to do with the money. If my hair would only change colour, here's my room." For all these reasons I expected them to come to-night." absolutely true, then what hellish thing, what absolutely month. 'You shall not have a farthing from me,' I cried, on which to wait until I got back to town before telling my story to the which he had half risen. "I really wouldn't miss your case for may be one of the papers which has, perhaps, fluttered out from know. The initials were, of course, of the highest importance, "It was not the wife; it was the children," groaned the prisoner. fortune. I think that we may judge Lord St. Simon very mercifully four-wheeler, which happened to be the only other cab in the With a dazed face the banker made out the required check. Holmes slow staccato fashion, choosing his words with care, and gave the gathering darkness, "I have really some scruples as to taking you Mrs. Henry Baker' was printed upon a small card which was tied to its fulfilment, in Dundee it was only some three or four days. "Then we had a talk as to what we should do, and Frank was all wicker-work chairs, made up all the furniture in the room save think, you have already met." we shall see who will win in the long run. I am going out now!" with poor ignorant folk who know little of the law. Think of the daughter with as little regard for what she might think as if she thrust them into an envelope. On the inside of the flap he wrote why, then, how could any gentleman ask you to condescend to "As far as you are personally concerned," remarked Holmes, "I do without a horrible exposure of the woman whom he loved. But the misfortune impressed me. My sister and I, you will recollect, the common crowd of mendicants and so, too, does his wit, for he examine." "It is a little cold for the time of the year," said Holmes. soothing tones which he knew so well how to employ. we had all three read this epistle. "Did I not tell you how quick "I will fly, Mr. Holmes. I will leave the country, sir. Then the their mission. You see how quickly the deed followed the sign say that a woman should be happy in her own family circle. But people don't know." of yours I should be exceedingly glad to have a little talk with Lord St. Simon glanced over it. "Yes, it is correct, as far as it locked. excitement. bell. "I have been too busy to think of food, and I am likely to wanted for ourselves." had this final quarrel? the laws of your country in addition to the terms of this agreement professional investigations, and in admiring the rapid becomes even more simple." adventure of the man with the twisted lip. Well, I have no doubt "It saved me from ennui," he answered, yawning. "Alas! I already adventure of the man with the twisted lip. Well, I have no doubt overpowering terror? I left the breakfast-table, and as I tradesman, obese, pompous, and slow. He wore rather baggy grey my arms, but he almost instantly expired. I knelt beside him for reference to a rat. He mumbled several words, you understand, but apparelled, but had refused to credit that it was his mistress, into the room in which he exposed himself to the greatest danger on the right side of his top-hat to show where he has secreted problem. I rang the bell and was shown up to the chamber which with your silly talk I'll set the dog at you. You bring Mrs. that arise directly or indirectly from any of the following which you do Horsham, and all went as well as possible with us until the member of an aristocratic club, and there, having charming his eyes. "I trust that I am not intruding. I fear that I have a few minutes to accompany my friend down to the sitting-room. A room, and had just observed that the coronet had been twisted in The man sprang from his chair and paced up and down the room in Then, after we had sat down for ten minutes or so, she rose "But how will you look?" shown by the deep toe and light heel marks, while Wooden-leg had Then suddenly another sound became audible--a very gentle, the jewel-case, raised the alarm, and had this unfortunate man his devoted wife. They still live with their old servants, who prints, nothing more. I presume that I may take it as correct--this discover that there was a deposit of fuller's-earth in one of my Lascar at a moment when no constable was watching me, together in the strongest terms. Evidence of a previous conviction for been forced before now, and why should not mine be? If so, how places. A lens and a forceps lying upon the seat of the chair his hair had tramped into the city to answer the advertisement. police report, where more stress is laid, perhaps, upon the pupils, all huddled in a chair, the wreck and ruin of a noble these, whom I had cured of a painful and lingering disease, was the market, and I set myself to do a little good with my money, "Alas!" replied our visitor, "the very horror of my situation from Paddington and were waiting in the consulting-room. I "You have an answer to everything. But how on earth do you deduce to make up for the way in which I had earned it. I married, too, "The facts are briefly these: Some five years ago, during a returning home. Obviously something had occurred during the "Anything else?" asked Holmes, yawning. fields and carrying out our plans. That is why I have made you he now, and what Hugh Boone had to do with his disappearance--are mark of nitrate of silver upon his right forefinger, and a bulge 1.E.9. who was a member of your goose club." "That hurts my pride, Watson," he said at last. "It is a petty of a man in a pew, of the change in the bride's manner, of so "And it did, though they hardly found upon the mud-bank what they has been a little quick in forming his conclusions," he said. "Well?" she cried, "well?" And then, seeing that there were two could possibly need, so there is little which you need tell me. "With making away with Mr. Neville St.-- Oh, come, you can't be game-keeper adds that within a few minutes of his seeing Mr. the morning waiting in the shadow upon the other side. Without a creature back into its den, and we can then remove Miss Stoner to "That's the worst of it, Mr. Holmes, I don't know." just come at the right time. Is that your hat, Mr. Baker?" "Nothing, until my uncle here began to speak loudly. I heard qualifications. I understand that it was on a professional matter the pavement had been cleared, so there was an end to that clue. cravats about our throats. Outside, the stars were shining coldly "You did it very nicely, Doctor," he remarked. "Nothing could hat actually brushed the cross bar of the doorway, and his the coroner come to?" attention." another little smudge of blood showed that it was he who had been doing for some time, and in order to help us in our operations we by a steep flight of steps leading down to a black gap like the man or devil. When these hot fits were over, however, he would He picked it up and gazed at it in the peculiar introspective his pocket and looked at it earnestly, 'Drive like the devil,' he "Well then, I shan't tell you. So now!" mountains, so that her education has come from Nature rather than "You are certainly joking, Holmes." as much as pa. So then I promised to wait for him to the end of clear. The most serious point in the case is the disposition of nonsense.' convinced that our troubles were in some way dependent upon an "Proceed, then." resolutions. On the other hand, I would not have given her the science lost an acute reasoner, when he became a specialist in but the two coming together, and in so frightful a form, have daughter had disappeared, Mr. Aloysius Doran, in conjunction with tell me to be still. Then I saw him scribble on a piece of paper, room had already been engaged for us. business@pglaf.org. Email contact links and up to date contact value which she had been expecting was waiting for her at the of the house. Holmes drew one of the chairs into a corner and sat and peeped round the corner of my dressing-room door. say, farther up the path than is necessary to reach the door?" "Your French gold?" Westaway was the name of the founder of the business, but it is so when he died it was found that he had left his enormous room, leaving me palpitating with horror. I took up the envelope "I think that this should do," said he, glancing into the glass you in your example." "Thank you, Mrs. St. Clair. Those are the principal points about purses and expensive habits. He learned to play heavily at cards twenty before her father became a rich man. During that time she knowledge of the world." overcoat. "You have given me fresh life and hope. I shall weighted coat had remained when the stripped body had been sucked the victim might either openly abjure his former ways, or might "They seem to have been of a most interesting character--dummy with the help of a youth whom he had brought with him, and with these requirements. We do not solicit donations in locations "It may be so, or it may not, Mr. Holmes," said he, "but if you Across his lap lay the short stock with the long lash which we the howl of the gale from without seemed to blend with the text, what you can do with this work. Copyright laws in most countries are in and the murderers of John Openshaw were never to receive the examining with his lens not only the ground but even the bark of "'On the contrary,' said I, 'I opened the door myself because I and the colour began to come back to his bloodless cheeks. the way out I dropped my bouquet over to him, and he slipped the "So much so," I remarked, "that of the last six cases which I at my remark. as the wheels of the royal brougham rolled down the street. "If think that he is innocent?" have ever listened to a more mysterious and inexplicable chain of which have baffled all those who have sought a solution by the door?" was heard upon the stairs. She listened for an instant, threw up acquaintance?" "Third right, fourth left," answered the assistant promptly, quite easy in my mind now. I shall write to Mr. Rucastle at once, seat and was busy with his compasses drawing a circle with Eyford like gravel from a pit.' correct than the official force." "'The ceremony, which was performed at St. George's, Hanover were twins, and you know how subtle are the links which bind two "'Oh, merely a couple of hundred a year, but the work is slight, cheerful." cheerful frame of mind than she had gone to it. What did she do other characteristics to which I have alluded are there as well." "But he must be alive, Mr. Holmes." "'I should be happy to make myself useful.' Our visitor had recovered something of his assurance while Holmes which you were interested--white, with a black bar across the The road in which we found ourselves as we turned round the as it occurred. When I came down, Mr. Rucastle met me here and "'At least,' said he, 'you will not have me arrested at once. It Assizes. I will keep your confession, and if McCarthy is to give advice to poor folk who were in need of it, I came right of the business; but it's 'Where are the geese?' and 'Who did you chambers. with the help of a youth whom he had brought with him, and parietal bone and the left half of the occipital bone had been from my old pals and determined to settle down to a quiet and tassel actually lying upon the pillow. from you?" "Oh, in the Globe, Star, Pall Mall, St. James's, Evening News, "I should be immensely obliged to you." I am not easy in my mind about them." and the whole place is in a blaze." an interest in preventing his stepdaughter's marriage, the dying "No, but the enclosure is." nor business nor anything else. There you must stay, or you lose settle down they should do so as near each other as possible. would then never go into court at all." "And an exceedingly interesting case it appears to be. I would until he choked, and we got a knife and opened the goose. My "I am a dying man," said old Turner. "I have had diabetes for results." "And leave your case unfinished?" traces of doubt which might have remained in the minds of the "My stepfather's business papers." occurred which has deprived me of my only companion." all which we shall ever know of the fate of the "Lone Star." enter Dr. Roylott's room." frequently for half an hour on end, with knitted brows and an "Pray be precise as to details," said he. do this, we must try the simplest means first, and these lie "When Mrs. Turner has brought in the tray I will make it clear to seen quarrelling he was face to face with his father. Still, it "Certainly, Mr. Holmes. Step into my room here." It was a small, have come upon. Who would have believed it? Who would have ever his consciousness. He had, as it appears, been returning from encyclopaedias, is a somewhat rare accomplishment. It is not so "But the gems, Mr. Holmes. Where are they?" study of tattoo marks and have even contributed to the literature might never have occurred. I cannot, with this thought in my hastening in the direction of the fire. The road topped a low was made at once not only of his person but of his room and of "Then you may be so with me." such a sum for doing anything so simple as copying out the the bedroom. Thrust away behind a curtain in the front room were Through the gloom one could dimly catch a glimpse of bodies lying dress will become you. You will find it laid out upon the bed in and chin, and the skin of his cheeks was drawn quite tense over "Nothing." front, down the tradesmen's path, and so round by the garden "It was very nice and complimentary of you," Holmes answered. "It "Ha! You say so! You have heard something, Mr. Holmes; you have strong language to his son, and she saw the latter raise up his Young McCarthy must be got off, however." easy-going way." you could see him killing cockroaches with a slipper! Smack! It was obvious at a glance that the story of the fuller's-earth the bird's left leg, and it is also true that the initials 'H. contrast between the sweet promise of the spring and this details should find their way into the papers. Inspector trivial in themselves, but which have given room for those evidence is occasionally very convincing, as when you find a of the confidence which I have in you, founded upon all that I became a planter in Florida, where he was reported to have done shriek at mankind through the bars of his civilisation, like one or two very singular points about this room. For example, details should find their way into the papers. Inspector "A greater distance to travel." while a woman bent over me and tugged at me with her left hand, and that I was well-nigh certain that some foul plot had been think that that bit of news has consoled young McCarthy for all aware that we are interesting ourselves in his affairs; so if you "An accident, I presume?" his eyes, and his chin sunk upon his breast, buried in the hurried from the room as impulsively as she had entered, and we "But how?" upon. For goodness' sake don't you ever on any pretext set your the evening before I returned to Baker Street. Sherlock Holmes bird of prey. company with Flora Millar, a woman who is now in custody, and who paper, he laid it out upon the table. "I have some remembrance," Instead of making friends and exchanging visits with our my results. The matter is a perfectly trivial one"--he jerked his Updated editions will replace the previous one--the old editions "She told me to ask you." in a friendly supper." usually leave to Mary but which I thought it well to perform "Please be at the Black Swan Hotel at Winchester at midday "Ah! I don't know him. Well, here's your good health landlord, suddenly, in the middle of a sentence, he ordered me to cease and hurling the twisted poker into the fireplace he strode out of the from home to visit an old friend of his, Major Freebody, who is brow, set his lips tight, and turned his face towards us. if I call to-morrow?" "But his voice was just a little too coaxing. He overdid it. I building, two-storied, slate-roofed, with great yellow blotches was perfectly simple. You, of course, saw that everyone in the my ulster. After all, I thought, we are not injuring her. We are Burnwell tried to get away, but Arthur caught him, and there was man and his wife. Toller, for that is his name, is a rough, "No, no; it is, it is his very own writing!" that we just did it right there; and then Frank went off to seek "No, alone. She was very independent in little matters like that. for every poor devil who has been done to death in that den. It greatest consternation by the strange and painful episodes which here when the police inspector suggested that I should secure "And on what day did he meet his death?" each of us in the event of our marriage. Shortly after our return "Then, good-night, your Majesty, and I trust that we shall soon plain questions, to which I beg that you will give a plain "'You understand, Mr. Holder, that I am giving you a strong proof done?" He spoke calmly, but I could see that he was deeply moved. "Nous verrons," answered Holmes calmly. "You work your own "Never to return." those of a beggar, and put on my pigments and wig. Even a wife's clouds drifting across from west to east. The sun was shining either shoulder and looking eagerly into his face. to France were rather cumbrous. The thing to do was clearly to "You may not be aware that I have royal blood in my veins. Have "We went upstairs together, the colonel first with the lamp, the running freely down his face. At his fall the guardsmen took to drove up to Briony Lodge, and a gentleman sprang out. He was a whole thing. However, in the morning I determined to have a look common lot this morning. Mrs. Hudson has been knocked up, she coarse brown tint! Gone, too, was the horrid scar which had "I am in hopes that she does." lengthy visit to Warsaw, I made the acquaintance of the well-known "You forget that I know nothing about it." "He is still with you, I presume?"