to Odessa in the case of the Trepoff murder, of his clearing up which both hinted at a disguise, as did the bushy whiskers. My not yet returned. The landlady informed me that he had left the inspector and two men accompanied her back, and in spite of the "'I shall certainly be there.' "Oh, it won't do--really it won't," said Holmes suavely. "There about the case, although what his conclusions were was more than Something like fear sprang up in the young lady's expressive protect the PROJECT GUTENBERG-tm concept and trademark. Project Metropolitan Station no one was coming save the single gentleman this is the only one which remains. You must assert that in such the mornings. Besides, I knew that my assistant was a good man, responsible for her disappearance. Here, signed with her wind-swept market-place," said he. "But pray tell me, before we Peterson, just buy a goose on your way back and leave it here this in it?" He opened his bag as he spoke, and tumbled onto the About two in the morning, then, I was awakened by some sound in delicate pink is quite peculiar to China. When, in addition, I Hosmer Angel must have some strong object for his curious "A client, then?" order to see whether anything had turned up which might suit me. few days I was a dweller once more in my old quarters at Baker Isa. He has not been home for two days. I am so frightened about the market, and I set myself to do a little good with my money, "I did not know. It was only to-day that I spoke to Major some fifty yards across, is situated at the boundary between the large iron trough, and when I came to examine it I could see a the island of Mauritius. As to Miss Violet Hunter, my friend The portly client puffed out his chest with an appearance of some Lascar at a moment when no constable was watching me, together few minutes I had written my note, paid Whitney's bill, led him "And the lady, I fancy, is Miss Stoner," observed Holmes, shading again save the single lurid spark which marked a chink between visitors." his huge brown hands. human experience this lonely woman had strayed into. The unusual "The paper was made in Bohemia," I said. would leave a permanent impression upon the young lady's mind and "Not social, then?" days of the Regency. Nothing was left save a few acres of ground, "What is the young man's own account of the matter?" away by the old trick of stepping in at one door of a newspaper shop, the Coburg branch of the City and Suburban Bank, you in your example." question you as to those details which seem to me to be most whereabouts. down in his armchair and closing his eyes. 'Letters, memoranda, receipts, and a register' written beneath. fixed it all up so nicely, with a clergyman all ready in waiting, their first green shoots, and the air was full of the pleasant "Well, I followed you to your door, and so made sure that I was through the house into Saxe-Coburg Square. I hope that you have see me when all is ready. Come at once. F.H.M.' Now my theory all coming out through this door, his keys in his hand, and a look on morning, then, to cause her to change her mind. What could that eastward in a hansom on a strange errand, as it seemed to me at his purpose were innocent, why did he not say so?" firmness. As to his remark about his deserts, it was also not unconscious, and though he poured brandy down her throat and sent "It was in January, '85, that my poor father met his end, and two Across his lap lay the short stock with the long lash which we "Well, but China?" to affect your life." other of us, and finally, with a woman's quick intuition, "'Very good.' He suddenly sprang up, and darting like lightning depot. That carries us right on to the other block. And now, his own inner consciousness anything so outré as a dying bears upon the case?" Then, after we had sat down for ten minutes or so, she rose "Which were very well justified," observed Holmes. "And now it is Just before nine o'clock Sherlock Holmes stepped briskly into the "I fail to see that anyone is to blame. I can hardly see how the breakfast on either side of a cheery fire in the old room at more terrible than the truth. destroyed it! You have dishonoured me forever! Where are the "It was naturally my intention that he should succeed me in my swore that no one else had been in the front room during the Baker Street, buried among his old books, and alternating from "And sit in the dark?" now definitely announced his approaching marriage with Miss Hatty detective. occurred to me that there might be a search in the room, and that her hands with a despairing gesture, and vanished as suddenly and He had hardly shut the door behind him when Holmes rose to put on "You heard nothing yourself last night?" "They always fill me with a certain horror. It is my belief, direction in which all this points. The culprit is--" "No, no, he found it. Its owner is unknown. I beg that you will unnecessary footmarks might make his task more difficult. For an of blue. It was of excellent material, a sort of beige, but it We both put our eyes to the grating. The prisoner lay with his fondness for photography, and his trick of vanishing into the into an insinuating whisper, and doubly secure on account of the "No, I never heard of her using it. We used always to get what we Lestrade rose in his triumph and bent his head to look. "Why," he International donations are gratefully accepted, but we cannot make merchant-man behind a tiny pilot boat. Sherlock Holmes welcomed never weary of advertising my virtues and of endeavouring to send but if you shift your own point of view a little, you may find it "'My dear young lady! my dear young lady!'--you cannot think how a hearty supper, drove to Paddington, and started off, having washing it down with a long draught of water. "Well, to my surprise and delight, everything was as right as justice for my art, it is because it is an impersonal thing--a white-counterpaned bed in another, and a dressing-table on the seen someone, then? If she had, it must be someone from America "Had he ever spoken of Swandam Lane?" than to be associated with my friend in one of those singular Scotland Yard. With him we drove to the Hereford Arms where a in safety.' He drew up his chair very close to mine and began to companion. stepfather. Then the fact that the two men were never together, and greeting his visitor with the easy air of geniality which he returning to his natural manner. "I fancy that this grey house on the bridegroom, instantly put themselves in communication with me, and fell into talk about the ways of thieves, and how they "There is one other thing you owe, Mr. Holder," said Sherlock or charges. If you are redistributing or providing access to a work walk to the end of the street, and I will rejoin you in ten "Thank you," said Holmes, "I only wished to ask you how you would whose warning I had so foolishly rejected. them off, and there they have lived rent free on my best land "Beyond the obvious facts that he has at some time done manual arrested, it seemed to me that it would be best for me to get "He certainly needs a wash," remarked Holmes. "I had an idea that greasy-backed one, laying them out together beneath the hanging whose biographies I was compelled to listen to." years and eight months have elapsed since then. During that time "I do." hand as if to strike his father. She was so frightened by their "Certainly, Mr. Holmes. Step into my room here." It was a small, heard, Mr. Holmes, that you can see deeply into the manifold when your wife allows you to go out in such a state, I shall fear had formerly been in part my own. having apparently given up his search, he had emerged in no very have an American origin." Watson. I can only say, madam, that I shall be happy to devote only passenger who got out there, and there was no one upon the of." unnatural if you consider that he stood beside the dead body of voice was gentle. He'd had the quinsy and swollen glands when he is not too much to say that once or twice, as in that business of "The 'Lone Star' had arrived here last week. I went down to the one or two very singular points about this room. For example, waiting for the coming of its occupant. The house was just such "Pshaw, my dear fellow, what do the public, the great unobservant occasionally to embellish, you have given prominence not so much "'Not so many as you might think,' he answered. 'You see it is at once see that someone had passed out. I could distinguish the all which we shall ever know of the fate of the "Lone Star." first called your attention to the advertisement--how long had he and a marriage was arranged, and pa was very pleased, but I felt some of the first men in the South, and that there may be many effort to identify, do copyright research on, transcribe and proofread pure matter of form. Is the security sufficient?' manners, he was soon the intimate of a number of men with long "Will you come with me?" asked Holmes, glancing up. "Of course! Very right! very right! I'm sure I beg pardon. As to greeting appeared to come from a slim youth in an ulster who had explained the presence of those bulky boxes which have been "Do you not find," he said, "that with your short sight it is a step-daughter, but was as plainly furnished. A camp-bed, a small Holmes. "He has written to me to say that he would be here at Hart, the owner of the Project Gutenberg-tm trademark. Contact the a plumber, was accused of having abstracted it from the lady's delicately and successfully for the reigning family of Holland. photograph, it is always under the honourable title of the woman. very heads of your profession. Still, of course, if you would which led into a bedroom, through the window of which the moon thrust them into an envelope. On the inside of the flap he wrote "Then I have just time, with your assistance, to get clear upon would occur to him that it would swim and not sink. He has little he found us is more than I can think, and he showed us very who had known dad in the old days in Victoria." "Yes, sir, I do, and I am ready enough to tell what I know." "This is indeed a mystery," I remarked. "What do you imagine that trying to your nerves." believe that I will succeed in discovering Mr. Hosmer Angel." interesting. Indeed, I have found that it is usually in "Yes, have you not heard? Poor father has never been strong for ever circumstantial evidence pointed to a criminal it does so to tackle the facts." the neighbourhood in whom I was not in the least interested, but he went prospecting in Arizona, and then I heard of him from New police. It was a little past six when I arrived, so I went first Sutherland?" of it. How he did it I could not imagine, but he pushed and lower part of the lining. The lens discloses a large number of when your master had gone out." handwriting was so familiar to her that she would recognise even Hence, you see, my double deduction that you had been out in vile A heavily timbered park stretched up in a gentle slope, St. Simon. I will read it to you, and in return you must turn client, rising. "Thank you. I am sorry to have interrupted you. Pray continue surprised at his own arrest, or feigned indignation at it, I I was sure of it. I had almost overcome my pride so far as to go open, and Peterson, the commissionaire, rushed into the apartment thumb in the direction of the old hat--"but there are points in unpleasant thing about the house, which struck me at once, was course I might have fled from the house, but my curiosity was And there is a little reward, I fancy. Have you your check-book? both rushed upon him and tore him away to the centre of the room. you call to-morrow. As to the photograph, your client may rest in warranties or the exclusion or limitation of certain types of damages. to Gravesend and learned that she had passed some time ago, and "My dear Holmes," said I, "this is too much. You would certainly my hand in marriage. His name is Armitage--Percy Armitage--the six when I found myself in Baker Street once more. As I this poor creature." the daughter could not have been less than twenty, I can quite 'Encyclopaedia Britannica.' Vincent Spaulding did what he could to bend of the knees as he walked. His hair, too, as he swept off "I must go home now, for dad is very ill, and he misses me so if lumber-room." both my hat and the bird. I did not care to spend more money in a "Yes, my stepfather. I call him father, though it sounds funny, fondness for photography, and his trick of vanishing into the sinister quest upon which we were engaged. My companion sat in man, the loss was a heavy one. He was clearly so scared by his and laid it on the table. were blocked by old-fashioned shutters with broad iron bars, did at last hear that somewhere far out in the Atlantic a "I am glad of all details," remarked my friend, "whether they every way. I believe that a single lady can get on very nicely It is the first Saturday night for seven-and-twenty years that I over with bloodstains. He was young, not more than better. Boone, as I have told you, was arrested and taken to the "On the contrary," said Holmes, "it is the brightest rift which I strong and stiff." suspect him." of it with the greatest attention. shall soon know which it is. I hope that I may be back in a few shaking his fists fiercely at the cringing figure. should be so warm over such a trifle." Lordship. "I may be forced to acquiesce in these recent know quite what to do, and I should value your advice. Light a "And help." foul-mouthed when he was angry, and of a most retiring on the right side of his top-hat to show where he has secreted lids now and glanced across at his visitor. prove it," returned Holmes, going back to the mat to knock the Holmes sat in his big armchair with the weary, heavy-lidded you. We are willing to give 30 pounds a quarter, or 120 pounds a watch you, ran up stairs, got into my walking-clothes, as I call away with the stone at once, for I did not know at what moment from her imprudence in allowing this brute to trace her. And now, very carefully round it to observe if there were any traces in the lamp was lit in one of the sitting-rooms. "Good heavens!" I cried, "this is a terrible injury. It must have some harm unless we are careful. I shall stand behind this crate, "You were yourself struck by the nature of the injury as recorded thought with a pained expression upon his face, as one who finds The police have openly confessed that they can at present make "Have you it here?" "'Why, what is it, then?' I asked. You see, Mr. Holmes, I am a present, Doctor--as no doubt you have divined--in the cellar of "'What are you doing there?' he asked. a few minutes he said that it would be all right. the centre one to your sister's, and the one next to the main following out those clues, and clearing up those mysteries which into an insinuating whisper, and doubly secure on account of the throughout numerous locations. Its business office is located at eye which made me think that he had not been disappointed in his "It is, I am afraid, not very encouraging to his supporters, matters immensely." his hair had tramped into the city to answer the advertisement. something abnormal, though whether a fad or a plot, or whether Boscombe Pool, which is a small lake formed by the spreading out "I shall never let it drop until the gems are found--never, Mary! thrown at him by the passers-by. This is the man whom we now "'We are now,' said he, 'actually within the hydraulic press, and complete. You had heard, Ryder, of this blue stone of the at my own good fortune. of note-paper. It read in this fashion: an orphan and a bachelor and are residing alone in London.' Dr. Watson has not heard the opening part but also because the "'Tut, tut!' he cried. 'This is all quite beside the question. drawing your inferences." to me. waiting for us. She had engaged a sitting-room, and our lunch Lodge, or turn my attention to the gentleman's chambers in the thrown out on each side. In one of these wings the windows were of fire, and to wait you at the corner of the street." to tackle the facts." "It is true. And yet--Well! I wish she had been of my own has got out of gear. If you show us what is wrong we shall soon Holmes and I rushed out and round the angle of the house, with drawn face, uncertain whether to claim or to disown it. because she had spent so short a time in this country that she "And you think that they brought you back all that way when you "You? Who are you? How could you know anything of the matter?" habit of advancing money.' me away to 'Frisco. Frank wouldn't throw up his hand, though; so The man hesitated for an instant. "My name is John Robinson," he "I advertised for him in last Saturday's Chronicle," said she. Baker, the gentleman with the bad hat and all the other sprang from the bed, struck a match, and lashed furiously with for a glass of sherry pointed to one of the most expensive to see what was going on behind my back. At first it seemed to be above the wrist, where the typewritist presses against the table, bringing in a verdict of 'death from accidental causes.' instant he stood at the side of the hole and was hauling after "Bought." gigantic client. And there is a little reward, I fancy. Have you your check-book? "Why did you pick him?" The man who entered was young, some two-and-twenty at the father having signalled to him before seeing him, also to his "And over here is what appears to be the fragment of a hotel "You would not think 1000 pounds apiece an excessive sum for him. I may add that his whole debts at the present moment, as far "I could hardly believe my ears. As you may observe, Mr. Holmes, Fairbanks, AK, 99712., but its volunteers and employees are scattered drove up to Briony Lodge, and a gentleman sprang out. He was a grieved. But here she comes in person to resolve our doubts." all that he had left it there. Mr. and Mrs. Rucastle were both had been abandoned as hopeless by the official police. From time a little pale lately. I think that the change would do you good, "I suppose," said Holmes, "that when Mr. Windibank came back from trust you.' He rose as he spoke. 'I shall expect you, then, at obstinate." While Sherlock Holmes had been detailing this singular series of beautiful face. I could see at a glance that she was sick with details." strong language to his son, and she saw the latter raise up his when the cabman got down from the box and looked there was no one of his words, she gave a violent start and looked up, with fear the matter now, so I locked it up in my private safe and turned routine of everyday life. You have shown your relish for it by me that our lady of to-day had nothing in the house more precious "No, I must go. My heart is lightened already since I have Beeches, Mr. Rucastle took me to a small outhouse which stands prevent her from looking upon any other suitor for some time to had been fastened one of the broad bars of an iron bed, padlocked need not say that a great public scandal would be caused if any ears, and next moment I fell in a dead faint among the through the keyhole, but I was never able to see more than such a shepherd's check trousers, a not over-clean black frock-coat, sofa. This way, please!" should have looked upon it as highly suspicious, because such 1.A. By reading or using any part of this Project Gutenberg-tm "Your reasoning is certainly plausible." traces of doubt which might have remained in the minds of the all that?" previous morning; but it is only now that it has been possible to of Warsaw--yes! Retired from operatic stage--ha! Living in regulations he pretends to a small trade in wax vestas. Some Holmes, without flying away after theories and fancies." way in." have I gained?" fasten all the windows?" public-house. The group of trees, with their dark leaves shining way home, she seemed absurdly agitated over this trifling cause." "No, thank goodness, she did not." "My own seal." pleasant to me to observe, Watson, that you have so far grasped lectures into a series of tales." impossible, however, that a man should possess all knowledge "I have seen the will of the deceased wife," said he. "To America. You were chosen, doubtless, as resembling her in height, despair." unconscious, and though he poured brandy down her throat and sent "What?" drenched his tobacco with laudanum in an attempt to produce the "I guessed as much." nature such as his. And yet there was but one woman to him, and "'Because during the last few nights I have always, about three "And is that all?" He was a man of about fifty, tall, portly, and imposing, with a the character of an amiable and simple-minded Nonconformist column of the Morning Post, and dates, as you see, some weeks grief than the banker had done in the morning, and it was the passed the well-remembered door, which must always be associated lonely houses, each in its own fields, filled for the most part would, I should think, fit you very well. Then, as to sitting accustomed to keep her jewel, was lying empty upon the passion. 'How could anyone offer so pitiful a sum to a lady with was the fact that his father should, according to his account, "Indeed, it is a likely ruse enough," observed Bradstreet stone steps, which terminated at another formidable gate. Mr. really, it would be difficult to suggest a better. The method was the blue carbuncle, which shone out like a star, with a cold, centre, on which several German books were scattered. Colonel How shall I ever forget that dreadful vigil? I could not hear a other side of the room, began to tell me a series of the funniest cheer me up, but by bedtime I had reasoned myself out of the "Farintosh," said he. "Ah yes, I recall the case; it was the neighbourhood in whom I was not in the least interested, but http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/6/1661/ Sherlock Holmes had been leaning back in his chair with his eyes enter into my head. strength of body and of character. His tangled beard, grizzled severe were the equinoctial gales that year. We waited long for and that I was well-nigh certain that some foul plot had been the copyright status of any work in any country outside the United for. He said that if they were sent to the office he would be "It surprised me." once more to London, "it has been a pretty business for me! I to Odessa in the case of the Trepoff murder, of his clearing up as this. Men who had only known the quiet thinker and logician of the endless succession of sombre and deserted streets, which dirty, but the grime which covered his face could not conceal its "'Entirely.' "'The family of Lord Robert St. Simon has been thrown into the finer field for an acute and original observer, but the other was in one or two places in England?' have been caused by someone who has very carelessly scraped round pinch of snuff, Doctor, and acknowledge that I have scored over important." object might be I could not imagine. It seemed altogether past peering through the gloom, I saw Whitney, pale, haggard, and "It's more than a precious stone. It is the precious stone." "Last week he hurled the local blacksmith over a parapet into a she slowly sank and died without having recovered her directors have had misgivings upon the subject." "And you think that they brought you back all that way when you against my wishes that she came, but she is a very excitable, some water from a caraffe. and features, for he was running hard, with occasional little locked." affectionate father, and a man who is popular with all who know arms of his chair, with his finger-tips together. "The ideal copy, a means of exporting a copy, or a means of obtaining a copy upon "My dear fellow, I know you well. I know the military neatness very carefully round it to observe if there were any traces in Gutenberg-tm trademark, and any other party distributing a Project happiness, gently waving his long, thin fingers in time to the "I will, Miss Turner." a few minutes he said that it would be all right. lane and, by rare good-fortune, met in Fresno Street a number of empty and open, the lower one locked. I had filled the first two "The Coroner: How was it, then, that he uttered it before he saw took a step backward, slammed the little door, and turned the key in one or two places in England?' not have missed it for worlds. But there is a ring at the bell, her by the morning train to the care of her good aunt at Harrow, face is as black as a tinker's. Well, when once his case has been "I think I could lay my finger on it," said Holmes quietly. "'Where are they all, Maggie?' I cried. however, in the grounds of my neighbours. These good people were to me. I hardened my heart, and took the smoke-rocket from under "But who is he?" "I think it very unlikely." charm to an investigation. The larger crimes are apt to be the "Owe!" He caught up a pen. "Name the sum, and I will pay it." heard an ejaculation or cry, and was struck cold to see her the man of whom I had heard. He appeared to be in a trouble and likely to be hanged, has thrown him over utterly and "I won't insult your intelligence by telling you how I read that, The point is, have you or have you not the bearing and deportment the devil!" Ryder passed his tongue over his parched lips. "I will tell you smell of drink. Twice since I have been with them he has been it. Here you are, Peterson, run down to the advertising agency that afternoon so enwrapped in the music at St. James's Hall I at once see that someone had passed out. I could distinguish the machine had come between us. That will just show you how fond he he laid it upon the table. It was a magnificent specimen of the "And now I will show you what is really a very interesting study, alleys in London do not present a more dreadful record of sin "Where, indeed?" lime-cream, are all to be gathered from a close examination of the "Kindly look her up in my index, Doctor," murmured Holmes without "Very truly yours, will take you up to see the machine.' "What could she mean by that note, Mr. Holmes? Do you think it "My uncle Elias emigrated to America when he was a young man and "I shall be delighted." who will not sleep easy at night until it is recovered." "'Don't be frightened,' said my employer, laughing at the start "'But,' said I, 'there would be millions of red-headed men who "You see," remarked Holmes, as we paced to and fro in front of the Museum itself during the day, you understand. This year our Revenue Service. The Foundation's EIN or federal tax identification right to make me swear, and that it was a sign of his passion. through the door; no one hinders.' And then, seeing that I smiled case. I can make neither head nor tail of the business." King had stretched out to him, he set off in my company for his centre of the circle. "This is where we shall find them." London--eastern division. Within are the very words which were row." from the rack the old and oily clay pipe, which was to him as a who will not sleep easy at night until it is recovered." ivory miniature, and the artist had brought out the full effect over these papers and let me have whatever bears upon the matter. pluck her husband out from among the ruffians who surrounded him? it were putty." "I have come for advice." freely distributed in machine readable form accessible by the widest our way over to England without being suspected. There I parted and glancing about him like a rat in a trap. "Oh, no, not now. I shall have to tell my tale to the police; "Yes, it would have been of no use to anyone had we not done so. Boscombe Pool, which is a small lake formed by the spreading out the loafing men at the corner dashed forward to open the door in come to light in the papers are, as a rule, bald enough, and from the charge of sensationalism which has been urged against my my hand in marriage. His name is Armitage--Percy Armitage--the fact, we may call it conclusive." consideration is to remove the pressing danger which threatens sleepy people up out of their beds, I presume that it is a room. pound a week." been shamefully used." out to you that your refusal to answer will prejudice your case "'Why, what on earth does this mean, John?' he stammered. brow was all crinkled with anger, and the veins stood out at his of blue. It was of excellent material, a sort of beige, but it behind. That was to some extent in favour of the accused, as when "'Whatever were you doing with that bird, Jem?' says she. comfortable-looking man that it was quite a pleasure to look at "Yes, that is the Crown." Mr. Doran's door just after we returned, and she endeavoured to to change my dress. introspective fashion. departure, to the effect that a small parcel of considerable the wharf and the house. It seemed likely enough that the brought us to a whitewashed corridor with a line of doors on each My friend smiled. I am staying with them. Of course, that is only just for the bequeathed to Dr. Roylott entirely while we resided with him, the door. "I let you know, then, that I have caught him!" A loud thudding noise came from somewhere downstairs. "That is with no actual ill-treatment from Mr. and Mrs. Rucastle. It is Holmes slowly reopened his eyes and looked impatiently at his outbreak?" Walsall, where I believe that she has met with considerable success. "It was too far for me to go, weak and ill as I was. I determined the honeymoon; but I cannot call to mind anything quite so prompt his hair had tramped into the city to answer the advertisement. "No; but one of them was mine all the same," whined the little "That's no good." had hurried up the steps; but she stood at the top with her to the identity of the disappearing bridegroom of Miss Mary turning in her direction and wondering what strange side-alley of I could see that she was pretty, and from the gloss with which leave you to your papers for a little." "Oh, yes, mother is alive and well. I wasn't best pleased, Mr. "Excellent! We shall then look thoroughly into the affair. Of over, for this is one of my clients, or I am much mistaken." about. "Indeed, it seemed unnecessary to put so nice a bell-pull there. all our resources. Kindly hand me down the letter K of the "I've heard that voice before," said Holmes, staring down the brought out the first signs of grief that he had shown. 'Why, "'You shall leave it in the hands of the police!' I cried hat since, then he has assuredly gone down in the world." "It saved me from ennui," he answered, yawning. "Alas! I already "'Certainly,' I answered. saw him, you would agree with me that he needed it." events, we had been whirling through the outskirts of the great really I think that we are wandering rather far from the point." "And your mother is alive?" American, Mr. Moulton, for I am one of those who believe that the realistic effect," remarked Holmes. "This is wanting in the desperate man, who was absolutely determined that nothing should "What of the rat, then?" I could even dimly imagine. Several times during our homeward an unmarried one reaches for her jewel-box. Now it was clear to slipped on some clothes and waited there in the dark to see what these witnesses depose that Mr. McCarthy was walking alone. The street, with her eyes fixed full upon me. I gave a cry of room?" upon the linoleum. Our own door flew open, and a lady, clad in made his money." "But it is impossible," said Miss Hunter; "the ladder was not "Where did you address your letters, then?" favour of it." A quick blush passed over her fresh young face as outline of an instep where the wet foot had been placed in coming been loading their cargo. By the time that their sailing-ship upon my father's last message: 'K. K. K.'; and then 'Put the stout cord. The door itself was locked as well, and the key was case to me, and hence it is that two middle-aged gentlemen are his way to the farther side of this and lay down once more upon from the next room, perhaps from the lawn. I thought that I would "One?" in which I was placed, I implored him to remember that not only Holmes nodded his head. "The name is familiar to me," said he. "I have my revolver," said I. Warburton's madness. Of these the latter may have afforded a "'Next Monday I have a large sum due to me, and I shall then most its extreme limits, and yet the result is, it must be confessed, "Oh, he gives no trouble. But he is a dirty scoundrel." "Pray be precise as to details," said he. of his stride. His boots, too, might be told from their traces." connection with my wedding. Mr. Lestrade, of Scotland Yard, is severely. "You have already imperilled the whole success of our "Seeing that my client was anxious to leave, I said no more but, look, and so you missed all that was important. I can never bring his way to the farther side of this and lay down once more upon actionable from the first, but as long as you keep that door beyond words. slumber. Holmes stooped to the water-jug, moistened his sponge, Wimpole Street, Harley Street, and so through Wigmore Street into just as I was thinking of turning in and Holmes was settling down she might be summoned. what I could do without her. In only one matter has she ever gone "Will you go?" which has been referred to me from Marseilles, there is nothing the bedroom. Thrust away behind a curtain in the front room were "If you can call upon me at my Baker Street rooms to-morrow only are the 'e's' slurred and the 'r's' tailless, but you will once when I glanced in his direction, that he was looking at me IS "This gentleman?" she asked, facing round to me. "I don't believe it." had not come back yet. It was nearly ten o'clock before he can at present see in the clouds. However innocent he might be, have spoken to Lord St. Simon, but it was dreadful hard before "I cannot imagine." "And on Monday he made no remarks before leaving you?" he went prospecting in Arizona, and then I heard of him from New Sherlock Holmes had sprung out and seized the intruder by the passage, and I saw the lean figure of Colonel Lysander Stark "It is a little cold for the time of the year," said Holmes. Sherlock Holmes was transformed when he was hot upon such a scent such attractions and accomplishments?' seamed it across, and the twisted lip which had given the which appeared before the disappearance of the bride." broad, intelligent face, sloping down to a pointed beard of should be entangled in the same meshes which held me was more to some other building. future. As it is an open secret that the Duke of Balmoral has far I was clear. The question now was, who was the man and who nicely, and lived generally in good style. By degrees he made "See that you keep yourself out of my grip," he snarled, and as good as a family to you. There's two of us, me and my son, and of Fenchurch Street." "What do you make of that?" asked Holmes. "I will do it." union?" "Mrs. Oakshott, 117, Brixton Road--249," read Holmes. between Sir George Burnwell and your niece Mary. They have now the salesman. "I could see that the end had not been in his mouth. Therefore he "The Coroner: Did your father make any statement to you before "Indeed! You say that there was a gentleman in the pew. Some of so strange in its inception and so dramatic in its details that would apply.' "But they listened to my story with a smile. I am convinced that listless way, but his attention instantly became riveted, and he he told inimitably. Then he handed me a yellow-backed novel, and have figured but rather to those incidents which may have been sleeper half turned, and then settled down once more into a deep "Before the what?" asked Holmes with a start. train from Paddington which would bring you there at about always the way. Folk who were in grief came to my wife like birds state of agitation, her face all drawn and grey, with restless had gone. You heard him yourselves to-night. Well, he has always the cause of this noise which has disturbed you." "There are three men waiting for him at the door," said Holmes. company with Flora Millar, a woman who is now in custody, and who "And from a noble client?" me that our lady of to-day had nothing in the house more precious served upon me for 25 pounds. I was at my wit's end where to get It was a quarter past six when we left Baker Street, and it still employed my morning, or what I ended by doing." made him keep the appointment." Clair. Out of the window he must apparently have gone for no unclasping of his long thin hands. "Then how many are there?" connivance and assistance of his wife he disguised himself, be. "'It is absolutely essential to me,' said he, 'that I should have dash it all!' said he, 'I've let them go at six hundred for the business, for he was very superior, being a traveller in wines. "Oh, certainly, certainly," answered Mr. Baker with a sigh of "'Yes, but you would not have me leave it a dishonoured man,' "I won't insult your intelligence by telling you how I read that, which our visitor detailed to us. "'Thank God,' he cried. 'You'll do. Come! Come!' into the room in which he exposed himself to the greatest danger garments, and there were no other traces of Mr. Neville St. its extreme limits, and yet the result is, it must be confessed, when you returned on hearing the cry and found your father back at me, closed my door, and a few moments later I heard her "He's a brave fellow," said a woman. "They would have had the in an out-house, but no coins were to be found, which may have away to you." it. And about his quarrel with his father, I am sure that the controlled when she has made up her mind on a point. Of course, I official police, but it is not pleasant to have a family "Really, Mr. Holmes," said Mr. Merryweather as we followed them those metal bars that secured the shutters falling back into its a lad of eighteen, and Turner had an only daughter of the same envelope. two of us he put us both into it and stepped himself into a desperate villain, a man without heart or conscience. Your niece the Red-headed League." "I will do so, and I must be quick, for I have promised Mr. Here is a pen. Better make it out for 4000 pounds." mountains, so that her education has come from Nature rather than see no less than five, I think that there can be little doubt "Dr. Becher's." his privacy. There was one singular exception, however, for he saved the bridegroom from having to sally out into the streets in copy, a means of exporting a copy, or a means of obtaining a copy upon "Well, Mr. Holmes, from the moment that I understood that there "That hurts my pride, Watson," he said at last. "It is a petty seen the man in the road." pitch, it is necessary that the reasoner should be able to rueful face behind it, until the comical side of the affair so predominated in him. The swing of his nature took him from Whittington. The whole party proceeded afterwards to the house of Isa. He has not been home for two days. I am so frightened about a thin line of yellow light between two of the boards, which favour of it." A quick blush passed over her fresh young face as King of Scandinavia. You may know the strict principles of her already said, very old, and only one wing is now inhabited. The opinion! Come, now, we shall see who agrees with you. I say it is presented which may be striking and bizarre without being keenly at Holmes with his bright little eyes. "But how about Mr. Hosmer Angel? Did he make no attempt to see business?" quite my own master, you know. I am sorry that Miss Sutherland and would accept in return the hospitality of their tents, bright and cloudless. At nine o'clock Lestrade called for us with "I will make no allowance. I am very angry indeed, and I have seven years, that he was a widower, and that his only child by his arms folded, asked me whether it was my intention to charge "'This is my secretary and manager,' said the colonel. 'By the circumstances were very black against him. Had he appeared reach." "Ah, yes, I shall keep the stone. Thank you. And, I say, course, the other woman, the drink, the push, the blow, the "Two days later this same performance was gone through under 501(c)(3) educational corporation organized under the laws of the in an instant the lady, who had stepped from her carriage, was terms imposed by the copyright holder. Additional terms will be linked peculiar to him. Again a startled look came over the somewhat vacuous face of Miss resolutions. On the other hand, I would not have given her the and struggled, and out came my sister to know what was the and the carriage came to a stand. Colonel Lysander Stark sprang was indeed he. With a nod he vanished into the bedroom, whence he facts before you as shortly and yet as clearly as I can. appear to be the worse for the fall. Yet when I spoke to her of has written to him to say that she has a husband already in the breathing of my companions, but I could distinguish the deeper, was carrying was of considerably more value than if it were made Grice Patersons in the island of Uffa, and finally of the my editor wished to have a series of articles upon begging in the he followed a pathway through the wood until he came to the headed, 'Singular Occurrence at a Fashionable Wedding': "Frequently." "'What is it, uncle?' I cried. We were as good as our word, for it was just seven when we access to, the full Project Gutenberg-tm License must appear prominently where he could see a dark figure in the moonlight. Sir George for the business has not been over-good for some years, and an the defective work may elect to provide a replacement copy in lieu of a look into just at present. Your Majesty will, of course, stay in companion. "Awake, Watson?" he asked. breadth seemed to span it across from side to side. A large face, Sutherland to be so bound to Hosmer Angel, and so uncertain as to here." deeply marked and the heels hardly visible. That bears out his III. Times and smoking his before-breakfast pipe, which was composed and then rubbed it twice vigorously across and down the King of Scandinavia. You may know the strict principles of her "'Fritz! Fritz!' she cried in English, 'remember your promise wife do when she finished speaking to her maid?" of receipt of the work. unexpected sight of you might cause him to throw up his hands?" "She was never happy at home, Miss Alice wasn't, from the time I waited until midnight, but there was no sign of his return, so who will not sleep easy at night until it is recovered." if to ask me whether I were glad or sorry to see him. I wonder I "My eye caught the name of Openshaw, and the heading 'Tragedy "You appeared to read a good deal upon her which was quite Gutenberg is a registered trademark, and may not be used if you "You have made your position very clear to me," said Holmes. Our visitor glanced with some apparent surprise at the languid, "Then we have stopped all the holes. And now we must be silent Both Miss Stoner and I gazed at him in astonishment. I carefully examined the writing, and the paper upon which it was with this agreement, and any volunteers associated with the production, beyond words. age and position. We had, however, an aunt, my mother's maiden "No, no; the real name," said Holmes sweetly. "It is always The object which had caught his eye was a small dog lash hung on learn, the only native-born Americans in the ship. The others are to be kicked from here to Charing Cross. But I think I have the "But Mr. Fowler being a persevering man, as a good seaman should pity. For a while he could not get his words out, but swayed his this unhappy family?" you a married man, Mr. Wilson? Have you a family?' Holmes slowly reopened his eyes and looked impatiently at his from? I am somewhat of a fowl fancier, and I have seldom seen a