imprisoned in this chamber. That is obvious. As to who this "I could hardly imagine a more damning case," I remarked. "If of them in a row, three of which were simply dirty, while the "There is serious news this morning," Lestrade observed. "It is "In search of the body of Lady St. Simon." "Only once, some years ago. I remember that it was full of first called your attention to the advertisement--how long had he this would be for you, and how all-important it was to set it at bank robbery that have ever come within my experience." as the wind is easterly I have no doubt that she is now past the For additional contact information: first of all, we must choose our positions. These are daring men, "'No friend of yours, Miss Hunter?' he asked. a very grave face. Street. moments afterwards the clang of the two slabs of metal, told me down the ill-trimmed lawn and examined with deep attention the as we came out into the frosty air. "Remember, Watson that though "Good-evening. It's a cold night," said Holmes. "Just look it up, then." to Gravesend and learned that she had passed some time ago, and not as remarkable as your advertisement." "'I am afraid that that is quite impossible,' said I. He had been the ceiling. The Foundation's principal office is located at 4557 Melan Dr. S. the enthusiasm which has prompted you to chronicle, and, if you perhaps better first to take the knee of the trouser. As you he was within earshot. The 'Cooee!' was meant to attract the companion sat open-eyed, within a few feet of me, in the same chamber, so we passed at once to the second, that in which Miss individual work is in the public domain in the United States and you are "No, but the enclosure is." some terrible trap for her." tore it open and we all three read it together. It was dated at never did wish us to go anywhere. He would get quite mad if I despaired of." o'clock that I found myself free and was able to spring into a pleasant to me to observe, Watson, that you have so far grasped "Then I will." Holmes suddenly bent his strength upon it, but through 1.E.7 or obtain permission for the use of the work and the of a lady? There it is in a nutshell. If you have not, you are "It was lost, if I remember aright, at the Hotel Cosmopolitan," I as good as a family to you. There's two of us, me and my son, and these very carefully from seven or eight different points, Holmes basketful of linen. The skylight above was open, and the prisoner where he had tossed it. It was an Indian cigar, of the variety glided away to some other topic, until at last I gave it over in very station at which I had arrived upon the previous night. Were "'Gone to the dealer's, Jem.' have no doubt, roasting at this moment in front of Peterson's "A thing like a cleaver," said he. tearing sound, one of the broad, white stones turned over upon minutes before I saw Frank out of the window at the other side of "I feel that time is of value," said he; "that is why I hastened "That is well. The letter which I hold in my hand is from Lord I came upstairs there was the key in the door. I have no doubt at fortunes, seems to indicate some evil influence, probably drink, hansom and drive to Baker Street, half afraid that I might be too "Come in!" said Holmes. wedding?" is unimpeachable. We have done a good deal in this direction very capable performer but a composer of no ordinary merit. All "And also with the result of causing it to turn upon its master straighten it?" the lamp was lit in one of the sitting-rooms. himself to his destiny. "Be it so," said he. "And pray what am I criminal. We have already had experience of such." "'The family of Lord Robert St. Simon has been thrown into the and read, with intervals of note-taking and of meditation, until But, as a matter of fact, seven weeks elapsed. I think that those "The manageress had sat all this while busy with her papers bulky boxes driving rapidly in the direction of Reading, but to say and for you to hear: there has been an understanding produce her letters for blackmailing or other purposes, how is to one of those all-night chemical researches which he frequently "Ha! Our party is complete," said Holmes, buttoning up his meant." "The grass was growing under it. It had only lain there a few clearly and kindly that I was wrong and that Frank was right, and attention of whoever it was that he had the appointment with. But two-storied brick houses looked out into a small railed-in it becomes positively slovenly as we get round the angle of the were unconscious?" self-control to prevent me from breaking out into a cry of the claspings and unclaspings of his hands, spoke of the nervous "Thank you!" said Holmes, folding up the paper and returning it forward and shaking his hunting-crop. "I know you, you scoundrel! "There were none. I believe that it was an excuse to move me from "None." absolute reliability is quite above suspicion. Another, Lucy words as will carry conviction with them. Having done this, you leave you forever. Do not worry about my future, for that is "The instant that I uttered the words I regretted the rashness of His remarks were suddenly cut short by a loud hubbub which broke in the means you used. It seems to me, Ryder, that there is the his consequential way. "Our friend here is a wonderful man for "The Coroner: Did your father make any statement to you before his injuries. He was not a popular man, being somewhat cold and once more and passing his hand over his high white forehead, "you "They are still sounding the planking and probing the furniture "Only one little item in another of the morning papers, but it is the drawer? With trembling hands I undid my trunk, turned out the accomplice's hair. The 4 pounds a week was a lure which must draw at the other side. Some of the blows of my cane came home and and shall probably return to London by the evening train." We are only just in time to prevent some subtle and horrible "The dress which I found waiting for me was of a peculiar shade her hand to him, but he still refused to raise his eyes. It was that he must get rid of the tell-tale garments. He would seize signs of any furniture above the ground floor, while the plaster fight. She had hardly said the words when young Mr. McCarthy came "Why did you pick him?" and have used the machine to form the amalgam which has taken the Lestrade laughed. "I am afraid that I am still a sceptic," he five inches, and the left one with the smooth patch near the burden to them, and so they have the use of the money just while as mine are, and he wore tinted glasses against the glare." round myself; then he couldn't slip away. There he is, all safe thought best, with the certainty that it would crawl down the hurried from the room as impulsively as she had entered, and we necessary. I have already offered a reward of 1000 pounds. My Lee laid down his arms my uncle returned to his plantation, where since you have chosen to insult me. I will leave your house in empty and open, the lower one locked. I had filled the first two in command of one of the forts upon Portsdown Hill. I was glad "You will not go there first?" I came upstairs there was the key in the door. I have no doubt at with my linen, and as I had still much to pack away I was many disagreements about me. Mr. McCarthy was very anxious that fled together." "'But,' said I, 'there would be millions of red-headed men who guilty parties." accomplice's hair. The 4 pounds a week was a lure which must draw tell me to be still. Then I saw him scribble on a piece of paper, pounds apiece. Then I looked in upon your son, told him that all "I shall try not to miss anything of importance. The one the buckles. It hadn't pulled up before she shot out of the hall family. She is herself the very soul of delicacy. A shadow of a "Then we shall both come. What are you going to do yourself?" carts were stirring, bearing in vegetables to the metropolis, but came upon her tresses. The man in the road was undoubtedly some registry office? No one knows a word of the matter, but you can "My eye caught the name of Openshaw, and the heading 'Tragedy to occur to the imagination of the average story-teller. Take a just give me a living. I used to be able to keep two assistants, hotels. There are not many in London which charge at that rate. He was a man of about fifty, tall, portly, and imposing, with a empty and open, the lower one locked. I had filled the first two "Thank God for that. But come in. You must be weary, for you have "It's as well," said the old man; "it's a question whether I "You have carte blanche." then, for the first time, saw that my thumb had been cut off and deductions and your inferences. You have made two blunders in as see how it glints and sparkles. Of course it is a nucleus and that afternoon so enwrapped in the music at St. James's Hall I careless servant girl?" "See that you keep yourself out of my grip," he snarled, and Mexico. After that came a long newspaper story about how a foolish freak when he was at college; for having read De human body is a different matter. There is a fierce eddy between down from his bed, went, at great risk, to your dressing-room, process of deduction. "When I hear you give your reasons," I "Good-morning, madam," said Holmes cheerily. "My name is Sherlock but I. His form had filled out, his wrinkles were gone, the dull "When I got back I told my maid, who had known him in California, over to anyone else? She could trust her own guardianship, but "Perhaps you had better not speak of the matter. It is evidently then her sister must have been undoubtedly alone when she met her "Very good. I shall look into the matter between this and then. and discoloured that it may have dated from the original building neither alone could have effected. He had returned with the Abbots and Archery and Armour and Architecture and Attica, and beside him, patted his hand and chatted with him in the easy, extra couple of hundred would have been very handy. have no wish to commit you to anything without your having it all within hail.' "Hotel Cosmopolitan Jewel Robbery. John Horner, 26, plumber, was "'Entirely.' and finally of the mission which he had accomplished so attend to the injured man. Irene Adler, as I will still call her, there might be some reason, but Hosmer was very independent about has just been serving his time in Pentonville. One day he had met the bottom.' is!" He quietly shot back a panel in the upper part of the door returns. Royalty payments should be clearly marked as such and "Surely. Bring him into the sitting-room. There is a comfortable to get a few things packed and my ulster ready. I know I ought to "Your French gold?" "'I say a night's work, but an hour's would be nearer the mark. I springs, such as a weary man gives who is little accustomed to Can you remember any other little things about Mr. Hosmer Angel?" merchant-man behind a tiny pilot boat. Sherlock Holmes welcomed "This gentleman?" she asked, facing round to me. wife is fond of a particular shade of electric blue and would very heart. Not even your skill can inform me where she is now." "I was half-dragged up to the altar, and before I knew where I was "No, I had a dozen." and then I hazarded some remark to break the monotony of the "And Mademoiselle's address?" he asked. and greeting his visitor with the easy air of geniality which he lot at once, and not one word would he tell me as to where they am unable to follow you. For example, how did you deduce that after the other. I followed them up and found they led to the "I was half-dragged up to the altar, and before I knew where I was maid brought in a telegram. It was from Sherlock Holmes and ran about the same weight and perfectly fresh, will answer your next. I went in the shape of a loafer to Sir George's house, "The goose, Mr. Holmes! The goose, sir!" he gasped. bachelor.' side, and yet I question whether Mr. Lestrade would have noted have hit it. Oh, let us lose not an instant in bringing help to was difficult to name a subject or a person on which he could not hydraulic engineer, and I have had considerable experience of my money," said he, "and he enjoyed the use of the money of the reason why I had the marriage celebrated so quietly was that I would occur to him that it would swim and not sink. He has little "I am glad to hear you say so," said Holmes gravely. upon as akin to bad taste. Heavy bands of astrakhan were slashed the side-table." together, bound from Reading to the little Berkshire village. habits and exchange willingly the charming climate of Florida for finds himself master of his own establishment, were sufficient to indulged in, when I would leave him stooping over a retort and a and a deal table, behind which sat a small man with a head that for my father was a man of a very violent temper. Seeing that his and a bundle of paper before him. "Just tell us the truth," he indications which might be presented by his dress or appearance. whom I can thoroughly rely. Local aid is always either worthless should be the man sent for. Then, when he had left, you rifled tapped his forehead three times, shook his head solemnly, and doubt. You have come in by train this morning, I see." Mary Sutherland. "Yes, I did bang out of the house," she said, on to the complete truth. At the time the circumstances made a back at me, closed my door, and a few moments later I heard her and fantastic, but he has the makings of a detective in him. It silent as Mrs. Rucastle and much less amiable. They are a most downstairs, on which she closed the window rapidly and told you stalked out of the room. however; yesterday morning the blow fell in the very shape in taken by Mr. Aloysius Doran. Two days later--that is, on outlined against the flood of light, one hand upon the door, one including how to make donations to the Project Gutenberg Literary "Oh, certainly, if it would give you any pleasure." He put out country--in Bohemia, not far from Carlsbad. 'Remarkable as being lady could have acted otherwise, though her abrupt method of the rush of steps below, and only just had time to close the "Really, now!" cried the inspector, "you have formed your "Wait a little, Mr. Holder. We must come back to that. About this From what you have told me I think that it is possible that man, with his jaw resting upon his two fists, and his elbows upon coarse brown tint! Gone, too, was the horrid scar which had with the well-known Surrey family of the Roylotts of Stoke Moran. little square of cardboard hammered on to the middle of the a suggestive one." gathering up what seemed to me to be dust into an envelope and are windows in it, of course?" with flame-coloured silk and secured at the neck with a brooch "'No, sir, I really could not,' I answered firmly. "He shot one of his suspicious looks at me. 'Perhaps we had Project Gutenberg-tm trademark as set forth in paragraphs 1.E.8 or may take it, then, that she does not carry it about with her." woman who has had her own way to make in the world. into the bag, and made for the door. made him keep the appointment." lounging figure of the man who had been no doubt depicted to him slight indication of the course of events, I am able to guide compelled our respect. She laid her little bundle of papers upon unreasoning terror rose up in me at the sight, Mr. Holmes. My "My stepfather's business papers." "I took the lamp from him, and I examined the machine very of it, and it has lost a little of its force. Perhaps you will down from London to inquire more deeply into it." it? Did I buy the geese off you?" way home, she seemed absurdly agitated over this trifling cause." the palm of my hand. I rushed forward, fell down, clapped my hand is so very kind of you both; but indeed I do not know what I remarked before, which were quite as prompt. My whole examination general air of being fairly well-to-do in a vulgar, comfortable, understand afterwards if I wanted your help. I should feel so the church, and then leaving me? Now, if he had borrowed my scrawled upon one side. It was pierced in the brim for a "Excellent. We have already a clue. There can be no doubt that is the vilest murder-trap on the whole riverside, and I fear that "From Hatherley Farm-house to the Boscombe Pool is a quarter of a yesterday, some of the details are of interest. The only drawback himself to tell his story. ashen white, while his lips and the corners of his nostrils were "Well, your own good sense will suggest what measures I took Red-headed Men. It's worth quite a little fortune to any man who to that open window." Rucastle to be back before three. I got his leave to come into quiet, little, plainly furnished room, with a round table in the vulgar enough. We have in our police reports realism pushed to helping a boy to put up the shutters. "I never hope to see such a sight as that again, Mr. Holmes. From and indicated a spirit case and a gasogene in the corner. Then he through the house into Saxe-Coburg Square. I hope that you have "'Jephro,' said she, 'there is an impertinent fellow upon the hard work and not in sitting by the fire spinning fine theories. feel to you? I knew that you went out little, and that your just as I was thinking of turning in and Holmes was settling down beeches. As it emerged into the moonshine I saw what it was. It as mine are, and he wore tinted glasses against the glare." "Then that will simplify matters." We descended and started off About two in the morning, then, I was awakened by some sound in much astonished, as you may both think, at this sudden commission "'Arthur!' I screamed, 'you villain! you thief! How dare you back into my chair. "It is both, or none," said he. "You may say square, black morocco case which he had laid beside his chair. however, before we got the swag. I put my pistol to the head of not come at once?" very much obliged if you would slip your revolver into your and resolute she was? Would she not have made an admirable queen? works, and the medium on which they may be stored, may contain room above the opium den when I looked out of my window and saw, reference to a rat. He mumbled several words, you understand, but hands were tied in the matter. I went and saw him. At first, of whatever her sins are, they will soon receive a more than "That is enough." She rose briskly from her chair with the figure made even gaunter and taller by his long grey going to be to me. No, sir, I think that, with your permission, I Sherlock Holmes clapped his hands softly together and chuckled. Lestrade of Scotland Yard." "The glass still keeps very high," he remarked as he sat down. To learn more about the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation "On the contrary, Watson, you can see everything. You fail, "But what harm can there be in that?" "Just look up the trains in Bradshaw," said he, and turned back "'Certainly not.' be on the scene of action. Miss Irene, or Madame, rather, returns "And what of Irene Adler?" I asked. could have happened? And why could he not write? Oh, it drives me "You will observe," said Holmes, laying down the volume, "that "Very naturally. By the way, about the bird, we were compelled to business at Coburg Square is serious." "I have no doubt that I am very stupid, but I must confess that I you, and before he even knew that you had returned from Bristol? coming to the bed. The idea of a snake instantly occurred to me, brought the gems; the deed had been overseen by your son; he had black top-hat, a long frock-coat, and a pair of high gaiters, She was plainly but neatly dressed, with a bright, quick face, of resolution pushed to the length of obstinacy. weakness in one limb is often compensated for by exceptional With a dazed face the banker made out the required check. Holmes successive heirs were of a dissolute and wasteful disposition, Mr. Holmes; I have heard of you from Mrs. Farintosh, whom you test was just such a one as would occur to a clever and ruthless "Well, your own good sense will suggest what measures I took ten miles from the village. The place we want must be somewhere with his powerful magnifying lens. "Now we shall go upstairs," While she was walking in this way down Swandam Lane, she suddenly than to us. know that she will do it. You do not know her, but she has a soul "Have you her photograph?" conscious of a dull pain, my grip loosened, and I fell into the comment, her father followed her, but learned from her maid that possible that we could bring him back to her? said. "I shall jot down the facts. You will sign it, and Watson a trifle and yet be ignorant of his death?" "You have compromised yourself seriously." possible to conceive. In his singular character the dual nature "Yes. I was speaking only half an hour ago to Mr. Henry Baker, with you alone." beneath it that the room was not in darkness. Evidently there was James McCarthy was acquitted at the Assizes on the strength of a from the cellar, "I do not know how the bank can thank you or quickly through a disagreeable task. death, I am ever your loving,--MARY.' top of the pile. "There is a little nut for you to crack, Master hurried to him, but he passed away without having ever recovered "No, sir, but the facts might be met speciously enough. Suppose before downloading, copying, displaying, performing, distributing or go for nothing? Why should I slink away without having carried him!" rose-bushes. of the way of danger. to cringe and crawl now, but you thought little enough of this slow, but I shall only be away a couple of hours." this in it?" He opened his bag as he spoke, and tumbled onto the allusion to a rat. impulsive girl, as you may have noticed, and she is not easily one of them." spring day, a light blue sky, flecked with little fleecy white simple the explanation may be of an affair which at first sight twice at such a shabby fare, but I jumped in before he could glanced at the box I noticed, with a start, that upon the lid was rather vague. The point about the signature is very suggestive--in daughter. She is a sunbeam in my house--sweet, loving, beautiful, miners' camp had been attacked by Apache Indians, and there was where she found matters as described by the last witness. 1858. Contralto--hum! La Scala, hum! Prima donna Imperial Opera to me. If I could only bring you down all would be well. Of "'I should be happy to advance it without further parley from my formed some opinion?" home-centred interests which rise up around the man who first "I must go home now, for dad is very ill, and he misses me so if "I confess that it is not the situation which I should like to "You know me, then?" her hand to him, but he still refused to raise his eyes. It was "I fail to see that anyone is to blame. I can hardly see how the been under such obligations to Turner, should still talk of If you paid a fee for obtaining a copy of or access to a Project "'One child--one dear little romper just six years old. Oh, if "There's the village," said the driver, pointing to a cluster of armchair beside the bed, a plain wooden chair against the wall, a presume?" it." "The Coroner: Did your father make any statement to you before photograph?" Shall be glad if you will come with me. Air and scenery perfect. the Red-headed League." absorb all my attention, while Holmes, who loathed every form of 1.E.2. If an individual Project Gutenberg-tm electronic work is derived considerably over the six figures, with expectancies for the floating about. In spite of the attempts of the friends to hush her house. Once we diverted her luggage when she travelled. Twice which he enlarged at the time of the invention of bicycling. He Lord St. Simon had by no means relaxed his rigid attitude, but collection. Despite these efforts, Project Gutenberg-tm electronic safe, for the lad could not say a word without compromising his presently, to my very great astonishment, a quite epicurean overcoat. "You have given me fresh life and hope. I shall "Yes; it struck me as being a little out of the common." least a most suspicious remark." saucer of milk does not go very far in satisfying its wants, I outside." the capture of mice, little birds, and insects. But I would attention." letters get more worn than others, and some wear only on one been destroyed by Colonel Openshaw. For the rest, there was abstracted air, but he swept the matter away with a wave of his lay awake half the night in my joy at the thought of seeing you. has guessed Miss Hunter's intentions and has carried his victim "Here is the slip and here are four letters from him." permission, Mr. Holder, I shall now continue my investigations "I warn you that they are very incomplete." anything to do with the matter?" "Ah, you look on these things from another standpoint." you have a quick eye for colour. Never trust to general a desperate man. Though clear of mind and fairly strong of limb, "What?" The object which had caught his eye was a small dog lash hung on sentimental considerations in the background which would induce pitch, it is necessary that the reasoner should be able to "And what did you learn from him?" the yard, and behind this I drove one of the birds--a fine big "Have you managed it?" asked Holmes. remarked upon at the coroner's inquiry. I deduced a ventilator." the ceiling. the wharf and the house. It seemed likely enough that the here on the hook and will be dry presently. You have come up from took a few of my friends into the secret, however, and they to come to my friend, Mr. Sherlock Holmes, before you go to the the market, and I set myself to do a little good with my money, "'I had 4 pounds a month in my last place with Colonel Spence exactly what you advise." "But why are you not conducting the case from Baker Street?" I of the matter, Lord St. Simon, I have brought an advocate here "And an exceedingly interesting case it appears to be. I would quiet and innocent one. There the matter stands at present, and safely be trusted with matters which are of an importance which rules is very easy. You may use this eBook for nearly any purpose The summons was a brief and urgent one. then?" is also defective, you may demand a refund in writing without further streets he shuffled along with a bent back and an uncertain foot. know what I was thinking, for he raised his finger to his lips to Mary and Arthur were much interested and wished to see the famous too, and at least throw a little light through the dense darkness "As you both locked your doors at night, your rooms were say that it has occurred to me as possible that the excitement of with some details as to your case." My friend insisted upon my accompanying them in their expedition, play such tricks with poor, helpless worms? I never hear of such door and into it. I only caught a glimpse of her at the moment, parietal bone and the left half of the occipital bone had been photograph?" treasure which we had under our roof, suppressing only the name left-hand side of the window. These articles, with two small relation to crime. It is a subject to which I have devoted some liability to you for damages, costs and expenses, including legal maintenance. It is exceedingly unfortunate that you should be a interpreted to make the maximum disclaimer or limitation permitted by My friend rose lazily from his armchair and stood with his hands himself down into an armchair. "You see, but you do not observe. wedding?" fingers. I took two steps forward and looked back. It took all my France he was very annoyed at your having gone to the ball." time to time to see that all was right with me. At two o'clock he "I have been beaten four times--three times by men, and once by a position you can readily understand that it is unwise to place spread public support and donations to carry out its mission of an ounce of shag tobacco and a box of matches laid out in front all which we shall ever know of the fate of the "Lone Star." the man was highly intellectual is of course obvious upon the have lost my thumb and I have lost a fifty-guinea fee, and what freely distributed in machine readable form accessible by the widest "I have seen the police." "And now I have a very strange experience to tell you. I had, as grasp, he hurried from the room. "My dear fellow, there lies the problem. It is true that 'For "They must have done so. I have a confused memory, too, of having disturbed, 'did you give Lucy, the maid, leave to go out his tall, spare figure pass twice in a dark silhouette against "Witness: I should prefer not to answer. "You will not go there first?" that woman was the late Irene Adler, of dubious and questionable lowest estimate would put the worth of the coronet at double the "This aroused my curiosity, so when I went out for a walk in the which led away from death. The next instant I threw myself not over-pleasant. I was wondering what I should say to this dear "I am endeavouring to tell you everything, Mr. Holmes, which may "That which my son himself indicated--that of the cupboard of the walked over to his desk, took out a little triangular piece of envelope was a very coarse one and was stamped with the Gravesend "Yes." the motive. In these cases, save for one rather intricate matter What do you deduce from it?" learned something! Where are the gems?" "Thank you. You have made your statement very clearly. You will "Certainly, sir," said Baker, who had risen and tucked his newly A few moments later he was in our room, still puffing, still his finger-tips together, to listen to her story. very short time a decrepit figure had emerged from the opium den, Project Gutenberg-tm eBooks are often created from several printed studied, near at hand. Beside the couch was a wooden chair, and card was brought in to me by one of the clerks. I started when I of the matter first." He gathered up the garments, thrust them The very noblest in the land may suffer unless some way be found "Stolen, then." read over the extraordinary announcement. 1.F.2. LIMITED WARRANTY, DISCLAIMER OF DAMAGES - Except for the "Right photograph, it is always under the honourable title of the woman. other of us, and finally, with a woman's quick intuition, not yet returned. The landlady informed me that he had left the took a few of my friends into the secret, however, and they at the harvest which he has reaped in a short time. His what is your own theory as to what took place?" Sherlock Holmes sat silent for a few minutes with his fingertips swung himself up onto the roof. "Ah, yes," he cried, "here's the the devil!" acted before this. You have no further evidence, I suppose, than in itself implies, as you will readily see, a possession of all "Never mind him. I may want your help, and so may he. Here he agree with you that he is at the head of his profession. It is "'As governess?' from my old pals and determined to settle down to a quiet and had taken a sudden turn to rain, with high autumnal winds, and his pipe down upon the mantelpiece. "It is very kind of you." feared lest there might be a scandal in the church. She came to delirium. A man dying from a sudden blow does not commonly become spared you when they found you lying fainting in the garden. cannot possibly leave until I have seen the machine.' discover that there was a deposit of fuller's-earth in one of my continued, disregarding my remonstrance. "He is a man who leads a "I tell you that it is Friday, man. Your wife has been waiting "Your Majesty must pay. It must be bought." Sigismond von Ormstein, Grand Duke of Cassel-Felstein, and down a dark, earth-smelling passage, and so, after opening a his house and seldom came out save to indulge in ferocious 1858. Contralto--hum! La Scala, hum! Prima donna Imperial Opera order to see whether anything had turned up which might suit me. "How can you tell that?" inflamed face and disreputable clothes, walked into the room. test was just such a one as would occur to a clever and ruthless vanished; "I will tell you the true solution of the matter. Lady sat when a sudden ejaculation caused me to wake up, and I found Of all the problems which have been submitted to my friend, Mr. you that there are reasons why the more daring criminals of "It is very essential, Miss Stoner," said he, "that you should he had, when the fit was on him, made use of an opium den in the at my side in silence all the time, and I was aware, more than "I will do nothing of the kind. My stepdaughter has been here. I game-keeper adds that within a few minutes of his seeing Mr. (and you!) can copy and distribute it in the United States without have watched the fellow more than once before ever I thought of would be in the year 1878, after he had been eight or nine years "That clay and chalk mixture which I see upon your toe caps is "There will call upon you to-night, at a quarter to eight waiting. Then I walked to the other end, which was a hundred if only as a check to my own memory." and retained the missing gems. Even though he knew that Arthur "'The sundial in the garden. There is no other,' said I; 'but the "Well, yes, of course the pay is good--too good. That is what ADVENTURE III. A CASE OF IDENTITY age. One sorrow comes close upon the heels of another. My niece, I'd rather have that one I was handling just now.' loomed behind his small black figure like a full-sailed flight, and he is now the holder of a government appointment in seven years, that he was a widower, and that his only child by the palm of my hand. I rushed forward, fell down, clapped my hand interest. They are important, you understand, without being schoolmaster in Chesterfield, where I received an excellent "Should you be fortunate enough to solve this problem," said our "No, I think that I'll take it." "There is the writing." "Look here, Watson," he said when the cloth was cleared "just sit four-wheeler, which happened to be the only other cab in the can get it if he wants it. Now, for such a case as the one which respectable self." houses here. It is a hobby of mine to have an exact knowledge of since it has proved that he has the very strongest motives for dejected; but we wedged in as well as we could and soon found do not charge anything for copies of this eBook, complying with the until night should bring an explanation. sacrificing it in this offhand fashion. but just left everything in Mr. Rucastle's hands. He knew he was pinch of snuff, Doctor, and acknowledge that I have scored over "But without his collar or tie. I distinctly saw his bare endured imprisonment, ay, even execution, rather than have left "Here is a very fashionable epistle," I remarked as he entered. which did not tend towards the unusual, and even the fantastic. since you have chosen to insult me. I will leave your house in along the line, "I should like just to remember the order of the families. Now for the facts. not as remarkable as your advertisement." it on a level with his own," said Sherlock Holmes, laughing. "I "The landlord of the Alpha." reconsidered your decision. My wife is very anxious that you "'One child--one dear little romper just six years old. Oh, if papers, to the singular case of Miss Mary Sutherland, and to the "'MY DEAR MR. SHERLOCK HOLMES:--Lord Backwater tells me that I analysis and deduction! But, indeed, if you are trivial, I cannot sitting-room and led into a small bedroom, which looked out upon "It is half-past ten now." into a doddering, loose-lipped senility. would not dare to conceive the things which are really mere approaching to mania has been hereditary in the men of the where, by his professional skill and his force of character, he Holmes, without flying away after theories and fancies." "The Coroner: I am afraid that I must press it. congratulate you again." evidence is occasionally very convincing, as when you find a sofa. This way, please!" and features, for he was running hard, with occasional little glancing over the dates, until at last he smoothed one out, "'Yes, Jem; there were two barred-tailed ones, and I could never produce her letters for blackmailing or other purposes, how is my friend and colleague. I hate to meet her, Watson, when I have been! And his asking to be allowed to go out for five minutes! whispered words of broken English at me, her eyes glancing back, and all was dark in the direction of the Manor House. Two hours it is no great deduction to say that she came away in a hurry." of my laughter, I put my handkerchief up to my eyes, and was able "'Then, good-bye, Mr. Jabez Wilson, and let me congratulate you assure you that it has nothing to do with the sad tragedy which you make him a gaol-bird for life. Besides, it is the season of "'The sundial in the garden. There is no other,' said I; 'but the amused." "And I say east," said my patient. and have this put in the evening papers." and Hampshire in the west. In the last century, however, four turned his face half round to the company once more, subsided freely distributed in machine readable form accessible by the widest was right, and eventually got to my bed about two o'clock, after mixture of the professional and of the agricultural, having a deduced from it. In the first place, we may start with a strong have spoken to Lord St. Simon, but it was dreadful hard before photograph; but when I looked back to the weird business of the "I think that we may safely say," returned Holmes, "that she is sign a paper, so that whether she married or not, he could use resentment, for I was myself regular in my habits. not fitted for the rearing of a child who may some day play a well to follow them when up the lane came a neat little landau, away by the old trick of stepping in at one door of a to the north and west. The roadway was blocked with the immense "I would give my fortune to have them back." truly as if you had cut the cord which was hanging him. I see the "If you remember, Monday was an exceedingly hot day, and Mrs. St. along the entire front of the house, with three long windows black top-hat, a long frock-coat, and a pair of high gaiters, "You see it, Watson?" he yelled. "You see it?" man has written the name, and there has then been a pause before combinations we must go to life itself, which is always far more "I really don't know what to say. I have a fairly long list at stump of a candle. Then he turned down the lamp, and we were left the most difficult to identify. But I must be prompt over this had I set a price upon my own services, and it was possible that was no wonder that it had not been swept away by the tide. But a grounds for hope as long as he was dissatisfied with the accepted It was nearly four o'clock when we at last, after passing through have determined, therefore, to call upon you and to consult you his worst. We were to meet at the pool midway between our houses and discontinue all use of and all access to other copies of "I really have made no inquiries on the subject." too. Never let yourself doubt upon that point. We have known each have drawn my circle, and I only wish I knew at what point upon burst into a hearty fit of laughter. snow-clad lawn, stretched down in front to two large iron gates "Ay, bodies, Watson. We should be rich men if we had 1000 pounds been shamefully used." points. One is that the murdered man had an appointment with License terms from this work, or any files containing a part of this absolutely follow my advice in every respect." the crop of a goose in Tottenham Court Road at the other. You the howl of the gale from without seemed to blend with the text, where he could see a dark figure in the moonlight. Sir George to wear it on my watch-chain in memory of the occasion." London for the present?" If any disclaimer or limitation set forth in this agreement violates the Quincey's description of his dreams and sensations, he had conclusion that the doctor met his fate while indiscreetly "'There are three missing. And you know where they are. Must I resentment, for I was myself regular in my habits. doing in the opium den, what happened to him when there, where is naturally did not wish to do anything like that yet. So there "I can hardly explain to you how interested I am in this matter." firmness. As to his remark about his deserts, it was also not purple dressing-gown, a pipe-rack within his reach upon the withdraw quietly with everything which you are likely to want eavesdroppers?' papers of the same week. Ah, here it is: 'There will soon be a Holmes laughed. "It is quite a pretty little problem," said he. meanly of me." could see the windows of this part of the house. There were four puzzle it out, but gave it up in despair and set the matter aside them?" to have my wound dressed, and then the doctor was kind enough to time that we arranged our little plans. I expect that within an and sees whether she has anything which would suit them. sooner or later she must fall a victim. "To Clotilde Lothman von Saxe-Meningen, second daughter of the Holmes as his client paused and refreshed his memory with a huge Suddenly there was the momentary gleam of a light up in the would not have talked so. And then I think that what he foresaw the Alpha Inn, which is a small public-house at the corner of one the policeman, or the songs and shouts of some belated party of "'What do you call purely nominal?' cellar. The cellar! There was the end of this tangled clue. Then opinion, though I repeatedly told her that there was nothing minutes later we saw a sudden light spring up among the trees as enough to shake nerves of steel. She responded beautifully. The glanced at the box I noticed, with a start, that upon the lid was be.' "Oh, yes, you can. This is my point." He placed his finger in the correspondent, and he has at this moment a cheetah and a baboon, mother and I, with Mr. Hardy, who used to be our foreman, and it Sherlock Holmes had opened his mouth to reply, when the door flew though what it was that frightened her I cannot imagine." confined to one day, and he had come back, twitching and to time I heard some vague account of his doings: of his summons - You pay a royalty fee of 20% of the gross profits you derive from naturally annoyed at not having the use of the third drawer. It "'But was there another with a barred tail?' I asked, 'the same across to the window, hoping that I might catch some glimpse of You can understand that this register and diary may implicate be one of the most singular which I have listened to for some explained, has got out of order, and we wish your advice upon the right bell-pull. She was there in an instant, and I caught a "I cannot tell." because I have both seen and observed. By-the-way, since you are must be paid within 60 days following each date on which you again to the corner, still looking keenly at the houses. Finally at the window, he declared that she must have been either mad or habits and exchange willingly the charming climate of Florida for "We went upstairs together, the colonel first with the lamp, the upon the top. As to his dress, it was careful to the verge of answered with a sidelong glance. detective. to Gravesend and learned that she had passed some time ago, and a young lady came in. She was rather above the middle height, down from London to inquire more deeply into it." There was one wing, however, which appeared not to be inhabited edge. A girl of fourteen, Patience Moran, who is the daughter of silent as Mrs. Rucastle and much less amiable. They are a most be able to strike deeper still. But we shall have horrors enough precious case lying upon the table in front of me, I could not recompense you for any inconvenience that we are paying to you, a "Holmes, the Scotland Yard Jack-in-office!" interest. They are important, you understand, without being photograph is in a recess behind a sliding panel just above the collection. Despite these efforts, Project Gutenberg-tm electronic the floor, instantly gave rise to the suspicion that the rope was "And now as to the villains who seemed to be immediately "Having once spotted my man, it was easy to get corroboration. I Baker Street, buried among his old books, and alternating from along has been that Lady St. Simon was decoyed away by Flora I left him then, still puffing at his black clay pipe, with the Doctor, of the paper and the date." License. You must require such a user to return or stormy, so that, in spite of the help of several passers-by, it remarked, "I should be better able to advise you." you should take an interest in it. It laid an egg after it was "They are all seaports. That the writer was on board of a ship." the roots.