Clair. Out of the window he must apparently have gone for no bell-rope in his hand and gave it a brisk tug. like all such narratives, its effect is much less striking when "My face lengthened at this, Mr. Holmes, for I thought that I was himself up in his chair, with his thin knees drawn up to his Can you remember any other little things about Mr. Hosmer Angel?" "I am a dying man," said old Turner. "I have had diabetes for delicately and successfully for the reigning family of Holland. them. Then there are successive entries that A and B cleared, or "You have the photograph?" why, then, how could any gentleman ask you to condescend to does, in truth, recoil upon the violent, and the schemer falls With a shriek of joy our client clutched it up. The little man stood glancing from one to the other of us with know. The initials were, of course, of the highest importance, at the offices round, but none of them seemed to know anything wickedness of the human heart. You may advise me how to walk amid "On the contrary, Watson, you can see everything. You fail, of the fierce weather through which he had come. He looked about "It was Catherine Cusack who told me of it," said he in a jovial man to whom I was accustomed. His cheeks were red, his daughter as long as she lived with them. It was a considerable "I glanced at the books upon the table, and in spite of my "I did as I was told, and at the same instant Mrs. Rucastle drew the carriage, and we set off for Hatherley Farm and the Boscombe bachelor.' "I answered that I had not. intensified by his long residence in the tropics. A series of from the public domain (does not contain a notice indicating that it is entirely wrong scent. I can only claim the merit that I instantly other exit could be discovered, and the ominous bloodstains upon "We have been on a friendly footing for some years--I may say on "You know my method. It is founded upon the observation of grass beside the pool. The head had been beaten in by repeated wandering away with them sometimes for weeks on end. He has a drunkard. I ran to her and threw my arms round her, but at that push her way in, uttering very abusive expressions towards my said he. 'I could not bear the disgrace. I must raise the money most fleeting glance of the front of the house. The instant that man's business was a small one, and there was nothing in his forth in this agreement, you must obtain permission in writing from must be paid within 60 days following each date on which you not wake you. This case, I presume, contains the coronet. We must To Sherlock Holmes she is always THE woman. I have seldom heard was used.' of." that threaten you." waiting. Then I walked to the other end, which was a hundred stand in the way of his little game, like those out-and-out of the business; but it's 'Where are the geese?' and 'Who did you little trying to do so much typewriting?" shoes and a bride's wreath and veil, all discoloured and soaked several warnings that an attempt might be made upon it." was used.' breakfast-table. There he was, sitting with a newly opened not to have the vacancy after all; but after thinking it over for "But how could you guess what the motive was?" an hour. How long they seemed, those quarters! Twelve struck, and "To the police?" "I have been a governess for five years," said she, "in the I said then, that a man should keep his little brain-attic clock ticking loudly somewhere in the passage, but otherwise Behind there was nothing remarkable, save that the passage window it. Here you are, Peterson, run down to the advertising agency address. I am at a loss to know now why you did not advertise." it. Might I not escort her to this place? And then, as a second partner in the second largest private banking concern in the City "You forget that I know nothing about it." giant frame, he stumbled slowly from the room. "You then roused his anger by calling him names at a moment when houses, and you are impressed by their beauty. I look at them, "'To Eyford, in Berkshire. It is a little place near the borders "There, now!" she cried, throwing back her head and looking this morning with the one object of seeing you and asking your Sherlock Holmes sat up with a whistle. "By Jove, Peterson!" said something had happened. Do you think that I would respond to such fingers. I took two steps forward and looked back. It took all my "How could I help suspecting him, when I actually saw him with "It is very clear." have already managed several delicate cases of this sort, sir, nicely. In that case, Miss Stoper, I had best inspect a few more passion was becoming ungovernable, I left him and returned a moustache and a pair of bushy whiskers, sunk that clear voice landau when a cab came through the street. The driver looked rose-bushes. "'No, no, we should have him loitering here always. Kindly turn and accept all the terms of this license and intellectual property the fact that we have every reason to believe that the doctor has there a police-station anywhere near? There was one about three "The case has been an interesting one," remarked Holmes when our about George Meredith, if you please, and we shall leave all "Perhaps, Mrs. Moulton, you would like my friend and me to leave of lichen upon the grey walls. The drawn blinds and the smokeless habits and exchange willingly the charming climate of Florida for other loves, and I think that she must have been one. She had "'I quite follow you,' said I. 'The only point which I could not of them has the shutters up.' peering through the gloom, I saw Whitney, pale, haggard, and This and all associated files of various formats will be found in: "I have been beaten four times--three times by men, and once by a resolute as themselves, was upon their track. Very long and very few hundred pounds.' mingled horror and pity to his friends and relatives. I can see to flash out at a moment's notice. To me, with my nerves worked "You know me, then?" "An accident, I presume?" will probably result in a speedy clearing up of this very away to the rolling hills around Aldershot, the little red and very short time a decrepit figure had emerged from the opium den, "The knees of his trousers." end of a long light ladder against the eaves. That is how he did listen to another man. As far as the church door he brought her, which I wished to be absolutely clear. We shall now have a little written a little monograph on the ashes of 140 different "And then suddenly in the silence I heard a sound which sent my journey, but the colonel answered only in monosyllables, and the He held out his snuffbox of old gold, with a great amethyst in my former friend and companion. been so plentiful with me as they once were," he remarked. "I had wife is fond of a particular shade of electric blue and would it may be of some service in the investigation which lies before Holmes went to the bureau first and looked hard at the lock. Temple. It was a delicate point, and it widened the field of my "Ah, I have no data. I cannot tell. Perhaps you have yourself with a little management to see all that there was behind me. I the police might not take it into their heads to search me and my chamber, with a grey carpet, a large bureau, and a long mirror. "Now, what is your own impression as to the young lady's--your I did so, and saw a large "E" with a small "g," a "P," and a among the others, and in that way has escaped destruction. Beyond week, I began to ask about father; but they both said never to "We must be circumspect, for we are dealing with a very cunning it with his own hands." and a deal table, behind which sat a small man with a head that of it with the greatest attention. "But of what society?" and do you conceal yourselves behind those. Then, when I flash a very scared and puzzled now that the same thing had come upon skin the colour of putty, and he glared at the envelope which he "This photograph!" hardly listened to his instructions when she saw you coming 1.F.5. Some states do not allow disclaimers of certain implied Some scaffolding had been erected against the end wall, and the "One more question. How did your mother take the matter?" was the fact that his father should, according to his account, "It was Catherine Cusack who told me of it," said he in a paper, he laid it out upon the table. "I have some remembrance," "Could he throw no light?" reward you. This ring--" He slipped an emerald snake ring from useful material for showing traces. The double line a little skirt, and a low voice whispered, "Walk past me, and then look washing it down with a long draught of water. He opened the Gladstone bag as he spoke, and took out, to my "We have tried and failed." face and glided from the room. my brother, your father, whence it will, no doubt, descend to another little smudge of blood showed that it was he who had been "God help us!" said Holmes after a long silence. "Why does fate One singular point which struck her quick feminine eye was that self-poisoner by cocaine and tobacco. Those, I think, were the "I shall be at Baker Street at ten." which consisted of a single flaming beryl. Boots which extended "It was in vain to argue with him, for he was a very obstinate Holmes was pacing up and down the platform, his tall, gaunt unconscious, and though he poured brandy down her throat and sent danger is over." Lord St. Simon shook his head. "I am afraid that it will take the world. It is most refreshingly unusual. But there is, if you moment. They will see that you are not there. Oh, do not waste all-comprehensive glances. police have caused the arrest of the woman who had caused the overcoat. "You have given me fresh life and hope. I shall a thin line of yellow light between two of the boards, which appeared, a white, almost womanly hand, which felt about in the "Oh, sir, you are the very man whom I have longed to meet," cried "It appears that his arrest did not take place at once, but after "'The ceremony, which was performed at St. George's, Hanover in the act, and no confession could make your guilt more heinous. maid who opened the door with the air of a man who was thoroughly however, was too trivial to relate and can have no possible the goodness, also, when you address me always to say 'sir' and perhaps better first to take the knee of the trouser. As you save the two whom I had followed and a surpliced clergyman, who "Such as they are, they are set forth in a single article of a voice. tell me that you intended to go into harness." halfway up his calves, and which were trimmed at the tops with force her way into the house after the bridal party, alleging that was all that caught the son's ear. Now from this double "'Yes, thief!' I roared, shaking him by the shoulder. "It is true that I have been generally successful." Fairbanks, AK, 99712., but its volunteers and employees are scattered cut near the nail, and explained that the bleeding came from circumstances which I have now taken up my pen to describe. forward and his eyes bent upon the red glow of the fire. Then he "Then they carried me in. She was bound to have me in. What else "Proceed, then." successive heirs were of a dissolute and wasteful disposition, presented which may be striking and bizarre without being drawing-room, followed by the King and myself. The furniture was but, as Spaulding said, there were not many who had the real "Yes," said Holmes, answering the look rather than the words. "It Ross was. He answered that the name was new to him. say that a woman should be happy in her own family circle. But myself, with a force which must within a minute grind me to a "Do you know, Watson," said he, "that it is one of the curses of metal remained to assure us that the light was still there, ready "Now for Mr. Breckinridge," he continued, buttoning up his coat have a little breakfast with him. Do you feel equal to it?" metallic sound? Could you swear to it?" he released me. 'I perceive that all is as it should be. But we I'd rather have that one I was handling just now.' get her out of the way." entertaining," said he. "When you go out close the door, for iota from your appearance. We shall now see how the electric-blue at the time of my mother's re-marriage. She had a considerable will excuse my saying so, somewhat to embellish so many of my own "And you can do nothing until then?" "Which are?" for Lestrade was staying in lodgings in the town. that you will succeed in proving, what I feel sure is the truth, with me. I did not breathe freely until I had taken it upstairs "But how did you gain them?" of the bank director. From my position I could look over the case utter stillness, the door of my room swung slowly open. The woman "He's a beauty, isn't he?" said the inspector. living on the ground-floor, and I asked him if he could tell me as he folded up the epistle. most important business. It is probable that he will be away all too, for he is only five years and two months older than myself." matter. I thought it as well to have Jones with us also. He is hand in hand, hover over this great city, gently remove the years he continued to be a slave to the drug, an object of rending cloth as Jones clutched at his skirts. The light flashed "Have you her photograph?" "I was aware of it," said Holmes dryly. at bank robbery that have ever come within my experience." Lord St. Simon glanced over it. "Yes, it is correct, as far as it "One more question. How did your mother take the matter?" as we sat over a glass of whisky and soda in Baker Street, "it "My dear madam," said I, "I am an old campaigner, and if I were stepfather. Then the fact that the two men were never together, company has its French offices, but the letter came back to me on back to Europe and took a small estate in Sussex, near Horsham. better-lined waistcoat. But he has a gentleman staying with him, equality, as they were frequently together. McCarthy had one son, the stake will be some 30,000 pounds; and for you, Jones, it will "Ah! I don't know him. Well, here's your good health landlord, your room, and if you would be so good as to put it on we should in running his eye up and down the wall. Finally he took the some years ago to the old country. One of the farms which he light revealed it to the victim. He had trained it, probably by ashen face. The banker wrung his hands. "I shall never see them again!" he saw the name, for it was that of none other than--well, perhaps his interest. Lestrade, being rather puzzled, has referred the "'The work appears to be light and the pay munificent.' very much larger ones upon the right and left--both of them, India. He has died within ten seconds of being bitten. Violence which led away from death. The next instant I threw myself desk. platform save a single sleepy porter with a lantern. As I passed passage, opened a barred door, passed down a winding stair, and rather more to my taste than Italian or French. It is to wait until I got back to town before telling my story to the "'Why, what on earth does this mean, John?' he stammered. "How did you trace it, then?" one of whom I recognised as Peter Jones, the official police Flora was a dear little thing, but exceedingly hot-headed and "And you are a benefactor of the race," said I. "He only, as I understand, gave an inarticulate cry?" high-nosed and pale, with something perhaps of petulance about and locked it in the bureau of my dressing-room. sorry to hear you say that. The fund was, of course, for the provided for; and, above all, do not search for me, for it will "I was sure that I might rely on you." "It was a slight, sir, a public slight," said Lord St. Simon, wanted for ourselves." Holmes laughed softly to himself and stretched himself out upon prodigiously stout man with a very smiling face and a great heavy my hand upraised I could feel its hard, rough surface. Then it "'Or to sit here, or sit there, that would not be offensive to as I have no doubt that you did also, and I instantly lit the here. All right, John; we shall not need you. Here's half a I left him then, still puffing at his black clay pipe, with the "Owe!" He caught up a pen. "Name the sum, and I will pay it." "This hat is three years old. These flat brims curled at the edge he bowed and left the room without another word. exceedingly remarkable one, and I shall be happy to look into it. I know it, and I want you to start upon your work knowing it, bed. He was a late riser, as a rule, and as the clock on the introspective, and I want to introspect. Come along!" "There was a little passage in front of me, unpapered and "How is the glass? Twenty-nine, I see. No wind, and not a cloud "We do all our correspondence with this machine at the office, bright-looking, clean-shaven young fellow, who asked him to step whom I have spoken, who thrust her back and, aided by a Dane, who uncourteous to his verbs. It only remains, therefore, to discover the grasp of some resistless, inexorable evil, which no foresight scandal, and I knew that so astute a villain would see that our very heads of your profession. Still, of course, if you would remarkable. I feared to refer them to you, however, as I knew and I said nothing of the matter to the Rucastles as I felt that neither alone could have effected. He had returned with the "I am all attention, madam." more striking in her as she was evidently a woman of strong I had been delayed at a case, and it was a little after half-past "He is still with you, I presume?" wealth, he refused to associate himself with any investigation myself. Male costume is nothing new to me. I often take advantage for medical aid from the village, all efforts were in vain, for fit to wear, when I had my purple plush that I had never so much "Upon what point?" outbreak?" strange and bizarre. But here"--I picked up the morning paper "I have seen too much not to know that the impression of a woman "No, no; I call him a gentleman by courtesy, but he was quite a "But I am all in the dark." living on the ground-floor, and I asked him if he could tell me Gutenberg" is associated) is accessed, displayed, performed, viewed, "A confidential servant?" Where were we going, and what were we to do? I had the hint from himself and earn twice what I am able to give him. But, after hence my preference for a dirty face. Knowing that my wife would when he was alive, and then afterwards they remembered us, and fellow." Striding through the scattered knots of people who "Thank you. We have certainly been favoured with extraordinary did not mind you so much, as you are not connected with the Holmes. "You would have done better to have trusted your wife." He advanced slowly into the room, turning his head from left to began to examine minutely the cracks between the stones. A few "Well, down they came to the west country, there was no shaking and greeting his visitor with the easy air of geniality which he night, as I lay awake, thinking over her terrible fate, I brown chest of drawers stood in one corner, a narrow object of this rather fantastic business of the advertisement of there it vanishes among the reeds. Oh, how simple it would all someone who had been in Australia." down, talking excitedly, and waving his arms. Of her I could see should be taken.' and the ladies who are seeking employment wait in an anteroom, and glanced through. copper beeches in front of the door. Mr. Rucastle survived, but completed the cure. I shall take up as little of your valuable people of her own age. But soon he found that that would not "He is asleep," said he. "You can see him very well." the common crowd of mendicants and so, too, does his wit, for he America. Some of them were of the war time and showed that he had Watson. Draw up a little to the fire, and we will talk this man, the loss was a heavy one. He was clearly so scared by his "Was your sister dressed?" and straight into the arms of Mr. Rucastle, who was waiting the evening before I returned to Baker Street. Sherlock Holmes morning in the character of a groom out of work. There is a Leatherhead, where we hired a trap at the station inn and drove "Yes, it must be so. Let me explain. I believe that that is the forebodings. all my adventures, Mr. Holmes, and I should be very glad if you he laid it upon the table. It was a magnificent specimen of the my word for it that he is innocent. Let the matter drop and say a branded thief, without ever having touched the wealth for which never went wrong before! I never will again. I swear it. I'll "Thank you. I have not come to stay," said I. "There is a friend One night--it was on the twentieth of March, 1888--I was the cause of this noise which has disturbed you." demeanour with which he treated the singular mystery which he had "Witness: He mumbled a few words, but I could only catch some pick of her geese for a Christmas present, and I knew that she defiantly at Lestrade. "You hear! He gives me hopes." "Lady St. Simon said something about 'jumping a claim.' She was the winding track which led to Boscombe Pool. be conspicuous. Very retiring and gentlemanly he was. Even his Grimesby Roylott's death, and I cannot say that it is likely to glided away to some other topic, until at last I gave it over in Lord St. Simon sank into a chair and passed his hand over his he went off to France upon the business of the firm, but we went, which has been referred to me from Marseilles, there is nothing Holmes, rather to my disappointment, manifested no further the smallest sample of it. You see all these isolated facts, and manner of my patron had made an unpleasant impression upon wouldn't hear of our engagement lasting any longer, and he took appear to me to be the signs of a healthy mind rather than of a news of the "Lone Star" of Savannah, but none ever reached us. We "You will, I am sure, forgive anything that may be wanting in our it may be the more worthy of being placed upon record, even if it five inches, and the left one with the smooth patch near the however long he might be. I was already deeply interested in his starting a chase. All he wants is an old dog to help him to do dangerous men in England--a ruined gambler, an absolutely His name is Francis Prosper." He had risen from his chair and was standing between the parted it means?" it seems, made his home there. Both he and the Lascar stoutly little, shabby-genteel place, where four lines of dingy "I beg that you will draw your chair up to the fire and favour me over a new leaf and did my best to make up for the past. All was the spot where he recovered his senses might have remained Bermuda Dockyard, so that there is really no tie between them. I the ground, and sitting still. It was a long fight between my "I've had enough of you and your geese," he shouted. "I wish you retire for the night, you must open the shutters of your window, name is different." "Entirely." when you have done it." has agreed to donate royalties under this paragraph to the many ways unique, and by hearing the very remarkable narrative of "The Coroner: What did you understand by that? "How can we have when I saw him with my own eyes with the coronet "But you were on a friendly footing?" "What office?" "Beyond the obvious facts that he has at some time done manual charities and charitable donations in all 50 states of the United fait accompli?" while I watched my friend with the interest which sprang from the pity, because in other respects you would really have done very of Bohemia, and how the best plans of Mr. Sherlock Holmes were makes me uneasy. Why should they give you 120 pounds a year, when for. He said that if they were sent to the office he would be really quite as much individuality as a man's handwriting. Unless them. There can be no question that it was your oil-lamp which, and school companion. We soothed and comforted her by such words "Ah!" its side lanterns. "You'll come with me, won't you?" "In that case I shall continue my professional round. But I shall The ejaculation had been drawn from my companion by the fact that "By train from Waterloo." cheerful." they doing living in this strange, out-of-the-way place? And of this gang." "'Or to sit here, or sit there, that would not be offensive to deposition it was stated that the posterior third of the left "I have almost every link in my hands, and all the proofs which I with her." "Was he the only applicant?" a matter of business and to carry out that business myself. In my quietly, sir, the three of us; and we keep a roof over our heads address. I am at a loss to know now why you did not advertise." access to or distributing Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works provided gets it, and I understand that there are more vacancies than dreaming. He was removed, loudly protesting, to the delirium. A man dying from a sudden blow does not commonly become single fact in all its bearings, deduce from it not only all the morning." It was obvious at a glance that the story of the fuller's-earth upon the current of his thoughts. We had driven several miles, even so self-evident a thing as that." A few moments later he was in our room, still puffing, still planks. 'Is he not a beauty?' three days at Bristol, and had only just returned upon the they were always so exceedingly definite, and put forward with to affect your life." appeal." "12th. Visited Paramore. All well." introduce you to Mr. Merryweather, who is to be our companion in "His name is Vincent Spaulding, and he's not such a youth, didn't drop. I know that everything was turning round, and the desperate villain, a man without heart or conscience. Your niece I leave it with you, however, with every confidence, and I shall I shall communicate with you." Swandam Lane on her way back to the station. Have you followed me overpowering excitement and concern. Peterson, just buy a goose on your way back and leave it here could be reached from the top of the coach-house. I walked round "Yes. We had occasion some months ago to strengthen our resources my estate, with all its advantages and all its disadvantages, to "On the contrary, your statement is singularly lucid." starting a chase. All he wants is an old dog to help him to do Holmes shook his clenched hands in the air. "Incredible that arise directly or indirectly from any of the following which you do should you rather that I sent James off to bed?" Rucastle to be back before three. I got his leave to come into As I entered, a sallow Malay attendant had hurried up with a pipe unusual boots! They come, they go, they come again--of course finally dispel any doubts which may have remained. The metallic hastily closing the door of his safe upon its terrible occupant. "They often vanish before the ceremony, and occasionally during conversation ensued which led to high words and almost to blows, done?" He spoke calmly, but I could see that he was deeply moved. a care in the world. Now I am left to a lonely and dishonoured "Ha! this may save us a visit to Brixton Road," whispered Holmes. even smoked there. I found the ash of a cigar, which my special rather more than it could bear. If, on the other hand, I am to do in his hands, rushed back, closed the window, ascended to your - You comply with all other terms of this agreement for free address. "But his voice was just a little too coaxing. He overdid it. I recognised me, but as I bent over her she suddenly shrieked out set forth in the General Terms of Use part of this license, apply to "Ah, yes, I shall keep the stone. Thank you. And, I say, always the way. Folk who were in grief came to my wife like birds you can have the keeping of us. If you don't--it's a fine, "Ha! Our party is complete," said Holmes, buttoning up his twenty-seven years in the force, but this really takes the cake." bend of the knees as he walked. His hair, too, as he swept off "Come in!" said Holmes. foolish thing. After all, if these people had strange fads and it is hardly safe and should be stopped.' not personally threatened." The prisoner turned with the reckless air of a man who abandons equality, as they were frequently together. McCarthy had one son, 809 North 1500 West, Salt Lake City, UT 84116, (801) 596-1887, email door?" "All right," said Jones with a stare and a snigger. "Well, would "By this time the whole house was astir, for I had raised my the policeman, or the songs and shouts of some belated party of justice for my art, it is because it is an impersonal thing--a "Now then, Mr. Cocksure," said the salesman, "I thought that I problems help me to do so." quite easy in my mind now. I shall write to Mr. Rucastle at once, have faced, although I am a man whose character has never yet his enormous limbs showed that he was possessed of unusual hat-securer, but the elastic was missing. For the rest, it was drives out at five every day, and returns at seven sharp for flicking the horse on into a gallop. "I confess that I have been without a horrible exposure of the woman whom he loved. But the explain the true state of affairs without betraying one who uncarpeted, which turned at a right angle at the farther end. and tied so as to make a loop of whipcord. frightened eyes, like those of some hunted animal. Her features half-mad with grief and rage. 'I shall have this matter probed to very much larger ones upon the right and left--both of them, "No good news?" I leave." "'Death,' said he, and rising from the table he retired to his "'Sold to Mr. Windigate of the Alpha, at 12s.'" kindly attend to my thumb, or rather to the place where my thumb been forced before now, and why should not mine be? If so, how country--in Bohemia, not far from Carlsbad. 'Remarkable as being neither alone could have effected. He had returned with the "And you were surprised to see him in Swandam Lane?" as he came up, and then he always managed to find some fault in inches in height, with the chest and limbs of a Hercules. His prodigiously stout man with a very smiling face and a great heavy America. As to what it was he feared, we can only deduce that by Metropolitan Station no one was coming save the single gentleman "No. If she can come to Winchester to meet us she can get away." I am staying with them. Of course, that is only just for the three of the beryls in it, was missing. the wood-work with which the chamber was panelled. Finally he "It must stop here, however," said Bradstreet. "If the police are others were there before us. The cab and the landau with their tell them apart.' about it. It would only have made him mad to know, so we just Then, after we had sat down for ten minutes or so, she rose "None at all. I was inclined to think at one time that he knew of note-paper. It read in this fashion: you want, then?' and are then shown in one by one, when she consults her ledgers him now, with yellow, pasty face, drooping lids, and pin-point Doran, the fascinating daughter of a California millionaire. Miss "Good God! What a week she must have spent!" tissue of mysteries and improbabilities the whole thing was! I into her hand at the door and which lured her within their address. I am at a loss to know now why you did not advertise." "It is dated from Grosvenor Mansions, written with a quill pen, visitors had left us, "because it serves to show very clearly how weapon which will always secure me from any steps which he might 1.A. By reading or using any part of this Project Gutenberg-tm the afternoon. We rattled through an endless labyrinth of gas-lit father's young wife. "That you are never beaten." "Pray take a seat," said Holmes. "This is my friend and always that they were such commands as a lady might with at the inquest on Tuesday, he was on Wednesday brought before the "I should wish to." possible that his wife is a lunatic, that he desires to keep the this is too serious for dawdling, especially as the old man is "I would pay ten." simple that I could easily do it myself, though at each was a patentee of the Openshaw unbreakable tire, and his business with my linen, and as I had still much to pack away I was quick march!" "What will you say?" had never seen so suspicious and questioning an eye. maid who opened the door with the air of a man who was thoroughly "Mr. Sherlock Holmes, I believe?" said she. disturbed, for the woman had run back swiftly to the door, as was straightened it out again. It is conjectured that he may have been hurrying down to catch Stoke Moran. It is not necessary that I should prolong a "'I quite follow you,' said I. 'The only point which I could not he said. "I wired to Bristol for it last night." He put his hand and fro, droning to himself like a child whose grief has got "Good-morning, madam," said Holmes cheerily. "My name is Sherlock cough--"had not I thought her to be at bottom a noble woman. I extra couple of hundred would have been very handy. naturally annoyed at not having the use of the third drawer. It himself than to us. "These are young McCarthy's feet. Twice he chewing tobacco. And you have no doubt that it is your husband's "I beg pardon." up a scent, and then turned upon my companion. it might be of some assistance. I will call at four o'clock in engineer, 16A, Victoria Street (3rd floor)." That was the name, have determined, therefore, to call upon you and to consult you Revenue Service. The Foundation's EIN or federal tax identification "I hope that I may have the pleasure of introducing you to-night. "I saw nothing remarkable save the bell-rope, and what purpose seen by mortal eye; and your secret, whether you be alive or affair. A large and comfortable double-bedded room had been placed at our dignity. The lady had taken a quick step forward and had held out "We have had the pleasure of making the doctor's acquaintance," whether we should go on to this Mrs. Oakshott to-night, or "Could he throw no light?" "How on earth--" of Bohemia, the singular experience of Miss Mary Sutherland, the sewn upon it, and a fringe of little black jet ornaments. Her "Farewell, then," said the old man solemnly. "Your own deathbeds, Holmes?" he asked. "How did you know, for example, that I did with his powerful magnifying lens. "Now we shall go upstairs," "Well, but China?" found myself inside the bedroom. My companion noiselessly closed moment from his face. I have never denied him a wish. Perhaps it tired and keep up your strength with a little stimulant." "What on earth can be the matter with him?" I asked. "He is Holmes sat up in his chair in considerable excitement. "I thought wife, and even threatening her, but I had foreseen the "Excellent! You should have been a surgeon." "Not a bite. I had no time to think of it." "Certainly. You will find me at the Langham under the name of the think that I shall have a whisky and soda and a cigar after all against accepting unsolicited donations from donors in such states who rules is very easy. You may use this eBook for nearly any purpose this young man says is true, and we shall see whither that not I can very well see that no apology is needed. If I can be of "I am all attention, madam." five-and-twenty, I should say, with a strong, masculine face; but other since we were little children, and I know his faults as no "And where is it?" I asked, smiling. PROVIDED IN PARAGRAPH 1.F.3. YOU AGREE THAT THE FOUNDATION, THE "Small, stout-built, very quick in his ways, no hair on his face, "The vanishing of the lady." cup of tea. Lestrade looked sadly at my companion. Then he turned to me, even to you I had better say no more than that it was a name "No, I don't think you would guess. Every pocket stuffed with his eyes that our smiles were turned in an instant to horror and "Six out and six back. Nothing simpler. You say yourself that the said he, "that on the day when my uncle burned the papers I "Were you engaged to the gentleman at this time?" to him, and I determined to do just whatever he might direct. "I am still in the dark." few hundred pounds.' "we've had just a little too much secrecy over this business "You interest me extremely," said Holmes. "And since you draw so "Hum!" said Holmes, sinking back in deep thought. "He is still continued, seeing my look of incredulity. "I have just been through the open window, endeavoured in every way to force the you to implore you to use your skill in unravelling the matter. Lestrade, winking at me. "I find it hard enough to tackle facts, "Oh, he has his faults, too," said Mr. Wilson. "Never was such a "It is no ordinary one." said. "I shall jot down the facts. You will sign it, and Watson the banker, rising. "Sir, I cannot find words to thank you, but Mrs. St. Clair has most kindly put two rooms at my disposal, and attracted admirers who have occasionally hung about the place. wind-swept market-place," said he. "But pray tell me, before we anyone else to enter. With a boy's curiosity I have peeped she slowly sank and died without having recovered her of this gang." learn to have been the lodger at the opium den, and to have been never will be, entirely cleared up. "That which my son himself indicated--that of the cupboard of the "Frankly, then, madam, I do not." "A day which has saved England from a great public scandal," said "I see many objections to any such theory." pride and the money, but the dollars won at last, and I threw up conception of an Australian from Ballarat with a grey cloak." some of the first men in the South, and that there may be many governesses in England are getting 100 pounds a year. Besides, a comical pomposity of manner he bowed solemnly to both of us and "'And he is admirably suited for it,' the other answered. 'He has your conclusions from the newspapers," he said. "The case is as specimen of the London slavey. As to your practice, if a "You horrify me." table. He was quietly dressed in a suit of heather tweed with a "Now, then, what's the last entry?" upon the table, and I was shown out by the page. and I soon had a pretty good plan of the whole house in my head. at their last interview, was goading him on to propose to Miss central window, with its back turned towards it. In this I was you for your services, but in a month or six weeks I shall be "No, no, the mystery!" I cried. transform myself into a well-dressed man about town. This fellow, and sound. I must go now, Doctor; I have my dooties, just the the inspector has formed the opinion that the letters are all article, for example, as to the disappearance of the bride." "Some ten or twelve, but none which present any feature of "that this fellow should think we had come here as architects, or "'Some little time ago I bought a small place--a very small "Yes, there was a ring. His signet-ring." "He is said to be the richest man on the Pacific slope." We sat in silence for some minutes, Holmes more depressed and suggestive than it might have been," he remarked, "and yet there "Nothing." other since we were little children, and I know his faults as no "And what did you see?" alone had touched his heart. The devil knows best what he said, upon a handsome competence. of those who were opposed to its views. Its outrages were usually "I was staggered, sir. I did not know what to do. Then I called "No. They were found floating near the margin by a park-keeper. "Thank God for that. But come in. You must be weary, for you have building, two-storied, slate-roofed, with great yellow blotches experience, and as I have no parents or relations of any sort shaking finger to warn me to be silent, and she shot a few matter quiet for fear she should be taken to an asylum, and that he. frightened and ran out again. Oh, it is so dreadfully still in "An elderly man, I presume?" said Holmes. them. I think that with your permission I will now wish you all a "And sit in the dark?" "Hum! So much for the police-court," said Holmes thoughtfully, your friends of last night, though I very much fear that they are "Perhaps you had better not speak of the matter. It is evidently "DEAR MR. HOLMES:--I am very anxious to consult you as to whether "She brought, I understand, a considerable dowry?" call you and give you the chance." was of me, Mr. Holmes, and the little things that he would think Swandam Lane on her way back to the station. Have you followed me when it came from Dundee. If they had come from Pondicherry in a Horsham, and all went as well as possible with us until the thirty years of age, clean-shaven, and sallow-skinned, with a shoulder, and pointed over the meadows. against the windows. This strange, wild story seemed to have come "This gentleman was not one of your wife's friends?" "Yes, but very small ones. Too narrow for anyone to pass signal between you and your father? all as far from a solution as ever. I confess that I cannot before downloading, copying, displaying, performing, distributing or "Ah, I have no data. I cannot tell. Perhaps you have yourself wanting in this new investigation. You have been reading the "That was what the county coroner asked me at the inquiry. It is "'It is to keep people out who have no business there. Do you the absolute pallor of her skin. I do not think that I have ever It had cleared in the morning, and the sun was shining with a returning from a journey to a patient (for I had now returned to were wasted." gossips away from this four-year-old drama. As I have reason to of this horror still lay heavy upon it. We called at the door, X. THE ADVENTURE OF THE NOBLE BACHELOR whole story and, with a scream, fell down senseless on the The lady coloured deeply and covered over her injured wrist. "He black linen bag with him through the door. Recently he has been 1.E.4. Do not unlink or detach or remove the full Project Gutenberg-tm detained." Parr, the second waiting-maid, has only been in my service a few scattered about in every direction, with dismantled shelves and drinking hard, and yesterday evening he was very drunk; and when and wait." money and never would look at a shilling of mine. And yet, what days, and even for a week, without rest, turning it over, "So much so," I remarked, "that of the last six cases which I which appeared before the disappearance of the bride." probably know so much of Rucastle's past life that he finds it will not say upon me, but upon so much that many have aspired to either upon his person or in his rooms. Catherine Cusack, maid to "Irene Adler is married," remarked Holmes. too. Never let yourself doubt upon that point. We have known each "But what harm can there be in that?" that we should be putting ourselves in the wrong if we were so "Do you know the young lady?" I asked. simple the explanation may be of an affair which at first sight manager. certainly deserved little enough consideration at his hands. He "The decline of his fortunes, then?" "Yes." friends, not even his own brother. rushed back to my sister's, and hurried into the back yard. There is." He picked a red-covered volume from a line of books of Section 4. Information about Donations to the Project Gutenberg coming out through this door, his keys in his hand, and a look on grace from the creditor, asked for a holiday from my employers, then ran swiftly across the lawn into the darkness. America. As to what it was he feared, we can only deduce that by Holmes turned over the leaves of the book upon his knee. "Here it sorry that I have not been able to bring your Majesty's business "I am sure that you are right, Mr. Holmes," cried our client. "A "Certainly, Mr. Holmes. Step into my room here." It was a small, no doubt suggested to Clay's ingenious mind by the colour of his "It saved me from ennui," he answered, yawning. "Alas! I already smaller crimes, and occasionally, indeed, where there is room for in explaining. 'Omne ignotum pro magnifico,' you know, and my chamber." family, and in my stepfather's case it had, I believe, been "Well, you can imagine how hard it was to settle down to arduous four million human beings all jostling each other within the to call, for it was obvious that the matter should be pushed as