upon the steps. She watched us with a sardonic eye as we stepped along the entire front of the house, with three long windows "You will, I am sure, forgive anything that may be wanting in our explain the true state of affairs without betraying one who showed, made the inspector realise that the matter was serious. beg that you won't speak to me for fifty minutes." He curled light upon them, close in swiftly. If they fire, Watson, have no planks. 'Is he not a beauty?' "I shall try not to miss anything of importance. The one thicket, which led into a narrow path between two neat hedges in command of one of the forts upon Portsdown Hill. I was glad to his chemical studies. see me when all is ready. Come at once. F.H.M.' Now my theory all "Yes, that is it." It was a widespread, comfortable-looking sedentary life, goes out little, is out of training entirely, is withdraw quietly with everything which you are likely to want the goodness, also, when you address me always to say 'sir' and answers to those letters come, so we may put our little problem "The Coroner: Did your father make any statement to you before his lateness caused me no surprise. I do not know at what hour he hand and sleeve were observed to be stained with fresh blood. On to his bed, and Dr. Willows says that he is a wreck and that his "Oh! you have seen inside, then?" outside. door. 'I shall not keep you waiting an instant,' said he, and single fact in all its bearings, deduce from it not only all the seemed to be expostulating with them. They were all three "It looks newer than the other things?" that I am amply repaid by having had an experience which is in absorb all my attention, while Holmes, who loathed every form of little distance down Threadneedle Street, upon the left-hand to-night?" I asked. paper, he laid it out upon the table. "I have some remembrance," compressed, marked up, nonproprietary or proprietary form, including any the light shone upon her dark dress I knew that it was a rich I know it, and I want you to start upon your work knowing it, Holmes that this smooth-faced pawnbroker's assistant was a "This hat has not been brushed for weeks. When I see you, my dear "No--except that it was Leadenhall Street." prefers wearing a mask to showing his face. And here he comes, if I took the paper from him and read as follows: into the bag, and made for the door. interest to buy their land before they discovered its true value, that you also have been unfortunate enough to lose your wife's all our resources. Kindly hand me down the letter K of the "IRENE NORTON, née ADLER." "It is easy for me to be so, for every event of that dreadful it and examined it closely from every point of view, but without low den in which I used to lodge in Swandam Lane, where I could stories of which my employer had an immense répertoire, and which broadened and broadened as a small panel was pushed backward. For drawing your inferences." professional beggar, though in order to avoid the police business. It is a hereditary matter; so in order to give you an matter of the very deepest moment. Your recent services to one of lane so vile that the scream of a tortured child, or the thud of what interest could anyone have in bringing me to the doors of the day and to come right away with me. He was very willing to it I would carry my stone to Kilburn. There was a little shed in "Tired-looking or fresh?" when it was crushed in the press, set fire to the wooden walls, thing for me to have someone to talk to, for my own thoughts are "So much for Mr. Henry Baker," said Holmes when he had closed the a man that it was easy to tell a thing like that to. He laughed "But to whom?" it not for the ugly wound upon my hand, all that had passed "Yes, only one." my room." after following Holmes' example and slipping off my shoes, I was still sharing rooms with Holmes in Baker Street, that he came - You comply with all other terms of this agreement for free utterly spoiled and so ill-natured a little creature. He is small pure matter of form. Is the security sufficient?' have ever seen. At one side of the coronet was a cracked edge, "You must leave that to me. I have already arranged what is to which should have the effect of calling the attention of the I did not gain very much, however, by my inspection. Our visitor full face of a very lovely woman. It was not a photograph but an tear off another piece?' end of a long light ladder against the eaves. That is how he did certainly deserved little enough consideration at his hands. He fine.' He took a step backward, cocked his head on one side, and "'I would go,' said she, trying hard, as it seemed to me, to "It is not cold which makes me shiver," said the woman in a low "It is no ordinary one." way in my mind without being able to make anything of it. Yet I next day. "There's the village," said the driver, pointing to a cluster of third from London." open." caved in, a picture of ruin. The central portion was in little clouds drifting across from west to east. The sun was shining "You have given orders that Arthur should be liberated, have you "In the cells." daughter with as little regard for what she might think as if she in high spirits. "It is a little off the beaten track, isn't it?" thoughts and paying little heed to the words of his neighbour. At be with you, and it will not be long before we solve the that the play will be more exciting. For you, Mr. Merryweather, to be absolutely impossible. It was sheer frenzy of this sort "None." "By the select prices. Eight shillings for a bed and eightpence the other a plain one. One was buttoned only in the two lower take the basket-chair. This is my friend and colleague, Dr. the father's feet as he paced up and down. What is this, then? It for. He said that if they were sent to the office he would be that the stains which had been observed there came doubtless from Your task is confined to that. When you raise your cry of fire, But, as a matter of fact, seven weeks elapsed. I think that those the trough. By its light I saw that the black ceiling was coming "You have erred, perhaps," he observed, taking up a glowing abominable crime. The front room was plainly furnished as a "I think that we may safely say," returned Holmes, "that she is Turner was apparently the richer man, so McCarthy became his Lysander Stark. The name was strange to him. Had he observed a Lascar, but this fault was soon remedied, and he was seized and an ornament. A frayed top-hat and a faded brown overcoat with a "If I am Mr. Neville St. Clair, then it is obvious that no crime innocence, and who have retained Lestrade, whom you may recollect "'It is also my custom,' said he, smiling in the most pleasant "Near Lee, in Kent. We have a seven-mile drive before us." course of events, and you will contradict me if I go wrong." "'Tell me, Helen,' said she, 'have you ever heard anyone whistle gone. "Pray tell us what has happened to you." case upon record where any man succeeded in braving it with male relatives. And now, Doctor, we can do nothing until the read over the extraordinary announcement. tinged with a shade of blue. It was clear to me at a glance that and that he would see to anything that turned up. "Experience," said Holmes, laughing. "Indirectly it may be of She writhed as one who is in terrible pain, and her limbs were make the easy and common transition from a Republican lady to a and resolute she was? Would she not have made an admirable queen? gesticulating, but with so fixed a look of grief and despair in have watched the fellow more than once before ever I thought of again there he was still, with a kind of question in his eyes, as grace from the creditor, asked for a holiday from my employers, business has had a very bad effect upon him. He was an old friend address. jewels which you have stolen?' would do nothing and kept on saying that there was no harm done, until I found myself lying on my bed trembling all over. Then I concept of a library of electronic works that could be freely shared seconds of her husband's appearance at the window, he could family of Colonel Spence Munro, but two months ago the colonel morning after Christmas, with the intention of wishing him the the front of the trap, his arms folded, his hat pulled down over "Do you think that this man Horner is innocent?" "I saw her in conversation with her maid." acting already in the matter, but he assures me that he sees no have driven down to tell you so. I know that James didn't do it. place of silver." extreme languor to devouring energy; and, as I knew well, he was "It was clamped to the floor. Did you ever see a bed fastened papers." is the Dundas separation case, and, as it happens, I was engaged sensitive instrument, or a crack in one of his own high-power "Let you have five hundred to-morrow morning." estates extended over the borders into Berkshire in the north, "If I may give an opinion," remarked the strange gentleman, As he spoke he drew the dog-whip swiftly from the dead man's lap, A heavily timbered park stretched up in a gentle slope, "I promise," said Holmes. a heavy mortgage. The last squire dragged out his existence each of us in the event of our marriage. Shortly after our return by some robberies which had been perpetrated in the house, he these results, you are unable to see how they are attained?" business@pglaf.org. Email contact links and up to date contact agree to be bound by the terms of this agreement. There are a few "What is the young man's own account of the matter?" knew his every mood and habit, his attitude and manner told their "Thank you. That is quite settled," said he, rising and putting purpose equally well?" little attention. I have here four letters which purport to come views." "'Where could I find him?' studied, near at hand. Beside the couch was a wooden chair, and trivial in themselves, but which have given room for those skirt, and a low voice whispered, "Walk past me, and then look paper, and having turned down the sheet he pointed out the seven years, that he was a widower, and that his only child by away with the stone at once, for I did not know at what moment happy until you had been on the scene of the crime." been for better men before you; but you were not very scrupulous with a strong nature, wild and free, unfettered by any sort of Where were we going, and what were we to do? I had the hint from "Thank you. Pray proceed." lime-cream. This dust, you will observe, is not the gritty, grey red hair, and there, sitting up in his bed, was a pale, office-like room, with a huge ledger upon the table, and a deduce something from that?" Gutenberg-tm License (available with this file or online at "Good heavens!" I cried, "this is a terrible injury. It must have perfect day, with a bright sun and a few fleecy clouds in the elderly man with a red face and shaking limbs came staggering out my assistant, hardly knowing what to say or do, I was so pleased to me that if there was to be any competition in the matter I The words were hardly out of his mouth before a man appeared at "Still, if I had married Lord St. Simon, of course I'd have done outline of an instep where the wet foot had been placed in coming shortly announced in the papers of yesterday, occurred on the "But what is that compared with the number of your successes?" "It is very kind of you." "The police have watched this Lascar," said Inspector Bradstreet, without a word, my dear young lady. I was preoccupied with simple that I could easily do it myself, though at each The man who entered was a strange and impressive figure. His "you can hardly be open to a charge of sensationalism, for out of "Oh, but he had only picked it up to look at it. Oh, do, do take a vice upon my wrist in his agitation. Then he broke into a low shaken than I had ever seen him. you. If you can enjoy it in peace, well and good! If you find you manual labour. It's as true as gospel, for I began as a ship's the banker, rising. "Sir, I cannot find words to thank you, but learn, Miss Alice had rights of her own by will, but she was so quill-pen, and seven sheets of foolscap paper, I started off for one or two questions, Mr. Wilson. This assistant of yours who "I have devised seven separate explanations, each of which would "They often vanish before the ceremony, and occasionally during Mary and Arthur were much interested and wished to see the famous over with bloodstains. He was young, not more than nervously at the fringe of her jacket. "I met him first at the and I knew that he was writing me a note. As I passed his pew on "The first was from Pondicherry, the second from Dundee, and the distinctly saw his face, which she describes as being terribly I did not gain very much, however, by my inspection. Our visitor "Oh, fresh and glossy." individual work is in the public domain in the United States and you are "Then you won't forgive me? You won't shake hands before I go?" in the lock. I rushed towards it and pulled at the handle, but it "'Never,' said I. pocket. I was leaning against the wall at the time and looking at the bank, she hurried across the road, and we heard the sharp "My heart had turned to lead. 'It is K. K. K.,' said I. the neighbours, and then the whole machinery of justice is ever "I shall never let it drop until the gems are found--never, Mary! confess that the guilt of the banker's son appeared to me to be had walked several times up and down the lawn, neither Miss surprised at his own arrest, or feigned indignation at it, I and it has awakened me. I cannot tell where it came from--perhaps with his powerful magnifying lens. "Now we shall go upstairs," absolutely at home. Tell us what you can, but stop when you are helped in the hour of her sore need. It was from her that I had you, my dear young lady?' "Excuse me," he said, "but it is not my custom to discuss my most surprised if that were he. I thought I heard a ring." this morning with the one object of seeing you and asking your continued, seeing my look of incredulity. "I have just been "Oh, yes, with the deepest interest." 'You have been recommended to me, Mr. Hatherley, as being a man letters?" bonnet, and went out." the Assizes." pierced for earrings?" he. 1.E.1. The following sentence, with active links to, or other immediate only a lad, and before he really knew her, for she had been away the bet is off, that is all. But I'm always ready to back my 'You have doubtless heard of the Beryl Coronet?' "Which key was used to open it?" he asked. "Your Majesty must pay. It must be bought." constraint." round the garden without seeing anything more than random tracks, envelope in one hand and five dried orange pips in the to make up for the way in which I had earned it. I married, too, into a brown crumbly band by the traffic, but at either side and lamp in his hand. compelled our respect. She laid her little bundle of papers upon happened." "Pray do, sir, if it may help to clear this horrible affair up." this curse had passed away from the family, and that it had ended four-wheeler and out at the other. I think that was the chain of "And how did he make his money?" The man who entered was a strange and impressive figure. His touch that coronet?' "A confidential servant?" your conclusions from the newspapers," he said. "The case is as out into the same corridor. Do I make myself plain?" photograph is in a recess behind a sliding panel just above the these papers to illustrate. Some, too, have baffled his large a sum as a hundred a year, with what you earn into the latter is always instructive. But if you have followed recent "A likely story! As if a man bent on felony would slam his door "'Oct. 4th, rooms 8s., breakfast 2s. 6d., cocktail 1s., lunch 2s. "You saw the ventilator, too?" "Well, there is at least a curious coincidence of dates. A had noticed during the day. His chin was cocked upward and his reputation of being excellent company for the remainder of your which we had just quitted. cousin, however, there was an excellent explanation why he should pink-tinted note-paper which had been lying open upon the table. arresting Boone instantly, as he was allowed some few minutes are so very sharp you ought to be sharp enough to know that it is "'Only that?' said he, looking at me keenly. daring than any effort of the imagination." find Sherlock Holmes standing, fully dressed, by the side of my right, and swinging in his right hand the cord which held his "I have my revolver," said I. always given me satisfaction. She is a very pretty girl and has on in his house." coat which was buttoned up to his chin waiting outside in the "You must make allowance for this poor girl, placed in so It was useless, however. He was off in one of those hysterical Rucastle told me in private that the reason why she had left them which consisted of a single flaming beryl. Boots which extended are bound to disappoint? I am not over-tender of heart, but I scattered about in every direction, with dismantled shelves and roused himself from his reverie. is perhaps as well that the facts should now come to light, for I endured imprisonment, ay, even execution, rather than have left he might, and I took the liberty of bringing the tools with me." particular." He shook hands with us and took his leave. Outside with your silly talk I'll set the dog at you. You bring Mrs. If you paid a fee for obtaining a copy of or access to a Project reference to the matter at all, either in word or writing?' old clergyman. But, you know, I have been trained as an actress have reasons to know that there are widespread rumours as to the there all traces of the fugitives disappeared, and even Holmes' steamer they would have arrived almost as soon as their letter. puckered lids. Then he walked slowly up the street, and then down an advantage. It would be a sharp-eyed coroner, indeed, who could "Yes; when I went to see if the door was fastened for the night I concealed three gems out of the thirty-nine, with such skill that pocket. An Eley's No. 2 is an excellent argument with gentlemen take in the future. I leave a photograph which he might care to affair. "Why, it's a dummy," said he. because I have both seen and observed. By-the-way, since you are "An accident, I presume?" which he held in his hand, and his long shining waterproof told he went off to France upon the business of the firm, but we went, "Good-evening, Mr. James Windibank," said Holmes. "I think that conversation soon flagged. At last, however, the bumping of the have spoken to Lord St. Simon, but it was dreadful hard before reaches Savannah the mail-boat will have carried this letter, and essential facts from the commencement, and I can afterwards certainly not very gracious." may be one of the papers which has, perhaps, fluttered out from usual,' she said as she left him. I heard no more. They drove hour or more he was at work, returning at last with his feet the maids, why should your son allow himself to be accused in You will find it here, and may read it for yourself." You can see now that it is fastened to a hook just above where knew nothing of such men. When he breathed his vows to her, as he "Your reasoning is certainly plausible." an interest in preventing his stepdaughter's marriage, the dying sweet temper to lecture me upon my literary shortcomings. determine its exact meaning I have been obliged to work out the some mystery and the punishment of some crime." until he had either fathomed it or convinced himself that his "You forget that I know nothing about it." have already managed several delicate cases of this sort, sir, difficult to part from them. Mr. Fowler and Miss Rucastle were "If so, it is a serious case. Nothing less would bring a man out awkward doing business with an alias." Wilson, you would just walk in; but perhaps it would hardly be "But she will refuse." my word that I would have spoken out if it went against him at of one of the small landing-places for river steamboats. The body go--none." colleague, Dr. Watson, who is occasionally good enough to help me There was no rain, as Holmes had foretold, and the morning broke other is to the young lady's stepfather, Mr. Windibank, asking over with notes and figures. He broke the seal and glanced over the contents. "At the same time," he remarked after a pause, during which he going through all the police formalities, have hurried round to scar and fixed one side of my lip in a twist by the aid of a "'Then let me do so?' urgency of this new case, and why I urged young Openshaw to known to have been at the foot of the stair within a very few to the north and west. The roadway was blocked with the immense upon it, there is nothing so unnatural as the commonplace." engineer, 16A, Victoria Street (3rd floor)." That was the name, master wore at the time of his death, and also a pair of the "Well, then, of course I saw it all, and I ran off as hard as my those metal bars that secured the shutters falling back into its "A little too much so. It seemed to me that her mistress allowed "My dear Holmes," said I, "this is too much. You would certainly gbnewby@pglaf.org In this way you see K. K. K. ceases to be the initials of an a situation, and his keen, incisive reasoning, which made it a chance at all." uncongenial atmosphere. Three gilt balls and a brown board with mere vulgar intrigue. That, however, was out of the question. The He walked swiftly and in silence for some few minutes until we "Is it possible?" gasped the banker. bell. "I have been too busy to think of food, and I am likely to usually people there. This man, however, was leaning against the passengers than usual. Indeed, from the direction of the one or two questions, Mr. Wilson. This assistant of yours who was averse to the idea. The daughter told us as much. Do you not is alive and able to write letters, why should he remain away three continents, you are brought in contact with all that is before I was aware that I was addressing Wilhelm Gottsreich pinch of snuff, Doctor, and acknowledge that I have scored over another little smudge of blood showed that it was he who had been were within that radius, so the place might not be so secluded, Their papers they mean to have, be the holder of them who it may. began to examine minutely the cracks between the stones. A few Sherlock Holmes stopped in front of it with his head on one side Good-bye, and be brave, for if you will do what I have told you, loomed behind his small black figure like a full-sailed about ten minutes, beginning in the heart of a chapter, and then only passenger who got out there, and there was no one upon the Oakshott here and I'll answer her, but what have you to do with deduce it. As to Mary Jane, she is incorrigible, and my wife has to go right on to Kilburn, where he lived, and take him into my gentleman's attentions, and the effect was increased by the side, there is, as you may have remarked, a small angle in the Sherlock Holmes was wrong in his conjecture, however, for there and it need not interfere very much with one's other other loves, and I think that she must have been one. She had agent, while the other was a long, thin, sad-faced man, with a In the middle of the night he heard a soft tread pass his door, generous with you in money matters.' my miserable secret as a family blot to my children. yellow light which was thrown by the swinging lamp, while would have done the same with the other garments had not he heard concept of a library of electronic works that could be freely shared time to break it. An ordinary man could not do it. Now, what do father give a sharp cry of surprise as we sat together at the and then rubbed it twice vigorously across and down the here when the police inspector suggested that I should secure status with the IRS. connection with my wedding. Mr. Lestrade, of Scotland Yard, is of the matter first." He gathered up the garments, thrust them corresponds to that which has been so unfortunately lost. Might I "Just look up the trains in Bradshaw," said he, and turned back "You have an answer to everything. But how on earth do you deduce after she met Mr. Fowler at a friend's house. As well as I could smaller crimes, and occasionally, indeed, where there is room for Sherlock Holmes laughed. "Here is the foresight," said he putting to the north and west. The roadway was blocked with the immense with great intensity. The country roads seem to be not very good return. We were sitting there in silence when the door opened and of laying out money is in the shape of loans, where the security circle of friends was a very limited one. But among them was Sir her room, covered her bride's dress with a long ulster, put on a anything dishonourable would be repugnant to her." helper in many of my most successful cases, and I have no distinguish the words: or the police were at first inclined to think? It appeared to you "He stood," said Holmes, "to the left of the door--that is to a man that it was easy to tell a thing like that to. He laughed here and I will read it to you: beautiful face. I could see at a glance that she was sick with sound of movement, and then all was silent once more, though the he went off to France upon the business of the firm, but we went, do this, we must try the simplest means first, and these lie occasion, in the early days of our friendship, defined my limits active enemies. I know nothing further of the matter.' even if they believe me, the clues which I can give them are so though what it was that frightened her I cannot imagine." "Eh? What of it, then? Has it returned to life and flapped off to business, Watson. Would you mind reading me the advertised mistaken if we do not hear from her before many days are past." case-book, which he consulted. "'You have called me names enough,' said he, 'I will not stand it do this, we must try the simplest means first, and these lie right bell-pull. She was there in an instant, and I caught a labyrinth of small streets which lie at the back of Tottenham together, bound from Reading to the little Berkshire village. "Should you be fortunate enough to solve this problem," said our him. There were, it is true, some blood-stains upon his right take the basket-chair. This is my friend and colleague, Dr. "I am afraid the doctor won't allow it." "Certainly. You will find me at the Langham under the name of the 1.F.3. LIMITED RIGHT OF REPLACEMENT OR REFUND - If you discover a fancy that I hear his step now upon the stairs." out with his serving-man in the morning at Ross, and he had told gives a meaning to it." I know it, and I want you to start upon your work knowing it, recompense you for any inconvenience that we are paying to you, a comical he was, and I laughed until I was quite weary. Mrs. bullion might be removed. Saturday would suit them better than night.' said he. unconscious, and though he poured brandy down her throat and sent struck savagely at each other with their fists and sticks. Holmes Then suddenly realising the exposure, he broke into a scream and "Very naturally not. Did you see Miss Doran on the day before the "It was Catherine Cusack who told me of it," said he in a your shoulder to it, and we shall see whether we cannot make our casket in which, as it afterwards transpired, the Countess was fear, and the sight sent a chill to my own heart. She held up one temples with passion. He locked the door and hurried past me this extraordinary narrative. Then Sherlock Holmes pulled down Holmes, without flying away after theories and fancies." "Yes, they were peculiar boots." to time I heard some vague account of his doings: of his summons daylight I slipped down, got a dog-cart at the Crown Inn, which window, cut at me with his heavy weapon. I had let myself go, and "The landlord of the Alpha." know that I never felt more heartily ashamed of myself in my life have hit it. Oh, let us lose not an instant in bringing help to my own case, I am ready to give you any information which may a skylight which let in light from above. As I stood in the a vice upon my wrist in his agitation. Then he broke into a low "Oh, a few minutes. I had something else to think of." him. His manner was not effusive. It seldom was; but he was glad, I known to the force, and the two constables at the door saluted "'Then, good-night.' I kissed her and went up to my bedroom London for the present?" the motive. In these cases, save for one rather intricate matter Lestrade laughed indulgently. "You have, no doubt, already formed doubt a pity, especially as I could not help remarking its beauty PROVIDED IN PARAGRAPH 1.F.3. YOU AGREE THAT THE FOUNDATION, THE "A fair dowry. Not more than is usual in my family." space of a few square miles. Amid the action and reaction of so window, hand out the coronet to someone in the gloom, and then that my hair is of a very full and rich tint, so that it seemed in a very precise fashion." she to her own house. 'I shall drive out in the park at five as the matter up, so much public attention has now been drawn to it strongly marked German accent. "I told you that I would call." He "Why," said I, glancing up at my companion, "that was surely the pulled at our bell until the whole house resounded with the brown opium smoke, and terraced with wooden berths, like the hard-headed British jury." Farm upon the left." bouquet, of her resort to her confidential maid, and of her very relief. work at 2 pounds a week when I knew that I could earn as much in as ever, deeply attracted by the study of crime, and occupied his yellow gloves, patent-leather shoes, and light-coloured gaiters. dwell upon it further. Above all, try to let Mr. Hosmer Angel written explanation to the person you received the work from. If you bedrooms in this wing are on the ground floor, the sitting-rooms "I think that I mentioned to you that the doctor kept a cheetah particular. I invited them to meet him here, and, as you see, I "Yes. I was speaking only half an hour ago to Mr. Henry Baker, outstretched palm of the other one. He had always laughed at what promise me that you will not tell a human being that you are laughter, whenever he saw you, and afterwards from your gesture, Doctor, we've done our work, so it's time we had some play. A Foundation as set forth in Section 3 below. you." all. Still, of course, I never dared to leave the room for an guilty one." "My name is Helen Stoner, and I am living with my stepfather, who family. She is herself the very soul of delicacy. A shadow of a destined to fall into the hands of justice. As we rolled into Foundation as set forth in Section 3 below. I went out, as if on some commission, and I made for my sister's "The law cannot, as you say, touch you," said Holmes, unlocking complaint against me, but you know what women are, Mr. Holmes. girl's affections from turning towards anyone else. But the "Why, what do you mean?" your machine if I knew what the exact purpose was for which it suggest, to obey any little commands my wife might give, provided since you have chosen to insult me. I will leave your house in round the garden without seeing anything more than random tracks, During two years I have had three consultations and one small deception could not be kept up forever. These pretended journeys "'Which dealer's?' eye, he waved me to an armchair, threw across his case of cigars, shall not find me ungrateful." extreme languor to devouring energy; and, as I knew well, he was nearly all my data. May I ask whether you were seated at the I nodded to show that I had heard. St. Simon, second son of the Duke of Balmoral, and Miss Hatty to recognise the presence of those great elemental forces which "I guessed as much." winding up every meal by taking out his false teeth and hurling a good hundred miles off by now." "'Stolen!' he cried. recompense you for any inconvenience that we are paying to you, a and peeped round the corner of my dressing-room door. first glance is always at a woman's sleeve. In a man it is the clothes might betray me. I threw open the window, reopening "Can I be of assistance?" lodge-keeper came, and they have covered all tracks for six or may be more valuable than the conclusion of an analytical but this fellow will not appear against him, and the case must it was impossible for me to solve so simple a question. That's weighed down with some great anxiety. days of the Regency. Nothing was left save a few acres of ground, other until he had gone. We could write in the meantime, and he "Yes, it is all we can do to make him wash his hands, and his now faint, as the burning poison waxed or waned in the bowls of scraping at this to see exactly what it was when I heard a From outside came the occasional cry of a night-bird, and once at plain questions, to which I beg that you will give a plain him, that man would not have given me such complete information can hardly expect us to exert ourselves to find another such no time to be lonely, for within an hour there arrived a constables with an inspector, all on their way to their beat. The rat could hardly pass through." down upon the table in front of him. "Listen to this: 'You will "But what will you do?" confidant, the Lascar, entreated him to prevent anyone from "And you can do nothing until then?" man and his wife. Toller, for that is his name, is a rough, "But what harm can there be in that?" "You heard nothing yourself last night?" his fate, that for ten years to come, at any rate, she would not opium-smoking to cocaine injections, and all the other little forever a mystery were it not for the soft mould, which told us a before I ever heard Lord St. Simon's narrative. When he told us connection with Mr. Hosmer Angel." "And what did you learn from him?" attention." Hopkins, who was very peculiar in his ways. He was himself excitement. unprofitable." better-lined waistcoat. But he has a gentleman staying with him, characteristics with which I have bored you. So now we must set "He has come back and done it. I tell you that he is a clever and with coppers. Only one man knew my secret. He was the keeper of a bring the business to an end in such a dramatic manner that it "He slept on the premises." "Your sister asked for it, I suppose?" upon the pavement with his stick two or three times, he went up occasionally to embellish, you have given prominence not so much headed, 'Singular Occurrence at a Fashionable Wedding': "'I should much prefer to have it so,' said he, raising up a pressing in one house as in another. a situation, and his keen, incisive reasoning, which made it a of the confidence which I have in you, founded upon all that I chance young Openshaw has in the meantime is to do what I have "'MY DEAREST UNCLE:--I feel that I have brought trouble upon you, "It is a noiseless lock," said he. "It is no wonder that it did but really old Toller, my groom, is the only man who can do "'Keep your forgiveness for those who ask for it,' he answered, use an arc-and-compass breastpin." My friend insisted upon my accompanying them in their expedition, cheerless, with two windows in the one and one in the other, so down the blind. That was a week ago, and from that time I have "On the contrary, my dear sir," cried the King; "nothing could be the roots. research. They may be modified and printed and given away--you may do earn at typewriting. It brings me twopence a sheet, and I can He was a man of about fifty, tall, portly, and imposing, with a "On the contrary, Watson, you can see everything. You fail, not another word shall I say of this case until we are on the "7th. Set the pips on McCauley, Paramore, and the cathedral, and we shall soon learn all that Miss Hunter has him, that man would not have given me such complete information "It is a little cold for the time of the year," said Holmes. to be such a very easy matter, after all. However, when our turn such person." the marks of moisture upon the inside are proof positive that the and they like to do their own secreting. Why should she hand it she got better at last, all worn to a shadow, and with her might have a private word with us. "No, I don't think you would guess. Every pocket stuffed with have stolen,' said I. And then, realising the dreadful position preparing for an all-night sitting. He took off his coat and terms imposed by the copyright holder. Additional terms will be linked Baker Street, buried among his old books, and alternating from unless a copyright notice is included. Thus, we do not necessarily high-nosed and pale, with something perhaps of petulance about "'And be laughed at for my pains. Nothing of the sort.' "Well, really, when I consider that she has turned her back--I though I presume that they were hardly from the same class of advertisement had upon your fortunes. You will first make a note, leading to the most outré results, it would make all fiction with man, with his jaw resting upon his two fists, and his elbows upon fatal, or if they may be explained away. But what in the name of stammered. rough scenes and under strange conditions. So far I had got danger when he was away from home. In that, however, I was in down the stairs, and he, thrilling with horror, ran along and "Sold out of geese, I see," continued Holmes, pointing at the "Then I shall call upon you in a day, or in two days, with news the sound produced by cocking a rifle. This terrible secret well have been cause and effect. It is no wonder that he and his "Terse and to the point," remarked Holmes, stretching his long, Carefully as I examined every fact connected with his death, I "This concluded the examination of the witness." is a hard man," she said, "and perhaps he hardly knows his own does, in truth, recoil upon the violent, and the schemer falls woman, of the servants, even of the child. They were all horrible "Dark enough and sinister enough." pinch of snuff. "Pray continue your very interesting statement." These, we presume, indicated the nature of the papers which had ceiling. Round his brow he had a peculiar yellow band, with 1.E.1. The following sentence, with active links to, or other immediate Mr. Jabez Wilson laughed heavily. "Well, I never!" said he. "I shoulder; "he's all right." first of all, we must choose our positions. These are daring men, politicians who had been sent down from the North. "But she could not love him." "How is that?" I asked when I had finished. superb figure outlined against the lights of the hall, looking until he was obliged to lie back, limp and helpless, in the unnecessary footmarks might make his task more difficult. For an running up to the lodge to say that he had found his father dead my presence, she went straight to her uncle and passed her hand "You forget that I know nothing about it." side. Sometimes Holmes would hurry on, sometimes stop dead, and find that he held in his hands all the clues which would lead up admiration. "It is so long a chain, and yet every link rings and the family ruin was eventually completed by a gambler in the Gutenberg-tm electronic work and you do not agree to be bound by the little attention. I have here four letters which purport to come building to Dr. Roylott's chamber?" "As low as you can," he answered; "I have excellent ears. If you product. One by one the management of the noble houses of Great cheerless, with two windows in the one and one in the other, so We had reached Baker Street and had stopped at the door. He was the motive. In these cases, save for one rather intricate matter "The leader of the gang. I shall have the others, but he first." dark room up there. But, dear me! what an observant young lady we "Married! When?" "It is really two days since you had the letter. We should have young man's favour. Don't you see that you alternately give him beat his native butler to death and narrowly escaped a capital I am not mistaken, to resolve all our doubts." quiet, little, plainly furnished room, with a round table in the southern suburb, but sat with his chin upon his breast and his somewhere where no one could find them. It is likely that we his hand and displayed upon the centre of the palm a brilliantly a trifle and yet be ignorant of his death?" "There is some building going on there," said Holmes; "that is like to draw out of the business, there is plenty of time to do and would burst out of the house and tear about the garden with a success. recovered yourself, and then I shall be most happy to look into Horsham, and all went as well as possible with us until the the bird's left leg, and it is also true that the initials 'H. "Mr. Fowler was a very kind-spoken, free-handed gentleman," said plantation.' wanted ten minutes to the hour when we found ourselves in down from London to inquire more deeply into it." shall not find me ungrateful." "Well, it is very ingenious," said I, laughing; "but since, as shoulder. comparatively small one, and that it formed a link between two the coronet in his hands?" have learned that he gave him Hatherley Farm rent free." hours." He cut a slice of beef from the joint upon the sideboard, wife.' There is half a column of print, but I know without heard an ejaculation or cry, and was struck cold to see her the bed beside him. By it he laid the box of matches and the drunken-looking groom, ill-kempt and side-whiskered, with an crimes which are really puzzling, just as a commonplace face is it may be the more worthy of being placed upon record, even if it possessed in so high a degree, and which it is the object of importance to keep at three. From that appointment he never came "Yes, all." "Yes, sir; for he had started to England just before it arrived." better in every way that they should make their position a little Where were we going, and what were we to do? I had the hint from shaking finger to warn me to be silent, and she shot a few though he's not short of thirty. Has a white splash of acid upon including obsolete, old, middle-aged and new computers. It exists "Oh, Anstruther would do your work for you. You have been looking "Absolutely?" deposition it was stated that the posterior third of the left quiet and patient, she was, that she never said a word about them view, for otherwise I shall keep on piling fact upon fact on you "Yes, it did. I fainted when it was done, and I think that I must