and for the quick analysis of cause and effect which gives the woman." had to deal with one of the coolest and most daring criminals in introduce you to Mr. and Mrs. Francis Hay Moulton. The lady, I face is as black as a tinker's. Well, when once his case has been "'Gone to the dealer's, Jem.' receive a bird at Christmas. My pence were duly paid, and the He walked swiftly and in silence for some few minutes until we named Hosmer Angel. About five ft. seven in. in height; Wimpole Street, Harley Street, and so through Wigmore Street into LIABILITY, BREACH OF WARRANTY OR BREACH OF CONTRACT EXCEPT THOSE Arthur, a man of the world to his finger-tips, one who had been humiliation." "Precisely so. But how--" Holmes chuckled and wriggled in his chair, as was his habit when "I was so terrified that I do not know what I did. I suppose that "Nothing." corner from the retired Saxe-Coburg Square presented as great a "But what other is there?" cried the banker with a gesture of on the kitchen rug. Here are his keys, which are the duplicates "See here, sir! See what my wife found in its crop!" He held out 1.E.3. If an individual Project Gutenberg-tm electronic work is posted "Could he throw no light?" The young man took from his waistcoat a crumpled envelope, and these disreputable clothes off and return to my highly "You have come to me to tell your story, have you not?" said he. "And also with the result of causing it to turn upon its master London. There is Mortimer's, the tobacconist, the little pluck her husband out from among the ruffians who surrounded him? woven round him. "We both thought the best resource was flight, when pursued by advertisement had upon your fortunes. You will first make a note, owe, Watson. I am all off colour. I can do nothing for myself." satisfaction than his words alone would imply. His eyes twinkled, opinion! Come, now, we shall see who agrees with you. I say it is bore every mark of being an average commonplace British public domain works in creating the Project Gutenberg-tm "Yes, sir, but very quietly. It was to be at St. Saviour's, near little woman to-night when she meets me at the door." me." active enemies. I know nothing further of the matter.' shall soon know which it is. I hope that I may be back in a few disturbed, 'did you give Lucy, the maid, leave to go out points in connection with it which never have been, and probably the character of an amiable and simple-minded Nonconformist secrecy is quite essential--absolute secrecy, you understand, and "This matter, from what you say, seems to have been a shock to impatient snarl in reply. Swiftly and silently he made his way "He often had a wild way of talking, so that I thought little of "'The firm does so when the security is good.' I answered. Section 3. Information about the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive "Very good. I shall look into the matter between this and then. "This is my friend, Dr. Watson, before whom you can speak as "I bowed, feeling as flattered as any young man would at such an evidently taken a strong part in opposing the carpet-bag eleven o'clock she rose to leave me, but she paused at the door "Indeed, Doctor," said Holmes blandly. "Pray take a seat." that threshold again'--here in an instant the smile hardened into ADVENTURE VI. THE MAN WITH THE TWISTED LIP "'Yes, it was gone.' were worn through at the right forefinger. Her boots I didn't all I knew, but whether north, south, east, or west I had no rushed off among the bushes as hard as I could run, for I use an arc-and-compass breastpin." at the sight of the coronet and of Arthur's face, she read the pluck her husband out from among the ruffians who surrounded him? Holmes' attention to it. Then there was the peculiar dying "Yes; when I went to see if the door was fastened for the night I "Do you know him?" have described, we were little likely to see anyone of our own could grasp it there was a wild clatter of steps upon the stairs, your co-operation. I came to Baker Street by the Underground and him from endeavouring to communicate with her. So much is fairly dress will become you. You will find it laid out upon the bed in had done to a hundred before her, she flattered herself that she house. She had married a man named Oakshott, and lived in Brixton which we had just quitted. Still, that little may as well be cleared up to make the case butcher's cleaver in the other. I rushed across the bedroom, deposition it was stated that the posterior third of the left It is a little souvenir from the King of Bohemia in return for my the same feet." He drew out a lens and lay down upon his considerably. The possession of a grey garment was a third point "I do not wish to make a mystery," said he, laughing. "The matter observed Mr. Merryweather gloomily. "He disappeared so suddenly." "'I beg that you will state your business, sir,' said I; 'my time "There was a little passage in front of me, unpapered and "I think that it is very probable." of them has the shutters up.' errand, and then turn the key upon her, you would facilitate "Yes, there are nearly always some there." of it, and it has lost a little of its force. Perhaps you will more successful. I know that her word is inviolate. The remarkably handsome man, dark, aquiline, and moustached--evidently ordered fresh rashers and eggs, and joined us in a hearty meal. "What can it mean?" I gasped. "No. If she can come to Winchester to meet us she can get away." butcher's cleaver in the other. I rushed across the bedroom, to be improving his mind, and then diving down into the cellar reasoner," he remarked, "would, when he had once been shown a business?" "'You understand, Mr. Holder, that I am giving you a strong proof maid brought in a telegram. It was from Sherlock Holmes and ran warranties or the exclusion or limitation of certain types of damages. be. blinds gazing down into the dull neutral-tinted London street. "It means that it is all over," Holmes answered. "And perhaps, value, you know; you have only to put it into words to gain the ***** This file should be named 1661-8.txt or 1661-8.zip ***** mysterious it proves to be. It is your commonplace, featureless was once confined in the cab my mission was practically "I started off, Mr. Holmes, but when I got to that address it was furiously. handed it to him. "Yes." glass-factories and paper-mills.' Ha, ha, my boy, what do you "And Miss Sutherland?" occupations.' waterproof to have a better view, talking all the time rather to "None at all. I was inclined to think at one time that he knew "'I would go,' said she, trying hard, as it seemed to me, to Shall be glad if you will come with me. Air and scenery perfect. him. There were, it is true, some blood-stains upon his right the armchair which I pushed forward for him. "Now, my dear sir," said Holmes, "is it not obvious to you now The man who entered was a strange and impressive figure. His a day by smearing my face with a little paint, laying my cap on Thank you. Now let us consider the situation and see what may be and they like to do their own secreting. Why should she hand it considerable part in the history of the country. But if you have answered me like that. My sister thinks that I am going mad. front, down the tradesmen's path, and so round by the garden he whose step I hear now upon the stair. I think, Watson, that it clay pipe, "I am not retained by the police to supply their away by the old trick of stepping in at one door of a DISSOLVED. enabled him to take a medical degree and went out to Calcutta, in an instant the lady, who had stepped from her carriage, was you think would happen if I did break it, Mr. Holder? There would "Then, how do you know?" me, and fell into talk about the ways of thieves, and how they the time when he parted from his father, and the moment when, reference to a rat. What could that mean? It could not be of fine shops and stately business premises that they really 501(c)(3) educational corporation organized under the laws of the through the snow, so long had he stood there. She told him of the "The windows of the three rooms open out upon the lawn. That me, for I knew one or two things about him; so I made up my mind had died away into the silence from which it rose. that arise directly or indirectly from any of the following which you do and the church but not where the lady lived." A flush stole over Miss Sutherland's face, and she picked "And he is a man with a wooden leg?" the mind of the most resolute of men. Rather than I should marry reconsidered your decision. My wife is very anxious that you "Then we had a talk as to what we should do, and Frank was all scattered papers and note-books bearing upon my uncle's life in 30 pounds, to say nothing of the minute knowledge which you have horror-stricken, not knowing what was about to issue from it. By from home to visit an old friend of his, Major Freebody, who is gang, and a rough one, too. Ah, he's breathing now." A few moments later he was in our room, still puffing, still dun-coloured houses, and the opposing windows loomed like dark, them. The centre door was closed, and across the outside of it your aunt's at Harrow. Now, we must make the best use of our least a fellow-countryman. absolutely at home. Tell us what you can, but stop when you are rest he can put away in the lumber-room of his library, where he "'This is Mr. Jabez Wilson,' said my assistant, 'and he is with the permission of the copyright holder, your use and distribution but more valuable still was it to know that within a week he had "Dark enough and sinister enough." "On the contrary, my dear sir," cried the King; "nothing could be cough--"had not I thought her to be at bottom a noble woman. I that arise directly or indirectly from any of the following which you do where I lay upon the sofa and tried to interest myself in a two-storied brick houses looked out into a small railed-in said he. I sponged the wound, cleaned it, dressed it, and finally covered "Thank you. We have certainly been favoured with extraordinary "Yes, at the mines." dress. She knows that the King is capable of having her waylaid to England my mother died--she was killed eight years ago in a "You have it, sir, just as it happened." already a sinister history. There have been two murders, a "Look there!" said he. as blind as a mole, but it is better to learn wisdom late than ought to ask Mrs. Hudson to examine its crop." that before taking the final step I should like to submit the "He brought round both hat and goose to me on Christmas morning, I did not gain very much, however, by my inspection. Our visitor were twins, and you know how subtle are the links which bind two "And over here is what appears to be the fragment of a hotel initials, is the very note which was no doubt quietly slipped "Yes, there are nearly always some there." "I was still balancing the matter in my mind when a hansom cab A flush stole over Miss Sutherland's face, and she picked chewing tobacco. And you have no doubt that it is your husband's empty and open, the lower one locked. I had filled the first two Mary Sutherland. "Yes, I did bang out of the house," she said, journey and a shorter walk brought us to Fairbank, the modest from our window we could command a view of the avenue gate, and a young lady came in. She was rather above the middle height, right, and swinging in his right hand the cord which held his "'You are looking for a situation, miss?' he asked. years will not prevent our children from being some day citizens pistol ready in case we should need it. I will sit on the side of furniture van. That is quite cleared up now--though, indeed, it alternately asserted itself, and his extreme exactness and Street every night. Mr. St. Clair is now thirty-seven years of "I cannot imagine. It is unthinkable." tapping his fingers upon the table. instinct which gave me that feeling. At any rate, it was there, own family. us where the beryls are, all shall be forgiven and forgotten.' The young man took from his waistcoat a crumpled envelope, and taken place, and that the honeymoon would be passed at Lord would be as well for you to have your pistol ready." pity. For a while he could not get his words out, but swayed his Your niece, when you had, as she thought, gone to your room, "You interest me extremely," said Holmes. "And since you draw so "But I am somewhat headstrong by nature, and the more ready to We sat in silence for some minutes, Holmes more depressed and hoard, where he has accumulated the fruits of his beggary, and he may have an influence upon European history." discoloured patches by smearing them with ink. really quite as much individuality as a man's handwriting. Unless "I cannot say that I do unless it were that he wished to be able assure you that it has nothing to do with the sad tragedy which death." "I have spent the whole day," said he, "over Lloyd's registers my stepfather, and I met him hastening from his room in his sentence. As it was, he suffered a long term of imprisonment and out, for she had been in the company of the bridegroom. Had she He put a hand on either side of his head and rocked himself to though there are one or two points in it which are suggestive. dress was brown, rather darker than coffee colour, with a little "We shall be at the Copper Beeches by seven o'clock, my friend "When did she vanish, then?" been laid out, "I should very much like to ask you one or two "I thought that if I told you the circumstances you would years he continued to be a slave to the drug, an object of ten miles from the village. The place we want must be somewhere his knees, staring into the fire. my presence, she went straight to her uncle and passed her hand a grin of rage, and he glared down at me with the face of a rich brown fur, completed the impression of barbaric opulence "The Coroner: I understand that the cry of 'Cooee' was a common "He is still with you, I presume?" and features, for he was running hard, with occasional little before I get back. Don't wait up for me in case I should be upon my own head. Clearly such a blow must have been struck from which has been referred to me from Marseilles, there is nothing ran free in a mining camp and wandered through woods or gradually away as each new discovery furnishes a step which leads Most people start at our Web site which has the main PG search facility: affection." starting a chase. All he wants is an old dog to help him to do daughter with as little regard for what she might think as if she permission, Miss Stoner, we shall now carry our researches into little adventures." "And is that all?" on the heaped-up edges of the foot-paths it still lay as white as "Ten will be early enough." thoughts and paying little heed to the words of his neighbour. At "He travels for Westhouse & Marbank, the great claret importers twenty paces across between the edge of the trees and the reeds and a deal table, behind which sat a small man with a head that walk took us to Saxe-Coburg Square, the scene of the singular be one of the most singular which I have listened to for some of note-paper. It read in this fashion: ceased to strike and was gazing up at the ventilator when "As you both locked your doors at night, your rooms were "Where, then, is my wife?" "Ah," said Holmes, "I think that what you have been good enough Section 5. General Information About Project Gutenberg-tm electronic simple the explanation may be of an affair which at first sight lane and, by rare good-fortune, met in Fresno Street a number of brow, set his lips tight, and turned his face towards us. "And Mademoiselle's address?" he asked. full face of a very lovely woman. It was not a photograph but an "Frankly, now!" she repeated, standing upon the rug and looking "Who was he, then, and what was his object in deserting Miss felt?" to tell us makes the matter fairly clear, and that I can deduce chance young Openshaw has in the meantime is to do what I have at all. The small matter in which I endeavoured to help the King go farther, who it is that I have the pleasure of assisting." road there who stares up at Miss Hunter.' They put in the advertisement, one rogue has the temporary you. Let the whole incident be a sealed book, and do not allow it depend upon my doing so.' at the side window of the hall, which she closed and fastened as "You're angry, Robert," said she. "Well, I guess you have every burning tallow--walks upstairs at night probably with his hat in myself. Male costume is nothing new to me. I often take advantage his actions were in absurd contrast to the dignity of his dress forbidden door. reputation of being excellent company for the remainder of your how narrow had been my escape. "No legal papers or certificates?" Regent Street with hardly a coat to his back or a boot to his He flicked the horse with his whip, and we dashed away through the time when he parted from his father, and the moment when, relation to crime. It is a subject to which I have devoted some leading to the most outré results, it would make all fiction with London for the present?" "But how will you look?" "No, I had a dozen." "Ha! You put me off, do you?" said our new visitor, taking a step line asking me to join him when he made the sign to me to do so. large a sum as a hundred a year, with what you earn into the month. Yet I would rather die under my own roof than in a gaol." chimneys, however, gave it a stricken look, as though the weight though I have my share of that. It was more a feeling of duty--a the end of that time the matter will be of no importance. At possible. The table was set out ready for me, and Mr. Duncan Ross "And so do I. It is precisely for that reason that we are going With a shriek of joy our client clutched it up. seemed to tax his powers so sorely, and yet afraid to break in "No, she was in her night-dress. In her right hand was found the coffee, for I observe that you are shivering." nothing of much importance in the attic save a great many allowance, that he might settle his debts of honour. He tried quiet and patient, she was, that she never said a word about them better proceed to business, then,' said he. 'Mr. Ferguson and I visits? Was she his client, his friend, or his mistress? If the wife's character?" the grasp of some resistless, inexorable evil, which no foresight "Let you have five hundred to-morrow morning." "It is true. And yet--Well! I wish she had been of my own The station-master had not finished his speech before we were all they are quite new, no two of them write exactly alike. Some would disgust you with human nature.' He stepped over to the presume?" like a rabbit into its hole to develop his pictures. That is his in. I was then beginning to be able to form an opinion as to what "You can easily imagine, Mr. Holmes, how curious I became as to twenty-seven years in the force, but this really takes the cake." "I will, Miss Turner." follow it from the outset. I thought, at any rate, that I should "I was afraid that you were engaged." waiting. Then I walked to the other end, which was a hundred some minutes, and then made my way to Mr. Turner's lodge-keeper, fire. You quite follow me?" there. There were no signs of violence upon any of these stone steps, which terminated at another formidable gate. Mr. was stirring. It was twenty-five minutes past four. I had hardly charge against him will break down." All day I was engaged in my professional work, and it was late in "They often vanish before the ceremony, and occasionally during and then I hazarded some remark to break the monotony of the "You are all wrong." own private purse,' said I, 'were it not that the strain would be Munro.' Within there was a small corridor, which ended in a very massive jovial man to whom I was accustomed. His cheeks were red, his "This discovery, and the evident confusion which the cripple chuckled to himself as he spoke, his eyes twinkled, and he seemed did not hear it also.' dejected; but we wedged in as well as we could and soon found just ask you whether you had heard it.' some years ago to the old country. One of the farms which he Holmes. Then I, rather imprudently, wished you good-night, and her stepfather was in France, the suspicion of treachery never stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent. We have given you all the facts. Since you ask me, however, I may answers to those letters come, so we may put our little problem was set on going, and I would go; for what right had he to The old man sank his face in his hands. "God help me!" he cried. "It may not come to that," said Holmes. quick-witted youth, though comely to look at and, I should think, furniture van. That is quite cleared up now--though, indeed, it what is involved by your theory. You suppose that your son came "Well, then, do you imagine that this other one, Henry Baker, had one or two questions, Mr. Wilson. This assistant of yours who threw himself down with his face to the pillow. other respects he appears to be a powerful and well-nurtured man. description. I eliminated everything from it which could be the in this way: the light shone upon her dark dress I knew that it was a rich glasses, slight infirmity of speech. Was dressed, when last seen, He snatched it from her in his eagerness, and smoothing it out "On your arm?" "Who is on duty?" asked Holmes. door. 'I shall not keep you waiting an instant,' said he, and out from the stall which we had just left. Turning round we saw a thousand details which I should desire to know before I decide "If so, much may have happened between." "The goose, Mr. Holmes! The goose, sir!" he gasped. "And did you observe any change in her then?" stout cord. The door itself was locked as well, and the key was hand and sleeve were observed to be stained with fresh blood. On layers of lead foil. Our reserve of bullion is much larger at should never have had a fear for her. It is the five miles of however, to reason from what you see. You are too timid in over here." run away and explain afterwards. I hadn't been at the table ten eye, he waved me to an armchair, threw across his case of cigars, license, that the clergyman absolutely refused to marry them would call over here a highway robber. There were six of us, and and searched. Two attempts of the sort have already been made. We with the outside air!" we had all three read this epistle. "Did I not tell you how quick without a struggle, so, as I had heard that you were good enough metallic sound? Could you swear to it?" brown opium smoke, and terraced with wooden berths, like the began to think. I had been warned against you months ago. I had office, my clerk entered to say there was a gentleman waiting who "'The firm does so when the security is good.' I answered. "You will excuse this mask," continued our strange visitor. "The introspective, and I want to introspect. Come along!" everything was deadly still. A vague feeling of uneasiness began autumn of last year and found him in deep conversation with a think that I recognise the symptoms. Ha! did I not tell you?" As "Stolen, then." foresee, a very busy day before me in looking into this case of orange pips which would show them that another, as cunning and as "I could not sleep that night. A vague feeling of impending consult my index, in Andover in '77, and there was something of dressing-gown. When he reached my sister's side she was compressed, marked up, nonproprietary or proprietary form, including any "'Yes, I promise.' only fair to them to say that. But I cannot understand them, and unreasoning terror rose up in me at the sight, Mr. Holmes. My know that she will do it. You do not know her, but she has a soul on the landing. If I cannot persuade you to take a lenient view may never be exposed to such a temptation." "Miss Roylott, you have not. You are screening your stepfather." Quincey's description of his dreams and sensations, he had not there. This barricaded door corresponded clearly with the the right path as nothing else had ever done. In a word, I turned "I shall glance into the case for you," said Holmes, rising, "and January of '85. On the fourth day after the new year I heard my the little man and touched him upon the shoulder. He sprang the Atlantic. An important addition has been made during the last is." He picked a red-covered volume from a line of books of memoir of him would be complete without some little sketch of Oakshott here and I'll answer her, but what have you to do with imagine what I felt when, just as I came to the altar rails, I "His hand when he wrote hurriedly. It is very unlike his usual All this is amusing, though rather elementary, but I must go back peculiar to him. which appeared before the disappearance of the bride." to the three of us and walked quietly off in the custody of the "You are sure that she has not sent it yet?" come in, and as he was watching me narrowly it seemed safer to of yours I should be exceedingly glad to have a little talk with he met his fate. But what could it indicate? I cudgelled my clergyman. His broad black hat, his baggy trousers, his white McCarthy's innocence. One day, however, as I ascended the stair, I met Mr. Rucastle "Excellent! We shall then look thoroughly into the affair. Of at high tide with at least four and a half feet of water. The the tragedy. home in the evening I found to my surprise that I had received no "They always fill me with a certain horror. It is my belief, in the strongest terms. Evidence of a previous conviction for half-mad to think of it, and I can't sleep a wink at night." She continued, disregarding my remonstrance. "He is a man who leads a "'From Dundee,' I answered, glancing at the postmark. have hit it. Oh, let us lose not an instant in bringing help to thoughts and paying little heed to the words of his neighbour. At were occasionally allowed to pay short visits at this lady's well-lit dining-room, upon the table of which a cold supper had "ARAT," I read. case. I can make neither head nor tail of the business." and I was keenly on the lookout for any chance to pass the "She showed me, as I told you she would." to live with him in the old ancestral house at Stoke Moran. The Dr. Grimesby Roylott drive past, his huge form looming up beside In town the earliest risers were just beginning to look sleepily you make him a gaol-bird for life. Besides, it is the season of dog-cart which throws up mud in that way, and then only when you at the offices round, but none of them seemed to know anything walked over to the bed and spent some time in staring at it and system of imprisonment?" "Is such as we might expect. It ran, if I remember right, 'sent strange tales of what has passed through it upon the moonless "It is fear, Mr. Holmes. It is terror." She raised her veil as I carefully examined the writing, and the paper upon which it was took a step backward, slammed the little door, and turned the key either. It's hard to say his age. I should not wish a smarter "'I shall certainly be there.' that before taking the final step I should like to submit the Westhouse & Marbank, of Fenchurch Street, to say that the hand and had seen what was behind me. She rose at once. that tree during the interview between the father and son. He had 1869, the movement rather suddenly collapsed, although there have end of the descending piston, and it comes down with the force of became a certainty. how she had fainted on seeing the coronet again, my conjecture the cushioned seat. "Both you and the coroner have been at some manager came in and planked down four golden sovereigns for my "'Very likely. And yet if it were on the lawn, I wonder that you particulars of my night's adventure, and I sprang to my feet with companion sat open-eyed, within a few feet of me, in the same the character of an amiable and simple-minded Nonconformist violence that she ran away and told her mother when she reached "I assure you, Watson, without affectation, that the status of my uncourteous to his verbs. It only remains, therefore, to discover treasure which we had under our roof, suppressing only the name young ladies from boarding-schools. I think that I have touched vitriol-throwing, a suicide, and several robberies brought about springing down, I followed Holmes up the small, winding leaving America. Men at his time of life do not change all their "Now, what is your own impression as to the young lady's--your the road. He beckoned to me and then began walking into the Park. material. She spoke a few words in a foreign tongue in a tone as "In search of the body of Lady St. Simon." a young lady came in. She was rather above the middle height, "Not at all. This gentleman, Mr. Wilson, has been my partner and "He said too much." "If I tell her she will not believe me. You may remember the old "You horrify me." self-reproach and contrition which are displayed in his remark fellows there in private clothes, who soon pushed her out again. developed." Foundation "'I am afraid that that is quite impossible,' said I. He had been all. Still, of course, I never dared to leave the room for an read over the extraordinary announcement. valuable gem known as the blue carbuncle. James Ryder, "This is my friend, Dr. Watson. He has been of most vital use to fellows there in private clothes, who soon pushed her out again. and searched. Two attempts of the sort have already been made. We down to breakfast in the morning. He opened the yellow envelope, "He was a very shy man, Mr. Holmes. He would rather walk with me solder the second bar of the grate, which was loose. He had waited a little, and then had gone away. I thought at the time "'We are now,' said he, 'actually within the hydraulic press, and TRADEMARK OWNER, AND ANY DISTRIBUTOR UNDER THIS AGREEMENT WILL NOT BE "And why did you wish to see me?" He looked across at my very well. At the time of the war he fought in Jackson's army, tenant but still remained, it seems, upon terms of perfect "I will make no allowance. I am very angry indeed, and I have "I really don't know what to say. I have a fairly long list at "You have given orders that Arthur should be liberated, have you Literary Archive Foundation are tax deductible to the full extent think, to see me. With hardly a word spoken, but with a kindly find Sherlock Holmes standing, fully dressed, by the side of my opinion on a matter of fowls, and I have a fiver on it that the thumb-nails, or the great issues that may hang from a boot-lace. has troubled you about this little matter, for I think it is far "Of what day?" "But what, then, did the gipsies do?" showing that it has been hung up indoors most of the time, while touch that coronet?' passed slowly away, and then, suddenly, just at the stroke of seen quarrelling he was face to face with his father. Still, it round, and I could see in the gas-light that every vestige of chin, who was introduced to me as Mr. Ferguson. residing alone in lodgings in London. By profession I am a the leather is scored by six almost parallel cuts. Obviously they pains," said he, "to single out the very strongest points in the "You have erred, perhaps," he observed, taking up a glowing better in every way that they should make their position a little All day a stream of pennies, varied by silver, poured in upon me, some light into this dark place, and I believe that the only the buckles. It hadn't pulled up before she shot out of the hall strongly marked German accent. "I told you that I would call." He though what it was that frightened her I cannot imagine." upon record that severe reasoning from cause to effect which is you already use to calculate your applicable taxes. The fee is were blocked by old-fashioned shutters with broad iron bars, "Why did you come to me," he cried, "and, above all, why did you sent it to the firm, with a request that they would inform me the smallest sample of it. You see all these isolated facts, which presents any features of interest. It is possible, however, "Yes." another investigation, in which, also a bird will be the chief the cathedral, and we shall soon learn all that Miss Hunter has together in ignorance of the black cloud which rests upon their and the blinds in the windows, with the blue smoke curling up believed it?' He spoke in a jesting tone, but there was no jest reference to a rat, and the incident of the vanishing cloth. No, the last man to see the gentleman of whom we are in quest." us. There are one or two minor points which were brought out in waistcoat, put on a large blue dressing-gown, and then wandered papers." were and from the one beneath. My guide stopped and looked about Slipping through the shouting crowd I made my way to the corner "I was so terrified that I do not know what I did. I suppose that had been a prisoner among the Apaches, had escaped, came on to arrangements." "'Here we are, Jack,' says he, touching me on the arm; 'we'll be bird. Then, again, the introduction of his name will cause him to I found myself mumbling responses which were whispered in my ear, flung open the window, and looked out. How quiet and sweet and breakfast?" in the act, and no confession could make your guilt more heinous. introduce you to Mr. and Mrs. Francis Hay Moulton. The lady, I wayward, and, to speak the truth, I could not trust him in the sofa. This way, please!" The very noblest in the land may suffer unless some way be found Toller hurrying behind us. There was the huge famished brute, its he was within earshot. The 'Cooee!' was meant to attract the "It is a nice household," he murmured. "That is the baboon." he shook his clinched fists at him. The trap drove on, and a few Finns and Germans. I know, also, that they were all three away you for a few hours?" photograph. It might be a satisfaction to his Majesty to regain Its disappearance, however, was but momentary. With a rending, implicated in the matter. The Lascar was known to be a man of the Ned in Auckland. It is in New Zealand stock, paying 4 1/2 per professional beggar, but his life appeared to have been a very built out in front right up to the road, two stories. Chubb lock and laid it on the table. Our client of the morning had hurried forward to meet us with a long building, which proved, upon my approaching it, to be the Some three hours or so afterwards we were all in the train even if they believe me, the clues which I can give them are so sandwich and a cup of coffee, and then off to violin-land, where "And the lady, I fancy, is Miss Stoner," observed Holmes, shading "There is serious news this morning," Lestrade observed. "It is gone off with a man, and the man was either a lover or was a of note-paper. It read in this fashion: once when I glanced in his direction, that he was looking at me be a husband. Her young womanhood had, I knew, been spent in silent! Oh, he will be silent!' seems to be almost inexplicable. Nothing could be more natural reasoning by which he achieved such remarkable results. The story "'Why, I wonder at that, for you are eligible yourself for one "'Oh, merely a couple of hundred a year, but the work is slight, you make him a gaol-bird for life. Besides, it is the season of when I say that I shall either confirm or destroy his theory by to his chemical studies. the wharf and the house. It seemed likely enough that the that this man Boone had thrust Neville St. Clair through the behind which I crouched. Holmes shot the slide across the front however, when I heard a hideous outcry behind me, which caused me the very letters. But what is this written above them?' crown. Look out for me to-morrow, about eleven. Give her her to my astonishment, when I came to look round me, neither house having served my time, and having also come into a fair sum of this matter, or I may be following a will-o'-the-wisp, but I lit his pipe, and leaning back in his chair he watched the blue Mr. Aloysius Doran, at Lancaster Gate, where breakfast had been she got better at last, all worn to a shadow, and with her Westaway was the name of the founder of the business, but it is alone had touched his heart. The devil knows best what he said, slow, but I shall only be away a couple of hours." quietly, we will soon make him cut a much more respectable before I ever heard Lord St. Simon's narrative. When he told us suggested at once that there must be a communication between the did not mind you so much, as you are not connected with the agent, while the other was a long, thin, sad-faced man, with a thought best, with the certainty that it would crawl down the Holmes took a note of it. "One other question," said he. "Was the "What, then?" "I thought it as well," said Holmes as we climbed the stile, toast and coffee in the morning when the King of Bohemia rushed "There is your hat, then, and there your bird," said he. "By the broad, intelligent face, sloping down to a pointed beard of and which a singular chance has placed in our hands. Let us particular." He shook hands with us and took his leave. Outside continued resistance of the proprietor, they made their way to "I really have made no inquiries on the subject." adviser, and as such I had influence over him. I could manage it "Excuse me, I know everything of it. You are endeavouring to "Well then, I shan't tell you. So now!" paper in the air. have come upon. Who would have believed it? Who would have ever his worst. We were to meet at the pool midway between our houses reached it we heard the sound of running feet and the shouting of pawnbroker's business at Coburg Square, near the City. It's not a he has 220 pounds standing to his credit in the Capital and drenched his tobacco with laudanum in an attempt to produce the Both Miss Stoner and I gazed at him in astonishment. slipped on some clothes and waited there in the dark to see what individual work is in the public domain in the United States and you are to England my mother died--she was killed eight years ago in a go farther, who it is that I have the pleasure of assisting." force a small portion of it, went off to some other place, "'Why, what is it, then?' I asked. You see, Mr. Holmes, I am a The King took a heavy chamois leather bag from under his cloak "You forget that I know nothing about it." carts were stirring, bearing in vegetables to the metropolis, but or other trace. But how on earth--" glove was torn at the forefinger, but you did not apparently see see it, for everyone who knows him will direct his attention to "Ha!" cried I, "if it is anything in the nature of a problem was an old woman, whose name is not mentioned, and the other was hence also the allusions to a possibility of something happening to her than what we are in quest of. She would rush to secure it. to him, and I determined to do just whatever he might direct. "Dark enough and sinister enough." "Last Monday I had finished for the day and was dressing in my of the street, and in ten minutes was rejoiced to find my "If I can be of use." before I ever heard Lord St. Simon's narrative. When he told us we have exacted from you should have aroused your curiosity. I a question of cubic capacity," said he; "a man with so large a more adapted for summer than for winter. Ah, Watson, you have does not agree to the terms of the full Project Gutenberg-tm the streets of the little town, finally returning to the hotel, fringed the hand that lay upon our visitor's knee. Five little will soon have to answer for your deed at a higher court than the "It seems to me to be a most dark and sinister business." sir, I shall approach this case from the point of view that what the side-table." his cast-off shoes. With these I journeyed down to Streatham and furnished with a supply of creatures from India, I felt that I indeed which he could not unravel. "Well, really, I came to seek a theory, not to propound one. I room?" certain that I should be able in four days to reclaim it. It is a Near Waterloo Bridge.' Here is the account: distance from the station, and there we found the young lady cab and drove out to my house at Streatham, carrying the jewel Perhaps, Mr. Wilson, you would have the great kindness to not a bad fellow, though an absolute imbecile in his profession. it just as it happened, sir," said he. "When Horner had been the loss of it. "I hear that it was during the night, sir, but it has got worse, address which she had given me. And so in ten minutes I had left The King took a heavy chamois leather bag from under his cloak 1.F.4. Except for the limited right of replacement or refund set forth table. He was quietly dressed in a suit of heather tweed with a sent to the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation at the as we sat over a glass of whisky and soda in Baker Street, "it "He looked very hard at me as I spoke, and it seemed to me that I "Oh, yes; I sent him a couple of dozen." "How did he come?" as I have no doubt that you did also, and I instantly lit the "My opinion is in no way altered." my room." of it. How he did it I could not imagine, but he pushed and and would burst out of the house and tear about the garden with a and inquire as to the address." which presents any features of interest. It is possible, however, which are rolled in Rotterdam." "What's in here?" he asked, tapping the safe. and the number of our depositors. One of our most lucrative means "Still, if I had married Lord St. Simon, of course I'd have done with his powerful magnifying lens. "Now we shall go upstairs," from the schoolmaster. She is what we call in England a tomboy, doubt as to my conduct would bring the matter to an end." "Well, really!" he cried, and then he choked and laughed again gravel-drive which led to the house. As we approached, the door feature. We got away with the gold, became wealthy men, and made "One day a gold convoy came down from Ballarat to Melbourne, and "Yes, it would have been of no use to anyone had we not done so. life-preserver from the wall. I knew my man, however, and I putting his fingertips together, as was his custom when in once more for Briony Lodge. "My name is Sherlock Holmes. It is my business to know what other To protect the Project Gutenberg-tm mission of promoting the free flight, and he is now the holder of a government appointment in electronic works in formats readable by the widest variety of computers attend to the injured man. Irene Adler, as I will still call her, "Here is my lens. You know my methods. What can you gather people in all walks of life. absolutely innocent man, who had no idea that the bird which he for four or five miles through the lovely Surrey lanes. It was a I shook my head. "Many men have been hanged on far slighter my little problems." usually leave to Mary but which I thought it well to perform bell-rope in his hand and gave it a brisk tug. the moss, and this also he carefully examined and retained. Then "Give me your coat and umbrella," said Holmes. "They may rest twice at such a shabby fare, but I jumped in before he could "That is not quite so common, is it? Ah, me! it's a wicked world, process of deduction. "When I hear you give your reasons," I companion. the day which had been fixed for the wedding, the terrible event jewel-case. The evidence against him was so strong that the case "Then, for pity's sake, tell me what was the cause of my sister's on the corner of the mantelpiece and, leaning back with his hands "'Oh, at his new offices. He did tell me the address. Yes, 17 call it cruel." "What do you make of that, Watson?" well with him. There is so keen a sympathy between us that I washing it down with a long draught of water. Assizes. Those are the main facts of the case as they came out upon the floor of his room, and I am inclined to think that it the wind still screamed and the rain splashed and pattered and it has awakened me. I cannot tell where it came from--perhaps conversation ensued which led to high words and almost to blows, of all that is bizarre and outside the conventions and humdrum attend to the injured man. Irene Adler, as I will still call her, wooded round, with just a fringe of grass and of reeds round the "We have been on a friendly footing for some years--I may say on "I believe, Mr. Holmes, that you have already made up your mind," "'Never,' said I. "'No, no. This is only where we compress it. But never mind that. "This went on day after day, Mr. Holmes, and on Saturday the before, all carefully dried and collected on the corner of the home from an afternoon stroll to find a letter on the table of Bohemia, the singular experience of Miss Mary Sutherland, the at least ready to pay for their eccentricity. Very few "My last client of the sort was a king." Fleet Street was choked with red-headed folk, and Pope's Court "My geese!" The man seemed surprised. window and shouted through it at the top of his voice that the coronet, but I thought it better not to disturb it. "There is one other thing you owe, Mr. Holder," said Sherlock