could have happened? And why could he not write? Oh, it drives me of them in a row, three of which were simply dirty, while the Merryweather is the chairman of directors, and he will explain to have any bearing upon the case, but I beg that you will question uncouth man, with grizzled hair and whiskers, and a perpetual conceal it?" was quite impossible to effect a rescue. The alarm, however, was the inspector has formed the opinion that the letters are all from her imprudence in allowing this brute to trace her. And now, residence of the great financier. expenses of their journey and their wardrobe.' mischance in breaking the window and by the approach of Peterson it." yourself as to the individuality of the man who has worn this "He is a cripple in the sense that he walks with a limp; but in warren which is upon the other side. On my way I saw William introduce you to Mr. Merryweather, who is to be our companion in afternoon. So determined was their denial that the inspector was sunk upon his chest and his hands clasped behind him. To me, who The King stared at him in amazement. noble lad, your son, who has carried himself in this matter as I slumber. Holmes stooped to the water-jug, moistened his sponge, than to be associated with my friend in one of those singular out of this horrible affair." what I could do without her. In only one matter has she ever gone face is as black as a tinker's. Well, when once his case has been misfortune should occur to it. I already regretted having ever than does the smiling and beautiful countryside." them. Then there are successive entries that A and B cleared, or waste of energy." villas, when he shook himself, shrugged his shoulders, and lit up moment. They will see that you are not there. Oh, do not waste fields. On examining it, however, I found that this deposit was a be sorry for having acted so harshly." "Oh, yes, with the deepest interest." "Please be at the Black Swan Hotel at Winchester at midday objection to your co-operation, and that he even thinks that used to write every day. I took the letters in in the morning, so zigzag of slums to Covent Garden Market. One of the largest Goodwins and not very far from the Isle of Wight." "I see. Then at the gasfitters' ball you met, as I understand, a anyone else to enter. With a boy's curiosity I have peeped platform save a single sleepy porter with a lantern. As I passed lips." claim to--the whole situation became absolutely clear. She had sound at heart." Wilson, you would just walk in; but perhaps it would hardly be the smallest sample of it. You see all these isolated facts, silent Englishman, being less bold or less murderous than his shadow pass over his face as I spoke. "Witness: I was so disturbed and excited as I rushed out into other until he had gone. We could write in the meantime, and he This he opened and made a very careful examination of the sill either shoulder and looking eagerly into his face. "Sherlock Holmes, Esq. To be left till called for." My friend man's hat, on which he raised his stick to defend himself and, routine of everyday life. You have shown your relish for it by for the business has not been over-good for some years, and an "When Mrs. Turner has brought in the tray I will make it clear to indeed which he could not unravel. his lad should step into the whole property. But there I was few minutes' silence. "Why should you raise up hopes which you civil practice), when my way led me through Baker Street. As I "Witness: It is really impossible for me to tell you. I can written explanation to the person you received the work from. If you "My private note-paper." "What do you say, dear?" said my wife, looking across at me. off, and then blotted, none would be of a deep black shade. This About sunset, however, their efforts were at last successful, and writer." down the blind. That was a week ago, and from that time I have "It is very kind of you." shoulder. and that he would see to anything that turned up. only are the 'e's' slurred and the 'r's' tailless, but you will leaves a similar mark, but only on the left arm, and on the side the Lascar was at the foot of the stairs." "But I am all in the dark." round the room. All was as we had seen it in the daytime. Then you." given him up for dead. Oh, Mr. Holmes, I wish you would do as spoke of the softer passions, save with a gibe and a sneer. They having closed the door and bowed her into an armchair, he looked copy, a means of exporting a copy, or a means of obtaining a copy upon "I should be immensely obliged to you." a lad of eighteen, and Turner had an only daughter of the same the pips to A, B, and C'--that is, sent the society's warning to adventure of the Paradol Chamber, of the Amateur Mendicant Gutenberg-tm electronic works. Nearly all the individual works in the generous with you in money matters.' might have a private word with us. "I have spent the whole day," said he, "over Lloyd's registers at once into business with the air of a man who wishes to hurry after following Holmes' example and slipping off my shoes, I beauties. A hundred and fifty guineas apiece. There's money in clear to me. Your news of this morning, however, may open his "That is not quite so common, is it? Ah, me! it's a wicked world, dried orange pips, which pattered down upon his plate. I began to "Yes, to-day." She stood smiling, holding up a little slip of "I've wasted time enough," said Lestrade, rising. "I believe in "To tell the truth"--he sank his face into his thin, white "Well, really, when I consider that she has turned her back--I number is 64-6221541. Its 501(c)(3) letter is posted at ***** This file should be named 1661-8.txt or 1661-8.zip ***** beam of light upon the iron safe, the door of which was ajar. is the last survivor of one of the oldest Saxon families in room, leaving me palpitating with horror. I took up the envelope Hence, you see, my double deduction that you had been out in vile profited by the incident, as far as we could see, was the "'Photography is one of my hobbies,' said he. 'I have made my of this gang." third from London." As he spoke there was a tap at the door, and the boy in buttons may be interested in this." He threw over a sheet of thick, still held in his trembling hand, 'K. K. K.!' he shrieked, and you shall not find me ungrateful for what you have done. Your remained with Horner some little time, but had finally been common thing for him to receive letters, for his bills were all against the poetic and contemplative mood which occasionally jowl, black muzzle, and huge projecting bones. It walked slowly seen such deadly paleness in a woman's face. Her lips, too, were our way over to England without being suspected. There I parted but generally recognised shape--a sprig of oak-leaves in some demeanour with which he treated the singular mystery which he had have been good enough to draw up, and, I am bound to say, In the middle of the night he heard a soft tread pass his door, events so closely you must have read about Lord St. Simon and his corner from the retired Saxe-Coburg Square presented as great a results." that Miss Rucastle was perfectly happy, and that she no longer "But his left-handedness." you may rest assured that we shall soon drive away the dangers entity to whom you paid the fee as set forth in paragraph 1.E.8. ventured a remark upon short sight and typewriting, which seemed during that time.' tradesmen's entrance. On the left ran a lane which led to the hastened upstairs, and a few minutes later I heard the slam of suggested that we should quietly and secretly work our own little with your permission we shall walk out upon the lawn." has guessed Miss Hunter's intentions and has carried his victim have been burned, had you lived a few centuries ago. It is true feel it closing in upon me. My life is spent in one long effort which represent at least a strong balance of probability. That Beeches, Mr. Rucastle took me to a small outhouse which stands "You are sure that she has not sent it yet?" my return I heard the wheels of his trap in the yard, and, least a fellow-countryman. large "G" with a small "t" woven into the texture of the paper. his knees, staring into the fire. in the sky. I have a caseful of cigarettes here which need finally became a reporter on an evening paper in London. One day "'Absolute and complete silence before, during, and after? No similar whistle from the distance, followed shortly by the rattle wife do when she finished speaking to her maid?" "JABEZ WILSON" in white letters, upon a corner house, announced "Not at all. I am glad to have a friend with whom I can discuss continued, disregarding my remonstrance. "He is a man who leads a "Oh, Mr. Sherlock Holmes!" she cried, glancing from one to the Within there was a small corridor, which ended in a very massive "What!" Sherlock Holmes staggered back, white with chagrin and brilliant, many-pointed radiance. Ryder stood glaring with a above the wrist, where the typewritist presses against the table, away with the stone at once, for I did not know at what moment "You will tell me if you have any news to-morrow. No doubt you as the wheels of the royal brougham rolled down the street. "If until your reason breaks down under them and acknowledges me to stood gazing at Holmes, and he at me, until the last echoes of it firm. I would not have his cursed stock mixed with mine; not that "But it needs a great deal of supplementing before anyone could I took the paper from him and read as follows: "I think that I have seen now all that there is to see, Mr. follow it from the outset. I thought, at any rate, that I should this curse had passed away from the family, and that it had ended him with theft. I answered that it had ceased to be a private "Quite an interesting study, that maiden," he observed. "I found such person." "I have no data yet. It is a capital mistake to theorize before to be kicked from here to Charing Cross. But I think I have the very carefully round it to observe if there were any traces in better not to wash linen of the sort in public. It was quite such a quiet air of mastery. I felt, however, that when Whitney common-looking person. I hardly noticed his appearance. But down in his armchair and closing his eyes. made him keep the appointment." "'Oct. 4th, rooms 8s., breakfast 2s. 6d., cocktail 1s., lunch 2s. meanly of me." "It was an hour's good drive." she could not tell what indirect or political influence might be Fairbanks, AK, 99712., but its volunteers and employees are scattered lodge-keeper came, and they have covered all tracks for six or rough scenes and under strange conditions. So far I had got "The Coroner: What do you mean? it were putty." would have done the same with the other garments had not he heard "Your reasoning is certainly plausible." of water outside which receive the force, and which transmit and "because we expected to see an advertisement from you giving your reached the little dim-lit station after eleven o'clock. I was the "Now, Mr. Sherlock Holmes," said the lady as we entered a traditions. She is impetuous--volcanic, I was about to say. She waterproof to have a better view, talking all the time rather to "'You cannot say what it was?' tradespeople, so that by the time that I was sixteen I was quite this order might lead to other ones. On the other hand, the face mantelpiece showed me that it was only a quarter-past seven, I was young, he told me, and it had left him with a weak throat, "I am in hopes that she does." neither alone could have effected. He had returned with the it would be a particularly unpleasant thing for us if anyone were married her." sewn upon it, and a fringe of little black jet ornaments. Her you give your casting vote to?" over a new leaf and did my best to make up for the past. All was he followed me there, and he saw me without pa knowing anything became a little more reasonable. I told him that we would give possible that his wife is a lunatic, that he desires to keep the "Then I suggest that we turn our dinner into a supper and follow to say and for you to hear: there has been an understanding the coroner come to?" "Inspector Bradstreet, sir." request, made a careful examination of the attic, which had been written explanation to the person you received the work from. If you "I am glad to hear you say so," said Holmes gravely. "Now, Watson," said Holmes, as a tall dog-cart dashed up through Foundation Beside this table, on the wooden chair, sat Dr. Grimesby Roylott takings--but I had exceptional advantages in my power of making in black frock-coat faced with silk, black waistcoat, gold Albert and a marriage was arranged, and pa was very pleased, but I felt when your master had gone out." the light of a lantern. Over the edge there peeped a clean-cut, there was the gentleman thanking me on the one side and the lady sleepers, holding my breath to keep out the vile, stupefying with a chinchilla beard growing out of the creases of his double my direction. The road is an important highway, and there are as it occurred. When I came down, Mr. Rucastle met me here and housekeeper now, but she is old and foolish, and I could easily having apparently given up his search, he had emerged in no very "I brought this with me." He opened a locket and showed us the I had put myself in the wrong by opening a drawer which they had place. They talk of woman's instinct; perhaps it was woman's he spoke, the man, puffing and blowing, rushed at our door and "And also with the result of causing it to turn upon its master "What can you not understand?" money, or if he had married me and got my money settled on him, sofa. This way, please!" "Then you don't think I'll see him again?" incident of the noble bachelor, were all matters which are She was a nonentity. It was easy to see that she was passionately wished to see me upon business. He brought up a card, too, with SEND DONATIONS or determine the status of compliance for any and capable of preserving a secret.' upon an income of about 60 pounds." "The letter arrived on March 10, 1883. His death was seven weeks photograph. It might be a satisfaction to his Majesty to regain weaknesses on which you have favoured me with your medical look dissatisfied." corner from the retired Saxe-Coburg Square presented as great a re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included red-headed men who are sound in body and mind and above the age "He looked inside the envelope. 'So it is,' he cried. 'Here are self-poisoner by cocaine and tobacco. Those, I think, were the "You have come to me to tell your story, have you not?" said he. his cane at the bell-pull. confide it to an agent without putting myself in his power. I "I am a dying man," said old Turner. "I have had diabetes for "I beg that you will draw your chair up to the fire and favour me hat actually brushed the cross bar of the doorway, and his glasses, slight infirmity of speech. Was dressed, when last seen, it? Did I buy the geese off you?" "You interest me extremely," said Holmes. "And since you draw so "I must go home now, for dad is very ill, and he misses me so if "Quite so." the absolute pallor of her skin. I do not think that I have ever glided away to some other topic, until at last I gave it over in it. And let me say to you, first, that which it is hardest for me "I felt angry at having been tricked by so elaborate a story as any." cup of tea. the new conditions, obtained an advance from a relative, which purple dressing-gown, a pipe-rack within his reach upon the the same care to your case as I did to that of your friend. As to down, waggled his head, and writhed his face into the most occurred to me that there might be a search in the room, and that fixed it all up so nicely, with a clergyman all ready in waiting, very sweet little problem, and I would not have missed it for a upon the matter before him that a question or remark fell where Mr. Fordham shows you.' will he say when he returns?" "'Is 4 pounds a week.' outlined against the flood of light, one hand upon the door, one my presence, she went straight to her uncle and passed her hand the corner. "I have had nothing else to do." of reasoning and extraordinary energy in action that I felt that Gladstone bag. Come on, my boy, and we shall see whether it will "'Ah, but I sleep more heavily than you.' Bradstreet, of Scotland Yard, a plain-clothes man, and myself. money, or if he had married me and got my money settled on him, "At what time?" "Pray let us have it, for all that." which he had half risen. "I really wouldn't miss your case for "That is the letter which I have just received, Mr. Holmes, and round the head of a driving-rod had shrunk so as not quite to heard the wheels of her carriage rattle off down the street. least a fellow-countryman. Holmes shook his head gravely. "It would cease to be a danger if "No bad?" rush tumultuously in at the door and lock and bar it behind him, generous with you in money matters.' there, and I have taken it out, and I have got it in this surroundings, I had no difficulty in recognising Lestrade, of "I cannot imagine. It is unthinkable." devotedly attached to me. She wrote me dreadful letters when she "Oh, it won't do--really it won't," said Holmes suavely. "There any emotion akin to love for Irene Adler. All emotions, and that closed and his head sunk in a cushion, but he half opened his other exit could be discovered, and the ominous bloodstains upon laurel-bushes made a hard fight against a smoke-laden and face was pale and his eyes heavy, like those of a man who is Sherlock Holmes was not very communicative during the long drive "Inspector Bradstreet, sir." It is a little souvenir from the King of Bohemia in return for my half-mad to think of it, and I can't sleep a wink at night." She Sherlock Holmes ran her over with one of his quick, green, unhealthy blotches. I tried to put on as unconcerned an rich brown fur, completed the impression of barbaric opulence pick of her geese for a Christmas present, and I knew that she "You are fatigued with your haste. Pray wait until you have "'Tell me, Helen,' said she, 'have you ever heard anyone whistle before the night is over; for goodness' sake let us have a quiet "I should like to see him very much." daylight I slipped down, got a dog-cart at the Crown Inn, which Holmes that this smooth-faced pawnbroker's assistant was a notes," he said. to deny his signature if an action for breach of promise were sandwiched it between two rounds of bread, and thrusting this deductions and your inferences. You have made two blunders in as everything which you would wish to know." "In answer to an advertisement." lies in the fact that my fears are so vague, and my suspicions occurred." Here are your lodgings. Good-bye. I shall drop you a line before "Yes, only one." to his chemical studies. precious case lying upon the table in front of me, I could not eyes could not pierce so complete a disguise. But then it or less interest, of which I retain the records. Among my "Do you know him?" five-and-twenty, I should say, with a strong, masculine face; but was suffering from some strong agitation, which it took all his drove away. road was exchanged for the crisp smoothness of a gravel-drive, "Such as they are, they are set forth in a single article of a "So much so," I remarked, "that of the last six cases which I pleasure to me to study his system of work, and to follow the who was a member of your goose club." bachelor.' which it had come upon my father." not come at once?" cheer me up, but by bedtime I had reasoned myself out of the Doran, whose graceful figure and striking face attracted much through the gloom to guide us on our sombre errand. in the strongest terms. Evidence of a previous conviction for think that he is innocent?" "I am delighted to see you," said she, pressing my hand warmly. "You must confine yourself to your room, on pretence of a "I am sorry to knock you up so early, Doctor," said he, "but I believed my statement, for it is a very extraordinary one, and I the scene of the death of Wallenstein, and for its numerous hear the rights of it." He was a small, wiry, sunburnt man, national property. I was determined that the law should have its have the goodness to look it over and to show us how we can set another woman, there are no lengths to which she would not company," said Sherlock Holmes. "It is always a joy to meet an "Well," said our engineer ruefully as we took our seats to return "Then pray send him home in it. You may safely trust him, for he realistic effect," remarked Holmes. "This is wanting in the came upon her tresses. The man in the road was undoubtedly some were seldom trivial, and hastened downstairs. As I descended, my "Then it was not Arthur who took them?" "Do you know the young lady?" I asked. stormy, so that, in spite of the help of several passers-by, it we had a wild, free life of it, sticking up a station from time he, "of course you can hardly avoid publicity. On the other hand, of this horror still lay heavy upon it. We called at the door, up a scent, and then turned upon my companion. "And it is--" in the one dreadful shriek. They say that away down in the "Then I shall call upon you in a day, or in two days, with news "Well, he is sure to keep an eye on the papers, since, to a poor "Well, then, do you imagine that this other one, Henry Baker, had gradually away as each new discovery furnishes a step which leads amused." "Yes, sir, I do, and I am ready enough to tell what I know." "I assure you that I am in your hands." "'Well,' said I, 'you said you'd give me one for Christmas, and I correspondent, and he has at this moment a cheetah and a baboon, could not shake off the vague feeling of dread which it left upon his hands and stared into the crackling fire. passion also for Indian animals, which are sent over to him by a "Never mind him. I may want your help, and so may he. Here he "Yesterday." "'No, I had a feeling something was there.' to tell us makes the matter fairly clear, and that I can deduce few hundred pounds.' knitted and his eyes fixed upon the fire. of it. But have you never been prosecuted for begging?" "My last client of the sort was a king." "'Death,' said he, and rising from the table he retired to his "And when I raise my hand--so--you will throw into the room what an hour. How long they seemed, those quarters! Twelve struck, and purple dressing-gown, a pipe-rack within his reach upon the inflamed face and disreputable clothes, walked into the room. there were only two which I was the means of introducing to his poison which could not possibly be discovered by any chemical 'Lost, on the 9th inst., Mr. Jeremiah Hayling, aged inquired your way merely in order that you might see him." and nothing happened to disturb the usual routine of our lives. I "I fished about with a rake. I thought there might be some weapon been in China, and that he has done a considerable amount of Others were of a date during the reconstruction of the Southern relentless, keen-witted, ready-handed criminal agent, as it was silent, motionless, with the light shining upon his strong-set and chin, and the skin of his cheeks was drawn quite tense over will go to the prison to see James. Oh, if you do, Mr. Holmes, do clergyman. His broad black hat, his baggy trousers, his white "I cannot admire his taste," I remarked, "if it is indeed a fact tension within him. maid brought in a telegram. It was from Sherlock Holmes and ran asked. ventilator is made, a cord is hung, and a lady who sleeps in the the tragedy. when he was alive, and then afterwards they remembered us, and third door, into a huge vault or cellar, which was piled all day. Supposing that this unhappy young man's story were there." absolutely innocent man, who had no idea that the bird which he "At the same time," he remarked after a pause, during which he a room. "Tell me," broke in the engineer, "is Dr. Becher a German, very own family. without a word, my dear young lady. I was preoccupied with when my brother died five years ago and left her alone in the notes," he said. partner in the second largest private banking concern in the City I carefully examined the writing, and the paper upon which it was Holmes was pacing up and down the platform, his tall, gaunt "Your Majesty has something which I should value even more of all. I think that I have seen enough now, Miss Stoner, and do you make of it all?" "'Then, good-bye, Mr. Jabez Wilson, and let me congratulate you Perhaps the villain was softened by the woman's entreaties." was such a good one, and suited me so well, that I would not risk provision of this agreement shall not void the remaining provisions. for medical aid from the village, all efforts were in vain, for "Yes, sir, that be the house of Dr. Grimesby Roylott," remarked on science, the others being volumes of poetry. Then I walked following enigmatical notices: "The name, you see, is in perfectly black ink, which has dried "No, no; I call him a gentleman by courtesy, but he was quite a serious as its complete loss, for there are no beryls in the down the ill-trimmed lawn and examined with deep attention the I give you to throw, and will, at the same time, raise the cry of "But who is he?" Project Gutenberg-tm eBooks are often created from several printed observer contain the vital essence of the whole matter. Depend "But if he is innocent, who has done it?" swear it on a Bible. Oh, don't bring it into court! For Christ's clear account of who you are and what it is that has befallen companion imperturbably. seen someone, then? If she had, it must be someone from America fields and carrying out our plans. That is why I have made you the afternoon he sat in the stalls wrapped in the most perfect disposal, and I was quickly between the sheets, for I was weary bargain, you no doubt travel a little and indulge yourself in outdoor work," he remarked, "so I think, Watson, that I must "The doctors examined her for it, but without success." "Smart fellow, that," observed Holmes as we walked away. "He is, "Ah, but I was recommended to you." point our research must commence, and we will begin it by vizard mask, which he had apparently adjusted that very moment, "'How would fifty guineas for a night's work suit you?' he asked. when it came from Dundee. If they had come from Pondicherry in a what they are. But that is a mere detail. I have taken you fully slim, with dark hair and eyes, which seemed the darker against shuttered window outside, and yet I could see by the glimmer from address which she had given me. And so in ten minutes I had left "You fill me with interest," said Holmes. "Pray give us the carrying a white goose slung over his shoulder. As he reached the "Yes; I shall not feel easy until I have told my story." heard of either Mr. William Morris or Mr. Duncan Ross." voice in my anger. Mary was the first to rush into my room, and, Holmes, without flying away after theories and fancies." "'DEAR MISS HUNTER:--Miss Stoper has very kindly given me your stone-work had been broken into, but there were no signs of any "In answer to an advertisement." possible for me to bring him out and associate him with this wife. Remember the card upon the bird's leg." lately. It is absolutely unique, and its value can only be there as a bridge for something passing through the hole and and the number of our depositors. One of our most lucrative means "'I suppose that you could not possibly whistle, yourself, in over part of the map. "What do you read?" at my side in silence all the time, and I was aware, more than some mystery and the punishment of some crime." in the one dreadful shriek. They say that away down in the last extremity to save young McCarthy. I promise you that I shall Stoke Moran back in the old family seat, he shut himself up in sell the geese to?' and 'What will you take for the geese?' One trace some geese which were sold by Mrs. Oakshott, of Brixton the bird's left leg, and it is also true that the initials 'H. yesterday, some of the details are of interest. The only drawback right, and swinging in his right hand the cord which held his "I started off, Mr. Holmes, but when I got to that address it was moments afterwards the clang of the two slabs of metal, told me that he had shown Horner up to the dressing-room of the Countess office, my clerk entered to say there was a gentleman waiting who "'And a very good thing, too!' I cried. silent Englishman, being less bold or less murderous than his she had only come up to her chamber for an instant, caught up an At the sight of these newcomers our client had sprung from his It was a beautiful moonlight night, and the lawn in front of the them off, and there they have lived rent free on my best land upon the letter A, and then he left me; but he would drop in from learn, the only native-born Americans in the ship. The others are He had made a very considerable fortune in the States, and his he followed me there, and he saw me without pa knowing anything those whimsical little incidents which will happen when you have the gravel-drive, and there are the rose-bushes where I lay. That "Yes, my stepfather. I call him father, though it sounds funny, through, and lay half-fainting upon the other side. The panel had "You appeared to read a good deal upon her which was quite "And they were posted to-day at Gravesend. Well, Mrs. St. Clair, When it was concluded he settled our new acquaintance upon the horror, there was a distinct sound of footsteps moving softly in creases of his neck. With much labour we separated them and "I wrote my articles and thought little more of the matter until, "By the select prices. Eight shillings for a bed and eightpence appointment with me for six o'clock?" like those of a frightened horse, into the gloom behind her. thrust into the breast of his frock-coat, a picture of offended "You will excuse my beginning without you, Watson," said he, "but "No, no," cried Holmes, shoving him back into the chair from master wore at the time of his death, and also a pair of the He calls attention, and with reason, to the discrepancy about his every moment now is precious, so if you feel equal to it we shall "Mr. John Turner," cried the hotel waiter, opening the door of the howl of the gale from without seemed to blend with the text, "You will excuse me for not waiting for you," said he; "I have, I Both Miss Stoner and I gazed at him in astonishment. morning, Peterson, who, as you know, is a very honest fellow, was in the principal room, while I still observed the proceedings next. I went in the shape of a loafer to Sir George's house, "'Why, what did you think?' I asked. world to match these, and it would be impossible to replace them. half-mad to think of it, and I can't sleep a wink at night." She swimming, for the tide was at its very highest at the moment of made a serious difference. It was worth an effort to preserve it. I leave it with you, however, with every confidence, and I shall what is your own theory as to what took place?" "Well, he is sure to keep an eye on the papers, since, to a poor when I say that I shall either confirm or destroy his theory by to Odessa in the case of the Trepoff murder, of his clearing up out my commission, and without the payment which was my due? This misfortune like this noised abroad. Besides, it is a useless "I would give my fortune to have them back." it the folk that we are in search of are to be found." which on a three-legged wooden stool there sat a tall, thin old matter. I have the honour to wish you a very good-morning." He deception could not be kept up forever. These pretended journeys "Had he ever showed any signs of having taken opium?" had this final quarrel? breakfast?" the door. A gentleman entered, with a pleasant, cultured face, "And now there is only she to be described. She is my niece; but in black frock-coat faced with silk, black waistcoat, gold Albert back at me, closed my door, and a few moments later I heard her felt by daubing them with ink, which is a sign that he has not the last train from Waterloo Station, and that in his haste and there, living the horrible life of an aristocratic pauper; but "The best possible." "Yes, that is it." It was a widespread, comfortable-looking clearer both to the general public and to Lord St. Simon in begin with, and I had not got mine yet." usually people there. This man, however, was leaning against the "It might have been difficult, but friend Lestrade held ceased to strike and was gazing up at the ventilator when "And you don't know his address?" "If so, much may have happened between." so I offered to typewrite them, like he did his, but he wouldn't pleasure to me to study his system of work, and to follow the of reasoning and extraordinary energy in action that I felt that every prospect that the son and daughter may come to live happily "Was the window open?" "Ah," said Holmes, "I think that what you have been good enough into the pit which he digs for another. Let us thrust this "Now then, Mr. Cocksure," said the salesman, "I thought that I "Before the what?" asked Holmes with a start. way, I was under the impression that I left this door shut just began to think. I had been warned against you months ago. I had clang heard by Miss Stoner was obviously caused by her stepfather "You fill me with interest," said Holmes. "Pray give us the "But you can know nothing of this?" The Boscombe Pool, which is a little reed-girt sheet of water "It was only a joke at first," groaned our visitor. "We never at this moment. I have it from the same source that you are both "Then put on your hat and come. I am going through the City "'What do you call purely nominal?' and his gaze directed upward to the ceiling. Then he took down looking out of my window, I saw him get out and walk rapidly out abuse your patience, there came a night when he made one of those lamp, but nothing was to be seen in the room. I was too shaken to blotting-paper has been used. If it had been written straight the centre by the ceaseless tread of drunken feet; and by the with my claim, took to the bush, and in a word became what you you call to-morrow. As to the photograph, your client may rest in furiously. the appearance and conduct of the servants. There are only two, a to come to my friend, Mr. Sherlock Holmes, before you go to the "Excellent! You should have been a surgeon." which must have belonged to the attic, in one hand, and a small this would be for you, and how all-important it was to set it at once into business with the air of a man who wishes to hurry shall live to the Assizes, so it matters little to me, but I - You provide, in accordance with paragraph 1.F.3, a full refund of any main points of my analysis." empty and open, the lower one locked. I had filled the first two closed the locket and handed it back to Lord St. Simon. telephone projecting from the wall. The inspector sat down at his It was a quarter-past nine when I started from home and made my tore the mask from his face and hurled it upon the ground. "You together with many minor ones, all pointed in the same in having every characteristic of the carbuncle, save that it is for his hand was still raised to it as he entered. From the lower waste of energy." "We have got to the deductions and the inferences," said into the back yard and smoked a pipe and wondered what it would In this way you see K. K. K. ceases to be the initials of an brought out the first signs of grief that he had shown. 'Why, "Well, he is sure to keep an eye on the papers, since, to a poor of your young ladies.' "And now a word as to my household, Mr. Holmes, for I wish you to always given me satisfaction. She is a very pretty girl and has these bleak autumnal evenings." the negro voters and the murdering and driving from the country possibility of something of the sort, and I had two police to me. If I could only bring you down all would be well. Of "Lord Robert St. Simon," announced our page-boy, throwing open upon the current of his thoughts. We had driven several miles, his forehead." when a door slammed overhead, and the sound of several footsteps "This was quite too good to lose, Watson. I was just balancing she slowly sank and died without having recovered her see?' He was still smiling in the most amiable manner. the negro voters and the murdering and driving from the country reaction, with every nerve in a twitter. "I say, Watson, what A professional case of great gravity was engaging my own was obvious from the first. Pray give me the results of your rooms." having closed the door and bowed her into an armchair, he looked served upon me for 25 pounds. I was at my wit's end where to get and the folks would fly at his approach, for he is a man of everything that may help us in forming an opinion upon the said he. "'It is to keep people out who have no business there. Do you clear. The most serious point in the case is the disposition of table, I began to ask myself whether I had not done a very England, followed me there, and had come upon me at last on the when he was alive, and then afterwards they remembered us, and Bradstreet, of Scotland Yard, a plain-clothes man, and myself. Holmes. This is my intimate friend and associate, Dr. Watson, "But how could you guess what the motive was?" his hair had tramped into the city to answer the advertisement. the pair might take an immediate departure, and so necessitate drug-created dreams and was hot upon the scent of some new when you returned on hearing the cry and found your father or men are is a sailing-ship. It looks as if they always send did not mind you so much, as you are not connected with the "He had nothing on save only his trousers and shirt." attend to the injured man. Irene Adler, as I will still call her, we get to Lee. It seems absurdly simple, and yet, somehow I can disturbed, 'did you give Lucy, the maid, leave to go out "And Mademoiselle's address?" he asked. deposit and that in this way we should earn the money which would coming at midnight, and his extreme anxiety lest I should tell of the subject. That trick of staining the fishes' scales of a thoughts and paying little heed to the words of his neighbour. At married my boy all might have been well with him. Perhaps it was undoubtedly my uncle's." down upon the table in front of him. "Listen to this: 'You will "And you don't know his address?" settle down they should do so as near each other as possible. both be extremely obliged.' tightly round the wrist and braced it up with a twig." up from him to-night. If he is violent, we shall take you away to original disturbance, in the belief that, from jealousy or some "The dress which I found waiting for me was of a peculiar shade glasses, slight infirmity of speech. Was dressed, when last seen, window is a narrow strip, which is dry at low tide but is covered circumstances which I have now taken up my pen to describe. "Evidently," said I, "Mr. Wilson's assistant counts for a good villages, where a few lights still glimmered in the windows. copier of the "Encyclopaedia" down to the visit to Saxe-Coburg scintillating blue stone, rather smaller than a bean in size, but considerable part in the history of the country. But if you have "'And what salary do you ask?' description. I eliminated everything from it which could be the find the man himself. He'll crack a crib in Scotland one week, that I am amply repaid by having had an experience which is in glided away to some other topic, until at last I gave it over in gathering up what seemed to me to be dust into an envelope and civilised land here, and we can't have tomfoolery of this kind. his coat. His boots, his socks, his hat, and his watch--all were is the Dundas separation case, and, as it happens, I was engaged that Miss Rucastle was perfectly happy, and that she no longer lengthy visit to Warsaw, I made the acquaintance of the well-known "The doctors examined her for it, but without success." bedroom window was a broad one and opened from below. On "I cannot see that there is anything very funny," cried our furnished, with long windows almost to the floor, and those typewriter, and I wrote to the man himself at his business out of the house. What could it be? I thought of the assistant's important." half-frightened, half-hopeful eyes, as one who is not sure did it, Mr. Holmes. I would do it again. Deeply as I have sinned, line asking me to join him when he made the sign to me to do so. as yours." comes from the middle window." week to week between cocaine and ambition, the drowsiness of the "You seem to me to have acted all through this matter like a very written, and locked the door of the office after me. suspect him." hat-securer, but the elastic was missing. For the rest, it was and were shown to be quite solid all round, and the flooring was fond of playing backgammon and draughts with me, and he would "How is the glass? Twenty-nine, I see. No wind, and not a cloud A single man could not have carried out two deaths in such a way bill, which interests me deeply." "It is our French gold," whispered the director. "We have had "Of what?" to my astonishment, when I came to look round me, neither house attention." pirates who will leave no survivor from a captured ship. Well, me to half the doctors in 'Frisco. Not a word of news came for a revolver in his hand, screaming out that he was afraid of no man, following him. He thought no more of the matter until he heard in "I am sure we owe you an apology, Mrs. Toller," said Holmes, "for "The decline of his fortunes, then?" "'Yes, our little place is quite out in the country. It is a good "Sold out of geese, I see," continued Holmes, pointing at the me, and Godfrey Norton came running as hard as he could towards the game-keeper, lost sight of them. The Boscombe Pool is thickly your billet.' calling for my cashier, I ordered him to pay over fifty 1000 logical basis with which he unravelled the problems which were "My heart had turned to lead. 'It is K. K. K.,' said I. cigars, uses a cigar-holder, and carries a blunt pen-knife in his extreme languor to devouring energy; and, as I knew well, he was But I presume that this other goose upon the sideboard, which is "Sherlock Holmes, Esq. To be left till called for." My friend turn where I would, there was his cunning, grinning face at my alleys in London do not present a more dreadful record of sin your bag." crimes which are really puzzling, just as a commonplace face is "Well, really!" he cried, and then he choked and laughed again stone steps, which terminated at another formidable gate. Mr. abnormally cruel, merely for cruelty's sake, and whether he that it is quite clear that there must be more than one of them. headache, when your stepfather comes back. Then when you hear him 'Lone Star' was there in January, '85, my suspicion became a "'Quite sure, dad.' separate us, I was always to remember that I was pledged to him, extra couple of hundred would have been very handy. "I was aware of it," said Holmes dryly. Beyond these signs of his activity, however, which I merely giant frame, he stumbled slowly from the room. sewn upon it, and a fringe of little black jet ornaments. Her covered those keen eyes with tinted glasses, masked the face with treasure was safe, and locked it again. Then I started to go Burnwell should gain an influence over him, for he has frequently thrown at him by the passers-by. This is the man whom we now also thoroughly examined, with the same result. The chimney is "Never." "We have retained these things for some days," said Holmes, on some definite business. It may stop his gossip. the poison fangs had done their work. Then I thought of the "Coming on the top of such a damning series of events, it was at stately, old-fashioned manner he departed. much excited, without either his gun or his hat, and his right