Suburban Bank abutted on our friend's premises, and felt that I carried out of court." "He is still with you, I presume?" imbecility!" he cried. which it had come upon my father." questions as to how they should proceed to set it right. When I empty, and a note for me lay upon the hall table. I had said to through the keyhole, but I was never able to see more than such a success that the very possibility of his failing had ceased to and were beginning to get to the fringe of the belt of suburban but the father's laughter made me think that perhaps he was along has been that Lady St. Simon was decoyed away by Flora himself than to us. "These are young McCarthy's feet. Twice he address specified in Section 4, "Information about donations to "Surely it would not be difficult to find out. This is not such a death." "We have been on a friendly footing for some years--I may say on you. Let the whole incident be a sealed book, and do not allow it "'No friend of yours, Miss Hunter?' he asked. jacket. "I wish to have a quiet word with you, Bradstreet." habits, and perhaps the house, of Miss Irene Adler." what use was my hair to me? Many people are improved by wearing Gutenberg is a registered trademark, and may not be used if you "There is your hat, then, and there your bird," said he. "By the "'That you may get away, or perhaps that you may conceal what you succeeded by a strong smell of burning oil and heated metal. watch you, ran up stairs, got into my walking-clothes, as I call wiser heads than yours or mine," he remarked, and bowing in a to some other building. The man sat huddled up in his chair, with his head sunk upon his the tragedy. well with him. There is so keen a sympathy between us that I As he spoke the door opened and a young lady entered the room. with her." reward, my profession is its own reward; but you are at liberty wrinkled, bent with age, an opium pipe dangling down from between The man who entered was a strange and impressive figure. His card-case is a note. And here is the very note." He slapped it frightened eyes, like those of some hunted animal. Her features train from Paddington which would bring you there at about "I think that I mentioned to you that the doctor kept a cheetah License. You must require such a user to return or Lee laid down his arms my uncle returned to his plantation, where important, to raise his hand as if to strike him. The "And I to find an enemy." corridor. Twice he struck at the chamber door without any reply One day, however, as I ascended the stair, I met Mr. Rucastle XII. THE ADVENTURE OF THE COPPER BEECHES going. I then took my gun and strolled out in the direction of cut was not a clean one, so I deduced a blunt pen-knife." blinds had not been drawn, so that I could see Holmes as he lay him. There were, it is true, some blood-stains upon his right "It looks like it," said I ruefully, pointing to a huge bundle in "You will excuse me," said Holmes blandly, "but I could not help a wonderful manager and housekeeper, yet as tender and quiet and evidence is occasionally very convincing, as when you find a "Terse and to the point," remarked Holmes, stretching his long, be fruitless labour and an ill-service to me. In life or in "9th. McCauley cleared. "I cannot as yet see any connection." trying to your nerves." "Hotel Cosmopolitan Jewel Robbery. John Horner, 26, plumber, was "Suddenly, without any preliminary sound in the midst of the you in your example." "Wait a little, Mr. Holder. We must come back to that. About this "You have a maid who has a sweetheart? I think that you remarked at the other side. Some of the blows of my cane came home and lengthy visit to Warsaw, I made the acquaintance of the well-known though there are one or two points in it which are suggestive. just called myself is not exactly my own." and shall probably return to London by the evening train." which consisted of a single flaming beryl. Boots which extended it," said the inspector with a grin. "Well, I have been "I really don't know what to say. I have a fairly long list at suspect him." you will be good enough to call to-morrow afternoon at three I may have to go down to Horsham, after all." last extremity to save young McCarthy. I promise you that I shall ($1 to $5,000) are particularly important to maintaining tax exempt step brisk, and his bearing assured. He was plainly but neatly Wimpole Street, Harley Street, and so through Wigmore Street into centre, on which several German books were scattered. Colonel pocket. An Eley's No. 2 is an excellent argument with gentlemen clear to me. Your news of this morning, however, may open his of how the slow process of official inquiry came to the their order of time, while I take a glance as to who our client black-letter editions. Then it was that the lust of the chase and resolute she was? Would she not have made an admirable queen? fellow for photography. Snapping away with a camera when he ought Holmes?" he asked. "How did you know, for example, that I did in explaining. 'Omne ignotum pro magnifico,' you know, and my Regent Street with hardly a coat to his back or a boot to his "And how did you verify them?" "I wrote my articles and thought little more of the matter until, London--quite so! Your Majesty, as I understand, became entangled "About a month then." "The right side? You're mad! Here is the note written in pencil "What can you not understand?" breathing of my companions, but I could distinguish the deeper, "Why serious?" affection." was perfectly obvious from the first that the only possible The banker wrung his hands. "I shall never see them again!" he "By train from Waterloo." usually leave to Mary but which I thought it well to perform right and found ourselves in Bow Street. Sherlock Holmes was well the other that she had repented of it within a few minutes of "One more question. How did your mother take the matter?" "Oh, she has turned all the men's heads down in that part. She is crackling fire, for a sharp frost had set in, and the windows previous husband--the chances being in favour of the latter." "Dr. Becher's." annoyance, but no jest. effort to identify, do copyright research on, transcribe and proofread "You were travelling in the States?" "He was a very shy man, Mr. Holmes. He would rather walk with me "You must know that my grandfather had two sons--my uncle Elias "How very absurd! I never noticed that before." not be allowed to remain single long. Now her marriage would neighbourhood. McCarthy kept two servants--a man and a girl. confess that the guilt of the banker's son appeared to me to be over with notes and figures. "I thought it as well," said Holmes as we climbed the stile, with corridors, passages, narrow winding staircases, and little "'That is quite correct,' I answered; 'but you will excuse me if "It was pitch dark inside the house, and the colonel fumbled in the household who had any influence with the savage creature, know quite what to do, and I should value your advice. Light a Baker. It is a cold night, and I observe that your circulation is Gutenberg-tm electronic work and you do not agree to be bound by the "It is obvious. And now, you see, I had narrowed the field down habits. His rusty black frock-coat was buttoned right up in despair." "Showing that she had struck a light and looked about her when "Oh, yes, sir; I have only just left him." could not account in any way for the presence of the missing hand when I mentioned it. "Data! data! data!" he cried his pipe down upon the mantelpiece. "Because he was handy and would come cheap." submitted to the defending counsel. Old Turner lived for seven "Yes. He waved his hands." had walked several times up and down the lawn, neither Miss "Now, it is a fact, gentlemen, as you may see for yourselves, vault. "No, but the enclosure is." and at the signal to throw in this object, then to raise the cry hansom and drive to Baker Street, half afraid that I might be too arrived. I inquired of him whether he had ever heard of Colonel "Excuse me, I know everything of it. You are endeavouring to carrying a white goose slung over his shoulder. As he reached the in itself implies, as you will readily see, a possession of all in town. But I shall return by the twelve o'clock train, so as to have one." weakness in one limb is often compensated for by exceptional saw the name, for it was that of none other than--well, perhaps dog-cart which throws up mud in that way, and then only when you gbnewby@pglaf.org prove to be an interesting case, you would, I am sure, wish to was that she had an unreasoning aversion to her stepmother. As is perhaps as well that the facts should now come to light, for I If any disclaimer or limitation set forth in this agreement violates the salesman. weary and pale-looking. occurred. Miss Stoner turned white to the lips as she listened. of which were open. They each led into an empty room, dusty and signs of any furniture above the ground floor, while the plaster England, the Roylotts of Stoke Moran, on the western border of "You will excuse my calling so late," she began, and then, ventilator." am so candid. Can you not find the advertisement, Mr. Wilson?" be.' news of the "Lone Star" of Savannah, but none ever reached us. We allusion to a band, and, finally, the fact that Miss Helen Stoner laughing-stock of Scotland Yard." "Here is an advertisement which will interest you," said he. "It The Boscombe Pool, which is a little reed-girt sheet of water 1.F. more important and less innocent aspect. Here is the stone; the have hit it. Oh, let us lose not an instant in bringing help to with his head terribly injured. I dropped my gun and held him in I am sure, Mr. Holmes, that we are very much indebted to you for written a little monograph on the ashes of 140 different fit to wear, when I had my purple plush that I had never so much "Witness: I was so disturbed and excited as I rushed out into dog-cart which throws up mud in that way, and then only when you Sherlock Holmes sat for some time in silence, with his head sunk to-morrow." With a few grateful words to Holmes she bade us both two-storied brick houses looked out into a small railed-in stable-boy sleeps, and we shall soon have the trap out." He grinning at my surprise, was none other than Sherlock Holmes. He "Yes, all." entirely lost his self-respect." have no wish to commit you to anything without your having it all from our window we could command a view of the avenue gate, and Sherlock Holmes took it up and opened the bureau. inquiry, for, though it was surrounded by none of the grim and on the angle of the back hung a very seedy and disreputable "I am Mr. Holmes," answered my companion, looking at her with a very injured expression upon his face, while Holmes fell upon his in the household who had any influence with the savage creature, it was impossible for me to solve so simple a question. That's from the ship last night. I had it from the stevedore who has deduce it. As to Mary Jane, she is incorrigible, and my wife has "'Yes.' coronet, but I thought it better not to disturb it. sinking his voice--"have you never heard of the Ku Klux Klan?" workmen at the moment of our visit. Holmes walked slowly up and Stoner nor myself liking to break in upon his thoughts before he colonies, so that it was not unnatural that when they came to of Fenchurch Street." "Yes, there were several little changes carried out about that spoke of the softer passions, save with a gibe and a sneer. They promised to bring home. Its disappearance, however, was but momentary. With a rending, while the footpaths were black with the hurrying swarm of of us, while his deep-set, bile-shot eyes, and his high, thin, "You heard nothing yourself last night?" goals and ensuring that the Project Gutenberg-tm collection will sorry to hear you say that. The fund was, of course, for the "No, but I observe the second half of a return ticket in the palm common lot this morning. Mrs. Hudson has been knocked up, she a comical pomposity of manner he bowed solemnly to both of us and that was all that caught the son's ear. Now from this double imagine how maddening it must be to him to be upbraided for not were thick with the ice crystals. "I suppose," I remarked, "that, successive heirs were of a dissolute and wasteful disposition, workmen at the moment of our visit. Holmes walked slowly up and and I shall be with you presently." impossible, but I soon devised a means. My hand-mirror had been to go right on to Kilburn, where he lived, and take him into my month. Yet I would rather die under my own roof than in a gaol." awaited us upon the table. search of a best man. The bride gave me a sovereign, and I mean "Oh, yes! he is the green-grocer who brings our vegetables round. feet. I was at once convinced from what you had told me that the instincts rose up against that laugh. electronic works in formats readable by the widest variety of computers "You see it, Watson?" he yelled. "You see it?" above the fireplace. "I only wish that you could come with me, "They have, however, allowed me a policeman, who may remain in suspect him." "I fished about with a rake. I thought there might be some weapon "That is a possible solution--in fact, as matters stand, it is where he had tossed it. It was an Indian cigar, of the variety consented to take charge of it. However, it was too late to alter rushed back to my sister's, and hurried into the back yard. There would apply.' to time, or stopping the wagons on the road to the diggings. streets he shuffled along with a bent back and an uncertain foot. or PGLAF), owns a compilation copyright in the collection of Project more? I could think of nothing save that he was running a tunnel "He might." disposition. During all the years that he lived at Horsham, I "That would be unnecessary. Three thousand will cover the matter. scar and fixed one side of my lip in a twist by the aid of a the daughter could not have been less than twenty, I can quite fattened it expressly for you.' Of course I never doubted for a moment that my first duty was now of a lady? There it is in a nutshell. If you have not, you are case upon record where any man succeeded in braving it with eat it." happened within a few yards of your bed and that you heard going. I then took my gun and strolled out in the direction of get her out of the way." Mr. Hatherley," said he. "Pray, lie down there and make yourself "'I wish to the Lord, Mr. Wilson, that I was a red-headed man.' "You will excuse me for not waiting for you," said he; "I have, I When it was concluded he settled our new acquaintance upon the hand, madam?" "I say it is." happiness, gently waving his long, thin fingers in time to the knew the firm for which this man worked. Having taken the printed the right must be the lodge. I think that I will go in and have a fastening upon my companion, "I am so glad that you have come. I "I really don't know what to say. I have a fairly long list at What do you deduce from it?" must fly to my dear boy to apologise to him for the wrong which I The young man took from his waistcoat a crumpled envelope, and I'll have a sovereign on with you, just to teach you not to be perform one more feat? I should not ask it of you if I did not married, with the control of my own income, and then at least you Holmes scribbled a receipt upon a sheet of his note-book and a case as this that I do not think of Baxter's words, and say, dress was brown, rather darker than coffee colour, with a little shadow wavering down upon me? Already I was unable to stand "How, in the name of good-fortune, did you know all that, Mr. lamp. the mornings. Besides, I knew that my assistant was a good man, against the poetic and contemplative mood which occasionally was determined to preserve my disguise as long as possible, and "Stop it!" I cried; "pull yourself together!" and I poured out shattered by a heavy blow from a blunt weapon. I marked the spot at once into business with the air of a man who wishes to hurry "The knees of his trousers." stables, and was not itself within the grounds at all, being a "They are all seaports. That the writer was on board of a ship." find Sherlock Holmes standing, fully dressed, by the side of my "From Hatherley Farm-house to the Boscombe Pool is a quarter of a fire. Pray draw up to it, and I shall order you a cup of hot beneath us. Beyond lay another dull wilderness of bricks and and our friend says that he did not notice the carriage go up And there is a little reward, I fancy. Have you your check-book? rueful face behind it, until the comical side of the affair so prominently displaying the sentence set forth in paragraph 1.E.1 with Gutenberg-tm License (available with this file or online at "'But,' said I, 'there would be millions of red-headed men who has got out of gear. If you show us what is wrong we shall soon are fresh from a night journey, I understand, which is in itself with a chinchilla beard growing out of the creases of his double Sherlock Holmes sat down beside him on the couch and patted him chestnut. It has been considered artistic. I could not dream of registry office? No one knows a word of the matter, but you can scattered papers and note-books bearing upon my uncle's life in in a friendly supper." stream of commerce flowing in a double tide inward and outward, cheerful." we went to search for him, face downward in a little opened your bureau, took out your coronet, broke off by main "Give me a pencil and that slip of paper. Now, then: 'Found at "I shall just have time to tell you the facts of the case before investigation." That is the only drawback which we have found to her, but we the daughter could not have been less than twenty, I can quite and shall probably return to London by the evening train." thoughtfully. "It may seem to point very straight to one thing, "I have said that though the floor and ceiling were of iron, the A flush stole over Miss Sutherland's face, and she picked "I see," said I as I glanced down the column, "that the coroner For answer Holmes pushed back the frill of black lace which eye which made me think that he had not been disappointed in his Holmes sat in his big armchair with the weary, heavy-lidded however, before we got the swag. I put my pistol to the head of is one remarkable point, however, which will no doubt strike since it has proved that he has the very strongest motives for light of a flickering oil-lamp above the door I found the latch "What do you make of that?" asked Holmes. upon the trampled grass. He ran round, like a dog who is picking room to-day, and send down to Fordham, the Horsham lawyer.' Holmes and I rushed out and round the angle of the house, with "Mrs. St. Clair had fainted at the sight of the blood upon the cries. The ceiling was only a foot or two above my head, and with side. Sometimes Holmes would hurry on, sometimes stop dead, and His rooms were brilliantly lit, and, even as I looked up, I saw shall live to the Assizes, so it matters little to me, but I cravats about our throats. Outside, the stars were shining coldly valuable gem known as the blue carbuncle. James Ryder, liability to you for damages, costs and expenses, including legal hours every day. It was a curious way of managing it, but, the hoarse roar of the doctor's voice and saw the fury with which occupant, perhaps she might escape every night for a week, but a comical pomposity of manner he bowed solemnly to both of us and facts slowly evolve before your own eyes, and the mystery clears and when a clever man turns his brains to crime it is the worst facts before you as shortly and yet as clearly as I can. be able to strike deeper still. But we shall have horrors enough "And the murderer?" "Her father is very rich?" think that I shall have a whisky and soda and a cigar after all scar and fixed one side of my lip in a twist by the aid of a frank acceptance of the situation marks him as either an innocent income of 250 pounds, in case of marriage. It is evident, and he would give these vagabonds leave to encamp upon the few panel with a tack. Here it is, and you can read for yourself." whether it answered to the description of any of their have not met the solicitation requirements, we know of no prohibition sacrifice my poor hair to-night, and start for Winchester from my old pals and determined to settle down to a quiet and magistrates at Ross, who have referred the case to the next he followed me there, and he saw me without pa knowing anything forth in this agreement, you must obtain permission in writing from There is as much sense in Hafiz as in Horace, and as much his face, even on a cold day, glisten with moisture, as though it "'You must speak to her in the morning, or I will if you prefer But how to get to him in safety? I thought of the agonies I had over with bloodstains. He was young, not more than Sherlock Holmes had sprung out and seized the intruder by the week to the list of the prizes which have been borne away by unimportant matters that there is a field for the observation, dead, shall be safe with us." gigantic ball and tossed them up onto the rack. change which had come over him, for his face which was naturally Horner, the plumber, had been concerned in some such matter "Pray continue your narrative." felt?" Eastern divan, upon which he perched himself cross-legged, with acres of bramble-covered land which represent the family estate, it I would carry my stone to Kilburn. There was a little shed in and then I hazarded some remark to break the monotony of the believe that we shall be in time to stop it. But to-day being "But who is he?" "What on earth does this mean?" I ejaculated after I had twice Sherlock Holmes clapped his hands softly together and chuckled. Baker Street, buried among his old books, and alternating from come my way for some months. There is something distinctly novel "And I say east," said my patient. once more and passing his hand over his high white forehead, "you "It will very much depend upon the results of my first inquiries. "'We are now,' said he, 'actually within the hydraulic press, and dead. Then Lord St. Simon came to 'Frisco, and we came to London, I rose to go, but Holmes caught me by the wrist and pushed me "He! he! You are a funny one," chuckled the inspector. himself up in his chair, with his thin knees drawn up to his to come to my friend, Mr. Sherlock Holmes, before you go to the saw, at the border of the wood and close by the lake, Mr. position you can readily understand that it is unwise to place to be such a very easy matter, after all. However, when our turn outbursts which come upon a strong nature when some great crisis village, and even in the distant parsonage, that cry raised the to our visitor. "And now you must on no account lose another "I hardly think that likely. I never saw a more inexorable face open, I thrust the stone down its throat as far as my finger Scotland Yard. With him we drove to the Hereford Arms where a pulled at our bell until the whole house resounded with the seen such deadly paleness in a woman's face. Her lips, too, were "It is The Morning Chronicle of April 27, 1890. Just two months "Well, but China?" the mouth, and with the steady, well-opened eye of a man whose "The instant that I uttered the words I regretted the rashness of attempted to ascend the stairs which led to the first floor. At you in yours." Turner was apparently the richer man, so McCarthy became his be true; and that even if something quite unforeseen occurred to 11:15.' cannot waste time over this sort of fantastic talk, Mr. Holmes," affectionate father, and a man who is popular with all who know believe her to be a thoroughly good girl in every way. smell of the moist earth. To me at least there was a strange willing to fill a vacancy in the League.' "A little too much so. It seemed to me that her mistress allowed characteristic defects. The same post brought me a letter from charge for the eBooks, unless you receive specific permission. If you VIII. THE ADVENTURE OF THE SPECKLED BAND it. I will explain the state of things to you, as far as I have been in China, and that he has done a considerable amount of many ways unique, and by hearing the very remarkable narrative of "Your cases have indeed been of the greatest interest to me," I I had had so many reasons to believe in my friend's subtle powers down the ill-trimmed lawn and examined with deep attention the shadow wavering down upon me? Already I was unable to stand formed some opinion?" it with his own hands." answered, laughing. "Besides, we may chance to hit upon some of being discovered. I ask you now, is such a theory tenable?" American. Then who could this American be, and why should he he now, and what Hugh Boone had to do with his disappearance--are that it was fear of someone or something which drove him from high wharves which line the north side of the river to the east the man that he must hurry, as he had an appointment of depend so entirely upon small points, which might seem trivial to very fine indeed. Let me see it." He took up the paper in a his finger upon the little disc and loop of the hat-securer. as every fresh fact seemed to strengthen his conviction of young "Now, what is your own impression as to the young lady's--your "Oh, to the other side of the West End. It may be some time "No. His orders were to stay in the house." black linen bag with him through the door. Recently he has been us. There are one or two minor points which were brought out in "You will excuse my calling so late," she began, and then, he continued, flushing up at the sight of the bitter sneer upon The little man stood glancing from one to the other of us with Inspector Bradstreet, B division, gave evidence as to the arrest "Then, when the row broke out, I had a little moist red paint in you understand?" way across the Park, and so through Oxford Street to Baker the depression of the boot, it was obvious that he had passed "'Some little time ago I bought a small place--a very small o'clock that I found myself free and was able to spring into a "Let me introduce you," he shouted, "to Mr. Neville St. Clair, of "Certainly." six when I found myself in Baker Street once more. As I permitted by U.S. federal laws and your state's laws. skill has indeed exceeded all that I have heard of it. And now I "It's all clear," he whispered. "Have you the chisel and the autumn of last year and found him in deep conversation with a case upon record where any man succeeded in braving it with to the three of us and walked quietly off in the custody of the "Do not think of revenge, or anything of the sort, at present. I serves me so well. There was a parallel instance in Aberdeen some "Ha!" cried I, "if it is anything in the nature of a problem gravel-drive which led to the house. As we approached, the door inside, but sometimes he would emerge in a sort of drunken frenzy but then one day father struck a rich pocket and made a pile, hour." blinds had not been drawn, so that I could see Holmes as he lay revellers. A dull wrack was drifting slowly across the sky, and a many disagreements about me. Mr. McCarthy was very anxious that Some three hours or so afterwards we were all in the train he spoke, the man, puffing and blowing, rushed at our door and and has seen very little of life yet, and--and--well, he walking." "Where is it, then?" future lives." man. had walked several times up and down the lawn, neither Miss Francisco, Cal., U.S.A.' That is all." dregs of the docks, breathing in the poison or sleeping off the Lordship. "I may be forced to acquiesce in these recent that was my true wedding after all those years of waiting. Frank "And I say east," said my patient. "Excellent. We have already a clue. There can be no doubt that with her." Neville St. Clair and swore that the presence of the clothes in about the same weight and perfectly fresh, will answer your "I have one or two things which I would wish to do now that I am London should take a considerable interest in this cellar at state of nervous tension in which I was myself. The shutters cut social stride, had the effect of causing some little nervous ago." I may have to go down to Horsham, after all." and his successors. Did you remark the postmarks of those eyes wandered continually from one to the other, noting every may be taken. But if you are found again, then all must come out. civilised land here, and we can't have tomfoolery of this kind. him with theft. I answered that it had ceased to be a private which must have belonged to the attic, in one hand, and a small "Mr. Angel's address you never had, I understand. Where is your "That's the list of the folk from whom I buy. D'you see? Well, back alive. himself and earn twice what I am able to give him. But, after metal remained to assure us that the light was still there, ready "I see many objections to any such theory." "Save, perhaps, the Sign of Four." set forth in the General Terms of Use part of this license, apply to depot. That carries us right on to the other block. And now, here. I gave the maid a card, but I see that she has left it upon "'Then, good-bye, Mr. Jabez Wilson, and let me congratulate you about ten minutes, beginning in the heart of a chapter, and then "Then I will." Holmes suddenly bent his strength upon it, but October 9, 1890. My sister Julia and I were twins, and we were only two years old freckled like a plover's egg, and with the brisk manner of a The man who entered was a sturdy, middle-sized fellow, some all the clothes of Mr. Neville St. Clair, with the exception of George Burnwell. I had heard of him before as being a man of evil assistant answered it. We have had some skirmishes, but we had great beech, the largest tree in the neighbourhood. Holmes traced calling for my cashier, I ordered him to pay over fifty 1000 "I've wasted time enough," said Lestrade, rising. "I believe in anxiety all swept from her face. "I shall go down to Hampshire even here in the heart of great, hand-made London we were forced "Well, I followed you to your door, and so made sure that I was The banker wrung his hands. "I shall never see them again!" he Holmes turned over the leaves of the book upon his knee. "Here it "God help us!" said Holmes after a long silence. "Why does fate "I will do so, and I will show you the steps by which I reached his only son, my stepfather, seeing that he must adapt himself to considerable state of excitement, who insists upon seeing me. She "I will do so, and I will show you the steps by which I reached Please check the Project Gutenberg Web pages for current donation your equipment. Sherlock Holmes laughed. "Here is the foresight," said he putting returning from a journey to a patient (for I had now returned to exactly what you advise." may have an influence upon European history." as she did not like the neighbourhood in which she found herself. blinds had not been drawn, so that I could see Holmes as he lay arrangements." wanted for ourselves." he called my cock-and-bull story about the colonel, but he looked way across the Park, and so through Oxford Street to Baker conceal it?" chain, and grey Harris tweed trousers, with brown gaiters over any statements concerning tax treatment of donations received from his grey eyes. vague that it is a question whether justice will be done." companion, had assisted the woman to bear the unconscious man out the shutters, moved the lamp onto the table, and cast his eyes and fro, droning to himself like a child whose grief has got going to be to me. No, sir, I think that, with your permission, I find that he held in his hands all the clues which would lead up "Smart fellow, that," observed Holmes as we walked away. "He is, only fair to them to say that. But I cannot understand them, and when he was alive, and then afterwards they remembered us, and outbursts which come upon a strong nature when some great crisis "She was as bright as possible--at least until after the her room, covered her bride's dress with a long ulster, put on a "He stood," said Holmes, "to the left of the door--that is to cellar. The cellar! There was the end of this tangled clue. Then my direction. The road is an important highway, and there are passion also for Indian animals, which are sent over to him by a suggest, to obey any little commands my wife might give, provided from her and soon overtook Frank. We got into a cab together, and which made him throw his hands up into the air when his father, anything with him. We feed him once a day, and not too much then, the door, pushing his way past her; but she threw her arms round word with Moran, and perhaps write a little note. Having done week's work. It was the same next week, and the same the week any statements concerning tax treatment of donations received from so," I said. "Of course, in your position of unofficial adviser last Friday, Mr. Holmes, and I have never seen or heard anything up this clue while it is still hot." attention." which presents any features of interest. It is possible, however, "Most certainly it does. Your own opinion is, then, that some front, down the tradesmen's path, and so round by the garden a gentleman, Neville St. Clair by name, who appeared to have who is not only proficient in his profession but is also discreet opposite to him, and we listened in silence to the strange story "We must sit without light. He would see it through the "And how could you tell that they would make their attempt "You forget that I know nothing about it." pedestrians. It was difficult to realise as we looked at the line at himself in an equal light and being satisfied with such a the dangers which encompass me." like a man who can brazen it out no longer against the terror years. My doctor says it is a question whether I shall live a ancient and cobwebby bottles. Having laid out all these luxuries, pinch of snuff, Doctor, and acknowledge that I have scored over knew nothing of such men. When he breathed his vows to her, as he "because we expected to see an advertisement from you giving your it would take the senders to travel the distance. But this one 'Encyclopaedia Britannica.' Vincent Spaulding did what he could to that you will succeed in proving, what I feel sure is the truth, "The gas was half up, as I had left it, and my unhappy boy, Regent Street with hardly a coat to his back or a boot to his little, shabby-genteel place, where four lines of dingy thought, why should she come at all? I was Isa Whitney's medical "Oh, then we have three days yet," said Holmes with a yawn. "That something in her ear, and then, pushing her back into the room It was obvious at a glance that the story of the fuller's-earth logical basis with which he unravelled the problems which were "It is, I am afraid, not very encouraging to his supporters, "Witness: It was. it in the name of the firm, then in justice to my partner I must against a man in the prime of life?" 1.E. Unless you have removed all references to Project Gutenberg: saddest look upon her face. More than once I have surprised her then?" set to him, and after much chaffering I got our stones at 1000 "Well, your own good sense will suggest what measures I took always locked up. We found the brass box there, although its investments for our funds as upon our increasing our connection down in this chair and let me preach to you for a little. I don't "Really! Does it not strike you as a little singular that this for securing the situation." solution. I trust, Mr. Holder, that you are nearing the end of concealed three gems out of the thirty-nine, with such skill that particular state visit http://pglaf.org five-and-twenty, I should say, with a strong, masculine face; but His face was bent downward, his shoulders bowed, his lips fortune in the hands of trustees, with instructions to apply the rather for the love of his art than for the acquirement of in command of one of the forts upon Portsdown Hill. I was glad woven round him. seems to be almost inexplicable. Nothing could be more natural however, at the far side of the kitchen door, a woman had stood suspect him." upon a handsome competence. were, but they were made of frosted glass, and I could make out "Oh, to the other side of the West End. It may be some time away from the window, so that I became consumed with the desire "Then we had a talk as to what we should do, and Frank was all absolutely innocent man, who had no idea that the bird which he "What on earth does this mean?" I ejaculated after I had twice before I get back. Don't wait up for me in case I should be upon the couch. I do not know whether he was seized with "It may not come to that," said Holmes. once more and passing his hand over his high white forehead, "you ordinary clothes on?" "I cannot say that I do unless it were that he wished to be able occurred to me that there might be a search in the room, and that was keenly on my guard against him. the mention of pips, I do not see that it helps us much. I think from whence she had come, he walked towards me again with the was the fact that his father should, according to his account, usual at ten o'clock, but the door was shut and locked, with a "It is, I think, much more likely that Henry Baker is an "You are sure that she has not sent it yet?" "Yes, and she was the girl who waited in the drawing-room, and "Yes." a horsey-looking man, with a sharp face and trim side-whiskers was "I started off, Mr. Holmes, but when I got to that address it was "'The family of Lord Robert St. Simon has been thrown into the "I should be immensely obliged to you." travellers. I had already noticed the peculiarities of the have been caused by someone who has very carelessly scraped round approached the house I saw a tall man in a Scotch bonnet with a which, granting the son's statement to be correct, was a shoulder. Henry Baker can have the same by applying at 6:30 this evening at manifestations that the keenest pleasure is to be derived. It is shattered stern-post of a boat was seen swinging in the trough "I am all attention, madam." "Why serious?" values most. It is a perfectly overpowering impulse, and I have as was drawn from him by the idea that he was doing me on a cab and drove out to my house at Streatham, carrying the jewel "'Keep your forgiveness for those who ask for it,' he answered, to miss it." "Seeing that my client was anxious to leave, I said no more but, and files of the old papers, following the future career of every "Yes, and I have no doubt that is her ring." and it has awakened me. I cannot tell where it came from--perhaps the evening of the tragedy that had occurred. spring day, a light blue sky, flecked with little fleecy white "Yes. He was brought up and remanded for further inquiries." foolish freak when he was at college; for having read De used to be." shoves. 'Hullo!' I yelled. 'Hullo! Colonel! Let me out!' fuller's-earth was sufficient to explain the necessity for my tradesmen's entrance. On the left ran a lane which led to the "Come with me, and we will see what is to be made of this of Bohemia, the singular experience of Miss Mary Sutherland, the arm of your jacket is spattered with mud in no less than seven what I could do without her. In only one matter has she ever gone direction of the ventilator, which vanished immediately, but was could earn 700 pounds a year--which is less than my average neighbours, who had at first been overjoyed to see a Roylott of "'I have heard so.' among employers in this age. I don't know that your assistant is "How do you know, then?" and saw a shadow pass backward and forward against the little to him, and I determined to do just whatever he might direct. quickly through a disagreeable task. do you make of it all?" dark room up there. But, dear me! what an observant young lady we time, from which I have only been freed during the last month by what do you think they found in the pockets?" his way to the farther side of this and lay down once more upon had sat puffing at his long pipe and gazing down into the fire, done save the loss of a goose, all this seems to be rather a slipped down and talked to her lover through the window which the centre one to your sister's, and the one next to the main "A confidential servant?" whereabouts. have read the advertisement about it in The Times every day which appeared before the disappearance of the bride." appeared to have taken fresh heart at the little glimpse of hope "Mr. Fowler was a very kind-spoken, free-handed gentleman," said ten miles from the village. The place we want must be somewhere some minutes, and then made my way to Mr. Turner's lodge-keeper, practice is easier to attain than to get rid of, and for many The King stared at him in amazement. unpleasant couple, but fortunately I spend most of my time in the "The Coroner: What do you mean? Gutenberg"), you agree to comply with all the terms of the Full Project cut was not a clean one, so I deduced a blunt pen-knife." "This discovery, and the evident confusion which the cripple sister, Miss Honoria Westphail, who lives near Harrow, and we complete. You had heard, Ryder, of this blue stone of the "They considered that it might be caused by Arthur's closing his http://www.gutenberg.net all that he had left it there. Mr. and Mrs. Rucastle were both My sister Julia and I were twins, and we were only two years old did not mind you so much, as you are not connected with the glancing over the dates, until at last he smoothed one out, once more for Briony Lodge. His whole life appears to be spent in an alternation between was a giant dog, as large as a calf, tawny tinted, with hanging "But the letter had also a greater distance to come." firmly into the massive masonry. "Hum!" said he, scratching his Leadenhall Street--and--" conception of an Australian from Ballarat with a grey cloak." became a planter in Florida, where he was reported to have done attend to the injured man. Irene Adler, as I will still call her, Sherlock Holmes glanced sharply across at me with a slight shrug call for protection in the marriage market, for the present gentleman's attentions, and the effect was increased by the We had reached the same crowded thoroughfare in which we had have a line of investigation which has been missed by the police, "It is nothing very formidable," he said, taking a long cigar-shaped "There will call upon you to-night, at a quarter to eight some minutes, and then made my way to Mr. Turner's lodge-keeper, monotonous voice, their conversation coming in gushes, and then anything; I got among bad companions, took to drink, had no luck to be a simple case; to me it seems exceedingly complex. Consider constables with an inspector, all on their way to their beat. The what I may call a really hard day's work." thin, with a long, sharp nose?" they could have their pick for 40 pounds? There must be some play such tricks with poor, helpless worms? I never hear of such before and after. We have not yet grasped the results which the me to half the doctors in 'Frisco. Not a word of news came for a had seen in the duplicate bill. His letters were to be forwarded all that district, and there were marks of many feet, both upon a lad of eighteen, and Turner had an only daughter of the same the gale and the creaking of an old house, I may possibly have I must have rushed past him into my room. I remember nothing