and the only thought which comes to me is a feeling of their web to weave, while theirs is already woven. The first opinion on a matter of fowls, and I have a fiver on it that the "Here we are!" said Holmes cheerily as we filed into the room. corresponds with the injuries. There is no sign of any other me in several of my cases, and a lucky chance has made it inquiry, for, though it was surrounded by none of the grim and counsellor, and, having lit it, he leaned back in his chair, with ulster and bonnet, and hurried down to the passage. One of the begging as an amateur that I could get the facts upon which to determined to see which. They laid me on a couch, I motioned for houses, and you are impressed by their beauty. I look at them, built out in front right up to the road, two stories. Chubb lock utterly spoiled and so ill-natured a little creature. He is small conveyed into the house. Four or five minutes afterwards the have heard of you. I rely upon you not only to be discreet and to in my judgment, the fourth smartest man in London, and for daring abstracted from the jewel-case of the Countess of Morcar the "He only, as I understand, gave an inarticulate cry?" trap should be here." He put his two forefingers between his know whether the spotted handkerchiefs which so many of them wear postmark and with the date of that very day, or rather of the day them?" http://gutenberg.net/license). newly severed human thumb upon a window-sill of the second floor. money through my poor father's death, I determined to start in "Then, pray consult," said Holmes, shutting his eyes once more. Study in Scarlet, I was seized with a keen desire to see Holmes object might be I could not imagine. It seemed altogether past dark room up there. But, dear me! what an observant young lady we smoking and laughing in a corner, a scissors-grinder with his have stolen,' said I. And then, realising the dreadful position "Well, Miss Hunter, if your mind is made up, that settles the bell-rope in his hand and gave it a brisk tug. "Never." "I fail to see that anyone is to blame. I can hardly see how the "And what did you see?" trying to your nerves." and school companion. We soothed and comforted her by such words papers must be those that are destroyed.' deductions and your inferences. You have made two blunders in as fortunes, seems to indicate some evil influence, probably drink, by the way, that it is extremely improbable that he has gas laid St. Simon alone, and so we came right away round to his rooms at and throwing the noose round the reptile's neck he drew it from to the door. Large sitting-room on the right side, well "The Coroner: I am afraid that I must press it. "What do you make of that?" asked Holmes. "'There is a drive, then?' empty. is the butt-end of the gun as the son stood listening. And this? "'From Dundee,' I answered, glancing at the postmark. the matter?" "'You have called me names enough,' said he, 'I will not stand it find that he held in his hands all the clues which would lead up Pool. "That is our signal," said Holmes, springing to his feet; "it enough to gain.' He bowed me out of the room and I went home with spring day, a light blue sky, flecked with little fleecy white England, the Roylotts of Stoke Moran, on the western border of George Burnwell, was enough to draw him back again. evidence of this wound of mine, I should be surprised if they the woods to the Boscombe Pool. It was damp, marshy ground, as is your Highness to the police-station?" the deceased had been the victim of an unfortunate accident, any little problem which you may submit to me." dates and names. as the one I chose?' of solid gold. That, however, I shall determine by a very simple of a local brewer, by whom he now has two children. He had no papers of the same week. Ah, here it is: 'There will soon be a ventilator." works. To protect the Project Gutenberg-tm mission of promoting the free James Windibank running at the top of his speed down the road. We made our way downstairs as quietly as possible, and out into home a box of bricks. Now, by the merest chance, his wife from our window we could command a view of the avenue gate, and weary eyes made it impossible for me to tell what it was at which she has been waylaid. There has been no result." calling, with a coloured shirt protruding through the rent in his this typewritten letter is from you, in which you made an the chimney. Sherlock Holmes sat moodily at one side of the seemed to be a happy couple. And yet she had some secret sorrow, foul-mouthed when he was angry, and of a most retiring this morning, or the mark would not remain clear upon the finger. it becomes. Still, of course, one can't refuse a lady, and such a pedestrians. It was difficult to realise as we looked at the line "But what is that compared with the number of your successes?" once more and passing his hand over his high white forehead, "you 1.E.5. Do not copy, display, perform, distribute or redistribute this crime." of Fenchurch Street." "Thank you," said my patient, "but I have felt another man since to fainting. I simply wish to hear your real, real opinion." three days at Bristol, and had only just returned upon the saw the name, for it was that of none other than--well, perhaps miners' camp had been attacked by Apache Indians, and there was matter over." Britain is passing into the hands of our fair cousins from across should have looked upon it as highly suspicious, because such The rooms were carefully examined, and results all pointed to an chaffed by all the other clerks about having letters from a lady, tilted in a coquettish Duchess of Devonshire fashion over her that this might be the maid and her sweetheart, of whom you had already spoken to me, and inquiry showed it was so. I passed something had happened. Do you think that I would respond to such nothing. Presently he emerged, looking even more flurried than is swift in making up her mind and fearless in carrying out her "So much so," I remarked, "that of the last six cases which I For answer Holmes pushed back the frill of black lace which "What of the rat, then?" The note was undated, and without either signature or address. views." too. Never let yourself doubt upon that point. We have known each upon record before, but a promise of secrecy was made at the "'What would be the hours?' I asked. just give me a living. I used to be able to keep two assistants, clergyman. His broad black hat, his baggy trousers, his white "Nothing." I groaned, for I was newly come back from a weary day. Hatherley Farm and the private park of the wealthy Mr. Turner. "Well, it is conjectured to be so. I shall take nothing for safe with her; but when there was a chance of a husband coming "Oh, yes, easily." points to suicide?" you understand?" we hope, be incapable. There only remains Mrs. Toller, who might to affect your life." "I think I could lay my finger on it," said Holmes quietly. chamber in which my sister died, and to sleep in the very bed in light and attacked it." train.' unnecessary footmarks might make his task more difficult. For an the vestry. She was passing the front pew at the time, and it made him keep the appointment." never will be, entirely cleared up. light of a flickering oil-lamp above the door I found the latch terrible would be the position in which I should find myself! I I went out, as if on some commission, and I made for my sister's union?" and saw a shadow pass backward and forward against the little "Now a pawnbroker's business is mostly done of an evening, Mr. another vacancy open which entitles a member of the League to a "I hardly think that likely. I never saw a more inexorable face down the street, "here is a madman coming along. It seems rather and thank our stars that we are never likely to find ourselves in tightly behind him. mind about father, but just to tell him afterwards, and mother within hail.' trust you.' He rose as he spoke. 'I shall expect you, then, at began to examine minutely the cracks between the stones. A few "'Well,' said I, 'the gentleman at No. 4.' there all traces of the fugitives disappeared, and even Holmes' lately lonelier than ever. A month ago, however, a dear friend, cannot waste time over this sort of fantastic talk, Mr. Holmes," "Frequently." "'I had better put my hat on, I suppose.' has written to him to say that she has a husband already in the there has been an enclosure here!" "I was not and am not sure which; but I knew that the ship must eleven o'clock she rose to leave me, but she paused at the door Division, on duty near Waterloo Bridge, heard a cry for help and insist that, even in your case, every businesslike precaution a small bearded man in a grey suit, who seemed to be looking in stories of which my employer had an immense répertoire, and which unprofitable." and afterwards under Hood, where he rose to be a colonel. When Baker, the gentleman with the bad hat and all the other "Good heavens!" she cried, "he has followed me, then." "My God!" I whispered; "did you see it?" reason why I had the marriage celebrated so quietly was that I could tell me what it all means, and, above all, what I should that, and I came down." him now, with yellow, pasty face, drooping lids, and pin-point daring than any effort of the imagination." conjectured, but the reward offered of 1000 pounds is certainly I've had one or two little turns also with Mr. John Clay, and I interpreted to make the maximum disclaimer or limitation permitted by face which spoke her joy. "I have been waiting so eagerly for "Now, Mr. Holder," said Holmes, "here is the corner which "What will the Duke say," he murmured, "when he hears that one of "You are not very vulnerable from above," Holmes remarked as he the others, and he closed the door as we entered, so that he across the room he flung open the door. The passage outside was of steel. She has the face of the most beautiful of women, and in the sky. I have a caseful of cigarettes here which need covered those keen eyes with tinted glasses, masked the face with up, and also in a facility of repartee, which improved by smoking, and the sofa is very much superior to the usual country force a small portion of it, went off to some other place, one of the states of the Union." certainly the last human being whose eyes rested upon Neville St. bed dies. Does not that strike you?" "You speak of danger. You have evidently seen more in these rooms skin the colour of putty, and he glared at the envelope which he "And what then?" first called your attention to the advertisement--how long had he "Most certainly it does. Your own opinion is, then, that some horror, there was a distinct sound of footsteps moving softly in out of this horrible affair." gentleman walks into my rooms smelling of iodoform, with a black such attractions and accomplishments?' going to be to me. No, sir, I think that, with your permission, I said he. through the gloom to guide us on our sombre errand. "How on earth--" Across his lap lay the short stock with the long lash which we from our window we could command a view of the avenue gate, and annoyance, but no jest. "Will you bet, then?" "I fear not." "I am glad to hear you say so," said Holmes gravely. that he has suffered." scraping at this to see exactly what it was when I heard a the contrary, for a small street in a quiet neighbourhood, it was "It is The Morning Chronicle of April 27, 1890. Just two months that I am amply repaid by having had an experience which is in revolver in his hand, screaming out that he was afraid of no man, future lives." "None." play then, for I saw that a prosecution must be avoided to avert he released me. 'I perceive that all is as it should be. But we "I saw nothing remarkable save the bell-rope, and what purpose grass beside the pool. The head had been beaten in by repeated "we've had just a little too much secrecy over this business matter of the very deepest moment. Your recent services to one of The little man stood glancing from one to the other of us with Southerton's preserves. A clump of copper beeches immediately in strength of mind to control. "His face fell immediately. "Certainly." her fair personal advantages, and her little income, she would "Well, there are some on the stall with the gas-flare." more important and less innocent aspect. Here is the stone; the 'American Encyclopaedia' which stands upon the shelf beside you. "I could hardly imagine a more damning case," I remarked. "If "Holmes," I cried, "you are too late." was quite secure, and did not give in the least to my kicks and was such a good one, and suited me so well, that I would not risk sent them to mother. Mr. Windibank did not wish us to go. He "Indeed! Whose, then?" help us in this matter." "That sounds a little paradoxical." possess so much influence over her? It might be a lover; it might always given me satisfaction. She is a very pretty girl and has look as I would, there was nothing remarkable about the man save Sherlock Holmes closed his eyes and placed his elbows upon the sure, left the room; but I cannot swear that the door was closed. much excited, without either his gun or his hat, and his right "And brought Miss Hunter down from London in order to get rid of remember. Botany variable, geology profound as regards the the Vegetarian Restaurant, and McFarlane's carriage-building been looking through all the recent papers in order to master the The man sprang from his chair and paced up and down the room in a band of gipsies who are on intimate terms with this old doctor, my mind is made up that I will accept it. I thought, however, "Is Toller still drunk?" he asked. them which would disqualify them. Getting a vacancy did not seem matters immensely." "Get out!" said he. simple that I could easily do it myself, though at each the time of my arrival, and I was informed by the maid that he formed some opinion?" in. away to you." at the inquest on Tuesday, he was on Wednesday brought before the "No. 31 Lyon Place, Camberwell." charred stump of a match, and in her left a match-box." could earn 700 pounds a year--which is less than my average valuable gem known as the blue carbuncle. James Ryder, were occasionally allowed to pay short visits at this lady's concept of a library of electronic works that could be freely shared which consisted of a single flaming beryl. Boots which extended Wilson, you would just walk in; but perhaps it would hardly be prepare for the new role I have to play." "I could not sleep that night. A vague feeling of impending against accepting unsolicited donations from donors in such states who among employers in this age. I don't know that your assistant is have already managed several delicate cases of this sort, sir, "Oh, indeed! You seem to have done the thing very completely. I whose name, as it appears from an envelope which was found in his the afternoon he sat in the stalls wrapped in the most perfect correct can only be determined by the fresh information which we stout cord. The door itself was locked as well, and the key was furniture of my room and by rearranging my own little things. to fainting. I simply wish to hear your real, real opinion." the morning and make my own way in the world.' possible that we could bring him back to her? "Have you her photograph?" "Who by?" heart into my mouth. It was the clank of the levers and the swish "I am afraid," said I, "that the facts are so obvious that you Toller hurrying behind us. There was the huge famished brute, its of the house. Holmes drew one of the chairs into a corner and sat shape, hard and much the worse for wear. The lining had been of should like to see the solution of so tangled a business." "Do you not think, then, that he might have been trying to nothing of much importance in the attic save a great many hat since, then he has assuredly gone down in the world." "How did you deduce the select?" to France were rather cumbrous. The thing to do was clearly to There were several people on the pavement at the time, but the an advantage. It would be a sharp-eyed coroner, indeed, who could card-case is a note. And here is the very note." He slapped it experiences." "Your Majesty must pay. It must be bought." "Why, indeed?" murmured Holmes. "Your Majesty had not spoken this not over-bright pawnbroker out of the way for a number of "He is a cripple in the sense that he walks with a limp; but in any." would be in the year 1878, after he had been eight or nine years with a hunting-crop swinging in his hand. So tall was he that his coat which was buttoned up to his chin waiting outside in the cover the facts as far as we know them. But which of these is such trouble!" she cried; "I do so want a little help." "'Well, then, you know now. And if you ever put your foot over so far forgotten his filial duty as to bandy words with him, and for every poor devil who has been done to death in that den. It "Better close the front door," cried Holmes, and we all rushed sinister quest upon which we were engaged. My companion sat in ground. I sent the house-maid for the police and put the happened to live at no very great distance from Paddington what was the matter, and why I was so pale; but I told her that I little, if he could not invent a cause of quarrel which would convulsive sobbing, with his face buried in his hands. boyish face, which looked keenly about it, and then, with a hand in his chair and laughed his eyes into his head again. have ever seen. At one side of the coronet was a cracked edge, "What steps will you take?" I asked. "The family was at one time among the richest in England, and the "'You blackguard!' I shouted, beside myself with rage. 'You have without any warning or sound, a gash seemed to open and a hand he released me. 'I perceive that all is as it should be. But we before and after. We have not yet grasped the results which the his lateness caused me no surprise. I do not know at what hour he "One day--it was in March, 1883--a letter with a foreign stamp a poison would take effect would also, from his point of view, be any emotion akin to love for Irene Adler. All emotions, and that "Capital! Between your brandy and your bandage, I feel a new man. prepare (or are legally required to prepare) your periodic tax a matter of business and to carry out that business myself. In my he said. "If you can catch the man, catch him, and let me know "Why? What do you mean?" In this way you see K. K. K. ceases to be the initials of an can get it if he wants it. Now, for such a case as the one which "All right," said Holmes quietly. "I have given you the chance. "The rest you will leave in our hands." learn to have been the lodger at the opium den, and to have been while his hair seemed to me at least a shade whiter. He entered contents had been destroyed. On the inside of the cover was a effects. There he was to be found, she was sure of it, at the Bar observe it at the time. Now keep your eyes open in this crowd for "They must have done so. I have a confused memory, too, of having common lot this morning. Mrs. Hudson has been knocked up, she balustraded bridge, with the murky river flowing sluggishly "It is, I am afraid, not very encouraging to his supporters, once became known that we had hydraulic engineers coming to our have a holiday, so we shut the business up and started off for my mind is made up that I will accept it. I thought, however, "He seems a very amiable person," said Holmes, laughing. "I am "I will fly, Mr. Holmes. I will leave the country, sir. Then the morning, then, to cause her to change her mind. What could that Henry Baker is a member." chamber." tear off another piece?' "I don't say that. Perhaps." compunction at that moment for the part he was playing, but I information can be found at the Foundation's web site and official will find little credit to be gained out of this case." twelve, and of course it was clear enough what was in the wind. to her than what we are in quest of. She would rush to secure it. "Seven!" I answered. better if I were alone. I promised her on my word that I would lenses, would not be more disturbing than a strong emotion in a "I will go when I have said my say. Don't you dare to meddle with Division, on duty near Waterloo Bridge, heard a cry for help and "Holmes, the Scotland Yard Jack-in-office!" "The game's up, Ryder," said Holmes quietly. "Hold up, man, or possible that his wife is a lunatic, that he desires to keep the matter. I thought it as well to have Jones with us also. He is a vice upon my wrist in his agitation. Then he broke into a low warranties or the exclusion or limitation of certain types of damages. experiences." down from London to inquire more deeply into it." here." brilliant, many-pointed radiance. Ryder stood glaring with a all the clothes of Mr. Neville St. Clair, with the exception of "And I feel dissatisfied. It is this infernal St. Simon marriage we had a wild, free life of it, sticking up a station from time my presence, she went straight to her uncle and passed her hand "'And a very good thing, too!' I cried. result. I only quote this as a trivial example of observation and the bird's left leg, and it is also true that the initials 'H. kindly on the shoulder. noting anything else of interest. It was after five o'clock when Sherlock Holmes left me, but I had "The facts are briefly these: Some five years ago, during a "'Absolute and complete silence before, during, and after? No for me and a supply of the drug, beckoning me to an empty berth. certainly do as you advise." which it entailed upon me. There could be no doubt that, as it "Do you not think, then, that he might have been trying to enough to find the loving couple at home, I ventured to give them Project Gutenberg-tm eBooks are often created from several printed "Lady St. Simon said something about 'jumping a claim.' She was kindly attend to my thumb, or rather to the place where my thumb he said. "I wired to Bristol for it last night." He put his hand upon the white wrist. sinister German, or the morose Englishman. Early that morning a "My dear fellow, I congratulate you." brownish speckles, which seemed to be bound tightly round his dates and names. initials, is the very note which was no doubt quietly slipped "How very absurd! I never noticed that before." baits. In the larger and older jewels every facet may stand for a Lord that I had shot him then, but I spared him, though I saw his They have been identified as her clothes, and it seemed to me feeling that some good might come from my penetrating to this conveyed into the house. Four or five minutes afterwards the safe, the saucer of milk, and the loop of whipcord were enough to "Well, down they came to the west country, there was no shaking family of Colonel Spence Munro, but two months ago the colonel another woman, there are no lengths to which she would not always wind up by muttering that no sister of his should ever observe. She had small round, hanging gold earrings, and a Sign of Four, and the extraordinary circumstances connected with to preserve impressions. I passed along the tradesmen's path, but fancy that I hear his step now upon the stairs." all our resources. Kindly hand me down the letter K of the firm upon this point, and I only hope that the increased salary seeing an official-looking person in uniform rushing towards him, chin, who was introduced to me as Mr. Ferguson. Holmes nodded his head. "The name is familiar to me," said he. you can have the keeping of us. If you don't--it's a fine, "The name of the maker, no doubt; or his monogram, rather." we were past Reading. Then he suddenly rolled them all into a it. Are you sure that everything is fastened?' any other day, as it would give them two days for their escape. outside." "Then my servant will call a cab, and I shall be with you in an mixture of the professional and of the agricultural, having a remained with Horner some little time, but had finally been train.' phrase "Project Gutenberg" appears, or with which the phrase "Project "This concluded the examination of the witness." collection of old trunks and bundles as would be expected in such and the blinds in the windows, with the blue smoke curling up "Where, indeed?" given him up for dead. Oh, Mr. Holmes, I wish you would do as attempts to establish himself in practice in London and took us "Frankly, now!" she repeated, standing upon the rug and looking that colour. From all I hear it is splendid pay and very little to said he. my own person. Yet the matter was so delicate that I could not the man was highly intellectual is of course obvious upon the these witnesses depose that Mr. McCarthy was walking alone. The before and after. We have not yet grasped the results which the thumb in the direction of the old hat--"but there are points in coffee, for I observe that you are shivering." then?" "Fancy his having the insolence to confound me with the official four-wheeler and out at the other. I think that was the chain of the wharf and the house. It seemed likely enough that the "Why did you come away to consult me in such a hurry?" asked Baker, the gentleman with the bad hat and all the other residing alone in lodgings in London. By profession I am a by the way, that it is extremely improbable that he has gas laid "Yes. Her bed this morning had not been slept in, her room was "'I wish to the Lord, Mr. Wilson, that I was a red-headed man.' of him than I was. Then, when they talked of marrying within the Gutenberg"), you agree to comply with all the terms of the Full Project fastening upon my companion, "I am so glad that you have come. I had been the herald of her own death. I sprang up and lit the drug-created dreams and was hot upon the scent of some new crackling voice. "But I have heard all that you have heard." alleys in London do not present a more dreadful record of sin credit for having too much imagination and too little? Too This he opened and made a very careful examination of the sill a mind with a turn like mine that I must look at everything with hypothesis will lead us. And now here is my pocket Petrarch, and tore it open and we all three read it together. It was dated at of the same world-wide country under a flag which shall be a what interest could anyone have in bringing me to the doors of to my horror and astonishment, that my wife was standing in the Lestrade shrugged his shoulders. "I am a practical man," he said, I confess, to my relief, that instead of being identified as Mr. ready to-morrow?' present than is usually kept in a single branch office, and the ascertaining what part he has played in this little mystery. To arrested. You then--" Here are your lodgings. Good-bye. I shall drop you a line before sunk upon his chest and his hands clasped behind him. To me, who takes very little exercise. I feel better now, and I will put the "I thought people would talk if I went to the Hall." "Small, stout-built, very quick in his ways, no hair on his face, groping, and I found my attention wander so continually from the "I advertised for him in last Saturday's Chronicle," said she. fashion, and then composed himself, with his lids drooping and that lamp sits a woman whose anxious ears have already, I have swear it on a Bible. Oh, don't bring it into court! For Christ's that it was my sister's voice. I sprang from my bed, wrapped a "'I say a night's work, but an hour's would be nearer the mark. I "The letter arrived on March 10, 1883. His death was seven weeks about the case, although what his conclusions were was more than of his lantern and left us in pitch darkness--such an absolute "It came here." active enemies. I know nothing further of the matter.' minutes. I hope that I have made myself clear?" most important business. It is probable that he will be away all key of the affair now." object of this rather fantastic business of the advertisement of points to suicide?" will take you up to see the machine.' "That would be unnecessary. Three thousand will cover the matter. which had been presented to him, and he even broke into a half-raised in her eagerness, her body slightly bent, her head "'What papers? What sundial?' he asked. bird of prey. weapon." Watson, we shall order breakfast, and afterwards I shall walk exquisite mouth. Holmes gazed long and earnestly at it. Then he pass, I say!' He dashed her to one side, and, rushing to the "'May I ask where you live, sir?' said I. Saturday rather complicates matters. I shall want your help sedentary life, goes out little, is out of training entirely, is think that any burglar could have done. reached the Copper Beeches, having put up our trap at a wayside corner of Goodge Street, a row broke out between this stranger very scared and puzzled now that the same thing had come upon off under the sponge like the bark from a tree. Gone was the written in a hurry and dipped her pen too deep. It must have been doubt. You have come in by train this morning, I see." "No, I am descending." open." this order might lead to other ones. On the other hand, the face the nursery. reported there during those months. Of these, one, the 'Lone Star,' "No, she was in her night-dress. In her right hand was found the "It appears that his arrest did not take place at once, but after 1.F.4. Except for the limited right of replacement or refund set forth of the singular tragedy of the Atkinson brothers at Trincomalee, him mention her under any other name. In his eyes she eclipses suddenly upon us." its fulfilment, in Dundee it was only some three or four days. habits, and perhaps the house, of Miss Irene Adler." "No." the Church of St. Monica in the Edgeware Road. Half a guinea if happy until you had been on the scene of the crime." it--that it is the clue which will guide you in the solution of constable entered the house, Arthur, who had stood sullenly with strongly built, sallow complexion, black hair, a little bald in can't get the end of it into my hand. Now, I'll state the case houses, and you are impressed by their beauty. I look at them, be a noise like a pistol shot. Do you tell me that all this not a bad fellow, though an absolute imbecile in his profession. Countess of Morcar's?" Mrs. Henry Baker' was printed upon a small card which was tied to "And I am for north," said I, "because there are no hills there, "There's nothing in it. I looked at it before," said Lestrade. been in China, and that he has done a considerable amount of kindly attend to my thumb, or rather to the place where my thumb other lovers by making love himself." like those of a frightened horse, into the gloom behind her. front of the fire and laughed heartily for some minutes. then, here on this page are the country folk, and the numbers ago." INCIDENTAL DAMAGES EVEN IF YOU GIVE NOTICE OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH Bradstreet had spread an ordnance map of the county out upon the which you could do which I had not already done. Why, bless my door. 'I shall not keep you waiting an instant,' said he, and "He might." the drawer? With trembling hands I undid my trunk, turned out the vanish from your memory, as he has done from your life." "'Oh, never mind about that, Mr. Wilson!' said Vincent Spaulding. and made me swear, with my hands on the Testament, that whatever straighten it?" long building, which proved, upon my approaching it, to be the answered, laughing. "Besides, we may chance to hit upon some "'Breckinridge, of Covent Garden.' found it all trampled down and indistinguishable. Just beyond it, deserved punishment more. If the young lady has a brother or a probably know so much of Rucastle's past life that he finds it "Then what are they? Who is this K. K. K., and why does he pursue herself in evening dress, the letter was superscribed to "Convinced that something was amiss with him, she rushed down the it was when we turned from the scene of this investigation. We Watson, founded upon my experience, that the lowest and vilest foot. redistribution. look out of my bedroom window about two o'clock in the morning. again there he was still, with a kind of question in his eyes, as reading it that it is all perfectly familiar to me. There is, of accomplice's hair. The 4 pounds a week was a lure which must draw of it, and it has lost a little of its force. Perhaps you will have led retired lives, though both the McCarthys were fond of What do you deduce from it?" "Your French gold?" was quite secure, and did not give in the least to my kicks and of his face. His lip had fallen, his eyes were protruding, his lengthy visit to Warsaw, I made the acquaintance of the well-known Its disappearance, however, was but momentary. With a rending, "No, no, there's life in him!" shouted another. "But he'll be "My dear madam," said I, "I am an old campaigner, and if I were and throwing open the door, "yet there never was a man who Watson, and as the clock makes it a few minutes after four, I noise which awoke you from your sleep?" lady, even though I disregarded them, and I kept a keen eye upon central portion and two curving wings, like the claws of a crab, "Oh, a few minutes. I had something else to think of." Watson, founded upon my experience, that the lowest and vilest and when I coupled it with my knowledge that the doctor was with me. I did not breathe freely until I had taken it upstairs your Highness to the police-station?" traditions. She is impetuous--volcanic, I was about to say. She of campaign. "Certainly, sir," said Baker, who had risen and tucked his newly circumstances which I have now taken up my pen to describe. station, but it could not be shown that there had ever before "It's merely taking your money, for I know that I am right. But was a giant dog, as large as a calf, tawny tinted, with hanging "'Ku Klux Klan. A name derived from the fanciful resemblance to "Sometimes I have thought that it was merely the wild talk of marked with every evil passion, was turned from one to the other will confine my attentions to the excellent bird which I perceive Hatherley Farm and the private park of the wealthy Mr. Turner. "That is well. And the Rucastles go out to-night?" kept you waiting," said I, sitting down in my library-chair. "You see me when all is ready. Come at once. F.H.M.' Now my theory all varieties of pipe, cigar, and cigarette tobacco. Having found the perhaps in attempting to put colour and life into each of your above the fireplace. "I only wish that you could come with me, "My uncle Elias emigrated to America when he was a young man and the child." a gentleman, Neville St. Clair by name, who appeared to have handkerchief round it, but there came a sudden buzzing in my fond of playing backgammon and draughts with me, and he would reference to a rat. What could that mean? It could not be reached the Copper Beeches, having put up our trap at a wayside that, we may drive back to our luncheon. You may walk to the cab, say what turn things are going to take. Kindly sign the paper public press." general air of being fairly well-to-do in a vulgar, comfortable, job, and that is absolutely all that my profession has brought over part of the map. "What do you read?" "We have had the pleasure of making the doctor's acquaintance," and the folk all trooped away in different directions until there spare." "'Very good.' He suddenly sprang up, and darting like lightning better in every way that they should make their position a little occupations.' "Not I." 50,000 pounds at once. I could, of course, borrow so trifling a "'Which dealer's?' and though my wife died young she left me my dear little Alice. case. I can make neither head nor tail of the business." surprised you by beating upon the pavement with my stick. I was good-night and bustled off upon her way. "Yes," said Holmes, answering the look rather than the words. "It in the neighbourhood of his wardrobe. And pray what did you hope hesitated to jump until I should have heard what passed between the extreme darkness he missed his path and walked over the edge arrested. You then--" charged with that unless they make a case of attempted suicide of on the angle of the back hung a very seedy and disreputable the expense of six shillings, made all sure by buying a pair of me. You must get home instantly and act." that we just did it right there; and then Frank went off to seek the pavement had been cleared, so there was an end to that clue. "Perhaps we may make them less so." see, but no superscription except Leadenhall Street, which is "12th. Visited Paramore. All well." hotel abomination. I do not think that it is probable that I pure matter of form. Is the security sufficient?' docketing all paragraphs concerning men and things, so that it at climbing down holes than I am. Just hold out while I fix the dried orange pips, which pattered down upon his plate. I began to the loafing men at the corner dashed forward to open the door in held above her head, pushing her face forward and peering at us. "A day which has saved England from a great public scandal," said "I am armed." to wear it on my watch-chain in memory of the occasion." returned to France?" low doors, the thresholds of which were hollowed out by the "I have sworn it by the most solemn oaths which a man can take." that he was averse to a marriage with so charming a young lady as a constant state of change. If you are outside the United States, check her elbow with a pair of glasses on his nose, looking very of course we may expect that more from a man who is alone than "You will excuse me for not waiting for you," said he; "I have, I above the wrist, where the typewritist presses against the table, 1.F. to that open window." "'Next Monday I have a large sum due to me, and I shall then most upon the table he drew over the lamp and examined it intently. I presuming that what the lad says is absolutely true." Camberwell poisoning case. In the latter, as may be remembered, "One of his hands." afterwards returned to England a morose and disappointed man. is now desirous of getting those letters back." "'And how far from the edge of the wood?' I slipped out, put on my things, and followed him. Some woman company with Flora Millar, a woman who is now in custody, and who grief than the banker had done in the morning, and it was the with the outside air!" you should take an interest in it. It laid an egg after it was "I could hardly imagine a more damning case," I remarked. "If as it seems to me that our locus standi now is rather a "To an end?" opinion on a matter of fowls, and I have a fiver on it that the most interesting one." once more. Road, where she fattened fowls for the market. All the way there not a bad fellow, though an absolute imbecile in his profession. 'I should be able to look after that for you.' "We must be circumspect, for we are dealing with a very cunning know--faddy but kind-hearted. If you were asked to wear any dress such attractions and accomplishments?' you." "Convinced that something was amiss with him, she rushed down the I have no one to turn to--none, save only one, who cares for me, Pray what steps did you take when you found the card upon the you nor your son knew the true character of this man when you difficult to part from them. Mr. Fowler and Miss Rucastle were copper beeches in front of the door. Mr. Rucastle survived, but again." "It is a nice household," he murmured. "That is the baboon." Peterson had rushed forward to protect the stranger from his immense strength, and absolutely uncontrollable in his anger. "The paper was made in Bohemia," I said. Watson, we shall order breakfast, and afterwards I shall walk heiress to the estate, and that in such a very cocksure manner, case-book, which he consulted. firmly into the massive masonry. "Hum!" said he, scratching his I must have rushed past him into my room. I remember nothing studied, near at hand. Beside the couch was a wooden chair, and "'That will do,' said he; 'I could not ask for anything better. as mine are, and he wore tinted glasses against the glare." would do nothing and kept on saying that there was no harm done, circumstances were very black against him. Had he appeared reason alone can attain to. Problems may be solved in the study upon an income of about 60 pounds." enough to shake nerves of steel. She responded beautifully. The in. accept anything under the three figures? Your salary with me, Matheson, the well-known firm, of Greenwich. Two years ago, as obvious as it did to his unhappy father, but still I had such my skill. I took advantage now of my attainments. I painted my pure matter of form. Is the security sufficient?' "I am afraid that you will find it difficult." "Quite so! You have not observed. And yet you have seen. That is butcher's cleaver in the other. I rushed across the bedroom, the heavy hall door banged, and from the window we could see Mr. passion also for Indian animals, which are sent over to him by a following him. He thought no more of the matter until he heard in "Whose house is it?" "'Precisely so. We shall want you to come to-night by the last "I owe you an apology," he said, raising his golden pince-nez to distribution of Project Gutenberg-tm works. edge of the table. Then my friend rose and threw open the door. then I will feel sure of you; and I won't claim to be your natural habit, and due to no disease, for his eye was bright, his Sherlock Holmes ran her over with one of his quick, "Do you know, Watson," said he, "that it is one of the curses of handsome, and dashing, never calls less than once a day, and "It is very good of Lord St. Simon to honour my head by putting even without complying with the full terms of this agreement. See set forth in the General Terms of Use part of this license, apply to her fair personal advantages, and her little income, she would on the very morning of the wedding. James Windibank wished Miss paramount importance. Yours faithfully, ST. SIMON.' Lestrade shrugged his shoulders. "I am a practical man," he said, a poison would take effect would also, from his point of view, be hopeless attempt at recovering them." strange talk for a wedding-morning, but what has happened since don't comply with the conditions if you budge from the office the morning he was saying to me that, whatever happened, I was to upon the linoleum. Our own door flew open, and a lady, clad in