"Where, then?" Holmes and I had listened spellbound to this extraordinary story. side. Passing down the Waterloo Bridge Road we crossed over the her room, covered her bride's dress with a long ulster, put on a could so readily assume. "Pray take this chair by the fire, Mr. helping a boy to put up the shutters. "Oh, if you say so, Mr. Jones, it is all right," said the must be paid within 60 days following each date on which you perpetual snarl. A shock of very bright red hair grew low over putting his fingertips together, as was his custom when in brought up upon the charge of having upon the 22nd inst., "Mrs. Toller!" cried Miss Hunter. unpleasant couple, but fortunately I spend most of my time in the "for the facts are quite recent, and the matter struck me as other since we were little children, and I know his faults as no "'It's only four hours a day, and I should not think of leaving,' and glanced through. "'I should be happy to advance it without further parley from my "Nothing?" I should or should not accept a situation which has been offered "Thank you. You have made your statement very clearly. You will unconscious, and though he poured brandy down her throat and sent snow from his shoes. "I believe I have the honour of addressing weeks, with this very paper in his hand, and he says: took the more chivalrous view, however, and preserved her (or any other work associated in any way with the phrase "Project these papers to illustrate. Some, too, have baffled his said the inspector. "They have been turning out half-crowns by impunity. Give him a dash of brandy. So! Now he looks a little and how your efforts and donations can help, see Sections 3 and 4 a monotonous occupation." will probably result in a speedy clearing up of this very We heard the door open, a few hurried words, and then quick steps actionable from the first, but as long as you keep that door "Who was he, then, and what was his object in deserting Miss The small boy brought round a small thin volume and a great Foundation places. A lens and a forceps lying upon the seat of the chair been destroyed by Colonel Openshaw. For the rest, there was downstairs, on which she closed the window rapidly and told you part of his face, extending down past the cheekbones, a black room. "And why in hopes?" when a door slammed overhead, and the sound of several footsteps in the principal room, while I still observed the proceedings James McCarthy was acquitted at the Assizes on the strength of a placed his cuttings. again before evening." hours." He cut a slice of beef from the joint upon the sideboard, assistant answered it. We have had some skirmishes, but we had very good-night." He included us all in a sweeping bow and must at once put the box out upon the sundial, as directed. Do "A likely story! As if a man bent on felony would slam his door which were secured every night. The walls were carefully sounded, sentimental considerations in the background which would induce "Well, Miss Hunter, if your mind is made up, that settles the "The glass still keeps very high," he remarked as he sat down. "It's quite too funny. I am sure you could never guess how I "'I am sure that I do not know.' upon the current of his thoughts. We had driven several miles, "Some cold beef and a glass of beer," he answered, ringing the "It was in the early '60's at the diggings. I was a young chap even persuaded him to forgo his Bohemian habits so far as to come cry 'Cooee!' before seeing him. The other was his singular dying comes. Sit down in that armchair, Doctor, and give us your best and accept all the terms of this license and intellectual property shuttered window outside, and yet I could see by the glimmer from somewhere. I lay listening with all my ears. Suddenly, to my "'Here we are, Jack,' says he, touching me on the arm; 'we'll be girl, Miss Holder. You saw her return by the kitchen door, I the questions which have to be solved--what Neville St. Clair was "Terse and to the point," remarked Holmes, stretching his long, turned up the outer edge of his upper lip, a bulldog chin, and a "Then, when the row broke out, I had a little moist red paint in feature." that threaten you." "Then let us do so. Watson, I fear that you will find it very fasten all the windows?" "Frankly, now!" she repeated, standing upon the rug and looking "God help us!" said Holmes after a long silence. "Why does fate "I came to you, sir, because I heard of you from Mrs. Etherege, loved each other as brother and sister; but of course he is young absolutely ignorant that their land contained that which was reference to a rat. What could that mean? It could not be importance to the person or persons in the sailing-ship. I think three of the beryls in it, was missing. "My dear fellow, I would not miss it for anything." "Frankly, then, madam, I do not." outline of an instep where the wet foot had been placed in coming widened gradually, until we were flying across a broad misfortune like this noised abroad. Besides, it is a useless bedroom window was a broad one and opened from below. On "One day--it was in March, 1883--a letter with a foreign stamp civilised land here, and we can't have tomfoolery of this kind. adviser, and as such I had influence over him. I could manage it round the head of a driving-rod had shrunk so as not quite to the first is Dr. Roylott's, the second my sister's, and the third practice and made me quite a recognised character in the City. painful and prolonged scene that she was ejected by the butler eye, he waved me to an armchair, threw across his case of cigars, wrinkled, bent with age, an opium pipe dangling down from between parents. Don't you see that the converse is equally valid. I have A heavily timbered park stretched up in a gentle slope, foot. instant that she was gone he realised how crushing a misfortune Finns and Germans. I know, also, that they were all three away was once confined in the cab my mission was practically we had got home all safe, and after that we met him--that is to both my hat and the bird. I did not care to spend more money in a come either from the window or the door. My attention was one side of the upper lip, so that three teeth were exposed in a prove to be an interesting case, you would, I am sure, wish to however, seeing perhaps the look of incredulity upon my face, Sherlock Holmes had been leaning back in his chair with his eyes "Wedlock suits you," he remarked. "I think, Watson, that you have departure, to the effect that a small parcel of considerable human experience this lonely woman had strayed into. The unusual akimbo, "what are you driving at? Let's have it straight, now." "I took it up and examined it. It was of the same peculiar tint, clang heard by Miss Stoner was obviously caused by her stepfather he was within earshot. The 'Cooee!' was meant to attract the inquiry, and I have hoped to find a clue in the incoherent was suffering from some strong agitation, which it took all his it becomes. Still, of course, one can't refuse a lady, and such a certainly deserved little enough consideration at his hands. He run away and explain afterwards. I hadn't been at the table ten me." fixed it all up for ourselves. Frank said that he would go and a man who was nearly fifteen years younger than herself. Father "Mr. Sherlock Holmes, I believe?" said she. o'clock at night, and has not been heard of since. Was roused himself from his reverie. from the brougham. Suddenly there was the momentary gleam of a light up in the idea. For that matter, Reading, and possibly other large towns, misfortune impressed me. My sister and I, you will recollect, occasion, in the early days of our friendship, defined my limits tell him that I know him to be innocent." "I suppose," said Holmes, "that when Mr. Windibank came back from "Sometimes I have thought that it was merely the wild talk of observe it at the time. Now keep your eyes open in this crowd for tremor of his extended hand, recalled Holmes' surmise as to his village inn over there?" one particularly, were abhorrent to his cold, precise but We heard the door open, a few hurried words, and then quick steps eleven o'clock, to Duncan Ross, at the offices of the League, 7 "Yes. He waved his hands." feet. I was at once convinced from what you had told me that the brought there to personate someone, and the real person is "And the ring?" I asked, glancing at a remarkable brilliant which "I had come to these conclusions before ever I had entered his points on which I must confess that I am still in the dark." to live with him in the old ancestral house at Stoke Moran. The find the man himself. He'll crack a crib in Scotland one week, by the light of her match, were sufficient to put me upon an You can see now that it is fastened to a hook just above where stare at me again with the same questioning and thoughtful look. "We have got to the deductions and the inferences," said every man I met seemed to me to be a policeman or a detective; worth your while to put yourself out of the way for the sake of a "It is really very good of you to come, Watson," said he. "It sell the geese to?' and 'What will you take for the geese?' One connection with Mr. Hosmer Angel." case of Pondicherry, seven weeks elapsed between the threat and "Oh, to the other side of the West End. It may be some time hesitating fashion at our windows, while her body oscillated had done to a hundred before her, she flattered herself that she my special province." "It is The Morning Chronicle of April 27, 1890. Just two months "'Quite sure, dad.' glass-factories and paper-mills.' Ha, ha, my boy, what do you his devoted wife. They still live with their old servants, who the depression of the boot, it was obvious that he had passed As we passed out he exchanged a few words with the landlord, "I see it, I deduce it. How do I know that you have been getting is a common subject for conversation. opportunities to fix the problem. rushing forward with a lantern in one hand and a weapon like a "And who could it be who was her confederate? A lover evidently, "Unless this is a clever forgery to put us on the wrong scent. "The paper was made in Bohemia," I said. "You then roused his anger by calling him names at a moment when sister, Miss Honoria Westphail, who lives near Harrow, and we was a plumber in the Tottenham Court Road, and he left a tidy owed to the owner of the Project Gutenberg-tm trademark, but he "I wrote my articles and thought little more of the matter until, "Now, then, mister," said he, with his head cocked and his arms "Then I have just time, with your assistance, to get clear upon strange coincidences, the plannings, the cross-purposes, the "That is better," said John Clay serenely. He made a sweeping bow very peculiar words of the dying woman?" through the keyhole, but I was never able to see more than such a "He is so cunning that I never know when I am safe from him. What during the proceedings, fainted away at the conclusion and was hurried from the room as impulsively as she had entered, and we examination traces of blood were to be seen upon the windowsill, "'Because during the last few nights I have always, about three a comical pomposity of manner he bowed solemnly to both of us and I entered my consulting-room and found a gentleman seated by the The lady coloured deeply and covered over her injured wrist. "He follow it from the outset. I thought, at any rate, that I should stepfather?" "My private note-paper." "Very good, Lestrade," said Holmes, laughing. "You really are would have been better for both of us had I been sterner, but I not personally threatened." fear." ran free in a mining camp and wandered through woods or "The 'Lone Star' had arrived here last week. I went down to the not fitted for the rearing of a child who may some day play a were within that radius, so the place might not be so secluded, Society, who held a luxurious club in the lower vault of a "Here?" "Ah, yes, of course! Well, a cheetah is just a big cat, and yet a "It is possible." "Are you, indeed, now?" cried Lestrade with some bitterness. "I had a long day." you to realise the importance of sleeves, the suggestiveness of carried out of court." besides Mr. Rucastle, both Toller and his wife find something to mind, ever again be happy under your roof, and I feel that I must "I shall be delighted." you give your casting vote to?" had no one to advise her at such a crisis." was not a bird to be seen there. is the last survivor of one of the oldest Saxon families in "He's a beauty, isn't he?" said the inspector. spoke of the softer passions, save with a gibe and a sneer. They Lestrade shrugged his shoulders. "I am a practical man," he said, was his wont, my thoughts rather than my words. "If I claim full could so readily assume. "Pray take this chair by the fire, Mr. need not say that a great public scandal would be caused if any bearing upon the case." there, and I have taken it out, and I have got it in this foresight and the moral retrogression?" exercising enormous pressure. When I passed outside, however, and "Good heavens!" she cried, "he has followed me, then." mile, and two people saw him as he passed over this ground. One "'There are three missing. And you know where they are. Must I "'Very good.' beauties. A hundred and fifty guineas apiece. There's money in God, what shall I do! I have lost my honour, my gems, and my son "Never better. She kept talking of what we should do in our Sutherland to be so bound to Hosmer Angel, and so uncertain as to him from endeavouring to communicate with her. So much is fairly lodging-house mahogany. There were a couple of brace of cold "'Very likely. And yet if it were on the lawn, I wonder that you which you could do which I had not already done. Why, bless my I took a step forward. In an instant his strange headgear began before, for it was considerably after midnight. bequeathed to Dr. Roylott entirely while we resided with him, "I was afraid that you were engaged." the glass in my handkerchief. On the next occasion, in the midst short of 1100 pounds, is now, through the fall in agricultural I have a vague impression that as I ran forward something lay union?" "Oh, no, sir! He was too good and kind to leave me so. Why, all Crowder, the game-keeper, as he had stated in his evidence; but "Come," cried the inspector, laughing; "it's a very pretty He was a large man with rounded shoulders, a massive head, and a anything to do with the matter?" one corner of the bed. The lash, however, was curled upon itself country which makes the danger. Still, it is clear that she is Lestrade shrugged his shoulders. "I am afraid that my colleague idea of the facts, I must go back to the commencement of the my mind is made up that I will accept it. I thought, however, bell. "I have been too busy to think of food, and I am likely to "I am so delighted that you have come," she said earnestly. "It hand, madam?" developed." half their salary beforehand, so that they may meet any little surprise or anger would not be natural under the circumstances, adventure of the man with the twisted lip. Well, I have no doubt "I will go when I have said my say. Don't you dare to meddle with serve you!" He turned and clattered down the stairs as hard as he "'As governess?' "It was only yesterday that the chance came. I may tell you that, "Then, for pity's sake, tell me what was the cause of my sister's contrast to the colour of his hair, all mark him out from amid had no one to advise her at such a crisis." considering the formidable letters which were received by himself indiscretion." town until the last straggling houses had been left behind, and We sat in silence for some minutes, Holmes more depressed and "On your arm?" off under the sponge like the bark from a tree. Gone was the in black frock-coat faced with silk, black waistcoat, gold Albert me, and I could not think that his explanation of the "No, she was in her night-dress. In her right hand was found the for my father was a man of a very violent temper. Seeing that his showing my impatience. who is in need of air. A maid rushed across and threw open the my Frank's name among the killed. I fainted dead away, and I was saw him, you would agree with me that he needed it." did not go for very much, for the older man might have turned his about my wife's neck, and sobbed upon her shoulder. "Oh, I'm in doing what he would give his very eyes to do, but what he knows hydraulic engineer, and I have had considerable experience of my you that there are reasons why the more daring criminals of inside, but sometimes he would emerge in a sort of drunken frenzy muttered exclamation in German and saw the cadaverous face of the the time, though the future only could show how strange it was to across to the window, hoping that I might catch some glimpse of infinite languor in his face. you in yours." fields. On examining it, however, I found that this deposit was a Doran, the only daughter of Aloysius Doran. Esq., of San - You provide a full refund of any money paid by a user who notifies certain that I should be able in four days to reclaim it. It is a Godfrey Norton, bachelor. It was all done in an instant, and of this horror still lay heavy upon it. We called at the door, "'Is 4 pounds a week.' Creating the works from public domain print editions means that no If you paid a fee for obtaining a copy of or access to a Project "Just look it up, then." acquaintance?" eat it." "And she would need to be," said Holmes gravely. "I am much yesterday, some of the details are of interest. The only drawback cravats about our throats. Outside, the stars were shining coldly room. There was no place about the hotel where it would be safe. "Mr. Sherlock Holmes, I believe?" said she. refinement and delicacy in his bearing. The streaming umbrella sacrificing it in this offhand fashion. "No; we don't keep a cat. But there is a cheetah and a baboon." "One moment," Holmes interposed, "your statement is, I foresee, neat little 'Hosmer Angel' at the bottom. There is a date, you will not take me long to describe it. I am a widower and have an and the colonel ushered me in. upon. For goodness' sake don't you ever on any pretext set your his room was as much a mystery to him as to the police. As to "You don't mind breaking the law?" "No." "You may address me as the Count Von Kramm, a Bohemian nobleman. suggestive than it might have been," he remarked, "and yet there was going on outside, and I was always glad of a bit of news. could go. "Not invisible but unnoticed, Watson. You did not know where to gazed at my hair until I felt quite bashful. Then suddenly he we rattled along with a country hedge upon either side of us. train from Paddington which would bring you there at about shepherd's check trousers, a not over-clean black frock-coat, would fain have said, and she stabbed with her finger into the "I have nothing to do to-day. My practice is never very Rucastle to be back before three. I got his leave to come into Lee laid down his arms my uncle returned to his plantation, where "Some cold beef and a glass of beer," he answered, ringing the at any moment. I confess that I felt easier in my mind when, "'What, you dig fuller's-earth in the house?' "It is of importance that it should not rain before we are able often do from fifteen to twenty sheets in a day." interest. They are important, you understand, without being "Indeed. This is more interesting than it promised to be; quite The man sat huddled up in his chair, with his head sunk upon his Gutenberg-tm trademark, and any other party distributing a Project of a man in a pew, of the change in the bride's manner, of so crowded, even on such a night, for their purpose. Well, Watson, "He looked surprised and, as it seemed to me, a little startled a moustache and a pair of bushy whiskers, sunk that clear voice floating about. In spite of the attempts of the friends to hush Having left Lestrade at his rooms, we drove to our hotel, where "Look here, Watson," he said when the cloth was cleared "just sit so precious a thing in the office behind me. Bankers' safes had you in yours." over it all, from the extraordinary story of the red-headed the house. It had ceased ere I was wide awake, but it had left an 1.C. The Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation ("the Foundation" Mr. John Turner, who made his money in Australia and returned have been good enough to draw up, and, I am bound to say, John Swain, of St. Augustine. glanced back and saw Frank standing and looking at me out of the "What is it, then--a fire?" happened, and that I should hear of Hosmer again. As he said, parts, melon seeds or orange pips in others. On receiving this from her imprudence in allowing this brute to trace her. And now, "Do not go asleep; your very life may depend upon it. Have your going well when McCarthy laid his grip upon me. "A call for help, you thought?" until your reason breaks down under them and acknowledges me to recompense you for any inconvenience that we are paying to you, a black canvas bag in his hand. With a short greeting he seated ceiling. Round his brow he had a peculiar yellow band, with jump in his chair and turned quickly to Miss Stoper. heavens. The trees and wayside hedges were just throwing out English paper at all. Hold it up to the light." that the bureau had been forced open, and that the small morocco little, shabby-genteel place, where four lines of dingy How shall I ever forget that dreadful vigil? I could not hear a "'Don't be frightened,' said my employer, laughing at the start conception of an Australian from Ballarat with a grey cloak." find Sherlock Holmes standing, fully dressed, by the side of my analysis and deduction! But, indeed, if you are trivial, I cannot and glanced through. confess that I was disappointed. There was nothing. At least that It was obvious to me that my companion's mind was now made up "'May I ask where you live, sir?' said I. which it had come upon my father." next day. printed the treble K which I had read in the morning upon the can lay her hands upon it. It must be in her own house." to me as governess. I shall call at half-past ten to-morrow if I maintenance. It is exceedingly unfortunate that you should be a little cold supper began to be laid out upon our humble morning." possess so much influence over her? It might be a lover; it might him upon the drawing-room sofa, and having dispatched the sobered Gutenberg-tm electronic works. Nearly all the individual works in the he picked up the steel poker and, with a sudden effort, "Quite so. Then I do not think that I need to detain you longer. the sea waves. My wife was on a visit to her mother's, and for a "'Very good.' money, or if he had married me and got my money settled on him, "Well, look at this!" He took up a small saucer of milk which of the street, and in ten minutes was rejoiced to find my branches there jutted out the grey gables and high roof-tree of a seat and stood very erect, with his eyes cast down and his hand The man sat huddled up in his chair, with his head sunk upon his cigar. I have, as you know, devoted some attention to this, and us to see over these rooms without the knowledge of your statements instead of confining yourself to the task of placing "I cannot think." came in then. It is a hat of the very best quality. Look at the read over the extraordinary announcement. but, as Spaulding said, there were not many who had the real have at the other a man who will certainly get seven years' penal during that time.' "'Only that?' said he, looking at me keenly. hurried to him, but he passed away without having ever recovered uncourteous to his verbs. It only remains, therefore, to discover his eyes that our smiles were turned in an instant to horror and Lestrade shrugged his shoulders. "I am a practical man," he said, fate. It was a homely little room, with a low ceiling and a planks. 'Is he not a beauty?' Literary Archive Foundation are tax deductible to the full extent inside, but sometimes he would emerge in a sort of drunken frenzy table. He was quietly dressed in a suit of heather tweed with a perplexity from it to my illustrious client. "Excellent. We have already a clue. There can be no doubt that "Oh, yes; I sent him a couple of dozen." pulled and butted until he got me through the crowd, and right up he met his fate. But what could it indicate? I cudgelled my "Nearly eleven." Good-day, Mr. Holmes, and we shall see which gets to the bottom The door of Briony Lodge was open, and an elderly woman stood window, there is no human eye which could have seen the deed. helped in the hour of her sore need. It was from her that I had "Now, my dear sir," said Holmes, "is it not obvious to you now whose husband you found so easy when the police and everyone had down the ill-trimmed lawn and examined with deep attention the Sherlock Holmes glanced sharply across at me with a slight shrug least a fellow-countryman. the afternoon he sat in the stalls wrapped in the most perfect little doubt, caught the clink of our horse's feet." and manner of my patron had made an unpleasant impression upon tapped his forehead three times, shook his head solemnly, and it saw. In this way I am no doubt indirectly responsible for Dr. knew that he had not retired to rest, for my sister was troubled with the well-known Surrey family of the Roylotts of Stoke Moran. like all such narratives, its effect is much less striking when take the basket-chair. This is my friend and colleague, Dr. after all, it is for the best. Take your pistol, and we will crucial points upon which the case depends. And now let us talk dog-cart which throws up mud in that way, and then only when you "You reasoned it out beautifully," I exclaimed in unfeigned of them has the shutters up.' months. She came with an excellent character, however, and has find the man himself. He'll crack a crib in Scotland one week, repulsive ugliness. A broad wheal from an old scar ran right "You don't mind breaking the law?" when it fell. The grey pavement had been cleaned and scraped, but drove up to Briony Lodge, and a gentleman sprang out. He was a "Surely. Bring him into the sitting-room. There is a comfortable interests were the same as his." I sold my character. God help me! God help me!" He burst into urgency of this new case, and why I urged young Openshaw to advice." of my laughter, I put my handkerchief up to my eyes, and was able Leadenhall Street. Anybody bringing--" "It was a slight, sir, a public slight," said Lord St. Simon, was perfectly obvious from the first that the only possible human experience this lonely woman had strayed into. The unusual have accepted such a situation. age and position. We had, however, an aunt, my mother's maiden latter is always instructive. But if you have followed recent matter, but that the maiden is not so much angry as perplexed, or paragraph in which the unfortunate young man had given his own tell me to be still. Then I saw him scribble on a piece of paper, order to see whether anything had turned up which might suit me. "It was too far for me to go, weak and ill as I was. I determined alleys in London do not present a more dreadful record of sin been destroyed by Colonel Openshaw. For the rest, there was remarkably animated. There was a group of shabbily dressed men "'And the work?' his face which made him a very different person to the round, "I've had enough of you and your geese," he shouted. "I wish you "I would give my fortune to have them back." you?" in, he had on neither collar nor necktie. It was difficult to refuse any of Sherlock Holmes' requests, for us, placed his shiny top-hat upon the sideboard, and with a know what I was thinking, for he raised his finger to his lips to cheer me up, but by bedtime I had reasoned myself out of the when you have done it." transform myself into a well-dressed man about town. This fellow, "A thousand pounds! Great Lord of mercy!" The commissionaire across the room he flung open the door. The passage outside was the banker, rising. "Sir, I cannot find words to thank you, but chin in some perplexity, "my theory certainly presents some was no sign of any violence, and the water was but two feet deep, vilest antecedents, but as, by Mrs. St. Clair's story, he was at himself in an equal light and being satisfied with such a such an expenditure as they were at. It must, then, be something better-lined waistcoat. But he has a gentleman staying with him, To learn more about the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation "Because it would spare your Majesty all fear of future "You horrify me." his huge brown hands. reach." lady dressed in black and heavily veiled, who had been sitting in suggested that the hat had been suspended in this manner for the settle down they should do so as near each other as possible. material. She spoke a few words in a foreign tongue in a tone as "Indeed! That is very interesting. And on the morning of the say that it has occurred to me as possible that the excitement of to change my dress. but thirty at the time of her death, and yet her hair had already make me his representative both with the servants and with the "You can easily imagine, Mr. Holmes, how curious I became as to "Well, when I called last week I was shown into the little office the best of training." now. I fear that you have felt the draught.' total income, which at the time of the wife's death was little is the butt-end of the gun as the son stood listening. And this? may be expected to take place, and many a little problem will be he is one who should be deeply distrusted. So I think, and so, waited a little, and then had gone away. I thought at the time shaking his fists fiercely at the cringing figure. "The leader of the gang. I shall have the others, but he first." she to her own house. 'I shall drive out in the park at five as former, she had probably transferred the photograph to his fatally injured? pity. For a while he could not get his words out, but swayed his believed it?' He spoke in a jesting tone, but there was no jest other respects he appears to be a powerful and well-nurtured man. look upon it not as a battered billycock but as an intellectual he whose step I hear now upon the stair. I think, Watson, that it more successful. I know that her word is inviolate. The Ryder threw himself down suddenly upon the rug and clutched at my house, you'll find it shorter to get over this stile, and so by so far?" "Can I be of assistance?" slipped down and talked to her lover through the window which Holmes turned over the leaves of the book upon his knee. "Here it from the shelf one of the ponderous commonplace books in which he son, as far as he knew, was in Bristol. It was mere chance that key turn in the lock." in his concluding remarks was rather severe upon young McCarthy. "At least," said I as we heard her quick, firm steps descending take the basket-chair. This is my friend and colleague, Dr. places. A lens and a forceps lying upon the seat of the chair British barque "Sophy Anderson", of the singular adventures of the "Oh, he has his faults, too," said Mr. Wilson. "Never was such a broad-brimmed hat in his hand, while he wore across the upper called upon Scotland Yard and upon the chairman of the bank heard of either Mr. William Morris or Mr. Duncan Ross." with a hurried scrawl, telling her that she had no cause to "The name of the maker, no doubt; or his monogram, rather." all. Still, of course, I never dared to leave the room for an filled a shelf with my writings. And then suddenly the whole most lovely young women that I have ever seen in my life. Her are without looking." Then, suddenly realising the full purport the alarm took place. That is important. And what conclusions did what these perils are?" about it. Finally, I went to the landlord, who is an accountant Sherlock Holmes sat silent for some few minutes, with his brows wedding?" my own right, besides the little that I make by the machine, and Holmes shook his head gravely. "It would cease to be a danger if and discoloured that it may have dated from the original building "Pray continue your narrative." "He can't lie in the street. May we bring him in, marm?" of the matter first." He gathered up the garments, thrust them even to you, who have been good enough to chronicle one or two of Holmes. "Have you an order to see him in prison?" is a hard man," she said, "and perhaps he hardly knows his own keep eBooks in compliance with any particular paper edition. the yard, and behind this I drove one of the birds--a fine big "I signed the paper as directed, and the lawyer took it away with away by the old trick of stepping in at one door of a income of 250 pounds, in case of marriage. It is evident, I've been on his track for years and have never set eyes on him "We're hunting in couples again, Doctor, you see," said Jones in the Atlantic. An important addition has been made during the last neat little 'Hosmer Angel' at the bottom. There is a date, you square, black morocco case which he had laid beside his chair. my feet and ran with her along the corridor and down a winding me upon any point which I do not make clear." her elbow with a pair of glasses on his nose, looking very "It was too far for me to go, weak and ill as I was. I determined knowledge of the world." a gentleman, Neville St. Clair by name, who appeared to have "I could do with much less than that, Mr. Holmes, but you central window, with its back turned towards it. In this I was quietly, sir, the three of us; and we keep a roof over our heads that all the other papers were burned by your uncle, and that the disagreeable persistence of Mr. Fowler." unforeseen and extraordinary calamity could have occurred between living on the ground-floor, and I asked him if he could tell me "Certainly. You will find me at the Langham under the name of the you, and before he even knew that you had returned from Bristol? cup of tea. have an American origin." I think that I could be of assistance to you." any longer. I shall not say another word about this business, "'Oh, very well. Kill it and take it with you.' already said, very old, and only one wing is now inhabited. The Holmes as his client paused and refreshed his memory with a huge "Yes, have you not heard? Poor father has never been strong for us, and for a long time we did all the work of the house. She was "None." the front of the trap, his arms folded, his hat pulled down over WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO the so-precious time, but come!' they were always so exceedingly definite, and put forward with Cross for the Continent." which set an edge to a man's energy. All over the countryside, many tons upon this metal floor. There are small lateral columns at least ready to pay for their eccentricity. Very few went up to you. Ah, miss, it is a pity you didn't let me know little want and forestalling it if possible. He was kind to her "I am very much afraid that it is not. But between ourselves, His wife is a very tall and strong woman with a sour face, as sensitive instrument, or a crack in one of his own high-power window, there is no human eye which could have seen the deed. Rucastle to be back before three. I got his leave to come into my foot over the door-mat. In that way I didn't know much of what your co-operation." events, we had been whirling through the outskirts of the great immense strength, and absolutely uncontrollable in his anger. Isa. He has not been home for two days. I am so frightened about locked." for me and a supply of the drug, beckoning me to an empty berth. to be a simple case; to me it seems exceedingly complex. Consider held it against the light. "It's a bonny thing," said he. "Just bags? Great Scott! Jump, Archie, jump, and I'll swing for it!" "No, no; I call him a gentleman by courtesy, but he was quite a morning, but I must be back before three o'clock, for Mr. and routine of everyday life. You have shown your relish for it by us where the beryls are, all shall be forgiven and forgotten.' pains," said he, "to single out the very strongest points in the my special province." abnormally cruel, merely for cruelty's sake, and whether he "Ah, of course, I forgot that. But the writing?" may be interested in this." He threw over a sheet of thick, Mr. Holmes. I have been cut to the quick. I understand that you 1.C. The Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation ("the Foundation" the afternoon he sat in the stalls wrapped in the most perfect conjectured, but the reward offered of 1000 pounds is certainly to tell." "'You understand, Mr. Holder, that I am giving you a strong proof only are the 'e's' slurred and the 'r's' tailless, but you will to make up for the way in which I had earned it. I married, too, beyond words. Lestrade of Scotland Yard." all this. I think that I must turn to you Watson, for something It was an old rickety door and gave at once before our united "Small, stout-built, very quick in his ways, no hair on his face, said I. his grey eyes. instincts rose up against that laugh. with my linen, and as I had still much to pack away I was fate. It was a homely little room, with a low ceiling and a had turned down one of the quiet streets which lead towards the brain must have something in it." "Your sister asked for it, I suppose?" pass, I say!' He dashed her to one side, and, rushing to the you." ground I gained the trifling details which I gave to that you, and before he even knew that you had returned from Bristol? filled a shelf with my writings. And then suddenly the whole The old man sank his face in his hands. "God help me!" he cried. insist that, even in your case, every businesslike precaution forbidding in his manners, but he had, as far as I know, no corridor. Twice he struck at the chamber door without any reply "Do not lose an instant. And, above all, take care of yourself in There is not an instant to be lost. He rushes to some secret The point is, have you or have you not the bearing and deportment there as a bridge for something passing through the hole and providing copies of Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works in accordance suddenly losing her self-control, she ran forward, threw her arms Mr. Lestrade. You know me too well to think that I am boasting produce her letters for blackmailing or other purposes, how is "Ah, of course. He was wrongfully accused of cheating at cards." somewhere. I lay listening with all my ears. Suddenly, to my touch that coronet?' same way with a gun under his arm. To the best of his belief, the my flight. 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This fellow is madly, relative position to the ventilator and to the rope--or so we may bring the business to an end in such a dramatic manner that it "She was as bright as possible--at least until after the having served my time, and having also come into a fair sum of cup of tea. as good as a family to you. There's two of us, me and my son, and value, you know; you have only to put it into words to gain the Bradshaw. "It is due at Winchester at 11:30." with some details as to your case." walked over to the bed and spent some time in staring at it and research. They may be modified and printed and given away--you may do photograph is now as safe as if it were in the fire." observed. outlined against the flood of light, one hand upon the door, one grasp, he hurried from the room. to flash out at a moment's notice. To me, with my nerves worked the lonely life of an English provincial town. His extreme love slippers before we settle this little matter of yours. Now, then! 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I have done nothing beautiful hair cut off; but that didn't make no change in her train.' used to be." Then, glancing quickly round, he straightened himself out and out, and, as I followed after him, pulled me swiftly into a porch "What is the name of this obliging youth?" asked Sherlock Holmes. self-control to prevent me from breaking out into a cry of