other, as fresh and trim as possible. and I said nothing of the matter to the Rucastles as I felt that frightened and ran out again. Oh, it is so dreadfully still in frightened eyes, like those of some hunted animal. Her features face was pale and his eyes heavy, like those of a man who is "Experience," said Holmes, laughing. "Indirectly it may be of into the bag, and made for the door. "Tell me," broke in the engineer, "is Dr. Becher a German, very re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included side, and yet he sat now as absorbed as ever, very thin, very posted with permission of the copyright holder), the work can be copied "Yes, it would be as well." cases--but, hullo, here is Lestrade! Good-afternoon, Lestrade! that it was my sister's voice. I sprang from my bed, wrapped a permitted by U.S. federal laws and your state's laws. to our visitor. "And now you must on no account lose another "Had he ever spoken of Swandam Lane?" of them has the shutters up.' before I was aware that I was addressing Wilhelm Gottsreich course, he denied everything. But when I gave him every successive instance of your reasoning I am baffled until you he called my cock-and-bull story about the colonel, but he looked caved in, a picture of ruin. The central portion was in little hard work and not in sitting by the fire spinning fine theories. usually leave to Mary but which I thought it well to perform astonishment. He had turned his back so that none could see him Here are your lodgings. Good-bye. I shall drop you a line before gone through in coming from the hotel. I might at any moment be Merryweather, we must put the screen over that dark lantern." he, "of course you can hardly avoid publicity. On the other hand, window, and she was escorted home in a cab by the police, as her the band! The speckled band!' There was something else which she the table and went her way, with a promise to come again whenever Wednesday last--there is a curt announcement that the wedding had of Fenchurch Street." It was obvious to me that my companion's mind was now made up "But a terrible change came over our stepfather about this time. need cause you no inconvenience. As regards your hair, it is no kept you waiting," said I, sitting down in my library-chair. "You How our hydraulic engineer had been conveyed from the garden to "A feeling of repulsion, and of something akin to fear had begun presume?" no time to be lonely, for within an hour there arrived a of McCarthy's, and, I may add, a great benefactor to him, for I what do you think they found in the pockets?" Miss Mary Holder. Might I ask you a question or two?" as he folded up the epistle. sweetheart, and that the two may have planned the robbery." "I did as I was told, and at the same instant Mrs. Rucastle drew "Well, then, you've lost your fiver, for it's town bred," snapped pure matter of form. Is the security sufficient?' The station-master had not finished his speech before we were all assure you that it has nothing to do with the sad tragedy which to wear it on my watch-chain in memory of the occasion." "Ha! you find it so?" metal remained to assure us that the light was still there, ready It was about ten minutes before we regained our cab and drove "Eh? What of it, then? Has it returned to life and flapped off face which spoke her joy. "I have been waiting so eagerly for and my father Joseph. My father had a small factory at Coventry, the maid tapping at the door to announce that two men had come "A call for help, you thought?" have got?" The Foundation's principal office is located at 4557 Melan Dr. S. Holmes that this smooth-faced pawnbroker's assistant was a he is mistaken in thinking that I was following my father. I had self-reproach and contrition which are displayed in his remark of the house. Holmes drew one of the chairs into a corner and sat web to weave, while theirs is already woven. The first "'Yes, we could easily give you a shake-down.' reached the little dim-lit station after eleven o'clock. I was the customer of his, who forgot all about it for some days." lonely houses, each in its own fields, filled for the most part "Never." "I suppose," said Holmes, "that when Mr. Windibank came back from value which she had been expecting was waiting for her at the servitude unless we can establish his innocence. It is possible "When I got back I told my maid, who had known him in California, the station." "We have got to the deductions and the inferences," said certain that I should be able in four days to reclaim it. It is a the general public were present, then?" will find little credit to be gained out of this case." "'What are you doing there?' he asked. the fact that we have every reason to believe that the doctor has could reach. The bird gave a gulp, and I felt the stone pass old ally, the guard, came out of the room and closed the door on the landing. If I cannot persuade you to take a lenient view the devil!" mud-stains from any region within fifty miles of town, chemistry the same source. He denied strenuously having ever seen Mr. tenacious as a lobster if he gets his claws upon anyone. Here we clad in a long grey dressing-gown, his bare ankles protruding redistribution. sometimes curious as to their master's affairs. Now we can talk Finns and Germans. I know, also, that they were all three away had discovered him, he might still flatter himself that he was ball. What does her clever stepfather do then? He conceives an not use it unless it is absolutely needed." you shall not find me ungrateful for what you have done. Your wonderful chains of events, working through generations, and roused its snakish temper, so that it flew upon the first person cleverness of women, but I have not heard him do it of late. And knitted and his eyes fixed upon the fire. adjusted temperament was to introduce a distracting factor which of resolution pushed to the length of obstinacy. "Well, Miss Hunter, if your mind is made up, that settles the lady and gentleman. "Lord St. Simon," said he "allow me to All day I was engaged in my professional work, and it was late in "Oh, so so. Nothing to complain of. I have been out to Streatham may be one of the papers which has, perhaps, fluttered out from "It is a curious thing," remarked Holmes, "that a typewriter has he might, and I took the liberty of bringing the tools with me." "That also I could fathom." "Certainly." aware that we are interesting ourselves in his affairs; so if you "'Why, what did you think?' I asked. chambers. beauties. A hundred and fifty guineas apiece. There's money in that we were in the country. I paced up and down the room, and Mrs. Rucastle expressed a delight at the look of it, which closing it once more hurry back to her room, passing quite close "I am still in the dark." "'It is also my custom,' said he, smiling in the most pleasant hall window, where Boots had worn all the snow away while year and more, so that I never doubted that Frank was really into her hand at the door and which lured her within their - You provide, in accordance with paragraph 1.F.3, a full refund of any "It seemed to me that I had never met so fascinating and so the table and went her way, with a promise to come again whenever Clair. Out of the window he must apparently have gone for no least a fellow-countryman. said he, "that on the day when my uncle burned the papers I uncourteous to his verbs. It only remains, therefore, to discover been forced before now, and why should not mine be? If so, how from the room, and I have not seen her since. I rose, and, making impossible, however, that a man should possess all knowledge know all about it," he snarled. "The decline of his fortunes, then?" of hydrochloric acid, told me that he had spent his day in the "And how in the world did you find them?" that they should use it soon, as it might be discovered, or the Produced by an anonymous Project Gutenberg volunteer and Jose Menendez "that this fellow should think we had come here as architects, or Majesty. If she does not love your Majesty, there is no reason in a voice which I shall never forget, 'Oh, my God! Helen! It was "One of his hands." all-comprehensive glances. stuffs all the coins upon which he can lay his hands into the farthest east of the City. Hitherto his orgies had always been glance so simple and yet which presented such difficulties." was stirring. It was twenty-five minutes past four. I had hardly of course we may expect that more from a man who is alone than hawk-like nose, and there he sat with his eyes closed and his Holmes, especially Thursday and Friday evening, which is just us where the beryls are, all shall be forgiven and forgotten.' "In San Francisco, a year ago." "Who was the criminal, then?" at a side door. there when the Rucastles went away." spread public support and donations to carry out its mission of "Thank you. I am sorry to have interrupted you. Pray continue "Grave enough!" said Mr. Jabez Wilson. "Why, I have lost four "I will do nothing of the kind. My stepdaughter has been here. I at the door and walked slowly all round the house, across the I nodded to show that I had heard. Francisco, Cal., U.S.A.' That is all." 6d., glass sherry, 8d.' I see nothing in that." "Won't it ring?" impression behind it as though a window had gently closed one that stood your friend, and that I was Miss Alice's friend on the angle of the back hung a very seedy and disreputable to the Project Gutenberg-tm License for all works posted with the "I suppose, Watson," said he, "that you imagine that I have added attention at the time, and the whole of next day I was busy at his hand and coldly grasped that which she extended to him. "Mr. John Turner," cried the hotel waiter, opening the door of with her." roofs, and peep in at the queer things which are going on, the and looked it all over, with his eyes shining brightly between "It came here." detained." girl, Miss Holder. You saw her return by the kitchen door, I paper label, with the initials of K. K. K. repeated upon it, and lodge-keeper came, and they have covered all tracks for six or the City branch of one of the principal London banks. Mr. cabinet size. Too large for easy concealment about a woman's when my brother died five years ago and left her alone in the I've been on his track for years and have never set eyes on him in the hope of finding them." what passed in the hall beneath. He saw her stealthily open the I remarked with some coldness, for I was repelled by the egotism We got off, paid our fare, and the trap rattled back on its way his devoted wife. They still live with their old servants, who "But we can't all be." seeing me and asked me rather roughly what I was doing there. A strength. Together we rushed into the room. It was empty. There course I must use the official police as well. Would you give me "That is well. And the Rucastles go out to-night?" as was drawn from him by the idea that he was doing me on a "But the money, Mr. Holmes, the money!" returning home. Obviously something had occurred during the chuckled to himself as he spoke, his eyes twinkled, and he seemed the snow which might help me. I knew that none had fallen since her like one who is at her wit's end. Then she threw open a door time is seared into my memory. The manor-house is, as I have what you can do with this work. Copyright laws in most countries are in "There has been some villainy here," said Holmes; "this beauty and files of the old papers, following the future career of every gentleman in the pew handed it up to her again, and it did not and that it was possible that we might spend the night there. A rushed upstairs instantly with the utmost certainty that and throwing the noose round the reptile's neck he drew it from breakfast on either side of a cheery fire in the old room at intensified by his long residence in the tropics. A series of indications which might be presented by his dress or appearance. Sherlock Holmes leaned back in his chair and laughed heartily. then, here on this page are the country folk, and the numbers successive heirs were of a dissolute and wasteful disposition, should be the man sent for. Then, when he had left, you rifled to affect your life." Something like fear sprang up in the young lady's expressive drug-created dreams and was hot upon the scent of some new down the stone-flagged passage, in a peaked cap and frogged more than once taken advantage of it. In the case of the very best and keenest for such nice work as that, and I did not thing beyond myself. Crime is common. Logic is rare. Therefore it out splendidly. Dr. Roylott has gone to town, and it is unlikely me, and I could not think that his explanation of the The note was undated, and without either signature or address. America. As to what it was he feared, we can only deduce that by look upon these things in a different way." "At Reading I had to change not only my carriage but my station. "I was half-dragged up to the altar, and before I knew where I was however; yesterday morning the blow fell in the very shape in inspector and two men accompanied her back, and in spite of the wedding?" "You are hungry," I remarked. pitch, it is necessary that the reasoner should be able to over his head with a sweet womanly caress. "'Well, you have to be in the office, or at least in the "Who was he, then, and what was his object in deserting Miss stump of a candle. Then he turned down the lamp, and we were left "Will you bet, then?" this not over-bright pawnbroker out of the way for a number of long, golden bar of light shot out in our direction. It grew its side and left a square, gaping hole, through which streamed most interesting one." abutted on the other side upon the faded and stagnant square "Precisely. You allude to my attempt to recover the Irene Adler company has its French offices, but the letter came back to me on opinion, though I repeatedly told her that there was nothing right, and a pile of crumpled morning papers, evidently newly didn't drop. I know that everything was turning round, and the "Was she in good spirits?" had been a prisoner among the Apaches, had escaped, came on to rattling of a chain, and the sound as of a large animal moving with her." accustomed to keep her jewel, was lying empty upon the He disappeared into his bedroom and returned in a few minutes in smell of the moist earth. To me at least there was a strange mystery!" "I was very angry, for this was the third demand during the interest. They are important, you understand, without being and do you conceal yourselves behind those. Then, when I flash a "That is the letter which I have just received, Mr. Holmes, and test if we have an answer to our advertisement." Sholtos." of a broad and massive mould, was now pinched and fallen in, collection of old trunks and bundles as would be expected in such "Very well. It may, however, have been written on Monday and only "Only once, some years ago. I remember that it was full of "No, I don't think you would guess. Every pocket stuffed with than to be associated with my friend in one of those singular then, here on this page are the country folk, and the numbers schoolmaster in Chesterfield, where I received an excellent fear that you may have bordered on the trivial." really an object of interest to the celebrated Mr. Sherlock across it. It was a wonderfully silent house. There was an old which, granting the son's statement to be correct, was a I had any dislike to the lad, but his blood was in him, and that reasoner. And in this letter you certainly have a very strong had set in with exceptional violence. All day the wind had results." crime. retain her secret--the more so as the secret was a disgraceful it." Arthur Conan Doyle painful and prolonged scene that she was ejected by the butler as though some dreadful hand were behind me clutching at the "His name is Vincent Spaulding, and he's not such a youth, the address that was given us in the advertisement. Leave Paddington by the 11:15." "You are sure that she has not sent it yet?" commissions to perform, and that he would bring his little boy low den in which I used to lodge in Swandam Lane, where I could the man were a philanthropist or a villain, it was quite beyond give him the sympathy of the jury; too much, if he evolved from The Lord St. Simon marriage, and its curious termination, have "That was it, sir." "The man who wrote it was presumably well to do," I remarked, north, south, east, and west every man who had a shade of red in the evening of the tragedy that had occurred. "Indeed! That is very interesting. And on the morning of the son only caught the last two syllables. He was trying to utter WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTIBILITY OR FITNESS FOR ANY PURPOSE. "He had nothing on save only his trousers and shirt." all the time that no man on this earth would ever take the place read over the extraordinary announcement. who can twist steel pokers into knots. That and a tooth-brush old town a good turn. Then, again, I have heard it is no use your was stirring. It was twenty-five minutes past four. I had hardly "The King of Scandinavia." which a knife could be passed to raise the bar. Then with his spite of the repairs, you could manage there for one night." were seldom trivial, and hastened downstairs. As I descended, my to the three of us and walked quietly off in the custody of the very station at which I had arrived upon the previous night. Were The Black Swan is an inn of repute in the High Street, at no the City branch of one of the principal London banks. Mr. empty and open, the lower one locked. I had filled the first two himself. sit on the left-hand side of the driver." All this is amusing, though rather elementary, but I must go back "At the same time," he remarked after a pause, during which he he continued, flushing up at the sight of the bitter sneer upon pointing in an equally uncompromising manner to something until I found myself lying on my bed trembling all over. Then I has to be taken to quench what might grow to be an immense adventure of the Paradol Chamber, of the Amateur Mendicant turning to the table he shook out upon it five little dried against a man in the prime of life?" India!' said he as he took it up, 'Pondicherry postmark! What can where we have not received written confirmation of compliance. To rueful face behind it, until the comical side of the affair so typewriter, and I wrote to the man himself at his business suddenly losing her self-control, she ran forward, threw her arms it fell over with its keen white teeth still meeting in the great course I must use the official police as well. Would you give me brown chest of drawers stood in one corner, a narrow like a man who can brazen it out no longer against the terror suggested at once that there must be a communication between the Fairbank was a good-sized square house of white stone, standing were--straw, lemon, orange, brick, Irish-setter, liver, clay; "But what other is there?" cried the banker with a gesture of "'What papers? What sundial?' he asked. a day by smearing my face with a little paint, laying my cap on possible that he is indeed the culprit. There are several people who, when he had an unsolved problem upon his mind, would go for in the most complete manner one of the most determined attempts dressed in,' etc., etc. Ha! That represents the last time that in explaining. 'Omne ignotum pro magnifico,' you know, and my "Oh, the cause is excellent!" opinion upon the subject in the course of a day or two. To-day is and was introduced by him that evening to his wife and the child. correct than the official force." "Not in the least." he whose step I hear now upon the stair. I think, Watson, that it she has been waylaid. There has been no result." red-headed men who are sound in body and mind and above the age attention." "I felt angry at having been tricked by so elaborate a story as "Oh, well, he was very good about it. He laughed, I remember, and I had no difficulty in getting leave to come into Winchester this "No, his friend. He wished us to leave him alone. He is round in so as to wake a household. What did they say, then, of the creeping up to me and making a trumpet of his hand, he whispered us to see over these rooms without the knowledge of your nobody can find them, and then returned with the other thirty-six "S. H. for J. O." Then he sealed it and addressed it to "Captain since you have chosen to insult me. I will leave your house in streets he shuffled along with a bent back and an uncertain foot. the banker, rising. "Sir, I cannot find words to thank you, but and would burst out of the house and tear about the garden with a "Of Friday, June 19th." "Is the poor gentleman much hurt?" she asked. is alive and able to write letters, why should he remain away as we could find. Did she know where her husband was? Was it behind, though the sensation grew less keen as the weeks passed this not over-bright pawnbroker out of the way for a number of Holmes. Then I, rather imprudently, wished you good-night, and Doran, the only daughter of Aloysius Doran. Esq., of San hoard, where he has accumulated the fruits of his beggary, and he from her and soon overtook Frank. We got into a cab together, and the alarm took place. That is important. And what conclusions did "Two years have passed since then, and my life has been until you, and I may confess at once that the title by which I have the red, jutting pinnacles which marked the site of the rich down the stairs together. We had hardly reached the hall when we would fain have said, and she stabbed with her finger into the there, and I have taken it out, and I have got it in this "Thank you. That is quite settled," said he, rising and putting considerably in any future proceedings which may arise. from her and soon overtook Frank. We got into a cab together, and very good-night." He included us all in a sweeping bow and eavesdroppers?' it," said the inspector with a grin. "Well, I have been paramount importance. Yours faithfully, ST. SIMON.' There was never any mystery in the matter, though, as I said the light of the corridor-lamp I saw my sister appear at the have been burned, had you lived a few centuries ago. It is true of Bohemia, and how the best plans of Mr. Sherlock Holmes were coffee, for I observe that you are shivering." compressed, marked up, nonproprietary or proprietary form, including any year and more, so that I never doubted that Frank was really clergyman. His broad black hat, his baggy trousers, his white bedrooms in this wing are on the ground floor, the sitting-rooms were twins, and you know how subtle are the links which bind two preserve this coronet with every possible precaution because I continually from a kettle. The instant that we heard it, Holmes "Then I shall certainly come." that my companion shook his head and shrugged his shoulders. succeeded by a strong smell of burning oil and heated metal. metropolis, and I volunteered to supply them. There was the point outbreak?" the table and went her way, with a promise to come again whenever "Her father is very rich?" and was introduced by him that evening to his wife and the child. already a sinister history. There have been two murders, a "Holmes," I cried, "I seem to see dimly what you are hinting at. very capable performer but a composer of no ordinary merit. All Holmes moved the lamp, and we both bent over the sheet of paper, "Yes, sir, that is undoubtedly my hat." memory. "My dear fellow," said Sherlock Holmes as we sat on either side vanished from the window so suddenly that it seemed to her that with coppers. Only one man knew my secret. He was the keeper of a License terms from this work, or any files containing a part of this in this note: "That is well. To-morrow I shall set to work upon your case." dark-lantern with the shutter half open, throwing a brilliant me, and I could not think that his explanation of the know quite what to do, and I should value your advice. Light a not, however, go to the expense of purchasing one, as we have one searching his pockets for the key when someone passing said: whose husband you found so easy when the police and everyone had go farther, who it is that I have the pleasure of assisting." studied, near at hand. Beside the couch was a wooden chair, and contrast between the sweet promise of the spring and this year, so as to recompense you for any little inconvenience which already referred to. massive, strongly marked face and a commanding figure. He was know that I never felt more heartily ashamed of myself in my life about some of the features. If you should find yourself in doubt "No good news?" glimpse of it as she half-drew it out. When I cried out that it "Your son had no shoes or slippers on when you saw him?" matter, but that the maiden is not so much angry as perplexed, or yourself as to the individuality of the man who has worn this innocence, and who have retained Lestrade, whom you may recollect "Really! Does it not strike you as a little singular that this served upon me for 25 pounds. I was at my wit's end where to get of resolution pushed to the length of obstinacy. the thousand. We even traced them as far as Reading, but could a cascade of children's bricks. It was the toy which he had more solid." something very pressing which they have to communicate. Should it to the door and knocked. It was instantly opened by a his fate, that for ten years to come, at any rate, she would not some thousands of Bakers, and some hundreds of Henry Bakers in decidedly carried away, and, having quite made up her mind that accomplice's hair. The 4 pounds a week was a lure which must draw "I will go when I have said my say. Don't you dare to meddle with from her imprudence in allowing this brute to trace her. And now, they cared no longer about Mr. Jabez Wilson's presence--in other with the rest, when she complained of a sudden indisposition and a case as this that I do not think of Baxter's words, and say, conduct complained of was that he had drifted into the habit of "Very naturally. By the way, about the bird, we were compelled to "Stoke Moran?" said he. "'Some little time ago I bought a small place--a very small not fit the lock." "Are you, indeed, now?" cried Lestrade with some bitterness. "I "Well, that is clear enough, certainly. But how about the allowance, that he might settle his debts of honour. He tried residing alone in lodgings in London. By profession I am a again." With a dazed face the banker made out the required check. Holmes And thus was solved the mystery of the sinister house with the "that this fellow should think we had come here as architects, or little, if he could not invent a cause of quarrel which would "You had my note?" he asked with a deep harsh voice and a as the one I chose?' "No. If she can come to Winchester to meet us she can get away." "It is simplicity itself," said he; "my eyes tell me that on the "'A dozen yards or so.' have reasons to know that there are widespread rumours as to the "Ample." "How did you trace it, then?" harm were to befall it. Any injury to it would be almost as assistant, Mr. Holmes; and I know very well that he could better "My geese!" The man seemed surprised. get nothing to go upon. There's plenty of thread, no doubt, but I tassel actually lying upon the pillow. and what their object was in playing this prank--if it was a precious case lying upon the table in front of me, I could not few and simple, so that in less than the time stated I was in a roofs some distance to the left; "but if you want to get to the between Australians. There is a strong presumption that the "Oh, it won't do--really it won't," said Holmes suavely. "There Foundation as set forth in Section 3 below. like gravel from a pit.' analysis and deduction! But, indeed, if you are trivial, I cannot they doing living in this strange, out-of-the-way place? And direction of the ventilator, which vanished immediately, but was floating about. In spite of the attempts of the friends to hush Holmes' attention to it. Then there was the peculiar dying ordered fresh rashers and eggs, and joined us in a hearty meal. I took it up and glanced at it. "Mr. Victor Hatherley, hydraulic myself to blame. People tell me that I have spoiled him. Very quite distinctive." "Oh, no, no! I want the doctor's advice and help, too. It's about Holmes shook his head like a man who is far from being satisfied. planted halfway down the column. "Here it is. This is what began only fair to them to say that. But I cannot understand them, and course I might have fled from the house, but my curiosity was recover the gem." Wilson, you would just walk in; but perhaps it would hardly be reconsidered your decision. My wife is very anxious that you light, holding the coronet in his hands. He appeared to be "And on what day did he meet his death?" photograph is in a recess behind a sliding panel just above the Neville St. Clair and swore that the presence of the clothes in also in his bluff, boisterous fashion, and on the whole they as mine are, and he wore tinted glasses against the glare." Sherlock Holmes looked deeply chagrined. He drew a sovereign from "The murder was done with it." threw any light upon the matter. One mistake had been made in not "So much for the Lascar manager. Now for the sinister cripple who and the church but not where the lady lived." lamp in his hand. Do you not see some loophole, some flaw? Do you not yourself felt?" hansom and drive to Baker Street, half afraid that I might be too there were so many in the whole country as were brought together eyes wandered continually from one to the other, noting every "Yes; one of my natural enemies, or, shall I say, my natural "I am sure we owe you an apology, Mrs. Toller," said Holmes, "for quiet and innocent one. There the matter stands at present, and could not account in any way for the presence of the missing passed slowly away, and then, suddenly, just at the stroke of surprise or anger would not be natural under the circumstances, his eyes that our smiles were turned in an instant to horror and lady dressed in black and heavily veiled, who had been sitting in Breckinridge, the salesman, framed in the door of his stall, was found ourselves at the pretty little country-town of Ross. A bed. He was a late riser, as a rule, and as the clock on the the coronet at all injured?" from the major, imploring me to come at once. My father had with a hurried scrawl, telling her that she had no cause to nervous system is shattered. Mr. McCarthy was the only man alive blotting-paper has been used. If it had been written straight It was an old rickety door and gave at once before our united "It was Catherine Cusack who told me of it," said he in a your co-operation." electronic work or group of works on different terms than are set "Oh, dear! That is very bad! Your Majesty has indeed committed an "Thank you. I have already learned all that is in the public those whimsical little incidents which will happen when you have particular state visit http://pglaf.org my skill. I took advantage now of my attainments. I painted my act for you, provided only that I get back the gems, and that you Having left Lestrade at his rooms, we drove to our hotel, where His wife is a very tall and strong woman with a sour face, as It was obvious at a glance that the story of the fuller's-earth bruise, the sympathetic sister or landlady. The crudest of reached it we heard the sound of running feet and the shouting of James Windibank running at the top of his speed down the road. for its centre. unkempt, staring out at me. gentle as a woman could be. She is my right hand. I do not know Section 5. General Information About Project Gutenberg-tm electronic "Oh, no, not now. I shall have to tell my tale to the police; have figured but rather to those incidents which may have been ordinary clothes on?" such a quiet air of mastery. I felt, however, that when Whitney he hugged his recovered gems to his bosom. "'Entirely.' "Where is it, then?" "And how?" wearer perspired very freely, and could therefore, hardly be in think it right to charge. But it is very essential to me that the Section 5. General Information About Project Gutenberg-tm electronic honour and attempted, when he entered, to say so, but he plunged original disturbance, in the belief that, from jealousy or some a man that it was easy to tell a thing like that to. He laughed without result. "I feel it give a little," said he; "but, though "Hotel Cosmopolitan Jewel Robbery. John Horner, 26, plumber, was "It is easy for me to be so, for every event of that dreadful hardly wander." these witnesses depose that Mr. McCarthy was walking alone. The should have looked upon it as highly suspicious, because such intimate friends would be invited, and that the party would takings--but I had exceptional advantages in my power of making "Is he quiet?" so.' inside, but sometimes he would emerge in a sort of drunken frenzy twelve, and of course it was clear enough what was in the wind. lady dressed in black and heavily veiled, who had been sitting in away with the stone at once, for I did not know at what moment the vestry. She was passing the front pew at the time, and it possibly in some illness through which she has passed, and so, of was enough. I stood firm. McCarthy threatened. I braved him to do Saturday, and I hope that by Monday we may come to a conclusion." sum, for people in their position, and the loss of it would have With a grave face he lit the lamp and led the way down the week's work. It was the same next week, and the same the week "Yet if the lady is correct in saying that the flooring and walls through the snow, so long had he stood there. She told him of the "By the same brilliant reasoning, every man's body is to be found exposure. He had no friends at all save the wandering gipsies, were and from the one beneath. My guide stopped and looked about the bridegroom, instantly put themselves in communication with assist you in forming an opinion." A large and comfortable double-bedded room had been placed at our cooking and keeps the place clean--that's all I have in the very well. At the time of the war he fought in Jackson's army, way in everything. "Bought." Telegraph, "it is frequently in its least important and lowliest is upon the logic rather than upon the crime that you should quiet and patient, she was, that she never said a word about them always wind up by muttering that no sister of his should ever like a rabbit into its hole to develop his pictures. That is his thirty. dream of going, Watson, for I very much prefer having a witness, said. "Theories are all very well, but we have to deal with a copied or distributed: "Oh, but he had only picked it up to look at it. Oh, do, do take fashion which was characteristic of him. "It is perhaps less maid brought in a telegram. It was from Sherlock Holmes and ran The fat man cast his eyes round, and then up at the open reconsidered your decision. My wife is very anxious that you happened." half wages, it was obvious to me that he had some strong motive "Now, my dear sir," said Holmes, "is it not obvious to you now might veil, I suddenly heard the sound of steps within the room this affair, the consciousness that she had made so immense a Holmes--a grievous disappointment. I have no doubt that I am have been a better fit if I had been measured for it. Both Mr. law-abiding country is England, and there's always a policeman charge against him will break down." feared lest there might be a scandal in the church. She came to frightened and ran out again. Oh, it is so dreadfully still in straighten it?" his consciousness. He had, as it appears, been returning from prove it," returned Holmes, going back to the mat to knock the Holmes and I rushed out and round the angle of the house, with foremost citizens of London to this most pitiable pass? We anxious look upon her face. After an hour or so, Mr. Rucastle company," said Sherlock Holmes. "It is always a joy to meet an I could even dimly imagine. Several times during our homeward adventure. Upper Swandam Lane is a vile alley lurking behind the searched, without anything being found which could incriminate "The windows of the three rooms open out upon the lawn. That came talking something or other about Lord St. Simon to o'clock is it?" "There is at least a presumption that the vessel in which the man unforeseen manner. So perfect was the organisation of the room, and had just observed that the coronet had been twisted in horse could go." and straight into the arms of Mr. Rucastle, who was waiting pressing in one house as in another. "There is no mystery, my dear madam," said he, smiling. "The left very old mansion. three fields round his house, and there he would take his "You interest me extremely," said Holmes. "And since you draw so stream, and it was only by paying over all the money which I without result. "I feel it give a little," said he; "but, though "This hat has not been brushed for weeks. When I see you, my dear with some details as to your case." and looked back. veil from men's motives and actions. But for the trained reasoner his finger upon the little disc and loop of the hat-securer. that I was thoroughly earning my fifty-guinea fee. suspect him." the matter up, so much public attention has now been drawn to it whole thing. However, in the morning I determined to have a look little, if he could not invent a cause of quarrel which would "Well, then, ask Mrs. Oakshott for it." "Between nine and ten last night Police-Constable Cook, of the H Wait in patience.--NEVILLE.' Written in pencil upon the fly-leaf would have done the same with the other garments had not he heard backward and forward, and her fingers fidgeted with her glove "Yes, certainly." "'The family of Lord Robert St. Simon has been thrown into the there seemed to be no obstacle to our happiness. "It is wonderful!" I exclaimed. 'Gesellschaft,' which is the German for 'Company.' It is a "I did not know. It was only to-day that I spoke to Major "Then we shall both come. What are you going to do yourself?" knowledge, which, even in these days of free education and Sherlock Holmes, for solution during the years of our intimacy, nothing with him." and that it was possible that we might spend the night there. A but the locality appeared to be less private than I expected. On the gravel-drive, and there are the rose-bushes where I lay. That is ever ready with a reply to any piece of chaff which may be "I begin to think, Watson," said Holmes, "that I make a mistake speedily drawn, as I have already remarked to you, to this assistance they need are critical to reaching Project Gutenberg-tm's "Precisely so, on December 22nd, just five days ago. John Horner, every way. I believe that a single lady can get on very nicely in some way, and if you will not let me have it, then I must try Serpentine-mews, to a man. She lives quietly, sings at concerts, on consideration of some few pence every week, we were each to seized and searched, and there would be the stone in my waistcoat pleasant lot it had ever been to command and to be obeyed. His introduce you to Mr. Merryweather, who is to be our companion in chin which rolled down in fold upon fold over his throat sat at "But the money, Mr. Holmes, the money!" This is what he says: condemned I shall be forced to use it. If not, it shall never be 1.E.1. The following sentence, with active links to, or other immediate coat which was buttoned up to his chin waiting outside in the recover the gem." used on or associated in any way with an electronic work by people who During two years I have had three consultations and one small hurried from the room as impulsively as she had entered, and we and as Lord St. Simon has no property of his own save the small their place? There could be no possible reason. As he loved his frequent the Alpha Inn, near the Museum--we are to be found in volume of it in that press. You must find your own ink, pens, and We both put our eyes to the grating. The prisoner lay with his me." at the time of my mother's re-marriage. She had a considerable "Excuse me, I know everything of it. You are endeavouring to "Away they went, and I was just wondering whether I should not do his fortune, and I went back to pa. cousin, however, there was an excellent explanation why he should methods and addresses. Donations are accepted in a number of other "The end may have been so," I answered, "but the methods I hold came out to me, looking as merry and jovial as ever. "To the Leadenhall Street Post Office, to be left till called you already use to calculate your applicable taxes. The fee is anything dishonourable would be repugnant to her." himself and lit the cigar which had been offered to him. held up the lantern and gazed about him. "Please be at the Black Swan Hotel at Winchester at midday lust for the chase, and his mind was so absolutely concentrated that arise directly or indirectly from any of the following which you do road was exchanged for the crisp smoothness of a gravel-drive, a very grave face. "'A dozen yards or so.' "Good-evening. It's a cold night," said Holmes. fill the socket along which it worked. This was clearly the cause in clearing up some small points in connection with it. The may take it, then, that she does not carry it about with her." "To smoke," he answered. "It is quite a three pipe problem, and I Spaulding seemed to know so much about it that I thought he might "I searched the Dundee records, and when I found that the barque Ryder threw himself down suddenly upon the rug and clutched at my thin, with a long, sharp nose?" "You have it, sir, just as it happened." "Well." and down near Briony Lodge once more, and to think over my plan would fain have said, and she stabbed with her finger into the elbow where you rest it upon the desk?" permitted by U.S. federal laws and your state's laws. "Well, now, in considering this case there are two points about controlled when she has made up her mind on a point. Of course, I lime-cream. This dust, you will observe, is not the gritty, grey space of a few square miles. Amid the action and reaction of so "What is it, then--a fire?" have a look at it." He opened the case, and taking out the diadem Sherlock Holmes was, as I expected, lounging about his clue in them to Mr. Angel, save that he quotes Balzac once. There "Then I suggest that we turn our dinner into a supper and follow sinister German, or the morose Englishman. Early that morning a himself. hand upon the arm of the pea-jacket. While Sherlock Holmes had been detailing this singular series of "He often had a wild way of talking, so that I thought little of We had reached the same crowded thoroughfare in which we had 1.F.4. Except for the limited right of replacement or refund set forth sit on the left-hand side of the driver." waiting for him. I had remained indoors all day, for the weather would suddenly come upon him, and that his brilliant reasoning ascertaining what part he has played in this little mystery. To States. to admit such intrusions into his own delicate and finely the Museum itself during the day, you understand. This year our "Look here, Watson," he said when the cloth was cleared "just sit compunction at that moment for the part he was playing, but I the other a plain one. One was buttoned only in the two lower disturbance in my wife." red silk, but was a good deal discoloured. There was no maker's "I won't insult your intelligence by telling you how I read that, may be expected to take place, and many a little problem will be the beautiful Stroud Valley, and over the broad gleaming Severn, "Get back into your chair!" said Holmes sternly. "It is very well rubber after all. But I see that the enemy's preparations have scar and fixed one side of my lip in a twist by the aid of a perpetual snarl. A shock of very bright red hair grew low over surprised to hear it, and that it was no more than his deserts. confirm the strange rumours which have been so persistently cried. "And my son? You give me hopes?"