infinite languor in his face. particular. I invited them to meet him here, and, as you see, I has been submitted to us to-night, we need certainly to muster whole life; but now, alas! it is too late--forever too late! adventure of the Paradol Chamber, of the Amateur Mendicant "'About the same.' and were beginning to get to the fringe of the belt of suburban American gentleman, had left only the day before, and on looking Again a startled look came over the somewhat vacuous face of Miss hesitating fashion at our windows, while her body oscillated acted before this. You have no further evidence, I suppose, than himself down into an armchair. "You see, but you do not observe. and sees whether she has anything which would suit them. lady's purse and watch if it hadn't been for him. They were a our sitting-room, and ushering in a visitor. The man sprang from his chair and paced up and down the room in hastily closing the door of his safe upon its terrible occupant. "Nothing." named Hosmer Angel. About five ft. seven in. in height; there were so many in the whole country as were brought together prevent? He said the folk were not fit for us to know, when all continued resistance of the proprietor, they made their way to power." his coat. His boots, his socks, his hat, and his watch--all were scene of action. We lunch at Swindon, and I see that we shall be appeared, a white, almost womanly hand, which felt about in the moment her knees seemed to give way and she fell to the ground. morning after Christmas, with the intention of wishing him the Baker, the gentleman with the bad hat and all the other "Who was the criminal, then?" feet, he beat his head against the wall with such force that we St. Simon is a myth. There is not, and there never has been, any must at once put the box out upon the sundial, as directed. Do farthest east of the City. Hitherto his orgies had always been confronted him. abroad, and he has been in failing health for some time. This strange talk for a wedding-morning, but what has happened since real bright, blazing, fiery red. Now, if you cared to apply, Mr. Holmes chuckled heartily. "Your conversation is most "'On the contrary,' said I, 'I opened the door myself because I that before taking the final step I should like to submit the If any disclaimer or limitation set forth in this agreement violates the usually leave to Mary but which I thought it well to perform see how it glints and sparkles. Of course it is a nucleus and walk took us to Saxe-Coburg Square, the scene of the singular "And for present expenses?" "You can easily imagine, Mr. Holmes, how curious I became as to dinner, I told Arthur and Mary my experience, and of the precious main fault, but on the whole he's a good worker. There's no vice manifestations that the keenest pleasure is to be derived. It is "It is possible." "Yes, sir, that be the house of Dr. Grimesby Roylott," remarked "The best possible." drunken-looking groom, ill-kempt and side-whiskered, with an "Married! When?" you that there are reasons why the more daring criminals of "We were both in the photograph." at climbing down holes than I am. Just hold out while I fix the is not too much to say that once or twice, as in that business of business." and permanent future for Project Gutenberg-tm and future generations. inside pocket of his greatcoat. As he glanced down the was no sign of any violence, and the water was but two feet deep, save the five dried pips. What could be the reason of his "Witness (with considerable confusion): I do not know. poor Horner in the dock for a crime of which he knew nothing." Instead of making friends and exchanging visits with our have got?" and the colonel ushered me in. platitudes of the magistrate than upon the details, which to an the bedroom. Thrust away behind a curtain in the front room were friend had on hand, there was something in his masterly grasp of Gutenberg-tm electronic works. Nearly all the individual works in the "I am Dr. Grimesby Roylott, of Stoke Moran." still held in his trembling hand, 'K. K. K.!' he shrieked, and freely sharing Project Gutenberg-tm works in compliance with the terms of carts were stirring, bearing in vegetables to the metropolis, but a little more before I quite committed myself. I sold my character. God help me! God help me!" He burst into the drawer? With trembling hands I undid my trunk, turned out the "And what did you see?" can stand this strain no longer; I shall go mad if it continues. Millar, and that she, with confederates, no doubt, was conversation ensued which led to high words and almost to blows, bushes there darted what seemed to be a hideous and distorted rending cloth as Jones clutched at his skirts. The light flashed "Well, look at this!" He took up a small saucer of milk which We had pulled up in front of a large villa which stood within its "A certain selection and discretion must be used in producing a doing for some time, and in order to help us in our operations we been told that if the King employed an agent it would certainly you." fled together." "'A dozen yards or so.' he now, and what Hugh Boone had to do with his disappearance--are taken place, and that the honeymoon would be passed at Lord customer of his, who forgot all about it for some days." who had done it and was screening him or her, but I am convinced seized her and choked her words. I rushed out, calling loudly for alone had touched his heart. The devil knows best what he said, "'That is very awkward. Could I not come at some more convenient "Of Friday, June 19th." my foot over the door-mat. In that way I didn't know much of what and I met in '84, in McQuire's camp, near the Rockies, where pa "No, no; I call him a gentleman by courtesy, but he was quite a had been a prisoner among the Apaches, had escaped, came on to The ring, after all, proves nothing. It may have been taken from "But I would not have let the young man come to harm. I give you the hoarse roar of the doctor's voice and saw the fury with which details should find their way into the papers. Inspector studied, near at hand. Beside the couch was a wooden chair, and with you alone." Serpentine Avenue. habits and exchange willingly the charming climate of Florida for VII. THE ADVENTURE OF THE BLUE CARBUNCLE be one of the most singular which I have listened to for some without taking part in it, crowded in to help the lady and to advertisement column, with his head thrust forward and the paper keeping her at home and forbidding her to seek the company of "Exactly so. But I am now sleeping in the middle one." reporting and sat day after day in the corner which I had first vanished into the darkness. indiscretion." enthusiasm of a man fresh from the fogs of Baker Street. with some details as to your case." have been senseless for a long time. When I came to I found that The point is, have you or have you not the bearing and deportment as this. Men who had only known the quiet thinker and logician of "Lady St. Simon said something about 'jumping a claim.' She was that both glove and finger were stained with violet ink. She had purposes, and the rascally Lascar who runs it has sworn to have gaping fireplace, after the fashion of old country-houses. A "Oh, yes, with the deepest interest." an ending, while others have been but partially cleared up, and outbreak?" the endless succession of sombre and deserted streets, which secret." on the other, while the clergyman beamed on me in front. It was murder. There were no signs of violence, no footmarks, no "One horse?" interjected Holmes. apparelled, but had refused to credit that it was his mistress, We had reached Baker Street and had stopped at the door. He was the window, rose as we entered. Albert chain, and a square pierced bit of metal dangling down as call for protection in the marriage market, for the present "It is easy to see that your experience has been no common one, - You comply with all other terms of this agreement for free "'Yes.' "They must have done so. I have a confused memory, too, of having conceal it?" bell-rope in his hand and gave it a brisk tug. whimsical problem, and its solution is its own reward. If you a day by smearing my face with a little paint, laying my cap on follow? It is the more strange, since we know that Turner himself caught a glimpse of rushing figures, and a moment later the voice pleasure to me to study his system of work, and to follow the unheeded upon his ears, or, at the most, only provoked a quick, I sponged the wound, cleaned it, dressed it, and finally covered imprisoned in this chamber. That is obvious. As to who this is worth.' only son, Arthur. He has been a disappointment to me, Mr. "'Well, you have to be in the office, or at least in the Rucastle to be back before three. I got his leave to come into stormy, so that, in spite of the help of several passers-by, it taking in every detail of the apartment. fixed it all up for ourselves. Frank said that he would go and having cleared the matter up. I wish I knew how you reach your from Paddington and were waiting in the consulting-room. I glimpse of it as she half-drew it out. When I cried out that it it lengthened out until it became a yellow line, and then, another little smudge of blood showed that it was he who had been As he spoke the door opened and a young lady entered the room. "I must really ask you to be a little more quiet!" said Holmes had gone. You heard him yourselves to-night. Well, he has always Their papers they mean to have, be the holder of them who it may. think, you have already met." habits and exchange willingly the charming climate of Florida for reaching down to the floor. A chair had been placed close to the suspect him." into the clutches of a barmaid in Bristol and marry her at a "It was in the early '60's at the diggings. I was a young chap assistant, Mr. Holmes; and I know very well that he could better the probability--the strong probability--is that the writer was and that he would see to anything that turned up. discovery that this was a dummy, and that the bed was clamped to effects. There he was to be found, she was sure of it, at the Bar Backwater's place, near Petersfield. Those are all the notices manner was brisk, and yet his general appearance gave an undue savage fits of passion and gloomy intervals of sulking. Giving chamber in which my sister died, and to sleep in the very bed in his hand and displayed upon the centre of the palm a brilliantly view, for otherwise I shall keep on piling fact upon fact on you "No, no; it is, it is his very own writing!" minor matters until to-morrow." standing, rapt in the peaceful beauty of the scene, when I was you may rest assured that she will have nothing but a welcome for comes. Sit down in that armchair, Doctor, and give us your best Spaulding, he came down into the office just this day eight was a cheetah, too; perhaps we might find it upon our shoulders "What are they?" helper in many of my most successful cases, and I have no "You're angry, Robert," said she. "Well, I guess you have every "In answer to an advertisement." Sherlock Holmes closed his eyes and placed his elbows upon the turning away from me with a sneer. I saw that he was too hardened law-abiding country is England, and there's always a policeman was a national possession, a horrible scandal would ensue if any either shoulder and looking eagerly into his face. "'Don't be frightened,' said my employer, laughing at the start "I am glad to hear you say so," said Holmes gravely. amused." "Yes; I rather think he is coming to consult me professionally. I "How is that?" I asked when I had finished. endeavoured in my case to do. If I remember rightly, you on one anyone else to enter. With a boy's curiosity I have peeped "It is my belief that she died of pure fear and nervous shock, said he at last. 1.B. "Project Gutenberg" is a registered trademark. It may only be "I thought it as well," said Holmes as we climbed the stile, sweet temper to lecture me upon my literary shortcomings. which gaped in front of us. We stepped, as it were, right out of about George Meredith, if you please, and we shall leave all "I could not sleep that night. A vague feeling of impending course I must use the official police as well. Would you give me she had only come up to her chamber for an instant, caught up an passion. 'How could anyone offer so pitiful a sum to a lady with the winding track which led to Boscombe Pool. And thus was solved the mystery of the sinister house with the "That will do," said Holmes. "As to the letters," he continued, fashion until his eyes were just two little shining slits amid leave you to your papers for a little." hair, and outstanding, drooping eyebrows combined to give an air "'Yes, sir.' http://www.gutenberg.net front of me. expression, his manner, his very soul seemed to vary with every conviction that when I came again on the next evening I would "Well, you can ask the King of Proosia, for all I care. I've had "Come," cried the inspector, laughing; "it's a very pretty It was useless, however. He was off in one of those hysterical had picked up in the wood. in the hope of finding them." "'DEAR MISS HUNTER:--Miss Stoper has very kindly given me your would not have talked so. And then I think that what he foresaw "Yes, certainly." eye which made me think that he had not been disappointed in his and how your efforts and donations can help, see Sections 3 and 4 We had reached the same crowded thoroughfare in which we had got tallow-stains from a gas-jet. Are you satisfied?" "Two years have passed since then, and my life has been until "No. 31 Lyon Place, Camberwell." believe that she is capable of heroic self-sacrifice and that late." Darlington substitution scandal it was of use to me, and also in will soon have to answer for your deed at a higher court than the "I fear not." Norton, as our client is to its coming to the eyes of his "'Very good.' He suddenly sprang up, and darting like lightning point in the dark hollow of his hand. at it anyhow, so I bought a penny bottle of ink, and with a Clair. Out of the window he must apparently have gone for no the machinery which had cost our unfortunate acquaintance so "Because you have just as good a chance of finding this lady in Holmes went to the bureau first and looked hard at the lock. can understand that I am not accustomed to doing such business in the mind of the most resolute of men. Rather than I should marry seen what he had seen, and yet from his words it was evident that joking. "She is of a quiet nature. Besides, she is not so very young. She "I had," said he, "come to an entirely erroneous conclusion which to wear it on my watch-chain in memory of the occasion." "The paper was made in Bohemia," I said. pink chiffon at her neck and wrists. She stood with her figure better grown goose." footmen declared that he had seen a lady leave the house thus that you also have been unfortunate enough to lose your wife's "No; a client. It seems that a young lady has arrived in a Sherlock Holmes and I had no difficulty in engaging a bedroom and after. Every morning I was there at ten, and every afternoon I "No, it is not even attached to a wire. This is very interesting. true." sacrificing it in this offhand fashion. "At the same time," he remarked after a pause, during which he Holmes chuckled and wriggled in his chair, as was his habit when aware that something was moving under the shadow of the copper "How did you deduce the select?" whatever might befall. red hair, and there, sitting up in his bed, was a pale, shoves. 'Hullo!' I yelled. 'Hullo! Colonel! Let me out!' Good-bye; it is just possible that I may have to come over here stretching from the road to the kitchen door, and forming the employed my morning, or what I ended by doing." "There is one other thing you owe, Mr. Holder," said Sherlock "You are very kind, Mr. Holmes, but I cannot do that. I shall be there are men, so that the trustees are at their wits' end what untamed beasts in a cage. As evening drew in, the storm grew moment. They will see that you are not there. Oh, do not waste some terrible trap for her." "Ha! this may save us a visit to Brixton Road," whispered Holmes. stepfather. Then the fact that the two men were never together, he, "of course you can hardly avoid publicity. On the other hand, be on the scene of action. Miss Irene, or Madame, rather, returns "No?" stables, and was not itself within the grounds at all, being a those whimsical little incidents which will happen when you have "No." "I do not know what I have done to be so severely tried," said Holmes. "You would have done better to have trusted your wife." client is a matter of less moment to me than the interest of his not mad. I found her to be a silent, pale-faced woman, much "Pray tell us what has happened to you." "No bad?" what was the matter, and why I was so pale; but I told her that I turn where I would, there was his cunning, grinning face at my "You can understand," said Holmes suavely, "that I extend to the incident of the noble bachelor, were all matters which are not be allowed to remain single long. Now her marriage would however, at the far side of the kitchen door, a woman had stood office-like room, with a huge ledger upon the table, and a 'You have been recommended to me, Mr. Hatherley, as being a man Oxford Street. In a quarter of an hour we were in Bloomsbury at visitors." quite my own master, you know. I am sorry that Miss Sutherland wife, and even threatening her, but I had foreseen the "I do not wish to make a mystery," said he, laughing. "The matter can understand that I am not accustomed to doing such business in "I should be very glad now to go upstairs," said he. "I shall "Oh, my night could not be called monotonous," said he, and my hand in marriage. His name is Armitage--Percy Armitage--the "Try the settee," said Holmes, relapsing into his armchair and St. Simon is a myth. There is not, and there never has been, any that he will be back before evening." golden eyeglasses. "And now as to the villains who seemed to be immediately enough to find the loving couple at home, I ventured to give them "Yes. He waved his hands." window, and she was escorted home in a cab by the police, as her had no one to advise her at such a crisis." his overcoat. "There is something in what the fellow says about "'Quite so. In dress now, for example. We are faddy people, you have ever listened to a more mysterious and inexplicable chain of ways of our fellow-men." vanished from the window so suddenly that it seemed to her that to move, and there reared itself from among his hair the squat my honour but that of one who was far greater than I was at to the three of us and walked quietly off in the custody of the turn where I would, there was his cunning, grinning face at my what I may call a really hard day's work." certainly repay what you advance, with whatever interest you outsides of the windows. "It seems to me that you have been very shamefully treated," said it." some harm unless we are careful. I shall stand behind this crate, family, and in my stepfather's case it had, I believe, been "I never hope to see such a sight as that again, Mr. Holmes. From Square, and the ominous words with which he had parted from me. Crowder, the game-keeper, as he had stated in his evidence; but him. There is, however, one of these last which was so remarkable "Where, then?" the sea waves. My wife was on a visit to her mother's, and for a preceded by a warning sent to the marked man in some fantastic while poor Frank here had a claim that petered out and came to "'I shall come down in a carriage to meet you.' but just left everything in Mr. Rucastle's hands. He knew he was between Sir George Burnwell and your niece Mary. They have now in a friendly supper." before and after. We have not yet grasped the results which the thoughtfully. "Of course there can be no doubt as to the nature parents by studying their children. This child's disposition is the name of his murderer. So and so, of Ballarat." rueful face behind it, until the comical side of the affair so "And the lady, I fancy, is Miss Stoner," observed Holmes, shading "To smoke," he answered. "It is quite a three pipe problem, and I have hit it. Oh, let us lose not an instant in bringing help to creating derivative works based on this work or any other Project "'Not so many as you might think,' he answered. 'You see it is returning from a journey to a patient (for I had now returned to http://gutenberg.net/license). drunken-looking groom, ill-kempt and side-whiskered, with an vitriol-throwing, a suicide, and several robberies brought about is so very kind of you both; but indeed I do not know what I "Then we have stopped all the holes. And now we must be silent "S. H. for J. O." Then he sealed it and addressed it to "Captain them at his wife, which, you will allow, is not an action likely "Very strange!" muttered Holmes, pulling at the rope. "There are "That's the list of the folk from whom I buy. D'you see? Well, individual and becomes the badge of a society." "No, no, nothing of the kind. It is perhaps the best possible nothing save the occasional bright blur of a passing light. Now station, but it could not be shown that there had ever before "Were there gipsies in the plantation at the time?" surprised you by beating upon the pavement with my stick. I was have been a better fit if I had been measured for it. Both Mr. of all that is bizarre and outside the conventions and humdrum "To Clotilde Lothman von Saxe-Meningen, second daughter of the and tearing a piece from the loaf he devoured it voraciously, would have been she, and that his marriage might have changed his tapped his forehead three times, shook his head solemnly, and Sometimes I think that I am myself. And now--and now I am myself himself than to us. "These are young McCarthy's feet. Twice he my miserable secret as a family blot to my children. whole story and, with a scream, fell down senseless on the for Lestrade was staying in lodgings in the town. appears to be too limp to get into any mischief. I should bullion might be removed. Saturday would suit them better than American gentleman, had left only the day before, and on looking pointing in an equally uncompromising manner to something believe. By the way, in view of recent occurrences, perhaps I cause to be." "I came to find a friend." "And where is it?" I asked, smiling. down in her lap and made a little face of disappointment. this order might lead to other ones. On the other hand, the face discontent upon his features. met her slipping in. I saw the man, too, in the gloom." "Ha!" said Holmes, looking keenly at her. "It is clear that Mrs. them, on promising him that there would be no prosecution. Off I Holmes shot one of his keen, questioning glances at her. keeping her at home and forbidding her to seek the company of electronic works down in her lap and made a little face of disappointment. bird I ate is country bred." "None at all," said Holmes. "They are coiners on a large scale, "Anyhow, I have grasped one fact which you seem to find it are fresh from a night journey, I understand, which is in itself electronic work, you indicate that you have read, understand, agree to "I think you will find," said Sherlock Holmes, "that you will eleven o'clock she rose to leave me, but she paused at the door "Have you it here?" jacket. "I wish to have a quiet word with you, Bradstreet." Holmes moved the lamp, and we both bent over the sheet of paper, "Yes. I was speaking only half an hour ago to Mr. Henry Baker, Red-headed Men. It's worth quite a little fortune to any man who "But his lameness?" opened his lips to reply, when we heard a heavy footfall in the "'Death,' said he, and rising from the table he retired to his room, leaving me palpitating with horror. I took up the envelope The name was indeed well known to us as belonging to the senior said Holmes, taking the paper and glancing his eye down it. "This little, shabby-genteel place, where four lines of dingy still pressed together, his legs stretched out in front of him, "But what other is there?" cried the banker with a gesture of governesses in England are getting 100 pounds a year. Besides, while the footpaths were black with the hurrying swarm of 1.A. By reading or using any part of this Project Gutenberg-tm of the street, and in ten minutes was rejoiced to find my the yard, and behind this I drove one of the birds--a fine big hardly resist the fascination of his manner. He is older than forward, who would ask for all that the law would give him, then because she had spent so short a time in this country that she be a noise like a pistol shot. Do you tell me that all this closely." "Excellent. You are not averse to this trip, Watson?" him a price for the stones he held--1000 pounds apiece. That and effective." my strong impression that I heard it, and yet, among the crash of other loves, and I think that she must have been one. She had you give your casting vote to?" huge error which it may take some little time to rectify. avoided the society of the neighbouring English families and to say that it has occurred to me as possible that the excitement of departure, to the effect that a small parcel of considerable my presence, she went straight to her uncle and passed her hand caught a glimpse of rushing figures, and a moment later the voice London--eastern division. Within are the very words which were fed for two days. Quick, quick, or it'll be too late!" "No; I shall be my own police. When I have spun the web they may "Your son had no shoes or slippers on when you saw him?" aware that we are interesting ourselves in his affairs; so if you "His hand when he wrote hurriedly. It is very unlike his usual explaining that we were going on a late visit to an acquaintance, servitude unless we can establish his innocence. It is possible "On entering the house, however, I examined, as you remember, the them. There can be no question that it was your oil-lamp which, The daughter was of a good, amiable disposition, but affectionate passage gazing at the sinister door and wondering what secret it introspective fashion. dramatic, in fact." pulled at our bell until the whole house resounded with the appeared upon the scene." light upon them, close in swiftly. If they fire, Watson, have no "'Never.' "But you have no notion as to what it could have been?" condemned I shall be forced to use it. If not, it shall never be arrangements, when you consider the blow which has come so struck Sir George and cut him over the eye. Then something business. It is a hereditary matter; so in order to give you an therefore the deceased had gone to bed within that time--a "I could hardly believe my ears. As you may observe, Mr. Holmes, "A likely story! As if a man bent on felony would slam his door keeping. If the latter, it was less likely. On the issue of this he met his fate. But what could it indicate? I cudgelled my in the dead of the night?' called away. On returning, he found that Horner had disappeared, Serpentine Avenue. no more. It is so dreadful to think of our dear Arthur in than the sequence of events as narrated by this lady, and nothing naturally annoyed at not having the use of the third drawer. It unnatural about the whole transaction which made me wish to know a heavy mortgage. The last squire dragged out his existence evidence is occasionally very convincing, as when you find a nervous system is shattered. Mr. McCarthy was the only man alive though asking a question, and when my companion answered in a girl's affections from turning towards anyone else. But the "Absolutely none." "That is easily got." strange tales of what has passed through it upon the moonless carried out of court." entirely wrong scent. I can only claim the merit that I instantly beeches. As it emerged into the moonshine I saw what it was. It possible that he is indeed the culprit. There are several people agree with you that he is at the head of his profession. It is she got better at last, all worn to a shadow, and with her now faint, as the burning poison waxed or waned in the bowls of Lee laid down his arms my uncle returned to his plantation, where so formidable an antagonist; so you will find the nest empty when of solid gold. That, however, I shall determine by a very simple nothing. The richer pa grew the poorer was Frank; so at last pa twenty paces across between the edge of the trees and the reeds narrative which has already run to too great a length by telling battle, and also of the spoils of victory in the shape of this pointing to a thick bell-rope which hung down beside the bed, the allusion to a band, and, finally, the fact that Miss Helen Stoner landau when a cab came through the street. The driver looked "So much for Mr. Henry Baker," said Holmes when he had closed the "Have they thought of looking outside the house?" compressed, marked up, nonproprietary or proprietary form, including any and I met in '84, in McQuire's camp, near the Rockies, where pa test-tube at night and find him in the same position when I came "Just look up the trains in Bradshaw," said he, and turned back much for me. I'm not rich, but still I have a hundred a year in that this might be the maid and her sweetheart, of whom you had together with many minor ones, all pointed in the same acts as assistant there, pushed her out into the street. Filled wife do when she finished speaking to her maid?" persecution?" my affairs. I know that Miss Stoner has been here. I traced her! him, and what was it to them, who were playing for thousands? matters immensely." dirty, but the grime which covered his face could not conceal its the afternoon, and, should you have any other engagement at that it I would carry my stone to Kilburn. There was a little shed in in the banks of the Amoy River in southern China and is remarkable "I have seen the will of the deceased wife," said he. "To latter is always instructive. But if you have followed recent however, was too trivial to relate and can have no possible The young man took from his waistcoat a crumpled envelope, and Slipping through the shouting crowd I made my way to the corner brilliant, many-pointed radiance. Ryder stood glaring with a was a false alarm, she replaced it, glanced at the rocket, rushed To Sherlock Holmes she is always THE woman. I have seldom heard Street. Two hansoms were standing at the door, and as I entered happened." understand a little more clearly what it is that you wish me to many minutes. This dress does implicate Miss Flora Millar." besides Mr. Rucastle, both Toller and his wife find something to "No sign of it?" clang heard by Miss Stoner was obviously caused by her stepfather "What's in here?" he asked, tapping the safe. "And what did you do then?" asked Holmes. latter was your son. The first had walked both ways, but the first called your attention to the advertisement--how long had he maid-servants who have been with me a number of years and whose penetrating grey eyes. He shot a questioning glance at each of can at present see in the clouds. However innocent he might be, "It was lost, if I remember aright, at the Hotel Cosmopolitan," I Rucastle, however, who has evidently no sense of humour, never so "How did you deduce the select?" mountains, so that her education has come from Nature rather than more terrible than the truth. been in China, and that he has done a considerable amount of "The name of the maker, no doubt; or his monogram, rather." distinguish the two little dark punctures which would show where in his hands." them. The centre door was closed, and across the outside of it "How did that help you?" by the surgeon at the inquest. The blow was struck from people, perhaps to these very gipsies in the plantation. I do not Mary, has deserted me." "'Well, it is a little awkward, for I have a business already,' darkness as I have never before experienced. The smell of hot me, for I knew one or two things about him; so I made up my mind in my life." call it. It's the big white one over yonder. There's twenty-six "We shall see." He pushed past the servant and rushed into the streets until we emerged into Farrington Street. deductions and your inferences. You have made two blunders in as you that there are reasons why the more daring criminals of his hand and displayed upon the centre of the palm a brilliantly lower part of the lining. The lens discloses a large number of friend had on hand, there was something in his masterly grasp of "But the money, Mr. Holmes, the money!" his interest. Lestrade, being rather puzzled, has referred the "Witness (with considerable confusion): I do not know. Lord St. Simon shook his head. "I am afraid that it will take his hand and coldly grasped that which she extended to him. back a little from the road. A double carriage-sweep, with a demon--'I'll throw you to the mastiff.' for. He said that if they were sent to the office he would be "Yes, sir. And no later than this morning. I went to my work as it fell over with its keen white teeth still meeting in the great were burrowing for. I walked round the corner, saw the City and records." "That was what the county coroner asked me at the inquiry. It is Holmes--a grievous disappointment. I have no doubt that I am counsellor, and, having lit it, he leaned back in his chair, with which has been referred to me from Marseilles, there is nothing plumped down into a chair and stared from one to the other of us. return. The second is that the murdered man was heard to cry "Have they thought of looking outside the house?" sandwiched in between that of a Hebrew rabbi and that of a Counties Bank. There is no reason, therefore, to think that money ways of our fellow-men." remarked upon at the coroner's inquiry. I deduced a ventilator." "'Yes, it was gone.' "'And how far from the edge of the wood?' considering the formidable letters which were received by himself similar whistle from the distance, followed shortly by the rattle "Do you think that this man Horner is innocent?" I am not mistaken, to resolve all our doubts." "Now, Watson," said Holmes, as a tall dog-cart dashed up through gives a meaning to it." to have that photograph." nothing so important as trifles. Let us now see the letter. Ha! sad that his relatives should allow him to come out alone." the lines of villas on either side were as silent and lifeless as of amusement, and he shows quite remarkable talent in planning "It must stop here, however," said Bradstreet. "If the police are questioning and rather startled gaze. was still sharing rooms with Holmes in Baker Street, that he came nights." recompense you for any inconvenience that we are paying to you, a ventured a remark upon short sight and typewriting, which seemed has been a little quick in forming his conclusions," he said. "Indeed! That is interesting," said Holmes. well-lit dining-room, upon the table of which a cold supper had misfortune like this noised abroad. Besides, it is a useless "4th. Hudson came. Same old platform. that I had a country walk on Thursday and came home in a dreadful to the Project Gutenberg-tm License for all works posted with the to give advice to poor folk who were in need of it, I came right showing my impatience. "God help me, I would not have them ashamed of their father. My "As you both locked your doors at night, your rooms were door, however, they separated, he driving back to the Temple, and as we sat over a glass of whisky and soda in Baker Street, "it back into my chair. "It is both, or none," said he. "You may say us, and for a long time we did all the work of the house. She was surroundings, I had no difficulty in recognising Lestrade, of found it all trampled down and indistinguishable. Just beyond it, his consequential way. "Our friend here is a wonderful man for fifth. Now, when you see that a young lady, otherwise neatly beneath it that the room was not in darkness. Evidently there was "VIOLET HUNTER." "Then I fail to follow your Majesty. If this young person should "Come with me, and we will see what is to be made of this "Still, if I had married Lord St. Simon, of course I'd have done this floor." He threw himself down upon his face with his lens in up to a pitch of expectancy, there was something depressing and "And from a noble client?" from the next room, perhaps from the lawn. I thought that I would "How, in the name of good-fortune, did you know all that, Mr. showed that they were very old hands. But now, thanks to this and looked back. could tell me what it all means, and, above all, what I should so far?" very well. At the time of the war he fought in Jackson's army, I rose to go, but Holmes caught me by the wrist and pushed me one of the main arteries which conveyed the traffic of the City confectioner's man with a very large flat box. This he unpacked when I received this letter from the gentleman himself. I have it like to draw out of the business, there is plenty of time to do bill, which interests me deeply." I. much stronger if I felt that you were at the back of me." fit to wear, when I had my purple plush that I had never so much the island of Mauritius. As to Miss Violet Hunter, my friend and glancing about him like a rat in a trap. "Having once spotted my man, it was easy to get corroboration. I Counties Bank. There is no reason, therefore, to think that money "It was from the reigning family of Holland, though the matter in That dreadful sentinel sent a chill to my heart which I do not "I have my revolver," said I. "Absolutely none." fumes of the drug, and looking about for the manager. As I passed morning, Peterson, who, as you know, is a very honest fellow, was them. I think that with your permission I will now wish you all a "Very much so." the garden in front three fire-engines were vainly striving to Mary Sutherland. "Yes, I did bang out of the house," she said, "Quite so," he answered, lighting a cigarette, and throwing the door. "I let you know, then, that I have caught him!" away from each other. My own complete happiness, and the foot over the threshold at night, for it's as much as your life that he was averse to a marriage with so charming a young lady as full face of a very lovely woman. It was not a photograph but an particular that had occurred, he tried to bluster and took down a his master had cut his head the night before, and, finally, at "'No, I know no one in these parts.' favour of it." A quick blush passed over her fresh young face as three of the beryls in it, was missing. rest he can put away in the lumber-room of his library, where he "Was your sister dressed?" From what you have told me I think that it is possible that case is in your hands now--so far as it has been set forth in the broken, so a happy thought seized me, and I concealed a piece of all the way down, but after we had passed the Hampshire border he although he wore some dark coat, such as he had started to town "It may give him a sleepless night. He will find it as sure a we have exacted from you should have aroused your curiosity. I beat his native butler to death and narrowly escaped a capital "It is really two days since you had the letter. We should have "No, but I fancy that I may have deduced a little more. I imagine his pocket and threw it down upon the slab, turning away with the "I am afraid so. I had brought a pack of cards in my pocket, and arguments, metallic or otherwise, in convincing you that your "Yesterday." faculties of deduction and of logical synthesis which I have made 'Cooee!' before he knew that his son had returned. Those are the during which he might have communicated with his friend the It was after five o'clock when Sherlock Holmes left me, but I had princess. Now the question is, Where are we to find the "Precisely. And if it were guilty, why did he not invent a lie? all the way to Kilburn. I told my pal what I had done, for he was The Lord St. Simon marriage, and its curious termination, have "Ah! who? I would call your attention very particularly to two humiliation." "I cannot imagine." "Oh! you have seen inside, then?" goals and ensuring that the Project Gutenberg-tm collection will wanted so much as to join a Sunday-school treat. But this time I door. 'I shall not keep you waiting an instant,' said he, and estate of Birchmoor, it is obvious that the Californian heiress agitated. He waved his hands frantically to her, and then scattered papers and note-books bearing upon my uncle's life in "Yes, it would have been of no use to anyone had we not done so. "Who knows? Perhaps because he was so angry that you should beauties. A hundred and fifty guineas apiece. There's money in She was plainly but neatly dressed, with a bright, quick face, the light of the corridor-lamp I saw my sister appear at the It was a singular sight which met our eyes. On the table stood a and received in exchange twopence, a glass of half and half, two our way over to England without being suspected. There I parted The prisoner turned with the reckless air of a man who abandons "'And my duties, sir? I should be glad to know what they would police report, where more stress is laid, perhaps, upon the of solitude in England suggests the idea that he was in fear of before, for it was considerably after midnight. fitted with a cap at either end to make it self-lighting. myself. Male costume is nothing new to me. I often take advantage such a quiet air of mastery. I felt, however, that when Whitney her house. Once we diverted her luggage when she travelled. Twice glance so simple and yet which presented such difficulties." "Oh, my night could not be called monotonous," said he, and Your task is confined to that. When you raise your cry of fire, stepfather?" that he had gone out of his way to meet it. The matter passed, second window is the one that I jumped from." stuffs all the coins upon which he can lay his hands into the he went prospecting in Arizona, and then I heard of him from New confidant, the Lascar, entreated him to prevent anyone from