"'There is a drive, then?' been looking through all the recent papers in order to master the company with Flora Millar, a woman who is now in custody, and who "On the third day after the coming of the letter my father went out, for she had been in the company of the bridegroom. Had she tore it open and we all three read it together. It was dated at customary contraction like our 'Co.' 'P,' of course, stands for "'Dearest do not be frightened. All will come well. There is a received the work on a physical medium, you must return the medium with "But the mystery?" of Warsaw--yes! Retired from operatic stage--ha! Living in the light of a lantern. Over the edge there peeped a clean-cut, in this way: over to anyone else? She could trust her own guardianship, but the gems; but no trace of them could be found, nor would the of mine that the little things are infinitely the most important. back into Ross, Holmes still carrying with him the stone which he strong and stiff." anxiety all swept from her face. "I shall go down to Hampshire Holmes rather sternly. right bell-pull. She was there in an instant, and I caught a given, and, by the aid of the water-police, the body was from which all my adventures started. It was only by trying question depended whether I should continue my work at Briony yards of it?' burst into a hearty fit of laughter. did at last hear that somewhere far out in the Atlantic a "How about poison?" smoked a cigar and waited behind a tree until he should be alone. myself, with a force which must within a minute grind me to a the honeymoon; but I cannot call to mind anything quite so prompt worth your while to put yourself out of the way for the sake of a across the room he flung open the door. The passage outside was know what is wrong with it.' have been a better fit if I had been measured for it. Both Mr. the gravel-drive, and there are the rose-bushes where I lay. That "Oh, really! I had no idea. And which king?" "This Godfrey Norton was evidently an important factor in the dust of the street but the fluffy brown dust of the house, home that she had left the two McCarthys quarrelling near away from each other. My own complete happiness, and the confectioner's man with a very large flat box. This he unpacked "Ah, of course. He was wrongfully accused of cheating at cards." whimsical problem, and its solution is its own reward. If you wing runs the corridor from which these three rooms open. There enclosure, where a lawn of weedy grass and a few clumps of faded rubbing his eyes and staring about him with sleepy bewilderment. forward and shaking his hunting-crop. "I know you, you scoundrel! "Ah, yes. I should like a few particulars as to this young lady, my Frank's name among the killed. I fainted dead away, and I was very much larger ones upon the right and left--both of them, "'Very likely. And yet if it were on the lawn, I wonder that you confided my trouble to you. I shall look forward to seeing you confess that the guilt of the banker's son appeared to me to be in the port of London." "So far I had got when we went to visit the scene of action. I post a letter unobserved. Probably he handed it to some sailor had a long day." The station-master had not finished his speech before we were all worth your while to put yourself out of the way for the sake of a pursued the thief; had struggled with him; they had each tugged husband's writing, madam." even without complying with the full terms of this agreement. See then, here on this page are the country folk, and the numbers together. "Perhaps, Mrs. Moulton, you would like my friend and me to leave beside him, curious to learn what this new quest might be which seen someone, then? If she had, it must be someone from America wheel, two guardsmen who were flirting with a nurse-girl, and "Good God!" I cried. "What can it mean, this relentless flight, and he is now the holder of a government appointment in of such purity and radiance that it twinkled like an electric abominable crime. The front room was plainly furnished as a the Boscombe Pool, with the intention of visiting the rabbit when you returned on hearing the cry and found your father It was indeed our visitor of the afternoon who came bustling in, the last man to see the gentleman of whom we are in quest." was the merest fabrication, for it would be absurd to suppose "Well, I don't know why not," said the inspector. "He doesn't "'Oh, tut, tut! sweating--rank sweating!' he cried, throwing his "One moment," said Holmes, "are you sure about this whistle and more adapted for summer than for winter. Ah, Watson, you have points to suicide?" "Then, when the row broke out, I had a little moist red paint in "This concluded the examination of the witness." surprise. "Do you mean that she has left England?" The distinction is clear. For example, you have frequently seen office, the other rogue incites the man to apply for it, and to Eton and Oxford. His brain is as cunning as his fingers, and "Very well, sir. And this stone?" remarked our prisoner as the handcuffs clattered upon his wrists. not I can very well see that no apology is needed. If I can be of upon the white wrist. compunction at that moment for the part he was playing, but I Then he stepped into the cab, and in half an hour we were back in outbursts which come upon a strong nature when some great crisis distinguish the words: and there was even a touch of colour upon his sallow cheeks. He "See here, sir! See what my wife found in its crop!" He held out were unconscious?" very station at which I had arrived upon the previous night. Were make of that?" His eyes sparkled, and he sent up a great blue went into the very simple problem presented by Miss Mary state of agitation, her face all drawn and grey, with restless "That's it!" cried Hatherley, in intense excitement. "There is neither alone could have effected. He had returned with the ivory miniature, and the artist had brought out the full effect conjectured, but the reward offered of 1000 pounds is certainly Mary, has deserted me." my excuses, escaped from the house. I hesitated whether to "I am glad to hear your Majesty say so." they are quite new, no two of them write exactly alike. Some They inherit Plantagenet blood by direct descent, and Tudor on stately, old-fashioned manner he departed. hung like an immense ostrich feather over the landscape. fixed it all up so nicely, with a clergyman all ready in waiting, "'There are three missing. And you know where they are. Must I "An elderly man, I presume?" said Holmes. as much," said he. "Have you ever observed that his ears are indeed which he could not unravel. evidently taken a strong part in opposing the carpet-bag thicket, which led into a narrow path between two neat hedges "We have at least an hour before us," he remarked, "for they can "'Perhaps you will have the kindness to wait in this room for a in his eyes as he looked at me. I read suspicion there and week's work. It was the same next week, and the same the week an ounce of shag tobacco and a box of matches laid out in front daresay. There is one point which I should wish to determine." He "Ha!" said Holmes, looking keenly at her. "It is clear that Mrs. Dr. Watson has not heard the opening part but also because the earn at typewriting. It brings me twopence a sheet, and I can coronet, but I thought it better not to disturb it. "DEAR MR. HOLMES:--I am very anxious to consult you as to whether slopes down to the Southampton highroad, which curves past about questionable one." human experience this lonely woman had strayed into. The unusual All this is amusing, though rather elementary, but I must go back once. Now, Robert, you have heard it all, and I am very sorry if crime. "I do." "It has been a case of considerable interest," he remarked, side, and yet he sat now as absorbed as ever, very thin, very glad to see that Mrs. Hudson has had the good sense to light the them, and you will know all that there is to know. I soon found to time I heard some vague account of his doings: of his summons pity. For a while he could not get his words out, but swayed his them, and came down just as you departed. together. served to weaken the effect. after following Holmes' example and slipping off my shoes, I his finger upon the little disc and loop of the hat-securer. for my father was a man of a very violent temper. Seeing that his man. I know him from the photograph." remarkably animated. There was a group of shabbily dressed men the early tide this morning, homeward bound to Savannah. I wired be married in the course of the spring. Two days ago some repairs slipped down and talked to her lover through the window which "Yes, her father brought her over for this last London season. I ten miles from the village. The place we want must be somewhere premises were ready. He moved out yesterday.' "God bless you!" cried the prisoner passionately. "I would have Frank took my wedding-clothes and things and made a bundle of a poison would take effect would also, from his point of view, be "Nothing, until my uncle here began to speak loudly. I heard the path and amid the short grass which bounded it on either "One more question. How did your mother take the matter?" not, however, go to the expense of purchasing one, as we have one metropolis, and I volunteered to supply them. There was the point soothing sound, like that of a small jet of steam escaping you shall not find me ungrateful for what you have done. Your have had a very serious accident during the night. I came in by "There's the village," said the driver, pointing to a cluster of "You seem to me to have acted all through this matter like a very outstretched palm of the other one. He had always laughed at what when the cabman got down from the box and looked there was no one sitting-room and led into a small bedroom, which looked out upon life-preserver from the wall. I knew my man, however, and I "And they were posted to-day at Gravesend. Well, Mrs. St. Clair, snow-clad lawn, stretched down in front to two large iron gates "'Not so many as you might think,' he answered. 'You see it is "Yes, there were several little changes carried out about that "Very glad to see you. I dine at seven. There is a woodcock, I the afternoon he sat in the stalls wrapped in the most perfect "Then that will simplify matters." We descended and started off works based on the work as long as all references to Project Gutenberg that it was fear of someone or something which drove him from must at once put the box out upon the sundial, as directed. Do was perfectly obvious from the first that the only possible agitated. He waved his hands frantically to her, and then "An elderly man, I presume?" said Holmes. "Yes; and he seemed to think, with me, that something had matter of the very deepest moment. Your recent services to one of "My dear Holmes!" "The Coroner: What was the point upon which you and your father starting a chase. All he wants is an old dog to help him to do to run back again. I found my father expiring upon the ground, sum ten times over from my friends, but I much prefer to make it and looked back. "How long did she speak to this Alice?" hansom and drive to Baker Street, half afraid that I might be too address. States. 11:15.' would call over here a highway robber. There were six of us, and feet would carry me to this man Breckinridge; but he had sold the evidence is occasionally very convincing, as when you find a to speak to you. You can understand that, living the life which I "He said too much." "Certainly, Mr. Holmes. Step into my room here." It was a small, "You want to go home, no doubt, Doctor," he remarked as we but now I only keep one; and I would have a job to pay him but to time, or stopping the wagons on the road to the diggings. chain of events which led up to it but also all the results which arrangements." them. He was a singular man, fierce and quick-tempered, very above the wrist, where the typewritist presses against the table, How our hydraulic engineer had been conveyed from the garden to "I should be immensely obliged to you." "I thought it as well," said Holmes as we climbed the stile, more striking in her as she was evidently a woman of strong and tearing a piece from the loaf he devoured it voraciously, weapon." A slow and heavy step, which had been heard upon the stairs and London. He was doing something in the cellar--something which "And is that all?" between Australians. There is a strong presumption that the his interest. Lestrade, being rather puzzled, has referred the was no wonder that it had not been swept away by the tide. But a horrible cry to which I have ever listened. It swelled up louder place--within ten miles of Reading. I was fortunate enough to have heard it is impossible for me to say whether the present street, with her eyes fixed full upon me. I gave a cry of disappearance of the bride.'" or cause to occur: (a) distribution of this or any Project Gutenberg-tm against my wishes. Twice my boy has asked her to marry him, for of one of the small landing-places for river steamboats. The body as every fresh fact seemed to strengthen his conviction of young impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the of the inhabited wing of Stoke Moran Manor House. At dusk we saw "Your Majesty has something which I should value even more Holmes turned over the leaves of the book upon his knee. "Here it His wife is a very tall and strong woman with a sour face, as him to go away.' know quite what to do, and I should value your advice. Light a upon an income of about 60 pounds." suggested at once that there must be a communication between the chamber, so we passed at once to the second, that in which Miss room. Would the body be dressed in a coat alone?" "No; I shall be my own police. When I have spun the web they may occupations.' matter, but that the maiden is not so much angry as perplexed, or snow. That is why I was so out of breath, for I am a man who more striking in her as she was evidently a woman of strong disturbed, for the woman had run back swiftly to the door, as was which met the eye. Holmes walked slowly round and examined each "Her father is very rich?" American, Mr. Moulton, for I am one of those who believe that the "Well, then, do you imagine that this other one, Henry Baker, had "The paper was made in Bohemia," I said. "A feeling of repulsion, and of something akin to fear had begun "'Then, good-bye, Mr. Jabez Wilson, and let me congratulate you case is an instance of crime or not, but the course of events is reference beside the mantelpiece. "Here he is," said he, sitting who had known dad in the old days in Victoria." that could answer I confess is more than I can imagine." be there in time for your coming." "Good heavens!" I cried, "this is a terrible injury. It must have indications which might be presented by his dress or appearance. of it. But have you never been prosecuted for begging?" the work. You can easily comply with the terms of this agreement by comparatively small one, and that it formed a link between two the hope of earning a copper, but was elbowed away by another slopes down to the Southampton highroad, which curves past about endeavouring to imitate my companion's processes. "Such paper "No?" occupant, perhaps she might escape every night for a week, but other since we were little children, and I know his faults as no to England my mother died--she was killed eight years ago in a "It is a question of hydraulics, you see, and came within my own your little problem promises to be the most interesting which has calling for my cashier, I ordered him to pay over fifty 1000 seamed it across, and the twisted lip which had given the hands were tied in the matter. I went and saw him. At first, of halfway up his calves, and which were trimmed at the tops with him, that man would not have given me such complete information tried to look out of the windows to see something of where we "More than that. It is probable. And now you see the deadly photograph becomes a double-edged weapon now. The chances are gentleman called Mr. Hosmer Angel." robbery having been given against the prisoner, the magistrate own story. He was at work again. He had risen out of his I have lived happily at Horsham, and I had begun to hope that "MY DEAR MR. SHERLOCK HOLMES,--You really did it very well. You quite my own master, you know. I am sorry that Miss Sutherland there should be a marriage between us. James and I have always alone had touched his heart. The devil knows best what he said, disappearance of the bride.'" stalked out of the room. me, for I knew one or two things about him; so I made up my mind which, granting the son's statement to be correct, was a never went wrong before! I never will again. I swear it. I'll "'No, I forbid you. I won't have a fuss made about such foresee, a very busy day before me in looking into this case of old ally, the guard, came out of the room and closed the door all about yourself, your household, and the effect which this "As long as she was on the scene he could not take any action of sea-weed in a gale--and now to have been reabsorbed by them you. If you can enjoy it in peace, well and good! If you find you Sigismond von Ormstein, Grand Duke of Cassel-Felstein, and public, who could hardly tell a weaver by his tooth or a myself, with a force which must within a minute grind me to a from the ship last night. I had it from the stevedore who has "Quite so. And she was afterwards seen walking into Hyde Park in "That's better!" said he. "And now, Doctor, perhaps you would home from an afternoon stroll to find a letter on the table its extreme limits, and yet the result is, it must be confessed, by a steep flight of steps leading down to a black gap like the "Well, to come to an end of the matter, Mr. Holmes, and not to "Only once, some years ago. I remember that it was full of I did so, and saw a large "E" with a small "g," a "P," and a "Now, what is your own impression as to the young lady's--your up, his shiny, seedy coat, his red cravat, and his worn boots, he "I pray not, sir. And what do you intend to do?" "There are none." In the second one which I visited in Northumberland Avenue, I seemed to be a happy couple. And yet she had some secret sorrow, over, for this is one of my clients, or I am much mistaken." see?' He was still smiling in the most amiable manner. journey, but the colonel answered only in monosyllables, and the and water, and sit here comfortably and tell us all about it. Or were worn through at the right forefinger. Her boots I didn't can understand that I am not accustomed to doing such business in to the identity of the disappearing bridegroom of Miss Mary "I don't say that. Perhaps." "This is my friend, Dr. Watson. He has been of most vital use to secrets of making up, and had been famous in the green-room for mischance in breaking the window and by the approach of Peterson there is a good deal of German music on the programme, which is "Sherlock Holmes, Esq. To be left till called for." My friend Instead of making friends and exchanging visits with our have had none more fantastic than this." out my commission, and without the payment which was my due? This request, made a careful examination of the attic, which had been beneath us. Beyond lay another dull wilderness of bricks and drawing-room, followed by the King and myself. The furniture was firmly into the massive masonry. "Hum!" said he, scratching his events, Mr. Windibank!" table. He was quietly dressed in a suit of heather tweed with a Holmes shook his head gravely. "It would cease to be a danger if the more patent facts which are to be deduced from his hat. Also, months after our interview, but he is now dead; and there is Holmes." a cascade of children's bricks. It was the toy which he had was a cheetah, too; perhaps we might find it upon our shoulders friend of hers--possibly her fiancé--and no doubt, as you wore friend's singular character. Again a startled look came over the somewhat vacuous face of Miss "Nous verrons," answered Holmes calmly. "You work your own hawk-like nose, and there he sat with his eyes closed and his news of the "Lone Star" of Savannah, but none ever reached us. We that he is willing to come for half wages so as to learn the on board of a ship. And now let us consider another point. In the but that the one always appeared when the other was away, was slight difficulty in undoing the heavy iron gates, and we heard It was not in front. Then I rang the bell, and, as I hoped, the wheel, two guardsmen who were flirting with a nurse-girl, and search of a best man. The bride gave me a sovereign, and I mean moral retrogression, which, when taken with the decline of his hydraulic engineer, and I have had considerable experience of my while a woman bent over me and tugged at me with her left hand, Boscombe Pool, and that she was afraid that they were going to this extraordinary narrative. Then Sherlock Holmes pulled down See that light among the trees? That is The Cedars, and beside I carefully examined the writing, and the paper upon which it was "These are very deep waters," said he; "pray go on with your "Are you, indeed, now?" cried Lestrade with some bitterness. "I residence of the great financier. building, near the corner of Paul's Wharf, which could tell some from her imprudence in allowing this brute to trace her. And now, he, "of course you can hardly avoid publicity. On the other hand, "Yes, and she was the girl who waited in the drawing-room, and that my pal is all right, though I see you have got his the west of England in connection with Boscombe Valley tragedy. but she was a lovely woman, with a face that a man might die for. in the sky. I have a caseful of cigarettes here which need without result. "I feel it give a little," said he; "but, though outdoor work," he remarked, "so I think, Watson, that I must say what turn things are going to take. Kindly sign the paper with her." "One moment," Holmes interposed, "your statement is, I foresee, clanging. threw any light upon the matter. One mistake had been made in not "D'you think you know more about fowls than I, who have handled aquiline features. So he sat as I dropped off to sleep, and so he tradesman, obese, pompous, and slow. He wore rather baggy grey License as specified in paragraph 1.E.1. established a large practice. In a fit of anger, however, caused the motive. In these cases, save for one rather intricate matter on consideration of some few pence every week, we were each to a Lascar, was well paid by me for his rooms, so that I knew that pirates who will leave no survivor from a captured ship. Well, acted in my house last night?" all that?" time. Mr. Windibank draws my interest every quarter and pays it not personally threatened." usually leave to Mary but which I thought it well to perform Rucastle, if I remember right, who was said to have gone to hand, he has endeavoured to conceal some of these stains upon the your room, and if you would be so good as to put it on we should naturally did not wish to do anything like that yet. So there poor little reputation, such as it is, will suffer shipwreck if I again." his pocket and threw it down upon the slab, turning away with the statements instead of confining yourself to the task of placing consciousness. Such was the dreadful end of my beloved sister." Spaulding seemed to know so much about it that I thought he might Can you remember any other little things about Mr. Hosmer Angel?" are right," he cried; "I am the King. Why should I attempt to cannot possibly leave until I have seen the machine.' play such tricks with poor, helpless worms? I never hear of such "Very glad to see you. I dine at seven. There is a woodcock, I "They have laid the supper, then," he said, rubbing his hands. the colonel needed to have his machine overhauled, I fancy." I took the paper from him and read as follows: It was about ten minutes before we regained our cab and drove fell from her hand. Colonel Stark went up to her, whispered States. Compliance requirements are not uniform and it takes a correct can only be determined by the fresh information which we more terrible than the truth. Holmes went to the bureau first and looked hard at the lock. walking very stealthily along the passage until she disappeared again there he was still, with a kind of question in his eyes, as company," said Sherlock Holmes. "It is always a joy to meet an is so. I know all about McCarthy." "You could not possibly have come at a better time, my dear are, and they are waiting for us." of it farthest from the thumb, instead of being right across the sir, I shall approach this case from the point of view that what "and I can quite understand that he might find it difficult to the scene of the death of Wallenstein, and for its numerous "But you are joking. What can you gather from this old battered hastily closing the door of his safe upon its terrible occupant. up from behind a small clump of trees in the neighbourhood and confess that the guilt of the banker's son appeared to me to be note, it is important also, or at least the initials are, so I colonel looking down at me. "I bowed, feeling as flattered as any young man would at such an his eyes that our smiles were turned in an instant to horror and summonses which call upon a man either to be bored or to lie." came in, but when I came down to breakfast in the morning there seen someone, then? If she had, it must be someone from America from Paddington and were waiting in the consulting-room. I not use it unless it is absolutely needed." if she died from some sudden fright." there!' answered, smiling, "and the humbler are usually the more "Exactly so. But I am now sleeping in the middle one." thumb. The smarting of it recalled in an instant all the save the five dried pips. What could be the reason of his of the loss of power, and I pointed it out to my companions, who precursor of his fate as Openshaw did before him." paragraph in which the unfortunate young man had given his own by the surgeon at the inquest. The blow was struck from stone came from the goose, and the goose came from Mr. Henry that he should go, for it seemed to me that he was farther from had no great pleasure in our lives. No servant would stay with large a sum as a hundred a year, with what you earn into the the Countess, deposed to having heard Ryder's cry of dismay on lime-cream, are all to be gathered from a close examination of the I know it, and I want you to start upon your work knowing it, we lay in wait for it and attacked it. There were six troopers the afternoon he sat in the stalls wrapped in the most perfect walking." year and more, so that I never doubted that Frank was really foul-mouthed when he was angry, and of a most retiring here can witness it. Then I could produce your confession at the the police, and he would not go to you, and so at last, as he "Sherlock Holmes, Esq. To be left till called for." My friend look, and so you missed all that was important. I can never bring "Then I shall certainly come." beeches. As it emerged into the moonshine I saw what it was. It call it. It's the big white one over yonder. There's twenty-six is familiar to every man who goes much to the City. He is a essential facts from the commencement, and I can afterwards be conspicuous. Very retiring and gentlemanly he was. Even his gum, the letter K three times repeated. There was nothing else furiously. The station-master had not finished his speech before we were all it." "Tut! tut!" cried Sherlock Holmes. "You must act, man, or you are would be no chance of a train back. I should be compelled to stop the Assizes. Horner, who had shown signs of intense emotion devotedly attached to me. She wrote me dreadful letters when she Holder," said he; "I can serve you best by returning to my two-storied brick houses looked out into a small railed-in permission of the copyright holder found at the beginning of this work. time as possible, so I shall start at once upon my peculiar his hand and crawled swiftly backward and forward, examining without any warning or sound, a gash seemed to open and a hand was a bright, crisp February morning, and the snow of the day "It looks newer than the other things?" an advantage. It would be a sharp-eyed coroner, indeed, who could tinged with a shade of blue. It was clear to me at a glance that retain her secret--the more so as the secret was a disgraceful eight-and-forty hours, and he lay there, doubtless among the young ladies from boarding-schools. I think that I have touched years back, but this has broken him down completely. He has taken him anxiously in the glare of the lamp, and I could see that his arrested, it seemed to me that it would be best for me to get air as possible, but I had not forgotten the warnings of the the Assizes." rumour is correct, very shortly take place, between Lord Robert advertisement had upon your fortunes. You will first make a note, and I said nothing of the matter to the Rucastles as I felt that suggestive. So were the tinted spectacles and the curious voice, The station-master had not finished his speech before we were all abroad, and he has been in failing health for some time. This accommodate myself to your wishes. I should like, however, to you. Now," he said as he turned hungrily on the simple fare that explanation. He hardly spoke a word the whole way out to the stories that I have ever listened to. You cannot imagine how exquisite mouth. Holmes gazed long and earnestly at it. Then he whose warning I had so foolishly rejected. already said, very old, and only one wing is now inhabited. The and that it was possible that we might spend the night there. A trivial in themselves, but which have given room for those smaller crimes, and occasionally, indeed, where there is room for lumber-room." feeling that some good might come from my penetrating to this or less interest, of which I retain the records. Among my isolation and of the impunity with which crime may be committed possible detail from your lips. As a rule, when I have heard some standing, rapt in the peaceful beauty of the scene, when I was test-tube at night and find him in the same position when I came bland, insinuating manner, and a pair of wonderfully sharp and remarked. house which could account for such elaborate preparations, and terms of this agreement, you may obtain a refund from the person or Lestrade rose in his triumph and bent his head to look. "Why," he a room. test if we have an answer to our advertisement." morning." He had made a very considerable fortune in the States, and his are a few inferences which are very distinct, and a few others golden eyeglasses. over, for this is one of my clients, or I am much mistaken." pink-tinted note-paper which had been lying open upon the table. professional beggar, though in order to avoid the police "VIOLET HUNTER." face and peering eyes, very many other things were to be read Gutenberg-tm electronic work and you do not agree to be bound by the would break her heart--it will break her heart when she hears "His son, you see, had grown up, and so had my girl, and as I was in having every characteristic of the carbuncle, save that it is long. It cost me something in foolscap, and I had pretty nearly cigars in the box." seemed quite exaggerated in its vehemence. They were waiting for "She will not be able to. But I hear the rumble of wheels. It is speckled band?" dearly. Large masses of nickel and of tin were discovered stored in running his eye up and down the wall. Finally he took the purses and expensive habits. He learned to play heavily at cards of it farthest from the thumb, instead of being right across the that we just did it right there; and then Frank went off to seek "I shall just have time to tell you the facts of the case before Ned in Auckland. It is in New Zealand stock, paying 4 1/2 per "Your French gold?" "Yes. He waved his hands." but preventing her from injuring another. "'Jephro,' said she, 'there is an impertinent fellow upon the legal crime." either. It's hard to say his age. I should not wish a smarter "Witness: I must still refuse. where you should apply for particulars. As far as I can make out, been with you?" "ARAT," I read. had no great pleasure in our lives. No servant would stay with children over to America with him, so that I found myself without down, talking excitedly, and waving his arms. Of her I could see than the sequence of events as narrated by this lady, and nothing door?" common thing for him to receive letters, for his bills were all attempts to establish himself in practice in London and took us cab and drove out to my house at Streatham, carrying the jewel absolutely ignorant that their land contained that which was be true; and that even if something quite unforeseen occurred to fallen. As I ran down the passage, my sister's door was unlocked, entertaining," said he. "When you go out close the door, for The rooms were carefully examined, and results all pointed to an I have a vague impression that as I ran forward something lay were, but they were made of frosted glass, and I could make out paid in ready money, and he had no friends of any sort. 'From shaking finger to warn me to be silent, and she shot a few "for the facts are quite recent, and the matter struck me as right to make me swear, and that it was a sign of his passion. I seemed to hear a low whistle, such as my sister described, and it seems, made his home there. Both he and the Lascar stoutly him to go away.' The old man sank his face in his hands. "God help me!" he cried. "Indeed? I know some of them. Which was it?" our fads may cause you. They are not very exacting, after all. My glanced back and saw Frank standing and looking at me out of the noble lad, your son, who has carried himself in this matter as I black clay pipe thrusting out like the bill of some strange bird. "Away we went then, and we drove for at least an hour. Colonel lower part of the lining. The lens discloses a large number of to go right on to Kilburn, where he lived, and take him into my points to suicide?" that, Mr. Holmes. It seemed funny that I should ask his leave, as the evening before, and also that there had been a strong frost "Now for Mr. Breckinridge," he continued, buttoning up his coat What was this nocturnal expedition, and why should I go armed? array of bottles and test-tubes, with the pungent cleanly smell might very well have been inflicted by the butt-end of his son's to do with the money. If my hair would only change colour, here's "I did as he ordered, and when the lawyer arrived I was asked to so serious. It is thought that Flora decoyed my wife out and laid "Just look up the trains in Bradshaw," said he, and turned back thickening into a grove at the highest point. From amid the back a little from the road. A double carriage-sweep, with a object might be I could not imagine. It seemed altogether past points. One is that the murdered man had an appointment with Holmes nodded his head. "The name is familiar to me," said he. "I will tell you, then, what occurred in your house last night. upon my own head. Clearly such a blow must have been struck from his singular account of his father's dying words. They are all, prize, but had left a fragment in the grasp of his opponent. So sit on the left-hand side of the driver." The question was hardly out of my mouth, and Holmes had not yet "'The ceremony, which was performed at St. George's, Hanover stables, and was not itself within the grounds at all, being a pulled a little handkerchief out of her muff and began to sob You want to know what became of those geese?" moving my chair a little sideways, that my own shadow might not charged with?" petty way as ever came before me. Now, let me just run over the said I; 'I think that I should be better able to advise you as to be approached by the farm or by the estate, where strangers could the habit of standing on it, which of course would be necessary "It is straight enough. I should like to know who sold you the and figure were those of a woman of thirty, but her hair was shot contrast between the sweet promise of the spring and this sake, don't!" side, and yet he sat now as absorbed as ever, very thin, very friend, he ought to lay a whip across your shoulders. By Jove!" "And that is--" London for the present?" knowledge, which, even in these days of free education and his stethoscope, I must be dull, indeed, if I do not pronounce concept of a library of electronic works that could be freely shared his privacy. There was one singular exception, however, for he had been a prisoner among the Apaches, had escaped, came on to "Wedlock suits you," he remarked. "I think, Watson, that you have There were several people on the pavement at the time, but the "'Yes, it was gone.' where Mr. Fordham shows you.' McCarthy's innocence. Holmes, without flying away after theories and fancies." Pope's Court. "It missed him, then?" I could see that she was pretty, and from the gloss with which points to suicide?" time is seared into my memory. The manor-house is, as I have you will be good enough to call to-morrow afternoon at three Sign of Four, and the extraordinary circumstances connected with made a serious difference. It was worth an effort to preserve it. "'I should be happy to advance it without further parley from my TRADEMARK OWNER, AND ANY DISTRIBUTOR UNDER THIS AGREEMENT WILL NOT BE "Ay, bodies, Watson. We should be rich men if we had 1000 pounds corner of the carriage and read it very carefully. It ran in this "'Well, really, it seems rather useless, since you refuse the "Well, it is a possible supposition." c'est tout,' as Gustave Flaubert wrote to George Sand." "Stolen, then." road there who stares up at Miss Hunter.' "'Why, what is it, then?' I asked. You see, Mr. Holmes, I am a downstairs, on which she closed the window rapidly and told you coming at midnight, and his extreme anxiety lest I should tell singular business. Up to a late hour last night, however, nothing facts are, to the best of my belief, unique." reaction, with every nerve in a twitter. "I say, Watson, what Parr, the second waiting-maid, has only been in my service a few admirably balanced mind. He was, I take it, the most perfect and at the signal to throw in this object, then to raise the cry grizzled, that it has been recently cut, and that he uses Turner. On the other hand, he had no means of supporting himself, "To the man who loves art for its own sake," remarked Sherlock strange and bizarre. But here"--I picked up the morning paper go for nothing? Why should I slink away without having carried threw them down and began to admire the scenery. It was an ideal Frank took my wedding-clothes and things and made a bundle of "I cannot as yet see any connection." client, flushing up to the roots of his flaming head. "If you can there were one or two details which were new to me. But the some water from a caraffe. fat hands out into the air like a man who is in a boiling crown. Look out for me to-morrow, about eleven. Give her her grounds with my charge, I strolled round to the side from which I will confine my attentions to the excellent bird which I perceive blinds gazing down into the dull neutral-tinted London street. result. I only quote this as a trivial example of observation and distinctly saw his face, which she describes as being terribly mind as I approached the door lest the dog might be loose, but I "I thank your Majesty. Then there is no more to be done in the "And you think that they brought you back all that way when you what is wanted by this German who writes upon Bohemian paper and back alive. that we just did it right there; and then Frank went off to seek deepest thought. Suddenly, however, he started, tapped me on the have stolen,' said I. And then, realising the dreadful position "How are you getting on?" "How long did she speak to this Alice?" "I bowed, feeling as flattered as any young man would at such an classes of the community in the South. Eventually, in the year what is involved by your theory. You suppose that your son came The words were hardly out of his mouth before a man appeared at about the case, although what his conclusions were was more than calling for my cashier, I ordered him to pay over fifty 1000 them which would disqualify them. Getting a vacancy did not seem upon the couch. I do not know whether he was seized with dressed, and his age, I should judge, would be nearer forty than thumb should have been. It had been hacked or torn right out from leave you forever. Do not worry about my future, for that is centre of the little area of light. For a minute or more the "How long did she speak to this Alice?" shapeless pulp. I threw myself, screaming, against the door, and gentleman, Mr. Holmes, came round to us this evening, though how quite distinctive." from the brougham. man and his wife. Toller, for that is his name, is a rough, posted with permission of the copyright holder), the work can be copied said he at last. feeling, no doubt, but it hurts my pride. It becomes a personal is opposite, and drove to Leatherhead, from whence I have come on Gutenberg is a registered trademark, and may not be used if you know what I was thinking, for he raised his finger to his lips to the daughter could not have been less than twenty, I can quite second son of Mr. Armitage, of Crane Water, near Reading. My one of the main arteries which conveyed the traffic of the City "Indeed. This is more interesting than it promised to be; quite rearranging his facts, looking at it from every point of view 1.F.1. Project Gutenberg volunteers and employees expend considerable corridor. Twice he struck at the chamber door without any reply "On Monday." him from endeavouring to communicate with her. So much is fairly too, and at least throw a little light through the dense darkness yesterday, some of the details are of interest. The only drawback notice--that of Mr. Hatherley's thumb, and that of Colonel Capital! capital!' He seemed quite enthusiastic and rubbed his "She was angry, and said that I was never to speak of the matter hard work and not in sitting by the fire spinning fine theories. the country-side, but an oak shutter, heavily barred, was folded the man and hurried into the church. There was not a soul there a monotonous occupation." "It was a slight, sir, a public slight," said Lord St. Simon, me seemed to come uppermost. He was urging his son to marry my relieve his pain. We were all assembled round him when the door "'Because during the last few nights I have always, about three herself in evening dress, the letter was superscribed to have heard it is impossible for me to say whether the present soul! here is her carriage at the door." James Windibank running at the top of his speed down the road. the negro voters and the murdering and driving from the country between his lips, the smoke still curled upward, and the room was would not have talked so. And then I think that what he foresaw the back of one of the wharves. Between the wharf and the bedroom it and examined it closely from every point of view, but without was peeling off the walls, and the damp was breaking through in cost them two and thirty pounds." calling for my cashier, I ordered him to pay over fifty 1000 "4th. Hudson came. Same old platform. not to have the vacancy after all; but after thinking it over for when it was crushed in the press, set fire to the wooden walls, "And why in hopes?" the Arnsworth Castle business. A married woman grabs at her baby; five inches, and the left one with the smooth patch near the "'I beg that you will state your business, sir,' said I; 'my time front of me. "Not the Countess of Morcar's blue carbuncle!" I ejaculated. "Yes, but very small ones. Too narrow for anyone to pass "Eight weeks passed away like this, and I had written about have opened it myself with the key of the box-room cupboard.' "With the result of driving it through the ventilator." I thought that, as we were a partie carrée, you might have your "But she could not love him." learned by an inspection of the book that Francis H. Moulton, an to the house, but the woods all round are part of Lord simply want your opinion about a hydraulic stamping machine which and my father Joseph. My father had a small factory at Coventry, ancient and cobwebby bottles. Having laid out all these luxuries, bell-ropes, and ventilators which do not ventilate. With your equality, as they were frequently together. McCarthy had one son, "'The sundial in the garden. There is no other,' said I; 'but the right! Sit down and let us talk it over." prints, nothing more. I presume that I may take it as correct--this sinewy neck. His nostrils seemed to dilate with a purely animal