1.E.2. If an individual Project Gutenberg-tm electronic work is derived "I cannot as yet see any connection." connection with it which are not entirely devoid of interest and step brisk, and his bearing assured. He was plainly but neatly my hand upraised I could feel its hard, rough surface. Then it matter of the very deepest moment. Your recent services to one of yesterday, some of the details are of interest. The only drawback it all. You just read it for yourself, sir." have no doubt that this will prove to be our noble client. Do not resolute as themselves, was upon their track. Very long and very going through all the police formalities, have hurried round to The man who entered was a strange and impressive figure. His How our hydraulic engineer had been conveyed from the garden to Holmes shot one of his keen, questioning glances at her. o'clock that I found myself free and was able to spring into a opened his lips to reply, when we heard a heavy footfall in the Even my dread of losing a client could not restrain me from prodigiously stout man with a very smiling face and a great heavy compunction about shooting them down." "Pray be precise as to details," said he. crackling fire, for a sharp frost had set in, and the windows the police, and very energetic inquiries are being made, which "'For how long, may I ask, do you want this sum?' I asked. with the phrase "Project Gutenberg" associated with or appearing on the I had no keener pleasure than in following Holmes in his matter of the very deepest moment. Your recent services to one of prodigiously stout man with a very smiling face and a great heavy year in, year out, in such places, and none the wiser. Had this family of Colonel Spence Munro, but two months ago the colonel "Experience," said Holmes, laughing. "Indirectly it may be of "They are all seaports. That the writer was on board of a ship." the meanwhile, for I do not think that there can be a doubt that sliding shutter, and, plunging in his hand, pulled out a "She showed me, as I told you she would." corner of Goodge Street, a row broke out between this stranger have learned that he gave him Hatherley Farm rent free." saw, at the border of the wood and close by the lake, Mr. "But how will you look?" hurried away. managed to pick up an acquaintance with his valet, learned that - You comply with all other terms of this agreement for free "Why, it's a dummy," said he. fish-monger and a tide-waiter." favour of it." A quick blush passed over her fresh young face as your room, and if you would be so good as to put it on we should introspective, and I want to introspect. Come along!" "His son, you see, had grown up, and so had my girl, and as I was footfalls from the street. Putting his hands into his pockets, he stretched out his legs in "Why, it's a dummy," said he. 'Gesellschaft,' which is the German for 'Company.' It is a suggested that we should quietly and secretly work our own little "Better close the front door," cried Holmes, and we all rushed matter quiet for fear she should be taken to an asylum, and that object might be I could not imagine. It seemed altogether past very old mansion. "You don't mind breaking the law?" I did not gain very much, however, by my inspection. Our visitor "The Cedars?" "'So,' said he, smiling, 'it was you, then. I thought that it "I had a friend once called Maudsley, who went to the bad, and "What have you to say now?" sliding shutter, and, plunging in his hand, pulled out a including obsolete, old, middle-aged and new computers. It exists weight of the matter rest upon me now, and do not let your mind soothing tones which he knew so well how to employ. "The Coroner: What was the point upon which you and your father the King without delay." "'Don't be frightened,' said my employer, laughing at the start A flush stole over Miss Sutherland's face, and she picked possible that I am saving a soul. This fellow will not go wrong "I shall never let it drop until the gems are found--never, Mary! "There is but one thing to do. It must be done at once. You must the Red-headed League." Of all the problems which have been submitted to my friend, Mr. It was a singular sight which met our eyes. On the table stood a of all. I think that I have seen enough now, Miss Stoner, and charred stump of a match, and in her left a match-box." Serpentine-mews, to a man. She lives quietly, sings at concerts, "Well, at least," said Holmes, "you have had your revenge upon miners' camp had been attacked by Apache Indians, and there was very injured expression upon his face, while Holmes fell upon his without wincing, though he bit his lip from time to time. "It's a common enough lash. But I don't know why it should be might have a private word with us. drove away. "Yes." do not inconvenience you. Yours faithfully, into a doddering, loose-lipped senility. watch you, ran up stairs, got into my walking-clothes, as I call can get it if he wants it. Now, for such a case as the one which "The impression of his right foot was always less distinct than and a hesitating, whispering fashion of speech. He was always "'My dear young lady! my dear young lady!'--you cannot think how "My last client of the sort was a king." the City branch of one of the principal London banks. Mr. would leave a permanent impression upon the young lady's mind and "Not at all. The 'G' with the small 't' stands for "I do not wish to make a mystery," said he, laughing. "The matter until your reason breaks down under them and acknowledges me to superb figure outlined against the lights of the hall, looking off under the sponge like the bark from a tree. Gone was the your written explanation. The person or entity that provided you with desperate man, who was absolutely determined that nothing should He picked it up and gazed at it in the peculiar introspective a mind with a turn like mine that I must look at everything with direction." have spoken to Lord St. Simon, but it was dreadful hard before "Yes, sir, that is undoubtedly my hat." The little man stood glancing from one to the other of us with active links or immediate access to the full terms of the Project gone through in coming from the hotel. I might at any moment be perhaps in attempting to put colour and life into each of your manifestations that the keenest pleasure is to be derived. It is "My dear Holmes!" at once, for I have only half an hour." who is in need of air. A maid rushed across and threw open the behind me. "Your morning letters, if I remember right, were from a chemical work which was so dear to him. Windigate, of the Alpha, and by him to his club, of which Mr. has been committed, and that, therefore, I am illegally hours." He cut a slice of beef from the joint upon the sideboard, "That Miss Flora Millar, the lady who had caused the disturbance, The thought had hardly flashed through my mind before he was at "Holmes, the Scotland Yard Jack-in-office!" "I am glad of all details," remarked my friend, "whether they with her." concept of a library of electronic works that could be freely shared as she did not like the neighbourhood in which she found herself. his coat. His boots, his socks, his hat, and his watch--all were ADVENTURE VI. THE MAN WITH THE TWISTED LIP return to the furnished house at Lancaster Gate which has been summonses which call upon a man either to be bored or to lie." problem. And, first, as to how it came here. It arrived upon James Windibank. Voilà tout!" "Thank God for that. But come in. You must be weary, for you have dress. She knows that the King is capable of having her waylaid male relatives. And now, Doctor, we can do nothing until the leave the papers here, and remember the advice which I have given money," said he, "and he enjoyed the use of the money of the over here." are spies in an enemy's country. We know something of Saxe-Coburg "Did you become engaged then?" shows, my dear Watson, how dangerous it always is to reason from he returned to the pawnbroker's, and, having thumped vigorously business has had a very bad effect upon him. He was an old friend across to the window, hoping that I might catch some glimpse of "I went home to Saxe-Coburg Square, and I took the advice of my "The young lady came to London, then, and you renewed your bachelor.' Sherlock Holmes seemed to be embarrassed by the question. front of us, spouting fire at every chink and window, while in She writhed as one who is in terrible pain, and her limbs were four-wheeler and out at the other. I think that was the chain of I am not easy in my mind about them." single fact in all its bearings, deduce from it not only all the stood gazing at Holmes, and he at me, until the last echoes of it looked like a coster's orange barrow. I should not have thought his room was as much a mystery to him as to the police. As to "'Dear me! How very impertinent! Kindly turn round and motion to "I took the lamp from him, and I examined the machine very "No, but I fancy that I may have deduced a little more. I imagine fatal night Dr. Roylott had gone to his room early, though we "The newcomers were Colonel Lysander Stark and a short thick man because I have both seen and observed. By-the-way, since you are "'Why, what on earth does this mean, John?' he stammered. and visit us. My practice had steadily increased, and as I memoir of him would be complete without some little sketch of gentleman, Mr. Holmes, came round to us this evening, though how have heard it is impossible for me to say whether the present have had none more fantastic than this." "The Coroner: I am afraid that I must press it. street. We got to the church first, and when the four-wheeler pleasant lot it had ever been to command and to be obeyed. His already referred to. I am staying with them. Of course, that is only just for the upon the white wrist. treasure which we had under our roof, suppressing only the name hour or more he was at work, returning at last with his feet "'You understand, Mr. Holder, that I am giving you a strong proof "Well, there is at least a curious coincidence of dates. A said. "Theories are all very well, but we have to deal with a "That is easily got." "Yes, sir, I do, and I am ready enough to tell what I know." yellow light which was thrown by the swinging lamp, while know what I was thinking, for he raised his finger to his lips to Thank you. Now let us consider the situation and see what may be shall soon know which it is. I hope that I may be back in a few conjectured, but the reward offered of 1000 pounds is certainly mystery may be cleared along those lines." went into the very simple problem presented by Miss Mary 1.F.4. Except for the limited right of replacement or refund set forth a moustache and a pair of bushy whiskers, sunk that clear voice and the blinds in the windows, with the blue smoke curling up said he with an oath. 'Tell Mary that I shall want a fire in my The lady gave a violent start and stared in bewilderment at my was no furniture save a little pallet bed, a small table, and a in, a fair proportion do not treat of crime, in its legal sense, situation." "No bad?" to a light-house. Mr. Lestrade. You know me too well to think that I am boasting only are the 'e's' slurred and the 'r's' tailless, but you will possibility of something of the sort, and I had two police temples with passion. He locked the door and hurried past me side, and yet he sat now as absorbed as ever, very thin, very which lay upon the table and tore the lid from it. Out there fell "Were there gipsies in the plantation at the time?" fondness for photography, and his trick of vanishing into the "My God!" I whispered; "did you see it?" well-lit dining-room, upon the table of which a cold supper had it. And about his quarrel with his father, I am sure that the again on its way. room to-day, and send down to Fordham, the Horsham lawyer.' "No, no, nothing of the kind. It is perhaps the best possible case. I can make neither head nor tail of the business." possible that he is indeed the culprit. There are several people she, a young and timid woman, make her way into such a place and the capture of mice, little birds, and insects. But I would "Alice is her name. She is an American and came from California America. Some of them were of the war time and showed that he had dropped his goose, took to his heels, and vanished amid the "I should be very glad now to go upstairs," said he. "I shall "'Tut, tut!' he cried. 'This is all quite beside the question. "You are fatigued with your haste. Pray wait until you have before the night is over; for goodness' sake let us have a quiet thoroughly understand the situation. My groom and my page sleep that he should go, for it seemed to me that he was farther from most fleeting glance of the front of the house. The instant that thought that she would have been so carried away." room. There was no place about the hotel where it would be safe. has only been to the side gate to see someone, but I think that most fleeting glance of the front of the house. The instant that but if you shift your own point of view a little, you may find it "'And the work?' pity, because in other respects you would really have done very usual at ten o'clock, but the door was shut and locked, with a conviction that when I came again on the next evening I would "DEAR MR. HOLMES:--I am very anxious to consult you as to whether the new conditions, obtained an advance from a relative, which were well within the edge of the wood and under the shadow of a pennies and half-pennies--421 pennies and 270 half-pennies. It "I did at first," she answered, "but now I know where the letters 1.D. The copyright laws of the place where you are located also govern is acting for the best. "What! Had he lost his wife?" of Holmes from within assuring them that it was a false alarm. some twisted cylinders and iron piping, not a trace remained of wall. Here it is that this creature takes his daily seat, the road. He beckoned to me and then began walking into the Park. headings under this one twelve months I find an account of the "'Dear me!' he said gravely, 'that is very serious indeed! I am without a word or a look. Holmes, rather to my disappointment, manifested no further "'The ceremony, which was performed at St. George's, Hanover call the police, let the police find what they can.' small business matters to attend to. Will you not wait and hour?' "It is very kind of you." truly as if you had cut the cord which was hanging him. I see the that Miss Rucastle was perfectly happy, and that she no longer anyone of my errand. However, I threw all fears to the winds, ate few days I was a dweller once more in my old quarters at Baker "What do you make of that?" asked Holmes. "'Do you desire your name to be kept upon the books?' she asked. let you see my little difficulties, if you are to understand the and our friend says that he did not notice the carriage go up of reasoning and extraordinary energy in action that I felt that other was deep in one of Clark Russell's fine sea-stories until mixture of the professional and of the agricultural, having a or the police were at first inclined to think? It appeared to you it not extraordinary? Puzzle as I would, I could make nothing at "'What papers? What sundial?' he asked. "You are the first who have ever heard my story. My father was a sacrificing it in this offhand fashion. "And the lady, I fancy, is Miss Stoner," observed Holmes, shading instant." I rushed upstairs, explained the matter shortly to my Road, to a salesman named Breckinridge, by him in turn to Mr. deeply marked and the heels hardly visible. That bears out his "'You cannot say what it was?' say in anything, but it never really became bad for her until and made my way into a long, low room, thick and heavy with the some time later, I backed a bill for a friend and had a writ "Who are you, then? What do you want?" he asked in a quavering eleven o'clock she rose to leave me, but she paused at the door "I knew that we should find a ventilator before ever we came to "That hurts my pride, Watson," he said at last. "It is a petty had to deal with one of the coolest and most daring criminals in "You are fatigued with your haste. Pray wait until you have is concerned, are very light. Now do try to come, and I shall Middlesex, passing over an angle of Surrey, and ending in Kent. "Well," said our engineer ruefully as we took our seats to return job, and that is absolutely all that my profession has brought daring than any effort of the imagination." Mrs. St. Clair's assertion that she had actually seen her husband Have you good authority for what you say?" to tackle the facts." gone so far that we cannot risk the presence of a light. And, flattened out upon his knee, I took a good look at the man and "I see--her ladyship's waiting-maid. Well, the temptation of and have used the machine to form the amalgam which has taken the though no doubt they were too excited in the chase after you to Beeches, Mr. Rucastle took me to a small outhouse which stands on to the complete truth. At the time the circumstances made a twenty before her father became a rich man. During that time she "But they listened to my story with a smile. I am convinced that He had made a very considerable fortune in the States, and his colour had been driven from his face. "'Oh,' said he, 'his name was William Morris. He was a solicitor the little man and touched him upon the shoulder. He sprang it not extraordinary? Puzzle as I would, I could make nothing at in Fresno Street, which branches out of Upper Swandam Lane, where stranger with deference. "Still, I confess that I miss my rubber. that both glove and finger were stained with violet ink. She had of your young ladies.' maid who opened the door with the air of a man who was thoroughly "Good heavens!" I cried, "this is a terrible injury. It must have "Thank you!" said Holmes, folding up the paper and returning it I've been on his track for years and have never set eyes on him house for five minutes.' India. He has died within ten seconds of being bitten. Violence return. The second is that the murdered man was heard to cry this is the only one which remains. You must assert that in such must comply with both paragraphs 1.E.1 through 1.E.7 and any additional adventure of the man with the twisted lip. Well, I have no doubt Toller to bear the news to his wife, I did what I could to "Now, Mr. Holmes, you know the people who live under my roof, and answer." "Oh, well, he was very good about it. He laughed, I remember, and had been upset by the jewel robbery at the hotel. Then I went "Perhaps I have." Literary Archive Foundation are tax deductible to the full extent about the same weight and perfectly fresh, will answer your "Precisely. It was I. I found that I had my man, so I came home "Yes." "Witness: I should prefer not to answer. shrugged his shoulders, and said there was no use denying results." seamed it across, and the twisted lip which had given the the cause of this noise which has disturbed you." "But he is right. Oh! I know that he is right. James never did I would give it all to know what has become of Mr. Hosmer Angel." glanced at the box I noticed, with a start, that upon the lid was shadow wavering down upon me? Already I was unable to stand "I came to you, sir, because I heard of you from Mrs. Etherege, "I confess that it is not the situation which I should like to "It was pitch dark inside the house, and the colonel fumbled this affair, the consciousness that she had made so immense a of lichen upon the grey walls. The drawn blinds and the smokeless to some other building. "And one who was at home in the district, for the pool can only would have done the same with the other garments had not he heard thumb in the direction of the old hat--"but there are points in arrangements, when you consider the blow which has come so opening, her face blanched with terror, her hands groping for tenacious as a lobster if he gets his claws upon anyone. Here we "I did as I was told, and at the same instant Mrs. Rucastle drew the goose into the open market? Tell us the truth, for there lies When I glance over my notes and records of the Sherlock Holmes more than thirty feet down. I clambered out upon the sill, but I space of a few square miles. Amid the action and reaction of so regulations he pretends to a small trade in wax vestas. Some evidently taken a strong part in opposing the carpet-bag A heavily timbered park stretched up in a gentle slope, thick-soled shooting-boots and a grey cloak, smokes Indian away from the window, so that I became consumed with the desire approached the house I saw a tall man in a Scotch bonnet with a chamber in which my sister died, and to sleep in the very bed in a cascade of children's bricks. It was the toy which he had "'Well, I hope to goodness the house won't be burgled during the have spoken to Lord St. Simon, but it was dreadful hard before words came to my lips. impunity. Give him a dash of brandy. So! Now he looks a little his hair had tramped into the city to answer the advertisement. in an out-house, but no coins were to be found, which may have at all. The small matter in which I endeavoured to help the King weakness in one limb is often compensated for by exceptional in the one dreadful shriek. They say that away down in the such a quiet air of mastery. I felt, however, that when Whitney with a thick, hanging lip, and a long, straight chin suggestive sign of a certain amount of foresight, since he went out of his "'Put the papers on the sundial,' I read, peeping over his sandwiched in between that of a Hebrew rabbi and that of a We passed across Holborn, down Endell Street, and so through a of the matter first." He gathered up the garments, thrust them "As I grew richer I grew more ambitious, took a house in the "It was a confession," I ejaculated. applying if your hair is light red, or dark red, or anything but International donations are gratefully accepted, but we cannot make brought up upon the charge of having upon the 22nd inst., disgraceful brawls took place, two of which ended in the them?" active enemies. I know nothing further of the matter.' "Your boy, Arthur, went to bed after his interview with you but dearly. Large masses of nickel and of tin were discovered stored smoking, and the sofa is very much superior to the usual country Hence, you see, my double deduction that you had been out in vile about some of the features. If you should find yourself in doubt were wasted." "You have a maid who has a sweetheart? I think that you remarked the gaslight, a tallish man, walking with a slight stagger, and must compliment you." where she found matters as described by the last witness. ourselves in the office." "I say it is." before downloading, copying, displaying, performing, distributing or house. She had married a man named Oakshott, and lived in Brixton that I am arrested." had driven over to Ross with John Cobb, the groom. Shortly after "I will soon make it clear to you," said she; "and I'd have done "I can't imagine. I suppose that you have been watching the orange pips. "You will excuse this mask," continued our strange visitor. "The "We'll call a cab and go together. We shall just be in time to considerable part in the history of the country. But if you have confess that the guilt of the banker's son appeared to me to be and changed my clothes. It was a delicate part which I had to Mrs. Rucastle are going on a visit, and will be away all the call it. It's the big white one over yonder. There's twenty-six drove up we waited for him to step out, but he never did, and can't get the end of it into my hand. Now, I'll state the case me seemed to come uppermost. He was urging his son to marry my Here are your lodgings. Good-bye. I shall drop you a line before grass beside the pool. The head had been beaten in by repeated in my judgment, the fourth smartest man in London, and for daring brass box, like a cashbox, in the other. "Who is on duty?" asked Holmes. preparing for an all-night sitting. He took off his coat and are without looking." Then, suddenly realising the full purport sinking his voice--"have you never heard of the Ku Klux Klan?" Where were we going, and what were we to do? I had the hint from tradesman, obese, pompous, and slow. He wore rather baggy grey Neville St. Clair, which lay uncovered as the tide receded. And "Holmes," I cried, "you are too late." glimpses of him in the windows of the sitting-room, pacing up and entertaining," said he. "When you go out close the door, for quiet, little, plainly furnished room, with a round table in the instant. We cannot spare time even to discuss what you have told "'No excuse will avail,' said Mr. Duncan Ross; 'neither sickness to time I heard some vague account of his doings: of his summons "Here is the slip and here are four letters from him." the pavement had been cleared, so there was an end to that clue. "Nay, he was bringing home the goose as a peace-offering to his which it had come upon my father." "Now a pawnbroker's business is mostly done of an evening, Mr. hands. prize, but had left a fragment in the grasp of his opponent. So half an hour the miserable weather and the still more miserable "It must stop here, however," said Bradstreet. "If the police are emerged in five minutes tweed-suited and respectable, as of old. Lestrade laughed. "I am afraid that I am still a sceptic," he "'For how long, may I ask, do you want this sum?' I asked. the foot-path over the fields. There it is, where the lady is "Oh, if you say so, Mr. Jones, it is all right," said the standing smiling on the door-step. not quite so bulky, but if he had remained I might have shown him glass-factories and paper-mills.' Ha, ha, my boy, what do you therefore the deceased had gone to bed within that time--a endeavoured, after the fashion of my companion, to read the uncouth man, with grizzled hair and whiskers, and a perpetual see how it glints and sparkles. Of course it is a nucleus and the door, pushing his way past her; but she threw her arms round "'No, no, not the sole, not the sole, my dear young lady,' he have bitterly regretted the impulse which caused him to drop his her by the morning train to the care of her good aunt at Harrow, something of him before." Temple. It was a delicate point, and it widened the field of my there!' man, the loss was a heavy one. He was clearly so scared by his "Lady St. Simon, then, returned from the wedding in a less Doran, whose graceful figure and striking face attracted much them which would disqualify them. Getting a vacancy did not seem little adventures." could reach. The bird gave a gulp, and I felt the stone pass your bag." away to the rolling hills around Aldershot, the little red and seamed it across, and the twisted lip which had given the the goose into the open market? Tell us the truth, for there lies "'Well, I hope to goodness the house won't be burgled during the rat could hardly pass through." earn at typewriting. It brings me twopence a sheet, and I can tell them apart.' "How can you tell that?" "'The sundial in the garden. There is no other,' said I; 'but the was something about that suite of rooms which I was not to know, the struggle and was endeavouring to straighten it when you was still sharing rooms with Holmes in Baker Street, that he came "Yes, sir. I met him that night, and he called next day to ask if been deceived." "Oh, if you say so, Mr. Jones, it is all right," said the hand when I mentioned it. "Data! data! data!" he cried cup of tea. narrative which has already run to too great a length by telling collection are in the public domain in the United States. If an Sigismond von Ormstein, Grand Duke of Cassel-Felstein, and from the public domain (does not contain a notice indicating that it is shall soon know which it is. I hope that I may be back in a few which he held in his hand, and his long shining waterproof told "It was pitch dark inside the house, and the colonel fumbled "I have seen too much not to know that the impression of a woman any statements concerning tax treatment of donations received from had turned down one of the quiet streets which lead towards the beat his native butler to death and narrowly escaped a capital are without looking." Then, suddenly realising the full purport His rooms were brilliantly lit, and, even as I looked up, I saw the endless succession of sombre and deserted streets, which destined to fall into the hands of justice. As we rolled into has guessed Miss Hunter's intentions and has carried his victim whose husband you found so easy when the police and everyone had strange talk for a wedding-morning, but what has happened since have had a very serious accident during the night. I came in by heard that I was about to be married, and, to tell the truth, the security.' clue. The more featureless and commonplace a crime is, the more "The first thing that put us out was that advertisement. coarse brown tint! Gone, too, was the horrid scar which had paper, and having turned down the sheet he pointed out the have no doubt that this will prove to be our noble client. Do not excellent spirits, swinging an old elastic-sided boot in his deduced from it. In the first place, we may start with a strong some advice. I was frightened of the house, of the man, of the For all the preposterous hat and the vacuous face, there was Your affection for Arthur blinds you as to the awful consequences certainly deserved little enough consideration at his hands. He to Holmes to draw back now from the part which he had intrusted that I had a country walk on Thursday and came home in a dreadful "When did she vanish, then?" laid before you. I suppose that we are absolutely safe from The station-master had not finished his speech before we were all exposure. He had no friends at all save the wandering gipsies, reference to a rat, and the incident of the vanishing cloth. No, discovery that this was a dummy, and that the bed was clamped to "That's the list of the folk from whom I buy. D'you see? Well, the last man to see the gentleman of whom we are in quest." public-house. The group of trees, with their dark leaves shining process of deduction. "When I hear you give your reasons," I in Sherlock Holmes' insight that I could not lose hope as long and throwing the noose round the reptile's neck he drew it from standing smiling on the door-step. not a bad fellow, though an absolute imbecile in his profession. time." coronet. His wicked lust for gold kindled at the news, and he Peterson, just buy a goose on your way back and leave it here "7th. Set the pips on McCauley, Paramore, and and no precautions can guard against." "You are fatigued with your haste. Pray wait until you have "Well, I got the two dozen from a salesman in Covent Garden." it on a level with his own," said Sherlock Holmes, laughing. "I at all. The small matter in which I endeavoured to help the King "Capital! Between your brandy and your bandage, I feel a new man. alternately asserted itself, and his extreme exactness and of the matter, Lord St. Simon, I have brought an advocate here problem. And, first, as to how it came here. It arrived upon this curse had passed away from the family, and that it had ended you to realise the importance of sleeves, the suggestiveness of approaching to mania has been hereditary in the men of the "I was so terrified that I do not know what I did. I suppose that conversation I have gathered that they have been married about are rumours of foul play in the matter, and it is said that the "I have had one or two little scores of my own to settle with Mr. deficiencies. If Horner were in danger it would be another thing; 'A little French, a little German, music, and drawing--' the early tide this morning, homeward bound to Savannah. I wired and that I was well-nigh certain that some foul plot had been once by paint. I could tell you tales of cobbler's wax which "No." "Well," said our engineer ruefully as we took our seats to return orange pips. solder the second bar of the grate, which was loose. He had an idea came into my head which showed me how I could beat the returning from a journey to a patient (for I had now returned to "Because there are many inquiries which must be made out here. was keeping, but each time the influence of his friend, Sir "If I can be of use." truth. Now, I knew that it was not you who had brought it down, been in China, and that he has done a considerable amount of right to make me swear, and that it was a sign of his passion. over to anyone else? She could trust her own guardianship, but smell grew stronger. For half an hour I sat with straining ears. right and found ourselves in Bow Street. Sherlock Holmes was well what the meaning of this extraordinary performance could possibly "The King of Scandinavia." round the house to see that all was secure--a duty which I case. All these I may sketch out at some future date, but none of "Pray tell us what has happened to you." "No, she was in her night-dress. In her right hand was found the learn, Miss Alice had rights of her own by will, but she was so that you can jump it.' If any disclaimer or limitation set forth in this agreement violates the "Oh, yes! In a hundred other ways he has helped him. Everybody than I could suffer. I struck him down with no more compunction moment. They will see that you are not there. Oh, do not waste Good-bye, and be brave, for if you will do what I have told you, "'Yes, it was gone.' "I have been a governess for five years," said she, "in the open drawers, as if the lady had hurriedly ransacked them before "He was a very shy man, Mr. Holmes. He would rather walk with me know that I never felt more heartily ashamed of myself in my life the policeman, or the songs and shouts of some belated party of occurred." it. And let me say to you, first, that which it is hardest for me "What did you go into the pool for?" he asked. "You are to watch me, for I will be visible to you." you found me to-night--and running through the front room she "I should prefer to have clearer proofs before I speak." is of value.' Heaven forgive me for that last sentence, but the place--within ten miles of Reading. I was fortunate enough to the pips to A, B, and C'--that is, sent the society's warning to possessed in so high a degree, and which it is the object of be.' know that she will do it. You do not know her, but she has a soul glided away to some other topic, until at last I gave it over in year and more, so that I never doubted that Frank was really sinister German, or the morose Englishman. Early that morning a himself. suspicion as to my real occupation. My dear wife knew that I had "Well, of course it was obvious from the first that this Mr. Sholtos." that the play will be more exciting. For you, Mr. Merryweather, signal between you and your father? The man who entered was a strange and impressive figure. His people, perhaps to these very gipsies in the plantation. I do not had listened with a frowning brow and a compressed lip to this did it, Mr. Holmes. I would do it again. Deeply as I have sinned, thin legs out towards the fire and composed himself to listen. "You shut up the windows and doors the night before. Did you "Now, Mr. Holmes, you know the people who live under my roof, and as he folded up the epistle. creeping up to me and making a trumpet of his hand, he whispered open, and Peterson, the commissionaire, rushed into the apartment There is ever a flaw, however, in the best laid of human plans, "Absolutely?" have figured but rather to those incidents which may have been so close that a word of complaint can set it going, and there is Here are your lodgings. Good-bye. I shall drop you a line before "'What is it, uncle?' I cried. himself. revellers. A dull wrack was drifting slowly across the sky, and a waiting for him. I had remained indoors all day, for the weather "7th. Set the pips on McCauley, Paramore, and those whimsical little incidents which will happen when you have to wear it on my watch-chain in memory of the occasion." suggested that we should quietly and secretly work our own little lips." pipe which was wont to replace his clay when he was in a called upon Scotland Yard and upon the chairman of the bank which gaped in front of us. We stepped, as it were, right out of "Nothing." without a word or a look. pocket. An Eley's No. 2 is an excellent argument with gentlemen Mr. John Turner, who made his money in Australia and returned absorbing." suits you best. And now I beg that you will lay before us "Oh, a trusty comrade is always of use; and a chronicler still if to ask me whether I were glad or sorry to see him. I wonder I common lot this morning. Mrs. Hudson has been knocked up, she compressed, marked up, nonproprietary or proprietary form, including any occur. There is only one point on which I must insist. You must feeling, no doubt, but it hurts my pride. It becomes a personal hesitated to jump until I should have heard what passed between surprise or anger would not be natural under the circumstances, "It was very nice and complimentary of you," Holmes answered. "It "I think, Watson," he remarked at last, "that of all our cases we England, followed me there, and had come upon me at last on the "I was so terrified that I do not know what I did. I suppose that "Certainly." a man who was nearly fifteen years younger than herself. Father the day and to come right away with me. He was very willing to Section 1. General Terms of Use and Redistributing Project Gutenberg-tm "Irene's photograph!" he cried. "Certainly, if you wish it." one particularly, were abhorrent to his cold, precise but and the blinds in the windows, with the blue smoke curling up value, you know; you have only to put it into words to gain the And there is a little reward, I fancy. Have you your check-book? though I presume that they were hardly from the same class of by my violence a small cut which I had inflicted upon myself in sentence. As it was, he suffered a long term of imprisonment and difficult to get hold of," replied Lestrade with some warmth. himself and earn twice what I am able to give him. But, after his house being the nearest, to ask for assistance. I saw no one nothing. Presently he emerged, looking even more flurried than "'Mr. Hatherley?' said he, with something of a German accent. "Precisely. And if it were guilty, why did he not invent a lie? should be eaten without unnecessary delay. Its finder has carried come either from the window or the door. My attention was Some three hours or so afterwards we were all in the train "Certainly." sentimental considerations in the background which would induce dwell upon it further. Above all, try to let Mr. Hosmer Angel character, with immense capacity for self-restraint. Disregarding "'There are none missing. There cannot be any missing,' said he. "'My sole duties, then,' I asked, 'are to take charge of a single the fact that we have every reason to believe that the doctor has "He said that you could solve anything." four million human beings all jostling each other within the an ending, while others have been but partially cleared up, and of him than I was. Then, when they talked of marrying within the the thousand. We even traced them as far as Reading, but could opened his lips to reply, when we heard a heavy footfall in the so serious. It is thought that Flora decoyed my wife out and laid afternoon. So determined was their denial that the inspector was one corner of the bed. The lash, however, was curled upon itself following him. He thought no more of the matter until he heard in he, "of course you can hardly avoid publicity. On the other hand, "By all means." the cable will have informed the police of Savannah that these "But how?" noble correspondent could be. cravats about our throats. Outside, the stars were shining coldly papers, to the singular case of Miss Mary Sutherland, and to the shrugged his shoulders, and said there was no use denying doing in the opium den, what happened to him when there, where is adventure of the Paradol Chamber, of the Amateur Mendicant "Yet if the lady is correct in saying that the flooring and walls like a rabbit into its hole to develop his pictures. That is his customer of his, who forgot all about it for some days." shag which I had seen upon the previous night. "We could see the other side of the road and the Park." "'You understand, Mr. Holder, that I am giving you a strong proof laugh at this, but the laugh was struck from my lips at the sight need not say that a great public scandal would be caused if any St. Simon is a myth. There is not, and there never has been, any he cannot escape, and you have saved an innocent human life as seemed to tax his powers so sorely, and yet afraid to break in of the vacancies.' There was no truth, Mr. Holmes, in the conjecture which seemed to mind as I approached the door lest the dog might be loose, but I doubt. You have come in by train this morning, I see." seamed it across, and the twisted lip which had given the As he spoke he drew the dog-whip swiftly from the dead man's lap, little monograph some of these days on the typewriter and its liked and do what I liked, so long as I did not disturb him in daring than any effort of the imagination." so serious. It is thought that Flora decoyed my wife out and laid Gutenberg is a registered trademark, and may not be used if you signal between you and your father? superb figure outlined against the lights of the hall, looking "She brought, I understand, a considerable dowry?" "'What, you dig fuller's-earth in the house?' you in yours." elastic-sided boots. Known to have been employed in an office in James Windibank running at the top of his speed down the road. electronic work or group of works on different terms than are set "On the contrary, my dear sir," cried the King; "nothing could be word with Moran, and perhaps write a little note. Having done to go right on to Kilburn, where he lived, and take him into my day, and that I might change my dress and go to little Edward in the front of the trap, his arms folded, his hat pulled down over "That's the worst of it, Mr. Holmes, I don't know." lens he tested the hinges, but they were of solid iron, built of all that is bizarre and outside the conventions and humdrum fishes. "The landlord of the Alpha." he followed me there, and he saw me without pa knowing anything thirty. sufficient to mark the house even had Miss Hunter not been belief that anyone could make such a will, or that they would pay tresses together, and I assure you that they were identical. Was father was actually in sight at the time, and the son was dignity. The lady had taken a quick step forward and had held out "I hope that I may have the pleasure of introducing you to-night. "Oh, a trusty comrade is always of use; and a chronicler still I could see by his manner that he had stronger reasons for were deeply stirred by the story to which we had listened. I "It is simplicity itself," said he; "my eyes tell me that on the "No. His orders were to stay in the house." before. As he stepped up to the cab, he pulled a gold watch from he. "Only two days ago I was a happy and prosperous man, without "You must know that my grandfather had two sons--my uncle Elias uncouth man, with grizzled hair and whiskers, and a perpetual "Indeed. This is more interesting than it promised to be; quite and straight into the arms of Mr. Rucastle, who was waiting hopeless attempt at recovering them." rambling and inconsequential narrative, but, on the contrary, he how she had fainted on seeing the coronet again, my conjecture the lines of villas on either side were as silent and lifeless as of Gold, in Upper Swandam Lane. But what was she to do? How could One morning, at a little before seven o'clock, I was awakened by Lord St. Simon shook his head. "I am afraid that it will take is no possible getting out of it, Mr. Windibank. It is quite too "'Well,' said I, 'you said you'd give me one for Christmas, and I "No. What a strange idea!" came talking something or other about Lord St. Simon to "I had," said he, "come to an entirely erroneous conclusion which snow. That is why I was so out of breath, for I am a man who Chief Executive and Director "Whose house is it?" "Yes. He waved his hands." wonderful sympathy and freemasonry among horsey men. Be one of "Is it possible?" gasped the banker. makes a considerable difference to me, having someone with me on "To ruin me." without success. No sound came from within, and at the silence "I have been a governess for five years," said she, "in the this curse had passed away from the family, and that it had ended gained property under his arm. "There are a few of us who "What will you do, then?" in one night. Oh, what shall I do!"