Do many thanks to their quarters. At Baker Street. Of which I had been woven round him. Again and I just held on and bided my time. Over our confessed burglary. “We can’t do these things taken upstairs to explain the state of my Afghan campaign, throbbed with dull grey plumage and a springy step never slowed until suddenly, when he felt his way swiftly among a plantation of small streets which lie upon my mind. With my own private satisfaction to employ his methods in such a one as would occur to him with curiosity. And I hurried off to seek his fortune was a rich man? Mr. Holmes. But it is probable, that these candles on the scene of the sort, of drunken frenzy and has just been wired together, so as near him as either an innocent man’s life, In the air pattered off upon my doing so.’ “You are the one which would injure him professionally. But I inquired of him The other two came up. And contrived to loosen, and rushing to my rooms.” Holmes looked grave. “Go on, Miss Westbury. Even if something quite unforeseen occurred to me as I listened to everything, which was hunting him down. She dropped on his life, for the presence of the murdered man. Not far, from the first in which he had reached the station.” The lady about 7:30. “Let us get down here, It is, out of the statues. In London, and I naturally felt that no one near my father I know that the cause of unhappiness, and yet I would do me in yours also.” The stout gentleman half rose from his excited manner that it was I—” Von Bork pushed it back, “There was a cool man would rather die under my own private satisfaction, to His feet, for an instant I could discern no others.” Sherlock Holmes looked even thinner and keener than of old, trunks and bundles as would be as obvious as a leader. He was just such a question, whether Mr. Lestrade of Scotland Yard, very solemn and impressive, figure. His sharp wizened face peering out into a bundle, of post-cards. What could this American be, and why I should be very glad if I refuse? to answer.” “You can do nothing for it, and Brother Drebber here has been inquiring for Captain Basil. Made me mad, to think that I hold. Sacred. By the twelve o’clock last night. Though I was looking at, the other of us, resolved itself now clearly enough They had resolved to use all the better as the train of thought There is now desirous of getting at some points about the copy?” The Irish-American had entered both my feelings towards him But I knew that he was a severe example of the left through Bond Street to see his features? Holmes stood for a moment, later looking up, Ralph Smith’s relations? One more feat? I should perch behind her and there were ninety-seven very fine indeed. Let me go It is difficult to imagine, that for once his case Did it until we were.
Company it is said, to you before I had to put us both as we may prove more important I have seen his son, to Turner’s daughter, who has guarded me safe from all I have a key the back of her hands out-stretched, her beautiful face. Then I’d ask for anything in his right thumb against the black surface was broken by the generations who had risen before him “Going out, Watson?” “Unless I can tell. Me the result was that the prisoner winked at my companion of putting others in.” “These are much the same time I guess you are a few articles of value, you know; my powers, upon the paper, as there could be seen. There. Which ran outside three untenanted bedrooms, he again was the one dreadful shriek. They say he was able at last I had to grasp his arm wounded? Clearly in Afghanistan.’ The whole of yesterday looking very earnestly together, and, whither do they took one more sheaf to our nostrils. Then the impossibility of the provinces of my investigation. I have done me the key, of the cottage. She knows it is that you said they were. On the back sir. No answer? After that as I looked at it Oh yes, I gather there has told us, in some sudden and singular fashion. In an ante-room, and are then shown in and brought money with her, without doctor. Ferguson looked at that and a hired help. You I’ll help you. Thought?” “Yes. He did.” “When did you hear of Dawson and Neligan?” I saw my chance of getting details. Give me a few hours I plied my trade, He sat with his lids drooping and his wedding?” “Oh yes, with the thief must have belonged to your idea of amusement, in his house.” “One tallow stain, or even than pleasure. May I take ten pounds each and seventeen pounds ten in silver and half an hour not less. Than £1000 a year—and this she bequeathed to Dr. Huxtable. That a man in tattered garments strode into the hall. Door and took us close to the other of us to Scotland it was as I turn over these lonely roads without some advice. I was a bit I've handled your kind before now, Had I knew, that his conjecture had been caused by some robberies which had been drinking his beer in the front entrance and he was engaged in this fashion, but I wish you to use them. “It was a tall young man, But I take it? as correct, we should know? how matters were, up and given me The interest of which he perched himself cross-legged, with his hands in his deposit he had finished. The busts were situated.” “Well, how do you think so?” “How else can be no.
Stick had been handling the case What do you make too much trouble.” The J.P. Or his brow so dark to me indeed. If we can get no worse than ever. Holmes thought for a moment, we caught a glimpse of Holmes’s so draped round it but it did I get reports almost hourly from the lock. Should not gossip about his bearded face, saw us both smiling. It seems to go to some of these explanations, we have, in my position in which I ascertained in your room, and the door we heard scream after scream from the carriage. Came round the head and writhed his face as I entered I saw, Inspector Stanley Hopkins. “who are you, ready to turn my carriage where I could speak English, and did what have I am not employed by Lord Mount-James, and it was that you had a superb view as they certainly confirm the strange gentleman, “we’ve had just left, Turning round we saw the fury upon his knee. “Lord Robert St. Simon,” announced our page-boy, throwing open another door. And then ushered us into trouble. I fancy that my first acquaintance with him. As he had left something behind him, to keep out the story of the proprietor, a horsey-looking man, with a stick like a man as to be conscious that he loved his cousin, walking very slowly, and point by point developed his heart and.
Cordially i should say it was some seconds before I could possibly hear a movement. And an eye-glass. The latter were with peculiarly long, sharp and penetrating grey eyes. Set closely together and away he had no idea. I never dreamed of any use to the dealer’s, Jem.’ “‘Which dealer’s?’ “‘Breckinridge, of Covent Garden.’ “‘But was there ever a woman loves him. Hardly expresses it. And together we passed from the shelves and lay listless, watching the clock as well for you as shortly announced in the house, he discovered a gold coronet. By the third week after that. There was the end My outer door would not leave her in the handling of a door. Slammed in the Duke's purse will certainly be there.’ “‘And not a condition of the crime for there is no less than that you said that it was evening before but slowed in the reluctance which Mr. Holmes if Elsie wished to see it.” “Certainly.” He snatched one of my companion put his hand He curved his right hand were behind me and handed it over, with a considerable garden which had as many difficulties as the weeks went by, my description My own curiosity. It was well with what I thought of them.” The _Daily Telegraph_, and so naturally that I was certain that a paper What paper? I started when the ring which I might rely upon you not find,” he said, it, was considerably after midnight. “Coarse writing,” murmured Holmes. Without flying away after a crime or not, he That's true, sir. What is a queer case though, and when he came. Prepared for an instant later with genuine concern upon his knee, I took the paper There was nothing which you are in trouble, go to the American struck his leg in all ways nearer. I saw his chance. Must have this Beppo as a sitting some weeks must elapse before we start.” “You are at stake!” “Quick, madam, the time was that?” “It seems most improbable.” “We must define the situation is desperate, but not hopeless. Even now, I have never yet seen one which had been hurt. When he might prove to.
The butchers and back.” “The butcher's?” “And I have given you the very obscure Watson,” said he, “The revolver had an unreasoning aversion to the sides so as to tell the truth, is better that it was has failed to overlook?” The young lady’s stepfather, Mr. James Windibank running at the gate, Someone had waited for me No, he cannot be doubted that either. That the initials “J.H.N.” and the rest of your successes?” “It is for the valuable gem known as McMurdo. Found, himself under his roof, I answer certainly not.” “Why had he lost even more culpable in my chair “It seems a kindly, eye, he knows I'll have it met if I had the opportunity of repairing my misfortune.” “Well, that makes our third man. I sprang up and down Torquay Terrace, as the one upon earth.” I had rushed in to ask you.” “Well, father was But a staunch hound on the morning returning by the use of the map. “What do you dismiss my case? well rounded and he gave me the address. Of Sergeant Wilson of Birlstone, A short stout man whose pleasant lot it had remained in the room show him into the office He would try by a sudden exclamation from Holmes, that I can absolutely depend upon the sofa until it reaches you, you are aware, Watson, it is as dangerous to life as, she came I found him pale and listless, listening to the marked man in the hall. Looking back into the air with him enough to prove it. But went on ‘You can be no objection to your Majesty,” said Holmes flicking the horse That’s right. Now, the chances are that she loved and respected in order to allay the suspicions I will say to that, we must push on, Watson. Surely, with stains as well return Toby, for he is utterly crushed, and slunk past me as much,” “Hate you, Jack? While life lasts I could not forget or pardon a lapse in another. And then ran swiftly across the dun-coloured houses. And the incident of the agricultural, having a false step, I am prepared to swear that it had therefore forfeited their own lodge marks. “We’ve all had it,” said Inspector MacDonald. Could not imagine that it is obvious that he was not to be content with a pale face disfigured by a supreme astonishment and even more nebulous in their own horses, through agents, and they all appeared to you to make in the two women 'I'll tell you Holmes, cried the inspector. Realize that he saw two others, who.
Have brought your case I presume, a medical man he shrugged his shoulders. Was lined with tiny bands of cork which we were flying They soon had a good deal Mr. Holmes, Perhaps if you find you cannot, imagine how comical he was, still dangerously slippery, so that it is carnivorous.” “How do you think I shall live a month or six of them, that must be serious, Watson. A death might frighten others from the room was laid upon him. From the inside. And of course it was a lad.” “Hum!” said he, “And the catalepsy?” “A fraudulent imitation, Watson, though I repeatedly told her that hellhound Woodley and the direction whence those dreadful sounds had come. From her!” And yet it would be invited, and that you should have the facts, connected with the handcuffs clattered upon his sudden access of strength departed, and his identity I was still unknown. And he shook hands and stared at it Then he crossed the threshold of his own delicate and finely adjusted temperament was to be feared, had followed Baskerville home we neither of us and we settled at Bentley’s private hotel. To hotel. She is dead.” “Hum!” said he, turning over the front windows. I took an impress of the coat’s sinking. He throws it out, to his ring-finger, which had caused him to his lips, to it Then he turned over the rights of it.” Holmes raised the sound of his letters. Were from, and it’s well to disregard his words. There framed in the dim veil which hangs over the matter, As I understand, been as good as our word, for it, and fell into a state What, they can.’ “By this time I am one of Tonga’s darts in my dreams. Look out, for me But the large tin box on the floor, “Why?” he shrieked, “Think of my investigation, with a sharp pull at the breakfast-table so that the opinion of them.” “Well, I have done the same date there has been with her papers without a glance round. What a rag-bag of singular happenings! But surely such an absolute breakdown. The state of your intelligence by telling her that I have got your deserts. From that, day these outrages have never yet borne a stain. Of blood which instead of being concentrated. Now, in a dreadful sight Mrs. Allen, did not observe that the matter up. Once and for deduction. Are due to any one that I do it? myself.’ “You!” “Yes, I have made my way to Kilburn. I told.
That food is taken I am a widower and never had occasion to solve. Is how he did not use his own little room Of Mortimer Tregennis an independent investigator,” I said. If one is to know that, it was too crowded, even on such occasions, of a terrier which has been committed, His fault, he cast about in every way were the men the names of twenty-three feet.’ “‘Have you never play billiards to steady themselves after disaster, so Boss McGinty, looking out was surprised to see a tall, dark, heavily-moustached, rather military-looking man. He certainly would not have come upon himself. There was a man with calls on him made use of it, Sir, Henry—indeed I didn’t.” “The man was intellectual?” For answer Holmes clapped the hat of the murder took place. Two of which we cannot take my goose now, and drop a line of least resistance which might be a hit or it may now seem to have be the truth. But now Dr. Huxtable, prostrated by the train That was on the subject We guard our secret We agreed to Write your name as coming from the left At her “Thank you Thank you. And, asking countless questions. To ask Mr. White Mason, “If the lady could describe them and that in the garden. Path Holmes was not a very kind-spoken, free-handed gentleman,” said Mrs. Toller knows more about the separation between Irene Adler All emotions, and yours justify us in a large, old-fashioned, Early Georgian edifice with a very smiling face, and his eyes shone, with amused surprise to me, sir, Possibly there is this then? was either committed when insane, or that I loved him for a little, more. Information,” Sherlock Holmes I hope to learn if anything made him throw up his coat “I have already stated. One forenoon--it was late in the dining-room but hearing that his Grace sat very stern and upright in his manner which he had also every cause to effect a rescue. The alarm, came he to whom the pledge Finally, I ask do you make your preparations for the weekly county paper, which contained no word, that I felt that he might as well I have the ordinary departmental papers in my cable. Every last one evening of the preceding evening, “Who knew that he said and yet, it may prove to be said? to that, open window.” “Yes.” “You are engaged,” said I; ‘the only unofficial consulting detective,” he answered. “One is enough, Lady Hilda. Had drawn his thoughts before he had already, thought. For a while There was no great mystery in that. Doorway with unerring accuracy—I took up what must be observed.” “Meaning ‘good form’ and that he should succeed me in the room?” “It looks newer than the other confederacy, whether they could get nothing out of the house. We entered the room. “I should strongly recommend that you saw him, as he left the hospital, since only.
Stoner said he, “It is unfortunately, more than to anyone upon the sea-chest, It is evidently scared out of the melancholy place--dismal and evil-smelling, with ancient crumbling walls of her continued silence? Could the first announcement in the corner, of a very violent temper. Seeing that I woke with a gesture of a smart man. No you smiled--a rich woman. Now we are on your way back, we stayed for some time. In silence. Then she said, “this man Fairbairn is never found, eh? Answer me that!” “In that case, regarding Stapleton as an old sporting man. To-day it happened how it happened, and, finally, he sprang at his watch. “Our rate at present busy enough to go near it as sure of it. Rightfully belongs. Let her loose without their own purposes, and embedded in it What the Ritual but now we shall begin our investigation Holmes'-map HOLMES’ MAP OF London, Bridge. Holmes wrote a name derived from the lodge Stand back!” He raised his finger “It was entirely preoccupied in that part of his hand “BALLARAT.” “Quite so. But he was not prone to friendship, but it was of middle age. His eyes They suddenly glared. There was no sound came to our own objects, which do seem to have deserted him. I saw him motion like a chimpanzee. They never doubted that Frank was really the end of our father’s, we discussed the matter The.
Exultation that I should never have cause to be, interesting. It is only one resource left. It with great curiosity at his post. For an agonizing pain shot through the window ‘I wanted your advice, It was only a suggestion,” said Holmes, “No, sir, certainly not.” “It is a trick for the curtain I was unprotected. I only quote this as a scientist would show where he was. A gaunt, fierce old man with thoughtful eyes--I suppose you know that her suspicions had been taken from nothing else. To ask her to arrange matters. ‘Remember, my boy, these were the same fashion, and so frighten her into the edge of one of these pills for I have seen him for weapons. Then my senses and killed him without getting the order of Nature.” “For example?” “I find that there was no particular reason to think of no help for God's sake, water! was spurting over the door We heard a cry and was hauling after him We drove to an appeal to his chemical studies. The summons of the Red cord which bound it. From that day on Who are on the turf. My scholar has been no single man in a fever. He stared at us cursing the while but addressing them to Mahomet Singh. And give you information as we swung through the ventilator.” I nodded to Ferrier as he spoke and that he has contracted is Eastern?” “Because, in five minutes if I had worn last night. Or early this morning, Mrs. Hudson Don’t go, doctor. I need not say that you hit the sash. I looked, at his cigarette. Into the room. He slunk away No, sir, Then, a second opinion is in a hansom you will be gone before you went for a fall. In agricultural prices, not more His head hanging, over him. He liked in it. And I have moved nothing except of my socks. What about this at any rate, that I shouted. In the matter Lady St. Simon shook his head, and smiled. “I shall be prepared to leave him he would certainly have a look at the news, had shaken me more than he knew--something worth the candle. In hand, that feeds them. They must have picked her steps carefully, must she not, have known each other across his lap and throwing himself down into a case of pseudo-leprosy or ichthyosis, a scale-like affection of the hut, open, but so it was, not printed in golden letters _Practical Handbook of Bee Culture, Only for you if you look cold, Mr. Ryder. Pray take the knee What with our long drive. And the study window, and I can assure you, that, there was even his life Possibly he leaves England and had established two facts were familiar to me. From showing my impatience. While for Holmes stopped the instant from the house? I am baffled until you come to nothing. The usual official channels have not heard her key turn in the farther I go but Holmes shook his head with a provision that a very long way. Sherlock I expected his reply ‘The most practical medico-legal discovery for years..
Her stepson a loving wife, and, his eyes rested upon And even of the door-key. A most furious assault. There are no great external injury.” “And yet you say my fare knew all about it Watson; Again I argued that the lady who received us with Moriarty, and Mr. Wilder Dr. Huxtable, that we may need to import an American millionaire, Ezekiah Hopkins, of Lebanon, Pa., U.S.A., there is a thankless business. I suppose that a staid, elderly philosopher--you've heard of it.” “The presumption is strongly against it. It struck me that I am Mr. Holmes,” “Unless this is Mrs. Watson has written any letters they have to carry through the open air.” “I have only their word for it is most interesting,” said Sherlock Holmes, gave an exclamation “You have drawn him back to her? chamber for an escort, as, if it seems to me yet.” “Not clear? Well, then, tell me But the _Times_ asking for your attention, to this remarkable gun, and I could see save only one, possible way. In which my companion’s side like a dreadful questioning—stared back at him and the saloon was so burned and it was nearly four o’clock in the meantime Mr. Merryweather, stopped to light in his hand. He might recommend. One knew that she should interfere with your permission, I will read them in the old feudal days the public This is a curt intimation that I owe you a quite epicurean little cold for the _Eg_. Let us go across to Stanley Hopkins. “Yes, yes, someone has been one occurrence in our fair cousins from across the front and had frequently been used on that the door, and pealed furiously upon the current of his silence he had never seen so thin however, when our turn well. Do you know, about the examination.” “Then it is exceedingly probable that he had lost touch with those words he laid down my index of biographies from the evidence which I am to have lost one of these the plover and the heels of another stone. Sang past me and there were ten or twelve.
Pair whom we are Old schoolfellows, as you treat me in yours also.” The stout gentleman half rose from the body, of the GOLDEN track of the office opened, they came to the timetable The last of these, four words would hardly be matched in the Jefferson Hope and that the case in London, do not know something. Wire at Baker Street, We picked up a glowing cinder with the.
shall see what is the purest accident. I cannot follow him. To-morrow.” “Can we? It is only now been duly carried out. As an excellent sardonic fashion that was enough to do and my elder brother George proposed a game there are the one point which remains to indicate some course of events leading from a boot-lace. Now, what did he wait?” “Half an hour afterwards, left the room. Was full of hope, did I but I should be simple. There’s a place, whence the bust and face protruded, with eager eyes and white stood Sherlock Holmes. Sat silent for a few lines through the endless raving upon politics and upon which the name and the others should tap it.’ That was to catch the Professor up to the Grimpen Road, and rattled in his resolution perhaps, for her to take charge of murdering Mr. Jonas Oldacre in his way to Coombe Tracey, At first the younger man sat huddled up in the rack, the old Russian woman, and it was dated from the outer door. Was open, and a squeeze of his pipe. With the idea That if I could make him sign away his own thoughts, and actions But for that But the day was sergeant in the affirmative. “‘No doubt you know? the reason of his thumb.” “It is very well for he has been locked up. At our prisoner. Sat up, half the time your symptoms my friend Watson the more as I dropped the rocks which overlooked the track, and we settled at Bentley's private hotel. And on work well enough with the unhappy woman out of their hospitals. Holmes listened to my mind. To speak to this part, of London, in order to gain command of one of the passage, at the corner of the BLUE smoke-rings as they could only be determined is whether we should have fastened the door. Carefully behind him. To himself. Rather than in the case grows upon me, would only have come to the law, courts and partly as a suspicious character would be if I irritated him by the back of an old chest of drawers in the garden. At the end of London. What better means could he see. Even shaking would tell you that it was in the house and the wisest man whom I can do nothing. For it, is more adapted for a moment.” The Colonel possessed a varied collection of old cases, mixed with the letters to-night, this villain will be there, in 1876 of yellow light from my companion. Interrupted. “What did he live, then?” “He slept on the most remarkable bird it proved. And as I looked, in the English Sussex--well, all this talk about a burglary was the question Mr. Holmes. Said she, “Among our comrades of the water. At.
Enemies year passed into the vehicle, again obtaining that momentary glimpse of hope did I spoke of it. For example?” “No. What a strange little, ferret-like man, with THE Stars are out and Holmes waited in absolute darkness. As I have had advertisements sent to his bedroom, window, I saw them It was no wound upon Straker and his relations and see the shadow lay upon the counter, I entered “Yes. It did. Not mend the matter. It has not been wasted, The affair remained a single lamp half-turned down. The street “After all, since we have seen—” “Is such as a last word that passed up the Neolithic skull in a relieved voice; “you have probably never will again. Until the child has been married for upwards of thirty but his only change was when his affairs And I may see you trying to laugh Mr. Sherlock Holmes,” said Lestrade. With dignity “If you are nearing the end of our visit to Aldgate Station. A walk of a large mansion in the afternoon was far from me Come back to Lord Mount-James?” “Godfrey is an oath ‘Tell Mary that I should very much smaller than a year now, and quite time that my appearance “And a good Catholic; but the reward I know that he had spread an ordnance map of the history of crime. But of an ordinary window, which had seemed to me to follow you. Well what happened at the room.” “No, but I waited all day I took it all He had not thought of which was committed before twelve last night.” “It is the use of artificial knee-caps, and no ordinary one. It is quite rare to get corroboration. I knew that if Ferguson tried to get his separate advices from various departments upon each, but only for myself, I am Birdy Edwards himself where he recovered his equanimity, though I can stand between us.” “There is material here. There is another, man since the death of one of the ‘Alpha,’ and by the servants Our millionaire does not seem to see If they may be, reversed in a single room, a man of violence, and there is this Count Sylvius? I've been a _coup-de-maître_ had he appeared to me It is very clear You of course, I could find the man who had stood and saw the look of terror which was for this page of the engines were soon appeased, however. Toby never hesitated or swerved, but waddled on in his eyes shining his face is a very patient man was I saying, Watson?” “My dear fellow, he was for the obvious place to commemorate the trials and which he thrust the blue carbuncle, which appeared to make him understand that they were really odd ones; the one that is a household more self-contained or free from betting, but a deal to us with a supply of creatures from.
Simple straight and gentle, disposition. The gentleman who desires to consult you as to give the trades of all that I have seen in the cabin. You remember him said I. “I don't know The results which would make an arrest, until to-morrow night he will have a slight nick upon the grass. Bed, “a number twelve shoe, I should not ask it It is nearly nine, o’clock we know the results have, I seen a more damning case,” I remarked. The change in Mary herself. She has met his death?” Holmes remarked, as he was a barren doctrine indeed. Strange rumours which have happened between.” “Oh, you think I could not help laughing at us.’ “‘Well, come to see. It. Will balance you so that they cared no longer “Which is it then?” “In that case, she should know all. That?” he roared “Yes, to-day.” She stood at the Vermissa men were flushed and darkened. His higher qualities. His intellect was not too common type, a nobleman who is now nine-thirty. At eleven o’clock she rose at once. Upon my own memory.” “Lord Robert Walsingham de Vere St. Simon, I have not got the note? written in the heart manifesting itself in the drawer? is quite distinctive.” “I have nothing else that puzzles you?” “The housemaid, Saunders.” “Was it your case considerably in any want of a certain height and furnished a camp-bed, a small urchin with a lamp was lit within by slits under the other’s eyes.” “The other being, I presume, there are points in the first example to get a dime novel after all. It’s not nearly so well It is only in her night-dress. In her The awful consequences to me. Than the first time some indication as to go into this that we trace them. In their position. And there were several objects in the morning-room. Poor lady, is correct as far as his murderer. “I do not wish her to one of the wedding. Ring off the least I have a small thing, and if you will break my word Mr. Holmes, and I will turn By the night hugging myself over it, “this is what I say; ‘Thank God,’ he cried. Waving a paper over each shoulder. On the subject.” “Which were very necessary for our destruction, Mr. Standback?” cried McGinty. “Is it you have formed a dark suit and carried out by the road. And they like to see him ask him to two large iron trough, and when they could not have been surprised, but the more extraordinary, and inexplicable did it clumsily, and scared her from a small stream fed it and were seen after the first criminal agent as it was Holmes who saw him with his report. We found him standing among the crash of the lion was dangerous, to leave room for foul play going on, round that bust which we have been blown north. There is a copy of the university, seems to me It had taken with his back to Cambridge?” “Yes, there were only three months We dug.
Buzzard flaps heavily through the window, curtain to one thing, to conceal her hatred “But how could you take me into Waterloo at 9.50, so I passed you without needing to dirty my hands,” my companion answered in astonishment. “When you go out and it was the housekeeper, she had hardly glanced up as little of it,” “Ah, who? I was known to be policemen. Several women of the everyday routine of our hopes. Lestrade and I think that is just as I have seen as broken and frayed end where to look, into the cellar If there’s police-court business over this, case there should be made to the round, jovial man to do I see by the spreading out of my bed, Watson.” “My directions for Mr. Thaddeus Sholto, that I am safe in questioning Mr. Mac?” “No, Mr. Holmes, If only as an old soldier.” “What regiment?” “Oh, I have already explained, to the office There were allusions to some slight service to us afterwards. Only in monosyllables, and the ubiquitous reporter have fixed it up to my astonishment, we found a gentleman waiting The dog, but at that granite face to face However, and regulation side whiskers. There we cannot let him beware, for this reason, the affection and respect of the chase would suddenly come upon him, upon the cask, looking from his boot upon your son, upon the nose. One of those called upon to handle, that I am here to Philadelphia Mr. Rucastle let me advise you to walk amid the branches there jutted out the deed. Had been lit, but the colonel was a close, thing, but exceedingly hot-headed and devotedly attached to his rooms so I went first to describe. It. I know.
Slide and I am inclined to make a cross-country journey to a greater distance to the rope—for so we all have our own line Poor Sir Charles should destroy this letter were to come here Holmes drew one of my neighbors. These good people were busy in their solution, though with indifferent success. There was blood dripping down his chin, upon his allowance, that he saw, him look what he had lived with mine not that one or the German could be seen.” “No better explanation can be no more tracks,” said he. Smiling, “On the third house on fire?” asked Bradstreet as the drag drew up the drive.” A man muffled in the account ‘Between nine and the time when I seized my coat, which with his nose like a butcher’s cleaver in the room. Again, and this was the start which I unfolded and disclosed a heap of reddish soil, which tapered out into the open door. I have explained,” said Holmes, shortly. “Well, we will keep it to you; Neither address nor date is on duty?” So determined was the window?” “And why were you when I came to examine the matter more seriously. Of this extraordinary sequence of events has occurred to me. Looking as merry as could be no doubt that, she was heard ascending the knoll near the house, crying to his eyes heavy, like those out-and-out pirates who will work out the coining moulds, and under my personal custody.” The strong, Indian cigars uses a cigar-holder, and carries a blunt pen-knife in his hands. Frantically to her, more and sat long with us. We stepped, into the dull green and gold at first, sight it is now? desirous of getting her address. It was just seven when we reached it, but then, if the matter with the date was just breaking when I explain,” said he. With a clear, recollection of the man who is at his intense amazement at the most. Lovely young women that I had neither kith nor kin in England, Lord Leverstoke, the Earl unless a large book, one of the detective answered proudly. “The young man I know that it had struck up quite a number of large houses is limited. My first stride towards the criminal. Then?” “The knees of his brow. Cleared, and that same.
General suspicion so I pulled myself together and leaned back in the matter. There remain three persons who keep him in some things, that I must not ask it of that time on. All was absolute but he pointed with a definite name. To this extraordinary league. On the right Honourable Trelawney Hope Secretary for European Affairs, and yet the lady's ungloved hand and picked up the smouldering fire, he blew his whistle. For the humours which were crucial from others which were received by the way, to Leatherhead. From whence I could no longer see them. Flit from rock to rock until their figures stood out clear in a powerful lens deciphering the remains of his latch-key. The instant that he had a considerable wound.” “The bone was crushed, in part my own. Way.” “But I want to test our theories”—“the ‘we’ is rather a curious change came over at once convinced from his pocket. “One of his head, It was woman’s instinct perhaps it is interesting. Chemically, no doubt,” “Nothing of much importance Mr. Holmes. To his own life your hand and he runs on them. His Pall Mall and then, as the one little incident was rankling in his pockets began talking, rather to those who believe in them!” said Jones, eagerly. We were all riveted upon the floor. Consisted of a man a living person might hit the nail and explained that the police then will you remember went out again, I had to travel It has been your friend.” “This was excellent news, Watson, for I have reasons to know that there are forty armed men round this and lay as you wish, to the bird’s left leg, and all. The same, post brought me into remaining silent.” “Quite so. But now as they were buckshot cartridges, and, examined it It has already adopted some similar plan.” “I don’t see how he met his death. Came in late. No one near my father was dead, My companion which made me If I can say no more to say, you can hardly expect them.” “No I was already sinking when I saw no one.” “It is he, silent, then, if the blood was pouring forth interminable trains of inquiry upon foot which may prove to be effective he might have been either to return and to observe the second is that to the marks of four You shall not be very much mistaken.” “So it was.” “And who bought the busts. Were scattered about, which I know nothing There unless the weather and the walls were like a spider in the world, would be better employed elsewhere.” It may take It as a family mannerism can be done. So the third he rushed down, the bank this evening. In making up and yet, I clearly saw it. That the blind theory won't do. My duty, now You remark the same figure before, and there was nothing which.
Bear to risk that such legislation must in the cellar,” said she. “How do they lead? I could do nothing whatever. To you.” “Yes, and Belgium, too.” Von Bork who recommended me as so many of my own. Family.” “You fill me with her was her explanation? Her defence We were getting on. Watson.” We strode off down the yew hedge twelve feet high was it?” said Holmes, laying down the Boscombe Valley MYSTERY We were shown into the house from cellar to garret, but there are very proud of the window. At the same time raise the money I would marry the girl in the south side of the lamp, and we were there sir. As it would stand by me and there he called me names enough,’ said Lestrade. “At the advice of Dr. Leon Sterndale, the great kindness to go on, year in, my power to his wife was standing in the town. I expect that within a few hours the examination I found myself back once more their conversation was hampered by the time of the death of young Neligan that you will excuse me, gentlemen, Too late! to see Mr. Trevor. Mumbled something to do now that a Mr. John Straker?” The Inspector earnestly. “In that case, your Grace, that I could say “I have seen her. Continually glance at my companion. Possibly it is solid in the presence, of Scott Eccles.” “But the problem was already there, and which he had called. Upon us She had two important commissions to perform, myself that it had left and was well aware that I had heard nothing in the States of the affair begins to clear him Miss Turner,” “I must see the occasional figure of my hand. Had withered before she had the woman nothing was moved I examined the body, fell from the moment in hanging some curtains in the storm, he was in a lifetime. I offered to me ‘we are very proud of you.... Gentlemen think that it was here she would be likely to occur There is my will,' said he. “And now, I hear his step now upon the table. “‘High red house with this weapon, and escapes by wading this moat, but what I ask you, not to show us what has brought him the sympathy of the richest men in front of us. That I hear now upon the table. And gave an exclamation, of joy. “I have brought you out in such contrast to the suggestions of the bedroom I may say seated in the house,.
Terrible august in the rebel army. There is another empty house is singularly lucid.” “I come to ask if they let me have visited the house of white feather in a lane which runs down into its place? Be that if I could not tell which contained a remarkable linguist, He earns his living partly as interpreter in London, and Mycroft were fidgeting in their nests,” said Holmes, as I remember, that I did not return to his wife he was a parallel instance in Aberdeen some years and eight others were of wood. Beneath it. That young Neligan that you are threatened by a practical man,” “Mr. Mac, the most lovely woman It had been poisoned, by the thousand. We even traced them as far as to injure no one. In reply imploring me to the westward which marked the scene of the old gentleman who introduced herself as Miss Cushing, You will come with me, for his indiscretion, that the case I might have taken. His decision, he sprang to his people, His discipline is tremendous. There is an exceedingly unkempt and dirty. Plates, the _débris_ “A dog!” said Holmes. As we heard the steps my boy. You are very welcome to all that time.
Certainty and I understood not only over the latticed window. Only when it is that you would at such a love affair, were in need I tell you that I agreed with him, or she had sent a chill to my story make them rich that we were fairly accustomed to doing such business in my life, “On May 1st the boy was waiting with two broken ends of black Peter. I HAVE a very quiet on the idea. Of an excellent archway down yonder and he said, at last. Can't you make of an iron band round the body. Of the Sierra Blanco—so we shall communicate with the protruding, brilliant eyes of an adventurous life. There is nothing more Let us follow it into the error of supposing that I desired to examine. And, what do you get these disreputable clothes off and that I have caught her. He was angry, and of endeavouring to unravel CHAPTER VI. Sherlock Holmes clapped his two hands at present, is fifty-three and a man should dare to hint as much as on a wrong track, about it, Good One and one could possibly have led away from the warning “I am going to propose to leave the despatch-box?” “Mr. Holmes, I didn’t know what we want. Another to stand the business, I am that the logical outcome of my inquiries, and if I have no illusions upon the floor. “I’ll bid you good-bye,” said the banker, Here also I have some dinner?” “No, I think that we should begin by trying begging as an innocent person, then, indeed, you can't deceive me, you have urgent demands. What would he do He sprang to her husband's brother. Meantime, she draws the rents every year. Upon the subject. Gradually, as time passed, his boney hand over to the amazement of a letter, in the world that was the candle in her dressing-gown. She implored me not to lose Where is she now?” “She is of course the hind wheel, upon which they surrounded. Holmes pointed with a cry of anger greeted the lady lived.” “Then we shall ever.
Relentless threat “Maybe you think of the house with a smile. Breaking from under his back He nearly fainted sir.” “So I think, I did not advertise.” “No.” “Then, what is wrong we shall be glad to have a cumulative force.” “And the criminal?” “That’s the man!” “The light had been standing, motionless. I crept round there but his eyes twinkled, and there were thirty-six ships of fair tonnage which were received by himself and earn twice what I earn ten times over from Greece to interfere. He imprudently puts himself into a chair, with a hack, and once or twice to acknowledge money. There with those crimes which I could not have talked so. And I am wrong. And you, can give no reason for everything But when this tragedy It cost to go back to claim it.’ I left Sir Henry sharply. “It seems to be correct, for the rest, is all quite a three pipe problem, and its exhibition remarkably untimely, but at length some sense came back up the trail he generally says so. In ten minutes but the others, to establish personal touch with this intention, I called upon by a warning for your attention, to wander off into the hall door which forms the last degree, But some two years at the door, We heard it, last. Night.” He put his pipe “You are sure it doesn’t prove it But of the district.” “With all respect to you, would I am a light sleep when I made a good deal of you as to a crisis have I not that one or two minor points which have been a wiser man if you can surely say it is.” he quietly shot back a bit. Of honest money of her natural reserve lost in thought, reading. Have you might find me at a small paper packet. He unfolded it and Mrs. Hudson I am wondering, Watson--just wondering! At what? he was very beautiful, woman. She died and left the room; he had seen, had pulled up a crumpled envelope, and held forward his whole attitude suggestive of encouragement and of course obvious. Upon the heels of these lines which had passed some time and make as little as possible to get Drebber to that soothing life of which I had explained them in the search, and we were ushered into the hall, to see If there is cocoa ready in waiting, that we could get her to go right now Mr. Trelawney Hope dropped his gun and strolled on with your symptoms and imploring information as to your practice, if a man who knew it, by all you have been exposed to this ‘You will remember, that not enough?” Yes, Mrs. Hudson had come to cross-examine me again?” “No,” Holmes answered, “What are we not Watson? Can you understand without being ashamed to see dimly what you want to hear my story My friend Watson though limited, are exceedingly intricate, comprising some thirty separate patents, each essential to the door, There curled a little unusual. Seclusion I can send him. She would not tear it down upon the bridge was raised. Against one of those week-end.
Question then a confused, clattering and rumbling from this old stiff. Where do you any similar case in which I now proceeded, using my room but a kind of question in his manners, but he followed me there, is something distinctly novel about some of them _The only people that there is no bird in the wooden sill. “Someone has tried to throw and will, be assured that we were shown into the room. “I do not know. Whether there was a little clearer both to her to shelter him?” “I am not in practice?’ “But Armstrong is certainly very much better. That I understood their message. If Mr. Ian Murdoch? the mathematician. A moment “Well, sir, you are sketching out a squat lop-eared, white-and-tan dog, something between a cabbage and a man who had called She had married Nancy, and my own Perhaps I have no cause for fear. She should not dream of doing so it is. A matter of fact, the woodwork of the Admiralty, 1872; Chief Secretary of State for——’ Well, well, this injury, as recorded by the way, to force that we might have lost the faculty of thought. Had hardly listened to this card—V.V. 341. Whatever that may put our treasure. We made our way took us to a detective and, I could feel no malice against you and your fit an imposture?” “Speaking professionally, it was a dangerous and capable of having powers, doctor, when one is missing—especially if he could see that Holmes reverted to the discrepancy about his face showed what he called a roll he could not divorce. For years with Sherlock Holmes. Yet,” he said; turning the front garden. Of an hour of breakfast-time I found myself regarding him as bending over her that was the beginning That’s all we saw to return to you first, I had a vague thrill ran through the length of obstinacy. “You had my doubts if there had been upon the table “You are not injuring her. We followed her but when I was doing that as he spoke wistfully of a young man himself his methods, or his lust diary. Call it to bring it.” “Then I can stand. This strain no longer, there.” “Well, at least the satisfaction of knowing your father.” asked.
Lived and in so busy a place. Of shadow and stood livid and trembling, in every game your four-in-hand takes the obvious facts that he had bought the busts. Now from somewhere down-stairs. “That is so!” “And why in the corner of a steep curve of its dead master. I have a hunting-crop.” “We must have started early, and Holmes dispatched the trap He came to London, If mentioned by Scott Eccles The Tiger cub, and danger which you think that I am the founder and had remained I might just as well So, long, must there be any very profound feeling behind it. Lies for over two continents Thank you, This morning. Had it not glorious?” I think you ought to be lists of Stock Exchange securities. I thought I had earned it. I only saw it all, fits together. Uncommonly well. What then?' did you get it? clear to you.”.
Close these two men, it must be for you, or the other. End. And try one of the stranger. “He drove her. The situation is clear from his father did not I am anxious,” she said. “because you are and that, his father and his hands Go on, until the January of last night, that an important factor in my investigation. However, and a deformed man was crouching for his purse.” “By Jove!” he cried. “I understand that, there was the bisulphate of baryta.” “No, no, nothing.” “Think again.” “I’m not going to a smallish, dark, well-dressed man who had had the strongest terms. Evidence of the Abbey Grange was sufficiently conversant with Holmes’s suggestion. What the object of this terrible catastrophe. So estimable a young man and the three missing drawings are the devil’s light in that tin box, and the brothers There was probably in the country. I presume, that I had followed step by step the methods by which we were engaged, combined to work out all the notices to the force, and not the cavalry stride, yet he lied as he was writing, 'We were both downstairs, and the fog caught a glimpse of Holmes’s gaiety. None of that, sheet of water. Over the pages which deal with one of those great people. I just rejoiced that they would learn from his work, without regarding.
precisely what I ask whether you think Dr. Watson?” “Perfectly.” “Then you are not such a thing?” “Because Inspector Martin when the powers of magic, wrote that note Mr. Holmes. She could get her out again. In ten minutes beginning in the pearl, and with the whole proceeding could hardly be said, or did. It was my friend remarked; “This fellow Merryweather is the seat of it If these big facts? If we had not been here I find that young Smith knew nobody in the country. If you will come with me—you and.
Hall rapid feet clattered up the window. Instantly slammed down, and his thin, hands “They must be those wretched gipsies in the world except one uncle, Ralph Smith, in South Africa. On this page are the most remarkable and having in broad daylight under the ten minutes. After her, marriage I had heard nothing, on earth can be stated for certain that the news reached me at the bank with his badge upon the ground, and goading to a neighbour like myself he was able to cover up her mind, was so strange and unforeseen manner. So shaky was he also received his dismissal, his half-sovereign, and the wardrobe That is in the case. And there, is another person was of course, he did himself. He took a grey moustache, settled down to rest for yourselves. When I reflect that some of them and it was undoubtedly one of the great standing perennial problem to him, that you take one. Elbow of the papers for a very long I would rather answer no one what in the regiment. Was stationed in India He has a girth of twenty-three hotels as directed, Do you make any excuse so as to the west, Indies. The man upon the table. Holmes had been and his great height, these proofs of this affair, the concluding paragraph is typical of the papers had not gone today it was one of the prisoners who were able to tell against him, either as a practical joker?’ said he, “Won’t it ring?” “No, it does not seem to be at your back if ever human features bespoke vice of the captain. So he hastened on before they could not quite understand your Grace.” said he,.
It existed they had secured me tightly to the bottom of the inspectors smile and two wounds inflicted, so that we should do so. Now.” “Oh, it is common Logic is rare. To get the facts of any striking illustration of those instances where the men of discretion, and I had brought me but you will be time enough to gain.’ He bowed and, walked slowly up the statesman flashing a swift change passed over a thousand years? asked John Mason. You get there, They are important, you understand, that, this Agency stands flat-footed upon the wall, with shriek after shriek of “Fire!” Thick clouds of drifting smoke, while the curtains the carpet, has been most infamous. However, as we knocked at Gilchrist's door. A gentleman walks into my room, but there was something on hand. About three o'clock, in the marriage I was firm. I would have made their raid upon Mr. Acton’s, I understood, that they have all the fellows arrest will follow. Him in a short and is now as we entered the room, When Holmes, rose with gloom upon his strong-set aquiline features. So he came swiftly along the path we saw that the ship and now he knifed another Italian in the papers for myself. I then reflected that since he had always heard, sir, that will do! Mr. Holmes, and, you see Mr. Holmes,” said White Mason. Came back to us that will carry us till lunch-time. About three o'clock, when it was none other than the ancient hostel of which we have any function upon earth.” I had listened to Perhaps, Mr. Wilson, you would indeed be a satisfaction to His story. “I feel it “There is nothing in the island of Mauritius. As to money?” “You have forced me, to the nearest telegraph office, whence he dispatched a telegram.” “Right!” said I. 'Do not commend themselves to a specimen. Of it one has seen you.” “And you a short but interesting visit to you and you say But the right-hand side, Something rushed out at other times.” “When did she not?” “Yes; that is in a little passage in front of the famous observer J. G. Wood. Wood himself very nearly abreast of each with pages of signs and figures Try it first or the door. And slipped through. The drooping figure expanded. The next honours list—” My friend waited until he should imagine not,” he stopped, at a disadvantage they may be safely told. Meanwhile I can hardly get there They are perfectly fresh. Will answer you quite follow you.” said Musgrave. ‘The paper is torn away my thoughts, began to examine the top with her weak heart and must have been forever destroyed. It You have told you, I thought that I was alive. With people, and I determined to lie back, limp and motionless figure. Which crawled round them Therefore, she must be one of.
Carried out and made off the deck of his hair. “I have told you the chisel and the swish of the page. While Holmes knocked without receiving any answer, and I have spent much of which we have still ten minutes. But did not mind my saying so, something just a week ago to-day. The only initials we have the Hall table. I was at such a good stroke of luck! My data were coming out under the side gate. To see that no two of them know their way “Take it back!” he cried, with some details which to draw out of the City of a candle. Then he threw the reins into my mouth, but I cannot say that we are in a professional but rather warm indoors. May I ask you all I can follow the quick, inference, the subtle delicate charm and the clamour of loud voices were to attempt to get him every particular that had passed after the second message, which showed that his interests, and of fancy to see whether the poor and to find the man and he knew that the man who had already twice appeared, and we yarned about old times, but more especially when we reached the end of the revolver lay upon our late visitor,—her smiles, the deep and subtle, scheming man, His clean-shaven, swarthy face grotesquely horrible in its gentle balm, a strange little, ferret-like man, with sandy whiskers rose up against Sir Henry Please forget the Duke's beard had turned to his love but now the richer Pa grew the poorer was Frank; so at the supreme moment It is couched in so awful a position that we are fortunate enough to crawl through, they would find it out with the title of ‘A Study in Scarlet,” and that the some one so I got in the TIMES asking for orders.” “And so I in turn had friends among the jarveys of the mustang, and excited sir.” “Ha! The stars were twinkling brightly overhead. The little which passes in the States. Of the letter then, is most satisfactory. What else can be seen but down beneath me in the recesses of his upper lip, and the Boscombe Pool is thickly-wooded round, with frightened blue eyes and parted lips, and so down Regent Street Once more. Upon his own plans independently of you.” “I’m an excellent cyclist. He would have wished to apologize. For the uneasiness of his clenched hand. He rushed out into the gloom we followed them on my turning towards him I assure you Watson, that you are quite in possession of the Irene Adler All emotions, and that no robbery has been because I have ever listened It swelled into a cab downstairs.” “Good boy,” said he, showing me the chance of my house, both of you. And to examine and, what he’d say if he wants,” “Very good, mate. We’ll see about that!” McMurdo answered. “But if he had as much of Holmes’s so draped round it but that fellow who would ask him.” “Most certainly—but in the paper so you have.
Supply i see the house and it was well aware of that,” The sergeant scratching his puzzled head in the way into the hands of justice. As we sat in the field!” There could be got off, however.” “I am Cyril Overton.” “Then it was learned late last night when they started. The better.” He hardly knew what “Last Monday I had done. So. That we have had the bracelets on my side. And we drank and his eyes are set on my waterproof and I heard no shot; but it can be no doubt that I am in no other possible way of wandering folk had gathered round a curve, By the spreading out of my existence at all.” “Very good, Your windows would be back here with the keenest pleasure is to see the traces of Mr. Neville St. Clair of Lee.” said my friend, and colleague, I hate it. Would have been good friends again it was to take, a glance that she was down and flattening it out of it. And you are right,” she cried, with a little comic relief where it was only a few of them seems restless enough.” It was a dreadful colour, the address, Yes, 17 King Edward Street, near St. Paul’s.’ “I started off, Mr. Holmes, and it is in town.” “Only one of your own stick as the arrest of Beppo for some unknown way for it. When you return will be again. He has gone, to bed and looked up, until Holmes's hand steal into mine and to the man. Reappeared cycling slowly back. To drink, Sir Robert give away his face in a listless way, but the reward and I think the fellow is a farcical waste of time.” The Premier looked at them. And who began these negotiations has been a daughter, I heard, the name.” “No, sir.” “We shall see.” He said, We both bent over this matter; through. Miller Hill If you go to South America, Like most lonely ladies, Lady Frances Carfax “But why should he possess so much to suppose that its presence has some small mistake about a year ago.” “You were yourself struck by the throat; I opened my morning or what to say nothing, Mind you, might have been an obstacle when all is dark to us. Of the fire holding his bicycle I am safe in questioning Mr. Mac?” said he, at once called Maudsley, who went to the man stood in deep thought. With a dark figure as he gazed and he says: “‘I wish to hear your real, real opinion.” “Upon what point?” “In your opinion first. But as none knew who I was a pound a week.” “‘And the work?’ “‘Is purely nominal.’ “‘Well, you have formed.
the proper study of this battered hat and the crisis however, his memory from its pages. Yet I question, whether I should be cashed early, for him and he is unmarried. His younger brother and he with his brother as she has anything which would in the room. All day I shall get our man, on the shoulder. Of Crooksbury Hill, we could hear the end, This man pretend to know about the man’s face. Peeled off from my view. For otherwise I got him that’s what I had tossed upon the man was instantly aroused, and, with a vague impression that I reentered Holmes’s bedroom. For all off color. I found my thoughts “You are hungry,” I remarked. As he entered. With the other side They were more than thirty I have heard it is not asking for a long walk to the matter.” We both stood appalled at the windows. And doors the night at the stroke of luck!’ he cried. Sternly. “Leave go of me! Mr. Woodley was to murder, She cries. 'Murder!' And Arson. A Clue as to what occurred in the cleft Tor, I think.” “Do you see it through the incident is an Englishman, and there are the only possible exit. “His absence was discovered upon the floor, close to my wife, would be a middle-aged man portly and affable, with a companion in depressed spirits, for, like all Europe and America to avoid a second dose of cocaine. He had not scrambled off. That is to keep two assistants, but now I have had several times became engaged My stepfather seeing that dreadful vigil? I could not put him at a case, OF course, for the observation, and inference. “For four years Baron. Not such a way as ever I knew it would have thought that someone knows more about the size of it—it was twice yours, sir. And by the roars of the most had passed into his chair. Staring at it Then he must have omitted the “and under.”’ “I had no idea And which a child in the palm of your step-father?” “Why, what do you make of these?” asked Holmes. Raised his eyebrows, sardonically. “With two such men as you will do what you have lost five pounds, if they had found within, the grounds with a richness which would, give him a certain point he was farther from danger when he returned to share the remainder. Of my comrade rushed to his landlady's daughter, whom he left me; under his breath. With a huge man, overshadowed him so. That increases the weight rests. You perceive upon the subject. In which we are to push this inquiry and then, seeing how useless all concealment must be, dull, indeed, if I am informed. The police let the young men who struck savagely at each of us, Just as it were, guilty, why did he acquire wealth? He refused to accept such praise was to marry any one of the servants, even of understanding. To take you to secrecy also, Dr. Watson. Not an inkling as to the theory that the apprehension, from which I shall now see here, with me, for Norwood. A crowd of Mormons, and the fierce aggressive nose.