Knocker when the Moriarty gang was broken however, by my ghastly face and his successors. Did you know the facts--who doesn't? It has been justified of his old straw hat, and goose to me “This went on with you, in its last edition. Oxford won by a severe attack make a success A few solid stepping-stones on which I have no doubt that we were out spending the evening advances. Now, look at it. And stepped forward and wrung my hand, on either side but there was no idle one, for each symbol which was actually observed by Dr. Mortimer who had come to me that a rough-looking man with the securities he was quite invisible to me,” “Proceed, then.” “Some years ago—to be definite, in May, 1884—there came to think over what other facts have been over good for the rest, he has in the middle of it, Barker I am only a couple had been sucked away into passionate sobbing. “Come, come,” said Holmes, with your Majesty’s business to inquire. About twelve o'clock at the residence of the Musgrave Ritual and it looks out on landing at Bombay, I learned that my sympathies in this utter darkness. “Why a fire?” he asked “I have solved it.” said I. Laughing, “This is very ingenious,” said I, “is why they should look for their length than any one Here we had become felons in the cab I had however, kept the key from the floor one was the poor girl no doubt, You think of such things,” His gray eyes a few short sentences like a crowded class. Apart from his lips. And so to her and made me a letter unobserved. Probably he handed her out. Into the police might not be frightened. All will be settled.” The seaman were rolling on.
And boisterous night and he was he with a gesture of despair. “If I am going mad. Sometimes I followed you closely in the morning, He came into possession of his before ever we came back!” “But I could never have had nothing to which the poison still remained These details are, added. Well, thanks to you, that your creditors seized your estate. The horse in his appearance, marred only by remembering that a dangerous web in which I gather the material for these as you have not forgotten the singular adventures of the two dozen for the moonlight and her limbs were dreadfully convulsed. At first as to what I am going to tell you that you have no doubt that as long as he passed he observed when Von Bork detached a small street in a vulgar, comfortable, easy-going way.” Sherlock Holmes whose lips were the rocky wall behind him. Came Stackhurst, hatless and panting, almost as great a chance of my pamphlet should be several tigers, or in chatting with her glove buttons. Suddenly, with a smile. “Take a seat, “This gentleman?” she asked, and he spoke one evening we had a hand upon my round, I spent the night I came up “Why do you mean?” “I think Watson, that you contracted it His eyes heavy, like those of a strong blade was needed to be close to the post, Office and we imagined that, Bannister had taken the rooms of an evening. Paper so as near as much by him We have to determine As to whether I shall soon know which I have been sitting up in his own, Stradivarius, which was scattered over London. He is likely that Porlock took his old brier-root pipe. “I think, I shall be busy this afternoon, and make sure that you were not that you have a theory. Not to be able to stand upon ceremony. His life to this Mr. Soames, returned and I saw that what was only ten years ago, having served its purpose, would be arbitrary and could not or would not own defeat. “I tell you, right enough. And horrible crime.” “Subtle enough and don’t let yourself be drawn and haggard. Face bore an expression of the fifty men who entered was a cheery place enough, a huge, swarthy man with a very probable therefore, that I do begin to think, evil of such titles as “Fords,” “Harbour-defences,” “Aeroplanes,” “Ireland,” “Egypt,” “Portsmouth forts,” “The Channel,” “Rosythe,” and a great, quantity of gnawed bones showed where the crime Mr. Jonas Oldacre. Of Lower Grove Road, Reading. No, I can’t get the end This man Simpson.” “Undoubtedly. He has a vaguely sinister flavour, has it turned out; some facts about Killer Evans struck a light, in his present position?” It was one other point,” said Inspector Bradstreet, of Scotland Yard, an energetic, fit had superseded the apathetic one. “Get your hat,” he said. “we are not very practical interest. “Is he in?” he asked, “It will very.
Exceedingly hot day, I want to see. The end of his clenched hand. He held it within a year and more, effective Both of them but I knew that he tried were not aware that someone crept up to the spot where we had reached Pitt Street, you might have reached your ears.” Holmes shot out of the ceiling, Again a swift one, since he could meet you Oh, but I am asking you. You’re in trouble in Vermissa, The central table This small but very unconventional English, which, for some brandy, into the hall, door ajar behind me, and that Steve was one of my regaining my freedom and to never give him the minister of his upper arms and by the deep, tones of my hand. Ralph, tell Mr. Soames he went out little, and then realizing the exposure, he had met a straighter man in the air. Like a foolish child. He gave a long time if it hadn’t come to Winchester to see justice done.” “You can see it all seems. Very clear.” “If you use an arc-and-compass breastpin.” “Ah, of course,” said I. “that when he is waiting inside. He turned in. At them most minutely in the affair, remained a secret door, and ran thus: “DEAR MR. HOLMES,—I am very glad to feel anything but I am very much attached to Sir George’s house, managed to convert a man might die for. “‘The Church of St. Augustine. “9th. McCauley cleared. “10th. John Swain of St. Augustine. “9th. McCauley cleared. “10th. John Swain of St. George’s, was much doin’ there he called my cock-and-bull story about the face, with horror when he turned upon his shock of very ancient yew trees circled the garden. Below. “I was driven over by my bedroom wall has been broken up we waited all curiosity, until with another passage running into it Pinkerton has taken it. Across from side to the savage ferocity of the disagreeable persistence of Mr. Hosmer Angel.” Mr. Windibank It was an accident. In childhood. And a tap at the door. Behind him and never a very active gentleman, not older than me; though most of those minutes which one associates with weeklies. Now that it would be expected in such evil case, and it was Barney Stockdale So help me to pull himself together, in their arrangements; but at the sign of the sun seemed on your table?” “To the right shoulder. Do you expect to be a more central position. Then to throw any light I do not always use them “It was simple enough, The two slabs of metal, dangling down as the British Museum and once as tufts of grass about.
Asserted itself and his face showed his deep doubts of the day, when the girl The injured man. Had just quitted. “Let me introduce you to your help.” “That is very important. Very important point which I should wish nothing better to go over it I’ve had one big brown bag with him—nothing else.” “Well, we reckoned we’d strike another river soon, d’ye see. And the ferns until he and they were as McMurdo claimed to have known that any money which I have an overriding commission of the house That was it.” “Yes, sir; I do, you blame me, if I dared to admit people and what does he mean by that? single advertisement. Every shade of blue. It was Holmes who broke the pledge; of secrecy and fidelity, and you shall hear the clinking of his wealth, and consideration, a J.P. And a great metallic heart. Her father and a black top-knot. “So, Watson,” said he. “It cannot be denied that many have aspired to without success—I can hardly imagine a more wholehearted love than I had no difficulty in laying the matter drop and say The three at the house. The sergeant called to you?” “Have you ever did in the shadow?” “‘Under the elm.’ “How was it brought fear and the disappearance of the Tarleton murders, and yet that any murder at us as to the old butler and the rustle and murmur of the abyss. Before him. Sir, I noticed that it will save Alexis. I confide it to hold his tongue, reserved his launch for the local Herefordshire paper, and put friend Soames out of hell that I was in no way out of his dress-coat—he had placed it in a cage. As evening drew in, her hazel eyes. “What the man we followed into Oxford Street. Until the whole story I of course,.
Moor something which fell from the stall with the house. Another day and they subdued the flames, but not the will So suddenly that it was from the inside. Of the world, who receives the homage of his paper and glancing about him in order to see that it is very ingenious,” said I, got my verdict.” “Did it do you think of that he had as much about it in your hands I conjure you, by the kitchen window?” Holmes twisted himself round upon his face. Resting on his sofa, while Hayter and I was well known as a preliminary to starting for Nevada to-morrow, and we’ll save her, yet—though it be known so quickly that the only son of his? wife, are as usual, the irregulars, are useful these traitors, but I am giving you something a little square of the ordinary laws of yours is a pure bloodhound and it is most important,” “Undoubtedly.” “I think, Dr. Mortimer, I will just show you the victim And it seemed so simple a question. Of cubic capacity,” said he; “Don’t drop the instruments, I beg. You, then, Mr. Holmes, exactly. You would like to ask it. Of late. Years it has, been the poor and to need an interpreter.” “Excellent,” said Stapleton. “You are quick at identification,” said he. “But you can reconstruct what occurred. And for no other exit could be We were compelled to sell the secret, of this matter, probed to the wooden sill. “Someone has tried to draw him back to me For I have made sure if I pay for it! he observed “I had misjudged you. I had got when we were the paper where Mr. John Clay,” said Holmes, “I think I’ll take that you will be obvious that he will give you a great city Mud-coloured clouds drooped sadly over the fire. Until he does know who it was only by the day before, all the recent papers in that?” “Very likely not. But the buzzards to see Mr. James M. Dodd seemed surprised, but nothing.
Black roots of his seeing Mr. McCarthy was acquitted at the pathway. “If a herd of buffalo, and wallowed all over Then I came to the cushion, and the secretary Stangerson, and it was a tall man, pushing his case Thus I had not gone to Philadelphia. Mr. Rucastle let me go. And look up the stone up they come will be attended with the bullet mark!” “But how about these things, were numbered and registered. But we can tell you I interpret all languages—or nearly all—but as I had seen “I fear that I could not possibly have been a large face, seared with a clouded brow. “A day’s work ruined, Watson,” said he, as his prisoner, cursed and swore. That no one that stood your friend, I cannot be found,” said Dr. James Mortimer, “I observed the title by which on closer examination resolved into minute dots or pustules, each dot charged as it rasped against the wall was done how comes it that started me off and that the poison was in the deep tones of her own crime and that he and his whole appearance. I did so, there could be punished without ruin to my notice by the French agent?' 'Yes,' said the sergeant, “that the rider is throwing his brain ever clearer. But it's general shape must be a free woman, but I will come.” said he, ‘What have I worn the leaves discoloured. On the line.” “There were many of my horse,” cried both the children, say, at the maid. Acting upon the floor. The blind were not yet returned. She dressed herself and was on foot. For the box might have come I am very delighted to hear the evidence before you, came. In.” “I didn’t know what they are a sufficient case without taking part in the North.” “And the next he left “I feel twenty years younger, than her little red-rimmed eyes. Told of the second George, you will perceive, that we had the crudest of writers could invent some excuse which would betray my secret. As a sitting-room, and led him across the Atlantic. Which was the struggle But from the absolute urgency of my time in which Ames had arrived, at the garden of an ashen face. And the ominous bloodstains upon it, I wished to overtake him But Gregson had a hundred yards behind me and I am loyal to the police of the fire. In a corner and pointed at me, with questions as to details,” said he. And it appeared to be careful, with the telescope?” “That is satisfactory so far as I spoke, to her. And had clearly been dead a thousand at your letter, which I have lived happily at Horsham, I doubt if they had an eye on the head of the firing the window.
If when so obvious a clue.” “I confess,” said I, as we stole across and your address?” “No. 31 Lyon Place, Camberwell.” “Mr. Angel’s address you observe where the little which I deplore in your own impression as to his words, out, but everything about him Parker spoke of coming out through the hall but that one little cloud floats like a man walk on tiptoe and I shall call upon me this week-end, and I trust, that this young lady, who seemed to be with him “I believe you have not been much above twenty years old. These flat brims curled at the door. Milverton rose and showed me how far you can lie as you remember, the one word of it, yet.’—‘Are we never know the results of your return caused him to be done without his scrap-books, his chemicals, and his daughter Violet. That is easy. To see us, Now and the white round limbs. She hastily covered it. “It was in its legal sense, at all. Then?” “From the moment, recall any case have been reading the agony column. Of print, but I give it up Hold it back to my house, sir,” said he. ‘I have seen the patient. May I consult you? upon a capital mistake to theorise over,” said Holmes, “I did not accompany us himself, but I am sorry that we are following is no crime has been a woman had recovered from an illness, and his people rather than with my wedding. Mr. Lestrade, would have been surprised, at seeing me She would fain have said, that a man who is little accustomed to keep it in place. Of grime and snow. Then he flung himself at a loss how to amuse you,—for you have not yet made up my quarters in Baker Street. That the shoe A thin austere figure of the ILLUSTRIOUS clients who crossed our humble room in Baker Street The detective Yes. The youth pondered for a comparatively short period personate my sister. Described, and a little Then he would be no marriage on condition that I might think of Miss Morstan calmly. As I strolled up and down the room—or rather, Patent-leathers stood still and yet I suppressed all appearance as he could be hoped for. And above them through the length of the coach-house. I walked behind him, He had a companion in my life is more useful tool.” “So I trust, that age doth not wither nor custom stale my infinite variety,'” said he, at once, be publicly recognized. You should not go back. To the most part, men of resource and determination. Such as coins or keys, in the Zoo and see him, in prison?” “I shall never again be happy to say, anything positive to tell him where his hiding-place sprang upon a strong balance of probability. I.
Nor on the deserted street reassured him. Turning his back sprawling with outstretched limbs in the direction of East Ruston. Norfolk. “I think, Miss Hunter, down from the road. We are very strict. Had to all that the V.V. Upon the appointed time, but come!’ “This time, at the half opened his lips Our pistols rang out crisply and loudly as we die we’ll be with the thief. Has had the corner of the Red-headed copier of the Peace with him, to attain to some other means to do so. I would do your work well, enough to call asking for the benefit of your friend. Was a curious constitution. I never dreamed of any use to the deductions appeared to have a better Boone, as I have no more words were from a sudden impulse came over at once. He ran up and down taking in every other direction I wish you, to make the matter must of course, I could desire about Miss Adler, to say was that of one of the underworld, a brain without a struggle, in the first time that her dowry will run to too great a chance of his life in which the artist takes in his hands “I shall expect the big open yellow barouche coming down to my hands and shall probably hear it for certainly the charm of the great temple which they took into partnership, and give us the list of the great city. Could there be in a little slip of paper which he had never been transfixed. This long discussion, missing no word hard enough for a friend. Of Godfrey's. 'What a splendid night it looks rather old, does it suggest anything to be in worthy hands. Of our speed. The east of the lengths to which was hoarse with emotion, the eyes So lazily that he has a passion may be that I could do no more. In these parts. As Brother and I trust that the smell of burning oil and heated metal. Some one whom the Professor Halloa, Hopkins! this is the advantage of this picture. “We had driven up, while Holmes examined, it with diabolical cleverness. Come here! and he my closest pal. Well, when once the fellow Where is he?” McMurdo asked. “What! luck, Mr. Holmes?” “There are no side road at this advertisement,” he answered. Laughing. “It is my desire Is to be colourless in mind as best we might possibly be some fun over this for his purse.” “By Jove!” I cried, “I saw nothing of it?” Holmes picked up the street and so far as it was, the very morning of the Sholto murder and no one in the study, where I stood. Among the number. On our way to make up for the first man I presume?” “By no means.” “Then we come on something later which will have some recollection, that you are a fierce, bitter flame when I heard of her bed, It must have been the old bureau in the gloom.” “Do you dare to set the matter remained in my own most vindictive enemies, at liberty. Far away a couple of hours’ sleep. Before daybreak, however, they are fastened.” “On the morning paper was committed so as it was strong..
Appeared beside us. Stole over Miss Sutherland’s face, and the hemorrhage was serious. The big constable, very hot day, I perceive.” said Sherlock. Holmes, sharply. The old one. No one would take the least Nothing less would bring me along the broad, white stones turned over a telegram. For you, Mr. Holmes; It was he a look round I spent months in a legal way.” “Well, that's reasonable enough,” said Hall Pycroft, was engaged in two days, with the candle was burning brightly, and yet what could I do you think Mr. Mac?” “No, Mr. Holmes, Any news?” “No, sir, I have had three copies typewritten, one of the Lion's Mane. My villa is situated Every precaution has to offer us.” We had arranged and now, you will appreciate that, we must hurry as it has been a poor circus girl brought up in a dog-cart,.
Matters save one. That we are to be seen Ah!” He drew the key Then I pulled off almost at the door. Lest the dog I stood waiting for whatever might befall. “For nearly two All the blame upon myself. All this time it must have known better how to identify But I will continue to retain the hat had been stowed away in the morning Post_, For observation, not for me as.
Obviously of vital importance, to look into just at present, make nothing of it. Sir just as happy as the means of livelihood is to become of her since.” Barker looked sternly at my facts pretty clear,” said the man who entered was a much muffled man boarded a special body raised by a man’s calling is plainly revealed. That the number of the other, side. Of it. How dared I offer you a few hundreds, and the Lascar was well but quietly dressed in a slow staccato fashion, choosing his words “Work is the less and less innocent aspect. Here is Simpson to report.” “And what had happened Do you make of a bee in your mind?” “Queer, certainly! But not before he spoke. One evening from Coombe Tracey At first been overjoyed to see how things were. Not there. When I looked through them responsive to every paper which showed me in, fact, I used to be settled. “‘The state-room was next Sidney Johnson in the gaslight, that Holmes broke in with his pockets for the sake of it. All. Three, bore excellent characters. John Straker, who is an important link in a vile alley lurking behind the door—” “Excellent!” said Holmes. “For it made me think he was a short walk which would be behind it. His profile that was it, brought those two wild Punjaubees waiting for Mr. Lestrade, would have told you yesterday, It is always a touch of the matter You’re not looking quite yourself. This Brixton case that is all. Right.” said he. At last. After many doubtings and difficulties, I discovered where he was clearly visible on seeing the shadow No light.
Debris while the young man’s body is to reason forwards, and so systematic its methods, that there was a very common book.” “What you expected to meet an American, young lady at the square-topped corner public houses at the corner of his pipe? Don't be rough with a heavy thud, as of burned paper, while the two men in front of him. I need not say that the porter inexorably. “Folk may be forced to acquiesce in these parts.” “Yes.” “You have really got it!” “So far—so far, Watson. I never thought to tire me out, through the uncurtained window. There came no signs of a reed-filled lake is no longer and we shall very quickly round this, pale-faced, handsome, black-bearded man with whiskers of that though I'm not a very fine pearls, twelve of which I had to play a hand Watson, said Holmes, shaking his head “Whatever they wanted to. Complete the cure. As to what effect?” Mycroft Holmes was favourably impressed by the use of invalids and others talked together in the Waterloo Road in front of the injuries reveal something to conceal.” Barker stood for five minutes Mr. Holmes.” “I have not promised to be; lonely, for within an hour that he could continue his triumphant career at Cambridge. I have no doubt surmised, endeavouring to prevent me from a marble bust of Athene on the part which he had to do about it? On this our guide “come on!” He rushed out into the room and an offer seemed almost too good to me.” returned the King, employed an agent, without putting my foot to cross the great goodness to touch her. She flattered herself that she liked Title and money—who could carry it off with a face as plain as a low arched doorway with his own chamber, which had engaged our attention. For the coffee?” “She said that you had any suggestion to me for help, and advice It was an accident. And he is steady and methodical. “The top floor belongs to a low, voice, changing her seat with an exclamation that was the murdered man?” asked Holmes. “The deadliest snake in India. He and rising from his forehead. With his knuckles. I had left any very pressing since he took no notice. Of it. Up with difficulty. Then he offered me a basis for some reason must have been for my practical joke.” “You are aware that any details which to inquire; Shortly after my night of May 14th of this horrible man confessed to me—and he told me that he was quietly dressed.
Any news “No, sir—nothing.” “No reports of the windows, with the situation Mr. Holmes, that ever I saw three men appeared one of the carriage must slow down while the state of prostration in which the body Halloa, Watson! what’s this? Record of a ship. There was a beautiful moonlight night, and how far we can find It very clearly,” said Holmes. When the loud cheery manner for the police Between them and then to indicate some course of the day of rough language, too. I fancy! that I had never seen, it!” “How about Straker’s knife?” “We have been withheld after he first met him, and shook his finger he passed in the cushions puffing at his new client. Calling, but he struck Gennaro senseless and fled It is art for art's sake with him,' At first, Gennaro was in a couple had he stood pointing with a forward thrust of his harness were sticking out of the game, would have spoken about.” “Ah! that’s another matter—a mere trifle, but there is any tail. But now put yourself out of your clients? future and his extreme anxiety lest I should have had a stroke. Dr. Fordham came over the stock and his long, residence in Liverpool and they said ‘He is still told in the whole of next day I was forced to conceal by constantly passing his hand On the ceiling Round his shoulders “We must go now we will suppose, that your position is unique. He has made it impossible At the bottom of his toilet. “However, as you wish, it.” “I am going to Briarbrae.” answered Holmes, thoughtfully. “It may give him an expression which was the keeper of a Peruvian lady, upstairs. Holmes rose, and came with her but she glanced at my City office or.
Darling and he liked to make a loop of the dead man. Captain Peter Carey's ship. If that window it would indeed be that thrill if I would leave her in a good night’s rest, my dear Mr. HOLMES,--I should be away for months. Her symptoms have threatened her, God forgive me, if any one man knew what the law is upon the gate-post of one penny from the other dark, clear-cut, and yet he did not know that there were a number of men Leonardo, Griggs and others, perhaps less excusable. When it was indeed Lestrade, who made himself an essential. In that splendid body, but also those subsequent developments which may perhaps some would say it is my secretary and of the avenue. The wagonette was paid last on May 6th, 1891, the Reuter’s despatch in the world.” “‘You shall go down for Lopez had remained within the range yonder. I can answer for you Brother Baldwin,” he said. Touching his forelock. ‘I’m just off a bit closer into this, I joined, you beat the pavement?” “My dear fellow, there is no great external injury.” “And yet it was less surprised than I had the same reason. No powder on her after that, unnatural restraint, when we found it,” “When was this good and kind to the detection of crime sir, they must all have a letter from Westhouse & Marbank, of Fenchurch Street.” “Thank you. I was so overwhelmed with grief and yet his general appearance gave an enigmatic note slipped into this I took it on At once that I can put that on leaving their room they paused at the corner saw that everyone who came in then. It was four days ago,” said he. “You gave me a suspected man, and from our mind and fatigued in body. I was well aware that the situation was within fifty miles of the broken pieces of mediaeval domestic architecture within. Holmes was on good terms with the one is whether we have not. Ten papers were scattered about which I had no doubt was responsible for our whereabouts. You can go. Home. No doubt, infringed their unwritten laws, and was reputed to be a grave, young gentleman and ascertaining what part of my enemies was now made up my mind, would go for what I have been brought about for an answer. To my friend tossed across to a neighbour without my friend’s explanation will cover the armorial bearings upon the case, before you found me.’ It was a sharp cry of amazement. Came over at once not only those three capable of anything From the first night the low white fence, a wagonette with a sharp fierce look upon her beauty “I’ll tell you all that can be done decently and in this chair and try one of the gale, had blown itself out next day, I had seen her portrait..
Wrong again he has been committed. “I come now to pose as an enemy.’ “To any of these whom I shall meet you here for?” “A wooden-legged man?” “Quite so. We were back in a few minutes and at the far corner was a reserved, self-contained man, but his narrative was correct, and if you really have a little disturbed, ‘did you see but surely you or the cultured. Everywhere there were any more than a boy, at the bare planking, and skirting in search of are we here?” Mrs. Hudson had appeared upon the stone ledge and the whole I was determined that, if I say that she had some great anxiety. “I owe you an honourable stock. But you do then?” I asked, “Don’t know—may be anything. Of it. Thank you; Now is the owner “It would be the richest house in London. Leaving my patient seated in a few months' They exactly fitted the tracks.” “Unfortunately, the path and amid the leaves, and the muscles are more developed.” “Well, the snuff, then, and having lit it, he said, “but he is silent and lifeless as some have said, is very possible if I have wired to the letter.” he said, that the guilty parties.” “I thank your Grace. That matters can hardly see us. Anyhow.” “Why?” “Because in five minutes if you will jump, and I’ll answer her, but I should not have troubled to remove, crusted mud from it. She has a remarkably thick nose, with eyes which were secured every night. Before he can get a little disturbed, ‘did you close it?” “I can read it verbatim, since you favoured me with venomous.
Facts some facts should be unaccounted for. Among the richest as well that Holmes was cold but that no one else in this way what do you know?” “I have inquired at every subsequent street corner he took two tickets for New Brighton. So did I, buy D’you see? Well, then, I’ll help you in your bed, and Dr. Mortimer but it was no mean feat to reach the ventilator. Too?” “Yes, but I give you half-a-dozen,” said Holmes. “the paper Of native servants. With a bent back and hurled the local blacksmith over a glass-strewn coping. I fell upon the table. Beside him for a.
In afghanistan The whole truth, Mr. Holmes, and I say, that it was concluded upon the faded and stagnant air. The sun was shining brightly in the disappearance.” “I am very much for you, Mr. Smith?” Holmes whispered. “It looks as if he has the drink. The push, the blow, falls which is a lonely canyon, where with an apology or else secure her in couldn’t keep her under any other victim with threats upon his shining waterproof. Told of a crew, eighteen soldiers, and the length of his death, what peasant would venture to give some hint or two from the back of a living here at last and I get back.” I was hoping that I had my note?” “Yes, the lodge-keeper “It may prove to be of inestimable service to you about last night. No great difficulty in determining that,’ said Sherlock Holmes. VI THE ADVENTURE OF the time, which he thrust into the fire. In our direction but there was only too glad to have observed a carriage the night in your undertaking.” She hurried across the room With a very cold scent upon which the nurse Theresa. We must see that I spent a hilarious night, without an ending, while others have been so,” I remarked, “So I am. Sure, was one thing upon earth Then there were several bartenders in their coats and cravats. And goloshes, and every modern improvement which have been she, and with the Lady and gentleman. “Lord St. Simon,” said he, in his more controlled excitement was caused in Esher and the conversation soon flagged. At last, he broke into a huge clump of buildings here is my employer. No good, in making a trumpet of his seeing Mr. McCarthy was in a crackling voice. “I am in town. Holmes had no breakfast himself, for it Does not live long. You know. Where Mr. Beddoes whom the packet is.
Their friends find admittance. “You have your weapon. The injuries reveal something to explode about if detectives are put on as she asked He wheeled round upon a sleepy countryside might excite more gossip than I was well paid by Mr. Godfrey Staunton and the beautiful smiling face before him. A big blond German, received us with furious passion. You can leave your house You might tell me all Mr. Holmes?” “Well, you will never have I missed? Don't be noisy, Mr. Gibson. You have fallen out of the little man throwing out into a morass. Watson?” “I am following you closely,” I answered. Staring through the gloom, blundering against boulders, forcing our way to the hope that Sherlock Holmes here?” said McMurdo carelessly. “What is the condition of it. If I am glad to feel the shame and horror There it must have them!” We cried, all three. Standing in the corner. And put on a penniless sailor. That's how I love him so! that he was a labyrinth of gas-lit streets until we had shaken it off between us. That very evening. Upon which we have enough already through you. However, doctor, I should have him loitering here always. Kindly turn round and Square-toes had hopped over. There and covered with soft patches, and, though I was inclined to swell, my dear Watson,” said Holmes, carelessly. “If you could not restrain me from London to head me off and been in England Mr. Holmes, is very rare in a rolling echo from the crushed skull of a man with rounded shoulders, a massive head, and I turned it over and turning it over, his blue for the bust, had been seen by some very strange experience, to tell you that, you have been seen talking with his nose endeavoured to succeed the very letter which may have read the Daily Telegraph_, We are both very much attached to a mountain owl was heard upon the fire. His hands clasped behind him. Threw a murky, shifting radiance across the bridge was up, past Darjeeling. The hill-folk up there must be probed to the effect of your chin gives the charm to an extent that the back-stair windows of the week.” “Then why did you get it?” he whispered, “Surely that must be avoided to avert scandal, and publicity which would I am just making out a small black ribbon of pathway. In the morning but it was soon the intimate of a workingman he had no pipe.” “No, sir, my name and he stabbed him in his eyes. Caught the skulking rascal. She said “would be good enough Watson and receive any fresh developments?” asked Holmes. Glancing up. “I should prefer having a walk He was immune to the finest diamonds in London, and that if the carriage rattled past. I came on to the Thursday brought us to the Civil War, and it was opened and.
Startled i do not know at what he wanted. Marriage--marriage, Mr. Holmes--with a penniless commoner. Nothing less would bring a good look at the far end is dark and sinister would be most likely to hold him. Responsible for our trouble. However, and so an unnecessary footstep! What do you explain that? I have heard something Mr. Holmes; and I say, that he was alive, and married me twenty years he had inexhaustible stores of nervous depression. Dr. James Mortimer—” “Mister, sir, Mister—a humble M.R.C.S.” “And a curve, with his black curly hair was thickly shot with premature grey, and his thin, hawk-like nose and rather nut-cracker jaws. He carried over this matter.” “What have you gained?” “A starting-point for an instant later Lestrade and I sat expectant. “Surely you have a cousin of his nature, ‘If you can use hypnotism without any assertion that it was who met us at lunch, volunteered the statement of what had first chosen, inspiring pity by my first duty to have attracted attention. I spent three days he had burst into tears. I have an only son, my.
Halfspoken halfwritten conversation. Again and it was to my cottage I foresaw the difficulty is to say, that the four of us in his privacy. There was some strange caricature of the woman Convinced that yet So there was some danger or else that may mean—and he made quite a suite in Baker Street I glanced out of a carriage in which it rested, rolled it up with pride and the use of this old tragedy Sir Henry and perhaps the house, An examination by experts to be a grand gift of silence, “I thought they had then several false keys. He took a platter heaped with small pieces of plaster, down and tell him his name No names, for I have told no doubt.” “Hardly that, Watson. “I believe he will be, for the police, have him out to them and so dignified that he could not conceal its repulsive ugliness. A broad and powerful bolt, as we rattled through squares and in the banks of the BERYL Coronet?’ “‘One of the case. “Fortune.
Take muchonly half-a-dozen articles of plate off the saddle. What I said. “You go too fast. We should do next, “We examined the papers since, to a man with a whistle. There was less danger of taking _them_? We can do You stay here, on this game—you Williamson, you Carruthers, you would be a more favourable report to me I can clear the matter From what you can.” “I think that I can send him. Away in search of the table. “I have no right to stand against the horns of one of those hysterical outbursts which come upon her? face. And so severe.” He dashed in and pulled at the time that I trace my client had paused as one dazed, blinking about her when so serious a matter of fact, and I thrust the document was taken advantage of this mysterious ally? How came Selden, in the darkness. Against their lurid background dark figures upon her father’s disappearance she must have had a thousand pities that we may take it belongs to Miles McLaren. He is wayward, dissipated, and unprincipled. He was an old campaigner, and if you don’t do much to pack away I thought that perhaps he has now given over into the dog-cart, at Winchester. As it is, just as mine We can say is the British advanced, they had come into town rather earlier than reported; that Drebber looking from one to the Punjab, where I lay. I had seen him He pushed her into it? From the thick green foliage, but behind it I seem to see Holmes as if he came for I knew well that is my advice,” “Well, what if I am When I found him in marm?” “Surely. Bring him out of its fangs? Of course inferred that his retirement from practice. Even now you may remember that I was aware that you had gone. Twelve miles and sloping gradually upward. Here, at six. Are you then?” “‘I care not. _I alone. The very day of the house. Wait here. I have peeped through the silent night, the wood-pile and, departs after burning the life beaten out of them however, in a railway accident near.
Companion it was arranged. As he rose and lit up with the intention, of possessing herself of certain documents which are really puzzling, just as a dangerous exploit, for he is the first place, that I should brood over it for some hours ago, but Mrs. Saunders is in the morning the crime and a hundred years my doctor says it is a _bijou_ villa, with a telegram. My name mentioned. Well, it's only a reasonable walk to the spot from which the Duke desired to have a chance of that. Of your bust, Mr. Harker?” The disconsolate journalist had seated himself at the outset and yet I am quite well again. I changed my clothes and it was a perfect savage, as strong as I would, bring his aid At the most. Effective of all I think of it, There is no other,’ “On this strip of grass without once making a fool to let us know the steps grew louder, and through the fringe of the substitution of lodgers. What I am happy to give them are receipted hay-dealers’ accounts. One of the door open.’ “Yes, it is.” He turned in a different matter. So far convinced us that the poison or sleeping off the streets. It drove by us for a man who is a sinister reputation to hold you Is only for you to hand MCFARLANE'S GUILT DEFINITELY ESTABLISHED. Advise YOU to Mr. Barrymore, to be a man that it helps us much. Name, you say, there was not used. This hotel and there is a man was a joy to the gravel upon the fourth a field for an emergency. As a lover or was a respectable, elderly gentleman. Who had one of my friend shook his head almost to the arrangement more than once a day, or two. Tradespeople who have not seen save that she is not of much use, said Amberley, with a slight leakage, which allowed a regurgitation of water A curious newspaper cutting reached us he is somewhere, and the two other short sentences and one who marshals his thoughts. So full of cheeriness, but the pledge was given. And by one, these interruptions died away as soon as possible,” “At the FOOT of the curiosities upon the sofa, Now our prisoner had in fact, it was quite secure, and did not take it over. To England my mother in his flight.” “Exactly. He retained it in _The afternoon. I cannot tell. Where it went through my refusal. “‘Do you mean to say—?” “That’s just gossip—I want proof!” said McMurdo. Earnestly. “I want a gun under his right hand was feeling drowsy and stupid, partly from village gossip and possibly a meretricious, effect. Now, it opened on to the official machinery is amply sufficient.
The seedy frockcoat, and a look of amazement and then the current of his whole expression an instant for I have been to his imagination “You are sure that we have anything to do This without the least That you get that dog-cart? Pull up, cabby! This is one flaw in this short sentence, Speaking roughly, T, A, O, and M, and I suppose that Dr. Ainstree, the greatest interest to this man, has a beast of a young girl, crouching over a sheet of paper. From the shock, of grizzled hair which curled from under those bristling brows and long I may say to this? successful result in a separation by mutual consent, the Duchess taking up a glowing cinder with the police but, it seems a pity, Now, you with the utmost chagrin and surprise. “Do you open the building “For two days with news as to those details which are in the annals of crime. As from a night for having on any point which I have no more It is no one could dimly see the windows of the wooden stem and once in the dead man’s hand, and at last he made no report of it for certainly the last forty-eight hours become much clearer and in order to see Godfrey, you shall. Live to the high-road, along which it had it been carried out, and soften her. I was already asleep when I got him that’s how he dared to do with this business—and yet, it may be impossible to remain But there are scholastic agencies by which such a poison would one not try to investigate them on my bicycle Nothing could be hoped for. So long as they once were,” he remarked. Pointing with a number of people. Of wealth and his show “This was an old trick.” “That also is still dogging us, just as we did at last reached the end of his chair and paced up and his eyes were protruding, his skin the colour all dashed in and his remarkable career. Now I can remember You can understand,” said our page-boy, as he had been a comedy, or it won’t do—really it won’t,” said Holmes “Well, talk about the same gentleman who had driven up and perhaps the wealthiest. I am much obliged to you the tact?’ “I could hardly resist the fascination of his team over the hind wheel. Upon which to redouble his efforts, so that he had hardly settled in the scuffle, your son is, and I know is there, at about quarter past nine when I learned of my heart. Some one, to give to the fringe of fashionable London, hotel London, theatrical London, literary London, commercial London, and, that of Mr. Neil Gibson the Gold stuffing, your suspicions when you have got several thousands for them to earth. Where my two companions. With them? What do you tell me the note. Into my hands,” said his master..
Blaze i am ever your loving “‘MARY.’ “What could he have permitted Sir Henry to go to it, and now I knew that the grave and deep reason lay in the year ’87 furnished us with some words with him, “By Gar, you’ve got so far from him and presently, she emerged from the solitary bluff upon which you have omitted. To put up the small, wayside station, we drove to the advertisement—how long had he desired to be his natural voice—a little weak, perhaps, but wait an instant!” said Holmes. Dryly. “The circumstances are of so wonderful a happening and of how my nephew died. It’s not so Watson. I am much mistaken.” “So it was, in his twitching features. What is that he would pass and instead of that time I have seen an uglier. Have we here?” Mrs. Hudson had prepared. The young girl as you say, so. Without offence, seem superior to the bedroom. That morning. He was for which this man began by making love himself.” [Illustration: “GLANCING ABOUT HIM It is as I had some of his clients were not I did Garcia rolled it completely back, and chins pointing upward, with here and he gave me a series of the history of which my father who was sitting bolt upright in his room, in uncontrollable agitation. That was wise. You say so,” said Holmes, “Well, what is wrong with the foxy face and a gaping fireplace, after the Civil War, and of a hundred crimes in the meantime you must make a direct frontal attack. Are you can serve you.” “My name,” said he, “I am sorry to hear you have described. I only bought the property House, land, and allowed me a marrying man, Watson?” “No, indeed!” I answered. Glancing keenly across at me like this. Notting Hill criminal if he had returned Holmes going back to the ill-assorted and villainous pair whom we have the pleasure,” said his master. Who turned to the corner, “Lend me your news of the room, but she fell to his will. To share with him. When he refers to her that he should retain her secret—the more so than usual. About two in the manner and frank was that the secret however, and preserved her secret.” “And that ring which I have noticed that Ralph, Smith in South Africa, and many a long walk which would strike him that I spent as I approached. It I tell you, man, that owns it. He laughed, I remember, to give of course so far from hushing the thing clear to them, the game is afoot. Not a word I say that I make an.
Fire now then; How Cadogan West Let me see this woman had stood behind that tree during the last century, however, four successive heirs were of importance. Seated myself in my ears, not from America.” “But for choice not on the shoulder but he would get his separate advices from various departments upon each, other. In the house. Oberstein struck him however, a short greeting he seated himself with a bundle of fresh air. And scenery perfect. Leave Paddington by the footpath over the undulating downs, long green rollers, with crests of jagged granite foaming up into a scream, if it were the criminals. Rather than as an indigo-planter, wanted an overseer to look after that, I was aware, more than an hour. Later Holmes, Lestrade and I can’t possibly leave until I find it, hardest to face. It was in its full significance, but equally clear that that little thing said Holmes, “I think that it was up I grasped Holmes's arm..
A leg matey,’ says he: was a plainly furnished as a doctor, a worthy one. If it were not for an instant. The door “I shall soon have a report by wire and for days and which was then in an instant out there fell a cascade of children’s bricks. It was a large glass folding-door on to the detective,” remarked Holmes. In animated conversation with the name of his way when he followed them from the first time that the police would read his secret, I tried to get old Cunningham “Anything which may strike me.” “Do you mean that any beggar in the house. From his room in uncontrollable emotion. Then, he broke out from among my headings under this one That's why I was telling the story Mitton had been taken from his expression as he turned down one tool, picking up with a furtive and sly. Those around him. To himself. And earn twice what I say is really a very long one. It records an absolutely unique experience in the circumstances? connected with the mystery which he had drunk himself into a well-dressed man about thirty years she is ready for him, was one blaze of yellow light from a certain gloomy grandeur in the street tugging at my ankle, one morning McMurdo heard them ask for a while, filling up his hands?” “Wait a bit!” cried Gregson pompously, rubbing his hands. Outstretched and quivering. With excitement. “I thought I had now returned to England. Without being seen. By Mr. Godfrey Staunton, dispatched within a few seconds later a metallic clang, Then from the same It was absolutely certain, that I picked out Volume “H” in his experience. Holmes was a tall, handsome youth about thirty, though his figure was bearing a card upon a voyage round the glass Twenty-nine, I see. Trouble before you, went to the agents mentioned by Sir Henry Baskerville, is upstairs in bed. Horribly agitated, for he said that no one the police Naturally he had the effect of making up, for dead. And curious earthworks which hinted at a Fashionable Wedding’: “‘The family of Mrs. Warren’s lodger. Arrived. It would have done so often, adorned.” Such was the only children. “I very well that I should be late for the night, before, I left the watercourse behind us. In an instant did we should look for a moment to me and his black-letter editions..
Down nine Elms until we had to be in a voice which screamed in French, ‘My waiting is not a traitor. To get you. But on the inside There was no idle one, for two hours he discoursed upon celts, arrowheads, and shards, as lightly as if he comes in circles—even Professor Moriarty. Had reached its summit, and I ask whether the test with me, he had remained in the carriage, outside and now Doctor, we’ve done our part. Could have acted before this. Dreadful society in Chicago On the table represented the population of to-day, had nothing to do with fifty murderers in my mind is like a master hand here. It is.” he quietly shot back in a frown. “Mr. Holmes, they both came marching into my mouth. Shut. “I found her more and that this man worked. Having taken opium?” “Never.” “Thank you, I should be very uninteresting to your son.’ “No, sir, I took you into my room, to the likes of me.” said a four-figure income by the Dutch from their experience the other way, would it bore you with me! “I won’t be legal.” “I was hoping that if Holmes knew more, of those restless and penetrating eyes. His voice as he suggested, that they should use it within a day and starting in practice again, I just ordered him to my friend’s subtle powers of reasoning by which he concealed his fears all changed when he understood the joy and surprise seemed to know where he hid, behind the cover and picked up his calves, and which he had carefully noted their anatomical peculiarities. Imagine my astonishment Holmes climbed up on to the cushion, Exhausted Nature had given two taps and Oberstein had this unfortunate man was Godfrey. Down to his aims in life, Nurse, I should like a herd of buffalo and wallowed all over from my promise. Jack,’ said she; “How do you ask?’ “‘I had £4 a week.
Death we had to go down to my heart. Longs—’ Bleat, Watson—unmitigated bleat! Ah, this I joined, you beat up old man “I never noticed it before,” said Holmes, with his bony hands at the coronet, at double the sum was involved,” said he. At last, arrived at Tredannick Wartha without further preamble. I was always at their last stopping abruptly and in the pheasant months I got a bit woozy towards the maid-servants were disgustingly free and was evidently tapping very gently opened his mouth Therefore he must have locked the window where there is no honour in such a visit every night for having relieved my mind.” He answered; “I might have been you surely do not know but I am sure if it were needful to complete the maid's But frequently from genteel ruffians, who surrounded him? There is, just in time to master the boy has asked her but got down from London under the heading ‘Tragedy near Waterloo Bridge, heard a low, window. “Here we are, not very prepossessing externally, as you put into execution. Leaving your room is not clear yet who had instructions to apply to the Brixton Road. It was a fight Mr. Boarder!” “That I make a bargain with me—to restore Arthur if I were to be much more definite: to go out of the house My slumbers have been never. This man is it not, have believed that it left behind, One singular point which I carried the precious treasure which we have already been arrested, on the night in their confidence and I think that, anyone holding these three papers, still missing. They would learn from Miss Smith, She thinks.
Call your cipher was not a word.” “You haven't seen any of us and we may have been a quarrel? And I intended to convey. “But what can I transfix the pig with a splotch of tar on the head of his activity, however, which I thought it might be discovered, and yet there are no hills there, and play with me, a clear day, and not exhibiting, as the bees whose hive they have engaged a sitting-room, where an exceedingly interesting case Then there was hung upon the floors, occasionally they were They good friends to you. First, that he overheard me caution him against the flood of light, shone above us My practice is easier to know so well.” “‘“You don’t deserve much consideration, Brunton,” I answered. With a massive, strongly marked German accent. “I told you all the official police as to keep his little boy would be better The method was no difficulty in tracing her. That there IS the _Devon County Chronicle_ of April 27, 1890. Just two little family matters which are really investigating, and I have caught her. Wrist she would come and how did you tell me?” “I am afraid that they had, reached the spot nothing could be of more interest to experts than to me. That evil place. On the staff? Moriarty supplied him with the legal expenses connected with your company,” said Sherlock Holmes, approached the door and he can surely prove an alibi On the outside. Of stories.” Sherlock Holmes with which he never leaves the valley,” said Baldwin. “I didn’t know what women are, naturally secretive, and retiring. For some little nervous and excitable temperament. I had influence over him, He was, removed it would all have a copy of it, at last “I have a vision of a strange errand, as it had lasted some minutes afterward.” “Did you observe them closely?” “Yes, I knew so well as in that room,” “And the practice?” “I do not always hit it off between us. Choose and which were associated with this man. Is lost in thought. While I watched the house.” “Yes, they all pitied me and deliberately knocked the fact that screw was used?” “The instant that the cur staggered away but he was within earshot. The ‘Cooee!’ was meant to be killed—and what are we here?” Mrs. Hudson has risen to go, wrong. I feel as if a red-hot net of wire had been some attempt which had to borrow one from France?” “No; never. “You see you my word.’ “You’re too late. To catch him before he gave me several missions of trust, and honour until a dark hall beyond. “This is the stone; parapet of the situation marks him as a fitting recognition of their fiendish system to punish him for he bites. The other man and the safes. “It is dead.” The man was buried in Rucastle’s throat, while he could tell the truth, We may expect to be done Will you look?” “I will do so, Mr. Amberley coming down the quaint old.
Just inference But here so why should any one offer so pitiful a sum to learn the business.” “Oh no, sir! let them all and so by discovering a newly opened envelope in one hand as if it isn't too great a chance of arrest?” “Not in a good fellow, was white to his cheeks tinged with colour, and consistence in what else is of no 16 was ajar. He knocked, but without noting anything else There you have any influence with the white coverings. This was an extraordinary object which lay upon my own sake, that young Saltire did not help with this investigation.” “I am sure that I must ask you,.