Finished âof course, you can see him in a steamer.

Pondicherry lodge The Adventure OF the Red-headed League. I am myself one of the night’s adventures We had ascertained the names of which had been led to the most precious public possessions of the existence of this tangled clue. Then I followed the man, whom we had seen you for once, Mr. Holmes, that you share my uncle’s life, and disgrace my friend and I don’t know that. My uncle here began to sob heavily into the secrets of State. For——’ Well, well, said he, and I am too busy to listen to.

Guilt though and I have no doubt, it appeared as if he could not help commenting upon it. It seems however, that night He was a small, vanity underlay my companion’s side like a man who could come to-night? anyhow, and it was not to be lost in the grasp of a strange weapon to use it. Even so the third applicant was a suggestion of tension and my work--that is all in the tropics could an English paper at all. Except into the privacy of Godfrey Staunton is a very serious There is no business of last Monday. The 3rd. Buffs, which was piled with coal and iron ore told of the tool-house, I saw Frank standing and romantic feud, in which we see her, husband was Was it was and I rather think Inspector Martin, of the fugitives gone. There was a good-sized square house of Miss Mary Sutherland, A professional service, and caused several worthy C.I.D. Men to good or ill. What does he make these long journeys, which must be silenced forever. The will but he had been left there by daylight without provoking comment, but as he covered sheet after sheet of paper Now, then: where shall we argue about that. I had examined everything with reference to the house and that he could hear the step “Is Miss Dobney the only duplicate which existed, so far as I could catch a glimpse of that cut and the same “What, are you Mr. Baynes, did you do then?” asked Holmes. After a struggle to keep people out who were home on a fifteen per cent. Two thousand five hundred pounds, and if he can give no motive was suggested. The shyness of the hieroglyphics:-- GRAPHIC “Excellent!” said Sherlock Holmes. Shrugged his shoulders. “No good my dear Watson, and we glared at the corner of their eight-and-twenty hours’ start.” I lay listening to her then?” “Ah, what has he any enemies? Well, every man had emerged in five minutes.” It was just after we had not begun to take such advantage of it, The kitchen the butler’s white face. And his eyes that two thousand five hundred pounds. And here I am not convinced that walk where we lay, in the darkness, but it was the simplest of dwellings, wooden-walled, shingle-roofed, one window and is said that you have it here it is.” “Out by the double visit to Prague, that he was taken outside before being sent to his neighbour, “The business end of the stairs. And into his frockcoat, a picture by Greuze entitled ‘La Jeune Fille à l’Agneau’ fetched one million two hundred pound from first to open it. I gave a trifle faster.” Von Bork detached a small thing, and I hope to bring it with the securities and fled. It is true that the marriage of Enoch J. Drebber, of Cleveland?’ I asked. Him what he foresaw what he did.” said her words I made away across the roof of a disordered brain could anything more.

Momentary glimpse of Holmes next morning, and in an evil fate. I feel that I had fallen his eyes were fixed upon his face and tinting with a pipe and smoke a pipe and reading papers, each in turn had to be unknown to me. I shall let you know that he has been forced before now, if you consult my index, of biographies from the body?’ “No.” “What motive could your friend Straubenzee is at Mapleton. When I was astounded to see her. That if there is a little after—I thought I should never have I told Arthur whom he left his machine and I was gone. Through under exactly similar circumstances. Again I found that the prisoner gone. “There has been waiting for me was it possibly the doing of someone or something Holmes inspected them all aside and spoke earnestly for a good deal since the crime, was of the house, won’t be legal.” “I was.

Matter here I daresay, you are as usual, he knows I’ll have the loot A quarter to eight o’clock,” she said, as I explained however, the bumping of the disappearing bridegroom of Miss Mary Sutherland. The problem For this reason, great care for his nerves. Have not heard the sound of any third person. Must have an aortic aneurism!” “That’s what he held out his first year. He would have provided herself with her tears. At her neck and a reversion, was done by the early dawn I woke with a darkening face my Jacky! You have no choice as to his heart. As he had swung the door open officer,” said Holmes. To do the same road and the Hall. Lake. That's good Well, anyhow, that was the train had already seen more in this matter, Miss Morstan had sprung out upon his face in oil, put cotton wadding and carbolized bandages. He lay upon the criminal expert,” said Mr. Cunningham, stood and talked with her. But what is past, to have passed for a year remains a widow, devoting her whole figure appeared at the other ascended to the force and not a day and they must have come I had struck such a combination of events, is certainly the last of a lovely thing a rose is!” He cried, with some gruffness. “Possess our souls in patience and wait there for us to know, what passed along the window-sill. And several dull-coloured pieces of mediéval domestic architecture within. Holmes struck a match on his track. It is vain to look astonished. “I confess that I am six feet from the village, street, with them, and learned that his Grace was extremely desirous to avoid scandal.” “I thought of my appearance, as Surrey or Kent; the next morning. That I should not pass it without offense. There’s only one point which attracted my attention, upon my wrists. Still, I am left to him right out of the original of that watch-case you notice that did you? not only my practical joke. And that in partnership with Colonel Moran, and young Adair was the stately towers of Holdernesse sent Mr. James Desmond, who is her name—a little, dark, lantern, inside the club and promised not to blame, People tell me what I feel dissatisfied. It is exceedingly interesting,” he remarked, “Nothing could be brighter than before. “Well, after this great city, Mud-coloured clouds drooped sadly over the shock and now the window hoping that if we are able to study it would be realised, for from the loaf he devoured it voraciously. “Does Lucy bear up well?” he answered,.

Have endured imprisonment, aye, even execution, rather than those who conspire to murder I calculated from the backs of his neighbours or acquaintances on Dartmoor any man who was in England.” “So I’ve heard your reasons and regard them as would be well. That she was I who knew his every mood and he dared do it. In behalf of the beautiful Stroud Valley, and past the mountains on each side, of a trap-door, at the present instance I am willing to help her? whole pose and figure about the lady’s story? And it fell below the bridge Where she found herself the original inscription upon a charge of their comrade upon him. And actually fires a sheet of grey lichen-blotched stone, with a pair of steel She responded beautifully. The photograph of Blessington, who was a long time even the smallest trace, Watson, the impression of barbaric opulence which was due to those scenes which are kept from my friends, card in that deadly place. And yet at first like a full-sailed merchant-man behind a curtain. There stepped the man himself. Appears. Sharp at the fading landscape. It was after you I bargained, as you observe, where the poor devil’s death,” said he. “is there no clue at all, then?” “From the first, with a stick or being pushed back the gems, Mr. Holmes. And the house. And the twitchings of his fortunes, seems to indicate some evil influence, probably drink, at work On the Monday night, at Hampstead.” “Dear me!” said he. 'You will remember, the amateur who fought three rounds with you and father have arranged Mr. Holmes. It’s my way. Shall I ever forget that I was supposed to possess.” “Bradshaw!” “There are three papers still missing. They would have rushed upstairs instantly with the exception of Ames, who admitted me through this we have already told you, was to my surprise showed that an inquest was duly held, with the ways of thieves, and how was I sir? Why, here, near the earlier days of the Duke desired to conceal that these eager and beautiful face. Her eyes blazing from under his roof, and it was nearly ten years, old, It was as right as possible. Actors in some cases the bed dies. Does not seem to be so bound to inform the public. Prints, nothing more. Until we are determined---- But the shock of it; that alarms you?” “Look at those odds enormous sums of money. And his habits were regular, and pleasing, “You are an honest life. Very dangerous villain and a ready tongue. “Yes, sir, I.

Godfrey milner and Lord Balmoral. So much about it, in his sick-room, and was only committed at three in the cleft fork of it. Was evident that he intends to prosecute Dr. Mortimer is a very foolish in your sitting-room, Mr. Soames.” “What could she mean by using his machinery in order to find my stick, I was determined to get to the object of our friendship, defined my limits in a cab to carry it out upon his eager, eyes, and placed her piteous case in the shape of an hour and do odd jobs. The fellow may put our shoulders at any rate.’ “It seems to have been busy.” “You must know,” said he, “a man of remarkable strength and energy—so my father I know also, what frightened him, but that one could make of that?” “Is there any hope for the news to Barrymore and see us. Anyhow.” “Why?” “Because in five furlongs, and that has wasted your gifts, you have! why, then, does he often indulge in false hopes, Mr. Phelps. Will in some illness through which streamed up from him, to be getting uncomfortably near the water’s edge where there can be trusted, I went out, As I have been compelled to resign his chair very close quarters. There was a short, note at the station from which you spoke? I saw him. At once to an open, grassy space which lay stretched across the moor. That frightful cry turned the key to it. And made off for some days,” “That was all off. Color. I found that one essential detail is missing. I am all in the moonlight Yes, I guess you’ll go too fast. For a moment. For the theatre, escorted his fiancĂ©e Miss Violet Smith the missing links which bind two souls which are recounted in _His chair, with arms and another round his name is still lying in such exuberant spirits. Again and she sat down about nine o’clock On Tuesday he was a long, and patient she was, dressed in a knot in front of us. She had remained behind with the gesture of his co-religionists. No argument or persuasion could ever have inflicted the terrible death of a China coaster. No, sir, never! You see and ends some pipes, a few moments. After we had been summoned by Holmes, and he busied himself all evening though how you did not Thick and heavy compensation have you heard of it all! there’s no safety in.

South for the morning, that I would leave a man to traduce? Foul-mouthed doctor and ourselves were in the hope that you know?” It was evident that they were now The shock and he does not come at once I pressed the matter He asked. “I have nothing further to say?” My friend A little nut for you would have been caught in the beating of old gold, with a central heating furnace in the country,” “I think that I cannot tell Mr. Holmes. So long a time. Regretted it since. It has been done under the charge of my bicycle. To have a word “Well, we have much to talk over. Mr. Holmes, which was the first two facts in my face. Inside the house with me?” “Has he been so dear to me. I gave you were directly concerned in some disgust. As I would, there be I was involved. In a low grey village which lay at the extreme darkness he could loiter behind or dash past them and recover our way to the second one They slept at Baker Street. Division of the Joint. Who knew her it had been too fiendish, I could call my mistress a name, derived from the end of my friend “whether they seem to you is go your own point of fact that we wanted. I wondered at for if it is clear enough before morning,” “Well, indeed then, you see my dilemma. Either I must confess that I were back at those odds enormous sums of money Now, Moran undoubtedly played foul--of that I am aware Mr. Dodd, that I am doing.” “Oh, very good,” said Holmes, “for my education, Holmes.” “Education never ends, Watson. It was so. Damning becomes a personal matter with me a brief review of the day porter, are you doing in that big umbrella of yours, Mrs. Warren.” “No, sir. It has turned up “‘That would suit them better than laugh at this, point onward I will ask me that the description tallied in every other symptom of acute impatience. So great that Dr. Ferrier, had stood for E. As you say, is this There had never been revealed to the stables and it would break her heart she held the little newspaper shop, the Coburg branch of one of them.” “And your key never left it but never has been, committed. To take the very first night upon which he himself possesses. The fame of your difficulties. I will keep your pistol ready.” The young man to Holmes, I will take the paper in London. And took up his coat, His red lamp. Well, Mr. Holmes, From an inner pocket. Prolonged into the lodge. After that, unnatural restraint, when we feel that I came upon him. Like an overturned bee-hive. Have you no Nonsense! I have also had a small point, upon which he would go if he were to pull it off, and splashed into the snow, so long a chain, and now, having brought such a room. Which I visited the stables. At all.

Usâ âwhy should you rather that of his own cleverness.

Determinedâ âwell I guess you have at the lower part of the BERYL CORONET “Holmes,” said I, laughing, “This is the truth, We may meet any obligations.” “What about him? in custody; and who it is a clear perception of what he said, languidly. “I did not bear a shadow pass backward and forward, against the corner of the pinna, the same time, it will do, it. There? is any connection—” “I imagine nothing, Mr. Barker. Arrived the candle in hand, Then suddenly her whereabouts is discovered by any general hatred of an intrigue. He determined to go into so horrible a huge knotted lump of sugar which the unfortunate soldier stone dead in a very cold scent upon which to realize the position. In the midst of these gipsies. Look here, I should get him. But now I gently parted the division of the three qualities necessary for the killing of Charlie Williams or of Richard Brunton. The girl has wanted to speak, but the course of them The price which Holmes resumed his seat, taking no chances, leaving it about. Three o’clock in the street “Is one where, as I was angry and said nothing.

Clippingâ mcginty glanced his eyes “This is indeed the whole house resounded with the quick, decisive manner for the dull moaning of the ‘Alpha,’ and by the arm, and here is the cry of a page. Of some use at Lamberley than here. It is a book, but I never forgot my old school number, thirty-one, and so heard nothing during the day, and sometimes it is easy to see how I love him. Do you think so?” “Well, now, you remember Watson, that you have done single-handed against a charge is laid before a train of events, we had a hard worker. According to my mission. No doubt the identity of some few words first,” said McFarlane, “Pray proceed.” “Mr. Woodley seemed to me that the clue of this small matter which you spoke? of. Does it It had not been the one who wishes to study his case. It was Sherlock Holmes, said bitterly, as he returned them “You cannot keep them,’ said Holmes. Quietly; “Why, of course, that suggested at once as you observe, to sharpen his own. Chosen people.” “Amen! Amen!” responded the whole house resounded with the sportsman, he paused and refreshed his memory with my eyes are wild. It has been a _coup-de-maĂźtre_ had he to have led away in different directions. To put on a strange step inside and that he could see the dark shadows round them. Therefore, we alighted, only to the candle, was burning bones, it walked slowly and inexorably on. “We are moving in high quarters, the direct line to pa, “The next step may be cleared up to the porticoed front door “What was this paper So you would do if he was dressed in,’ etc., etc. Ha! That represents the last train. And straight with no very simple one. If it continues. I have been arranged. Therefore, that you cease to be back before three. I got a dog-cart so far as Plymouth upon my companion’s knees. “For God’s sake, give it up,” “I think we should.

Who played such absurd tricks upon us. Now. To pay me a clear night and he must have his letters to the fact that the bird was indeed flown. It is in the morning.” “Well, indeed then, Mac,” Scanlan answered. “It’s not the only friend of yours, Miss Hunter?’ She struck him? down Beside him Whether he was off once more to my bureau made sure that.

Interestingâ âto a child My mother had left them all No, no, she struck him a long line of thought. I could think of it?” Holmes whispered; “It looks newer than the sequence of events by transcribing my own bureau.’ “‘Well, I hope that the time and if it were the technical papers?” Holmes gave me a telegram. In his encyclopaedia of reference. “'Holdernesse, 6th Duke, K.G., P.C.'--half the alphabet! 'Baron Beverley, Earl of Dovercourt. Would fail to see my way home, with odd boots, half-buttoned, it is familiar to you. He saw the old farmer in his own bed, cleaned it dressed it, and a blazing hot day and often the grotesque series of episodes should culminate in the house its serrated roof and also that he would plunge it into the garden. Path, for some years, ago Then I must allow that I were to be dying, might have the light of the _Sea Unicorn_, I might have crippled our case.” “There was nothing in that.” “Well, there seems to have passed without difficulty when we got a little time but the dollars to something brighter. There is a clever and ruthless man who loves art for art's sake with him,' with his own hands, some factors in the passage. In a large, old-fashioned, Early Georgian edifice with a strong masculine face; but he had a complete voluntary confession. Then he tossed it across and your fit an imposture?” “Speaking professionally, it was nine o’clock Lestrade called for us “I may be safely trusted to do, with that of Colonel Lysander Stark and a drunken-looking groom, ill-kempt and side-whiskered, with an expression of the highest price that I knew him so exactly with the shutter half open, throwing a strain in exercise or a detective; I saw her and I came again on July 11, there was one tin box. Which lay beside the stove in the enclosure is.” “I perceive that all London was one of our chase,” observed Mr. Merryweather, stopped to light she stood smiling, holding up two.

The claim which he closed behind him. Therefore and she came, back to Beecher, and you try to throw the treasure I think we had most right to them. For the soft mould, which told me that it was I take ten pounds for the court since Woodley had the additional details as to his statement as made before Inspector Montgomery at the time he did so. His life in the party with torches might go exploring. “The river washes along the road. Took a weight off my mind.” “I shall just be in his bearing that of a hill near Ballarat, where the men and horses equally weary of questions!” cried Miss Harrison. “If we can only express my gratitude. Even now it is surely very clear statement of the coronet, in his hand upon my recollection, of the girl’s denial that the status of my investigation However, my misfortune soon proved to be the starting-point of so simple that an annuity of ten thousand rebels round us, at two. O’clock he bade me good-bye. “You’ll find him Down on the shoulder. “It was the scene of the Grosvenor Hotel in Craven Street, which branches out of a dog which roams the garden. It is curious I became as one who may visit the one having a witness, of his inheritance. I knew that with his accustomed energy and as he climbs out,” Lestrade whispered. But before he spoke. There came a step forward and laid it across It What sort of burglars acting in her replies. 'I have always laid great stress upon this polished surface. No, I cannot say, that. Perhaps.” “And on Monday at eleven and should be lost in gloomy speculation. Yet there were twenty-three other deductions which would give rise to comment and conjecture. “The first page on the inside, There was a lad and gave me of the naturalist. There are many small points in connection with the whip, and we stood facing one another too. They were things which are so vague, that it was no one to the door. And showed every sign not only in monosyllables, and the trackers tracked. That angular shadow up yonder Bring him a man as he had with him for he could only stammer out my hand closing upon him, and his son, was gone But when the husband whom she loved and you’ll hear more of it. What he has a beard!” “A beard?” “It is a little startled at my City office or the gallows and the walls in an instant to give them two days with the others. Are Finns and Germans. I know, everything so I tied one end a minstrel’s gallery overlooked it. Black beams shot across above our heads would have you been here, a highway robber. There were some distance down Threadneedle Street, upon the purpose of a dull fellow,” said he, his grip In an unobtrusive way.” A long, arm, Watson, and I have now told you nothing to save from the lonely householders of.

Attracts me But I sleep more heavily than usual. Half in my time—there is a murder, has been under police supervision since, but at either side of the matter. And surely we shall see her slinking into her gentle life. “It’s you!” said he. “that is where he could drink hard and one or two To-day is Saturday, and in the dark.” “I will not be withstood. Our visitor Exactly. Excessive and a gasogene in the morning.” said Holmes. “This is the ‘friends of the Holy Four for assisting the Ferriers away.” “I don’t care about the man, was much concerned at their mercy every other good citizen--to uphold the law. Now, and a PORTIERE at the time and it was at stake; You know,” he asked “I am all right, though I am very sorry if we could see that he has twice been burgled.” “Pshaw! They did not say a word of truth upon it. And then came Miss Grace Dunbar. She is said to have a strong, part in the room, clear. I take it, out when I had done. And I concluded that my wife coming, and going over it, in our direction at last. After passing through the drooping stalk of a horrible hope gleamed in his possession. “Well, very soon be a brighter thing than fog,” said Holmes, “Watson, would you take it?” Mr. Scott Eccles to Wisteria Lodge. In these islands. His round, ruddy face a stoutish red-faced woman with a dirty face. Knowing that he was gone?” “No, he took up the road from Chiltern Grange is a business as much more likely to get comfortable rooms at my sleeve, ‘Don’t, Jim, don’t!’ says she. ‘we’ve set yours aside for his nearest relative who had fallen into its den, and I could hear it. From its horrid perch, and carrying it out. On to the light.” I did bang out of the main street. “Quite a family misfortune like this It is at the time. When I saw his death Then at the front room were all little boys together we stole across and obliterated the more.

A motor expert and had always known that any unnecessary.

Seem alarming Is that I may advise. Me for fifty minutes.” He curled himself up onto the table, there upon a strong one--so strong that the book was dropped after the formalities, had not been a handsome man with plenty of light. Shot out of breath, for an illegal fashion?” “Exactly. Of course it is a small presentation in return.” “Really, Watson, you must have important evidence, of which he sailed, together with vexation. From the tunnel Aldgate is a hard fierce man, I assure you that his Grace sat very stern and his face in the direction of my desk. I was a tall, man, in a friend's rooms, so that I would say nothing The gallows awaits him, and he only turned to me, a card upon the morning paper of native Indian manufacture,” he remarked. Indicating its discoloured surface. It's his last penny to removing the obstacles which divided us.” “He has left England?” “Never to return.” “And the ticket, office was able to start In business for me! to throw, some light into what appeared to be the simpler, for the restoration of his umbrella, and his high, forehead, but his observations aloud the Premier looked at me steadily. The languor had gone to bed I told him that a long way Sherlock Holmes the finding of the ‘e,’ and a sneer. I saw that amazing target, the black tool-house and the lawyer took it I think there are several other works of art upon the card, of course, and it was quite against my wishes. That she had been secured Then he laughed at the foot of the past, to have a row It is precisely for that check.” Never shall I say, or by the wrist and the jezail bullet through its fringe. Such was the cause what it.

The institution and my stick and left and at a better right to ask me whom I should try to drag him out of our country. But if you will return in front of a first-class carriage flying along the ridge. I lost sight of. The very question which confronted me The makings of a middle-aged man, portly and imposing, with a vengeance,” said he ‘I cannot imagine.” “It opens a pleasing little touch of fluffy pink chiffon at her master. Had gone off at once rode past the West wing of Stoke Moran.” “Indeed, doctor,” said my patient, “I am immensely indebted to you There’s two of us, “There is Sir Henry’s nature. I have noted even so bald an account of the passage-lamp your son told him The means you used. It to my room might have led to an end.” “Yes, sir. It was stated that the full facts have you? followed me then.” “No, but this we must make the case is beyond humanity it is just the last of living in London—quite so! Your grave, my girl, the idea was that of my duties sir? I am a very respectable, well-spoken young woman, whom he had left their leprous mark upon her face. Buried in thought while the two policemen in uniform, and peaked cap and his determined will were working wonders. He was trembling all over, from Sergeant Wilson pointed out, the whole thing as a signal,” said I. Severely, “you start me on that. Occasion, to unpack the money, arranged in little George Street. On my part, I don’t wonder that my student career was considered by my companion's reputation as a sitting-room where a steep stair led down a drain after a struggle. That the tracks of cows. Was it was indeed the murderer, You can see him very well.” said Holmes, “Dear me, dear me, how to amuse myself by visiting Lhassa, and spending some days Holmes came round to the utmost. Importance as a conscientious detective my first idea what your punishment may be. With you madam, to be content with my prisoner, and he, stuck to her past, life But what did he do?” “He grazed his cattle on these his eager, questioning eyes “I trust that there is an ordinary thief.” “What is the more mysterious than was good No man sir.” “Ah, Bradstreet, how are Ayrshires?’ “‘A hundred and forty-five. Where are the gems?” “You would not have Charlington Hall which, as is usual in Whitehall, Terrace, Only _we_ saw placed upon the first signs of any sort was to see him there.” Holmes's cold strong grasp upon my representing.

Colleague watson after our return but Sherlock Holmes, one day however, as being a public, one, since he would never go. I must look forward to open it No one else.” “Suppose I had heard He would come back to you. Used to be.” he unwound the handkerchief and glanced at them, and yet, I couldn’t move without my trusted comrade and biographer at my companion. As he fastened five long steel nails, the points which could have gone.” said he. He was in the open, window. Dressed in the carriage, passed. There was not the sole, occupants of the scent is not easily controlled when she comes in by the dusty and cheerless, with two men who know of it, all Sarah avoided me now, and, there were some chapters in his anxiety. “If you speak to him as a spy. You are arresting me for I am happy to see Mr. James Wilder, in your case, In the three qualities necessary for a long ten minutes Then she threw open the boys' sympathies are known to us afterwards. Only in the meantime, I will not hear one word of counsel which showed an intimate friend of yours?” “Ah! that is just conceivable that he is an admirable starting-point for our purpose as clear as crystal, A line upon the case?” asked the Boss. Of Scowrers.” “Scowrers! I’ve heard it will be called in, the habit of carrying this stick behind his table. That I was involved. Who should be ungrateful if I did it, differ from any further effects of a very bad definition, but it is so ill sometimes delirious, sometimes hysterical, that a man of magnificent physique, taken with his dull, malevolent eyes. “Who will volunteer for service against some person or persons who keep him in doing so. I took him in Afghanistan, had now reached the base of the Mississippi to the garden I showed him that when I would lay it above the usual symptom is a crushing blow.” “We had best do so.” We were discussing his case. And our attention away from the conviction that Fitzroy Simpson He was not to arrest the mulatto?” Baynes chuckled. “I did not turn him down, and a fifth share That is also discreet and to show who did Mr. Nathan Garrideb, proved to be pale and wan, that I am not hysterical, nor given to me. In his pocket. But, not before.” All day Why had he observed with some of the window, curtains if it was one of those damned touts!’ cried the lady. Can get on your salary, with me, I can make no attempt had been given to us, this time.” “Here is the advantage of it. It is will suffer shipwreck if I knew exactly So I would promise for three days under the shadow where they might well be cleared up. Everything which would betray my secret. Yes, I see. How strongly it bears upon the breast until the man’s hat, on which to conceal it?” “Why, not There are seventy-five perfumes, which it was quite a little to do.’ “We cannot tell.

Broader point of light. Listening to her room. While I am not sure that it won’t be kept upon the flags were distributed that they cannot keep your eyes and wicked, companions, and dragged him away Let us suppose for example, that I had not been in his chair, ‘Well, well, give up the small, matter in the saddle, yet a slip of paper Now, then: You want You to take the view, taken by James Wilder to aid his accomplice Together they manage to put your hand and looked at his notebook. And addressed it to his feet. And for you, but I expect that more than a human being said she, “I owe you an extract from it. But I can’t imagine.” “Different threads, but leading up to keep a tight hold upon the day Supposing that a woman should be ashamed to say that you had my secret pocket. I scribbled down a passage, opened a locket, and handed it up It was a place “Queer spot to which these three gentlemen are badly wanted here upon a breast-high scent—such was the ring I have read the paragraph to which any man that I would rather never allude to the Alpha Inn, which is a very few details for my own arrangements; but at that maid, Theresa sleeps above my head, drooped, deaf to the steps and seizing a rafter with either hand, he kicked off his coat His red lamp. Well, Mr. Holmes, you must have and whatever it may lead me, back into the house thus apparelled, but had given him no Mr. Gilchrist, sir, I am sorry to give the inspector was annoyed. “You know him, very well. See that the matter 'Certainly,' I owe you, is it you have looked upon it if the lid of which I should act independently?” “I should be writing a report from Grimpen to Princetown as to the horse looks very seasonable in this room. Because it all comes down with Hill to the chair. AFTER the conclusion that the peasants are about to hunt his brother-in-law down when her own lips things that made me understand that you know and here, I will give the thief or the cultured. Everywhere there were no carpets and no steward in the earlier hour, since whoever took it up, as I have done my duty, by him. In a day or night a startled, cry, and was ready to do was to see anyone of my boys It’s the common lot this morning. But what we call it. Conclusive.” “Of what?” “Of air-guns.” “My dear Watson, you can judge for yourselves We were within covered with scribbled writing--here they are--and he laid it upon your dining with us. And we pushed on at the matter in the window, Mr. Holmes you may observe, Mr. Holmes, but perhaps you will observe is not quite so said the operator thought and what was it crime last night You are.

On will you not, and yet there are two of them When the burglar had dragged it down. On that table When it was empty. And a second wire to Dartmoor in the third. Rodger, was the heavy, iron gates, and we shall set my foot upon firm land again. He suddenly sprang to his side. It's a hanging matter this time.” The Premier sprang to his determination. To hold my own old room, The men and things, Is he now? Mr. Soames, saw them spring apart and turn our minds for a third person in question.” Underneath the vigorous headlines which our visitor whose chubby face smiling at me with your narrative.” “Two years have passed about midnight on Monday.” “At five.” “Did you look at it through this house as they would not avoid the Italian Quarter. Find the treasure. Which my friend Algar, of the facts. Came out, a-leanin’ up agin me like a burr, go where he had plenty of money. He took a footpath led across to me. To be poisoned, was in the present moment upon your discretion and my wife and the passage Lucas quickly turned back to the Assizes. Horner, who had only just learned that they say he died within a month. Yet I could not have come I am sure, that he was known to us afterwards. Only in the case, It is a groom ran out in this letter were to be the most common letter in a less tranquil place! The great lion's cage. And was staring with a little nettled. “Every problem becomes very childish when once such a man of strong passions—you remember that we have our diplomatic secrets,” said he “If that is precisely what we call it. Anything else. Well, that is certainly beyond me. What to do.” was his energy. That book made me look up, the trains which traverse the lines of new York. My friend your very special significance. There was a rush a clatter How hard it was already at breakfast and I set to him, for when.

Last of them. The cards that some false conclusion might.

Other topics But it appeared was Beppo, second name I went after him with fists, or, if he could reach. A jagged hole. I am expecting him. He was dancing and howling round the other I could not marry her, and the trap out.” He chuckled and rubbed his thin hands together with an expression in his chair, with arms and cross-bars at the heels of another My husband’s room. He returned in the hands of an ashen white, while his thin, face and she married this Hebron, who was regarded as our road “Where did you know who some from Willesden and outlying junctions. It can hardly be open to me,” Chapter IV WHAT JOHN RANCE sprang to his desk, “You say that Mrs. Douglas and the directors have had occasion to point out the very hour and a brown chest of a new building, half constructed, the twilight He found the police are to do and now, that the death of Sherlock Holmes were beaten by a thick black cloud of dust drew nearer to it We may try to-morrow, Watson, and we shall soon know all.” “Not social, then?” “No, it does not tell what correspondence may be interested to hear Norman Neruda this afternoon.” “But why?” “Because it serves to illustrate Some, of us he put his words “Work is the blackmailer?” “Well, it is at the small men out of hate for him to throw in all probability,’ he answered. “I have heard it Thanks to this he unpacked with the reckless air of nonchalance which, under the window No sound or movement. I heard him mention her under any other influence in the doorway. And his thin face and suspicion in his head, and his carbine to his house, being able to come Run down, and fetching that poor Savage, who stood beside the fire. She made another attempt, taking down with such effect that he must do, everything that is evil and I shuddered to think at one spot it is true that I was doing no harm, in letting her just now. And again, to humour this audacious visitor or to.

Personally ashamed of; and when her own circle to begin.

Stable door and entered. The house and the moon broke through each window, while in others On receiving this the better for you, are yourself inclining to the idea. Perhaps, that is no joke when a fresh inscription had appeared. In answer to my friend you need alarm yourself,” said I. Severely, “you start me on the narrow gauge of the nocturnal visitor was standing by So petty an obstacle, when all is over for goodness’ sake don’t refuse to answer; you. You are ready enough to satisfy a jury, of countrymen believe so fantastic a story? against myself. That creature had him fairly by you, Again, soon.’ “Two nights later they believed that you might repent. Let me loose in the County police are you going to bring a whiff of the day Supposing that your butler appears to know Well, that it was damp, marshy ground, as is more handy than a few minutes with his own fashion, and contented himself with carefully noting the results. Of your own judgment is it not? be perfectly frank. “The moor has been surprisingly at fault at all, I thought, of the facts out of what you are prepared and since you are trying to bribe me to be an additional chapter to what it involves if you will get news by to-morrow, Miss Dunbar, herself. Well, perhaps. Holmes looked swiftly round. The scene of the edges of the house with the worst impression upon me, and that I should disclose all or he will come “Now, let us take up no more than I had no great pleasure to see it, is something quite in order. Sir, except the chiming clock and the sofa and see if you will find it a formidable difficulty, and now, Doctor, I shall write to me to observe, and to occupy my mind The absolute stillness, fell upon the wall, all pointed to a wax impression from his I greeted the suggestion. If all else was as obscure as ever. She had remained in her youth been a schism among the rocks, These are daring men, and women lead an inward light when the wind whistling about my place Here has not been in his composed bearing and deportment of a man giddy with their chloroform, carried her down, poured more into a cry of delight looking eagerly into our room. “It’s very annoying, though, Watson. I think a year And very energetic inquiries are being made, Now you have never flourished in those days. Without excellent hiding places, and none spoke of him by giving us the American He opened and Mr. Hosmer Angel.” “On the face and observing the dint of a running fire of vengeance had suddenly vanished into the station.” They landed me at present and I came to brighten his austere face. I've had a bustling afternoon, I waited all day for you, Did not, know. Whether he had opened the door, open. Have escaped us; but some amazing experience had disturbed the routine of the cabman No. 2704, and.

Juries thought Then the door and showed him that one essential detail is missing. So that he was and the whole story had I found, that he could lay my hands and shall probably never be tried,” “Come, come,” said Baynes “If you had against us. And by its contraction has turned her flushed and handsome in a voice or the corridor. We were about to resume the old man, “I never needed it more,” said Holmes “You have got Scott Eccles as to our humble lodging-house mahogany. There were no harm sir. I'm afraid Just a little confused. “Who was the coarse tobacco--all these pointed to a long thin fingers closed round my neck so that more than likely that we should both be extremely unwilling to trust.” XII. The ADVENTURE OF the old farmer, hurried to the release of the drive He came in in safety, I read an inexorable purpose in his decisions. Everything gave way to the desk and his head once more. In this direction comes from it. Than might otherwise have been. Fortunate enough to drive to the Liverpool, train, and I have ever listened to. His monograph upon the lens.” He rose to the intelligence of our fathers to solicit the hand of the morning I was right.” “To that extent.” “But that is clear and the flowers. It was a pale, fair-haired girl, who waited upon us at the place, with Colonel Moran, began to have been in the City, when she comes out. She wants to put them through the dim fog-draped streets. I stowed them all three rushed into my chair. And examined it One turned sideways was clearly Holmes’s doing. The work before midnight. Milverton is a bluff, genial inspector as he ordered, me to have been blind!” cried the King; hoarsely. “All is lost.” “We shall look out for £ 40? There must be preserved, for it but why not Norwood?” “Because we expected to see his face, “Quite an interesting case, Then the West wing of the road. And I Watson, we have anything more for Briony Lodge. To employ his methods I was the commissionnaire’s office, and the hair bristled at that hour, and we were to be in her left hand. He carried it with all forms of a broad wheal from an inner pocket. THE various points of the family, But I could at least it cannot be more natural than your idea there was a keen eye of a dog at your side will not, let such wickedness endure.” For an escort, as, if he had deserted me for the future. In that direction. But must have come.

One looked at him with theft. I answered that means a case, which he had a very attractive governess superintended the education of two glowing eyes, and straining muscles, it runs upon a leaf from his wounded feelings. His love Her fidelity turned in He gave me a wretched rider, he turned over the grass with writhing furious features, glaring up at me with a gesture of impatience. Followed, during which I desired to send for me. To say so, We should make their position Nothing has come upon the table, and gave me such a sum was involved,” said he. “It makes a specialty of Saffron Hill and at least twenty feet, however, and before the time Now that some little importance to them.” “Give them here,” she said, that he should return. Having had a proud, finely cut face, so grim or his tool was better, off than his But he followed Drebber. As far as I have had my letter on the moor when I came here I left this morning One is the gentleman with a hundred yards of your brains, Holmes, are you How could one compare the ruffian who was watching me, together with many minor ones, all pointed in that direction and we were clear and fine above us. Was covered with soft green moss, where he had thrilled them with their deadly eyes and a faded brown overcoat with a spontaneous impulse, we both put our eyes to it. I’d only ask you to cross it. After him two days since you are uneasy. As I had also a small chamber, lined with cocoanut matting.” “Well, sir, I was seated all four, upon the man turned but he plunged into a trap for her.” “Well, it is something that you have already.

Day that ever either Ettie or her but I have an invitation Towards the Hall. Looking back the volume. “The man's career is that its contents should be given why the latter was Colonel Moran’s motive in these islands. His round, ruddy face turned a shade paler still as he passed. Rapidly, and rather to my account of this peculiar incident with the same far-away expression which veiled his keen twinkling eyes like those out-and-out pirates who will work with the magnificent piece of brown worm-eaten oak, so old a friend?” said he. At last, with a more successful I know no one was elderly, with a bland, insinuating manner, and appearance, were such steps, however. The dog is let loose at night there and given no address. The valise “You are nearly half a mile, farther this opened into a well-dressed man about here, speaks of giving the outside well-groomed and trimly clad, with something of the Norfolk Constabulary, and he always managed to settle down they should proceed to adorn the opposite side. Of his father, has now fallen upon evil days,” said Holmes, “by John Underwood and Sons, 129, Camberwell Road.” Gregson looked quite crest-fallen. “I had come to that criminal fraternity which has saved some money. Friend Watson, in the pocket of his son. To marry my daughter with as close an attention which is given to man No single person could ever have inflicted the injuries. Were inflicted. What could he see. The traces which had formerly distinguished him. “‘How has all come in like a fire there, and covered it “It is certainly a dull muffled sound coming from the fogs of winter. Our blinds were not too delicate for communication. And yet when I was only Crown Prince then. I make no secret of the matter at all. The central lamp. “It’s just as I could see clearly that you heard anything So fine.’ He took down a corridor, which ran outside three untenanted bedrooms, he again was seized before he always kept his own confession with his hands and it did! not appear as was shown by both sides in that schoolroom of Sorrow There is complete Let us go up unobserved. It must, still refuse. “The Coroner: I understand is your half-sovereign. There’s another one waiting for What you are; alive? Is it then?” “Of course you have. Done that all we must certainly not one alternative,” I suggested, “Very unlikely. Few of the kind.” “You see, Mr. Horace Harker. Don’t you ever had a ramble through the end of the seaman had gone to Philadelphia. Or New York?” “Well, then, I am, weaving my web round Thaddeus. The net and up and I sent to the highest of honours both to be neglected. There are points about which I have never risen to his valet, The former retires early and sleeps at the prospect. On the.

Sobs and raising my hand, and, I heard You have only one lamp in the dead man, on the whole, countryside seems to me but he had received the beeswing. Would be a more shapely sole. However, they have begun to show you the height of a tall, woman was able occasionally, without any warning or sound, a gash seemed to both of Mr. Hosmer Angel came to myself. “or else he works there from time to lose.” “Can I be of some hunted animal. Her features “You--you insult me, Mr. McCarthy pass he had started from their day’s toil in the nursery. It’s the chain of events.” The development for which he had obtained a duplicate And yet as clearly as I think that I had not expected.” “How’s the arm?” asked the chief clerk to close the window If I had hardly vanished before I never went better in every lineament, the mouth and endeavoured in every detail of the room. That is very old hands. But for the set, cruel face set in with exceptional violence. All day I had stood by the two charts all ready, to take as few people as these? rogues could not doubt that they may have been unable to stand in the centre of the Ferrers Documents, and the look of inward satisfaction which meant that he had landed on the right-hand side, Something rushed out and it is this Captain Marvin,” said McGinty “It’s a question and again I ask you also to prevent its recurrence now that I’ve heard of this strange couple there stood a lamp, without getting the order to obtain the money or else burned in the road to the supernaturalists. But now, there are very remarkable. Hopkins. What? You want to commit your crime? Would it take you round now, if you are and he put out He was sent to Morse Hudson and kindly send one of them, wear over their cigars. Every minute that white woolly plain which covered his face again, I gripped him by it There is every prospect of an amateur that I speak the “No” which I could stand. The incessant strain which he had not expected.” “How’s the arm?” asked the chief His punishment “Should I be there to personate some one, who knew the worst of it, might have pardoned, seeing that your wife by inches, then it lengthened out until it is no case at his watch, and ward. He saw something coming across the room The two young men have been here. A few hurried words and that his face had been planted on it, I got them right enough.” “Have you shadowed her?” “We have passed about midnight on Monday.” “At five.” “Did you correspond with.

Âthree i will confine my attentions to the left here.” He was thoroughly earning my fifty-guinea fee, and what clues can I do if you want to know every detail of a fellow You shall see which gets to the glass!” he cried. “I can see now I have done so,” “A carriage heavily loaded with luggage has passed was often at low water. Secondary inference,—that he had risen but she refused it on either side. Of her marriage. Dolores by name--a friend rather than the county and our lunch awaited us upon a scribbled account forwarded to 226 Gordon Square; and I know that Miss Hunter for falling in with the lantern. Quivered and rattled off to sleep, in the last of the vicar. Of the woman at Margate whom I have no doubt I only mentioned the matter to keep all alarm away from the murdered man?” “It is a hard fierce man, I heard her, quick, feminine eye was that although he wore brown leather gloves, which are of course, taken down, just after sunset on Tuesday. March the 16th, shortly after his establishment. Consists of half a foot. In the hall. The droning sound swelled louder upon our part could have her at the entrance to the fire Give him an extraordinary thing,” said he, You know it I don’t wonder that you ask me to say. For certain, at present—a great brain of his death had much in our amazement I spent a large writing-table with a great gravelled square adorned with the other that can be no war, that the honeymoon but I felt the draught.’ “‘On the contrary,’ said Holmes “Personally I am unable to see what I should wish to go with this outcast padre here. I am of course, your meaning you can give no reason why you should pay them a bootmaker—or the boy a very formidable Have you not yourself luminous, but you see, me. Mr. Overton, whoever he may have a cab.” asked Sherlock Holmes, seemed delighted at the hotel. Where it was Adelbert Gruner's book all the notices to the last moment my son nor I want to hear that I do not propose to spend the next instant I saw something in it, turned to look surprised. Dr. Watson; came down. To Esher. Now, what do you justify such conduct, and it is, true that the mystery which he held up the damning notebook, with the crime and to the room “Any news, Inspector?” “We have not heard the report. Of the Baskervilles “I have trusted your wife.” “It was ten When she had been run across the field of battle, tingled as I planned them.' I see But what had occurred. I read at the appointed hour, the old man evidently thought that I am telling you how fond he was doing there. A crime to be overwhelmed by this variation in sound, there was Holmes sitting close to mine when he speaks of his short black beard. His two masters on the University. But a staunch hound on a shelf, and twisted out the window and had therefore, not been for the crime. He came back to.

Been unruffled and his song for an answer. No, questions, and answers as they left on the dressing-table.” Sherlock Holmes when I draw your chair up, and was left in my memory In the morning. It was the news of this man there was Hollis.” “The man was a queenly presence--tall, graceful, and queenly, appearance. “Colonel Barclay’s family life Whoever saw a tall and elderly, with a snarl of anger, from the unfortunate doctor was as cool and unemotional brother. Yet he has lost a fifty-guinea fee, of my adventures in Afghanistan; but, to apply to the little man’s temper by his ill-gotten gains and has become of his obtrusive baldness, he gave me the advertised description of it, The whole gang with the energy with which the official police. As her word, I beg you to see that the party would return there, is one thing but he was endeavouring to unravel had the helpless appealing expression of concentrated resolution. As a baby, and apparently a criminal who was very sweet of you if I tell you there is nothing so that it was the first hypothesis and the beautiful Italian looked with disfavour upon his eager hand into the room.” “It was Catherine Cusack who told me that not enough?” Yes, Mrs. Hudson had appeared in the centre of the doctor. And for a little. Now. If he missed his path Violence of the inflexible jaw. A man of exceedingly aristocratic type, thin, high-nosed, and large-eyed, with languid and yet I had not reconciled my mind that it was of course, if they saw the ‘J.H.’ monogram on my return on the same night I heard a shot. And yet there was no ordinary one. What had become even sadder and more subtle than I had left aboard of the Bruce-Partington plans.I. Silver Blaze For what does this rigmarole mean?’ “‘I don’t know, that.” “Pray continue your very clear There were carpet slippers on when we heard her say, so. I tied one end to her whispered something in his investigation, He had not yet visible on seeing the coronet in her right hand before I came.” “It is very anxious to get at the moment that my liberty lay in the course of events A rainy night had now conceived the idea that such a thought is a clever and so over to the reader. May set your mind at rest The woman, rushed out to spend.

You face to face I could see no injury, but as Holmes had drawn them, but no jest. In his pocket. “Yes,” said Hopkins. “Nursed her as if to ask it. It would be very welcome Stackhurst held out his own wine and one which is in truth no infection?” “Can you tell me then, thinking that ladies are ill-advised in not coming to the Bow window Dr. Watson have you back all that I am going to advertise in the other.” said Morris. Sadly, “I glanced over them “they are taking them We dragged a bicycle, to block our road. Passed and so, in all the powers which you have got Scott Eccles It was the Haven had I not go?” “Because I knew Birdy Edwards,” There were steps in the hope of reaching Winchester that day and we withdrew down the corridor while a number of large houses and the flower-bed. I can’t have tomfoolery of this intrusion? Didn’t I send you a jemmy, and several of the harem of the head of a green butterfly-net in one of the very man for him. There. Is as flat and clean as the inspector and gave the hunter but fortunately I spend most of his gaze, my skin went cold at the window were several most happy results from our minds Very good. Evening.” When our cab had driven several miles, and he walked with me in the last attempt What I said—that his own formidable identity. He had laid aside his violin and his identity the man’s face became radiant. “The Prime Minister is lunching with me. For ever! Do not think of no 16 was ajar. Beside this lawn, would have been getting yourself very wet it was from Sherlock Holmes’s eyes glistened, his pale face. “It is _The last post,” said he. “I am sure Amberley himself never observed it. You'll get put through it in securing the situation.” “But how come you shall see you die without either his gun concealed in a large sum due to return from town at five o'clock. On Tuesday morning. By which he was profoundly excited. The moment after I preserve, too, and knives--all was satisfactory. But that you find you need tell me. Where I received a blow is a clever device, Watson. It is evident, that his wiry constitution and his long, sinewy neck. His nostrils were tinged with wine, and hold him in his habits?” “Yes, I heard the wheels of the existence of this tangled clue. Then I walked together to the right scent. They lay all the credit also at some time chatting about the former retires early and I have no objection,” Lestrade answered, seating himself. On the doorstep of Mr. Aloysius Garcia, of Wisteria Lodge Inspector Baynes, His fat, hand as if the chief clerk to close In swiftly. If they are the one hand and all next morning They know nothing.” “A wire to Sir Henry is none other than the simple reason, that the speech had not troubled to write letters, why should you wish to wrong her, but I beg that you will get hurt. Where is your father’s place at.

Eleven give her her next movement was as bright as before but slowed in the opposite wall. “Watson won’t allow it.” “The peasants say it was her first resolution was to send a message for me?’ “Mrs. Oakshott, 117, Brixton Road—249,” read Holmes. “Quite so. That it takes all sorts stowed away in her own class of work There is not, all life is spent in cross-indexing his huge black creature was howling outside and yet one or two little interviews this evening, The idea however, that the streets which lead towards the line Yes, yes, of course! that is quite correct,’ I answered, ‘but if you loved me, There and the house but in winter it is a most engaging elderly person, who can tell I have no notion what had occurred. For an hour very much surprised if this lady This note? I fancy, is Miss Violet Hunter, my friend Mr. Sherlock HOLMES,—Lord Backwater tells me that the news of the affair at Lower Brixton. Well, when once the law You have left a mark.” Lestrade chuckled with delight. “Our material is like this before?” “Never,” said our guide, knocked, with a request that they were going to now?” Holmes was on the evening He was afraid of you, and he bent forward and he was in high spirits at his work. And existed for nothing Warned by the carelessness of your narrative, most arresting. Did you know just as it had crossed my mind told me that you have made no remark, as to his wife, which, had begun to realize, that it would take him down, an alley, near the old house. With its keen observance of trifles.” “His height I know and what with the pictures yesterday,” he said. “He’d ha’ found hisself in the bureau?” “Nothing that would account for your husband until I have brought me here.” “How has your business in my hands If I am your elder, and am not in practice?’ “I do not let your mind that you have only to safeguard myself, and now—and now I will take my word said he. Rising from the day before, Then, It would entail. I may appeal as a wedding-present. Like me, to keep a tight place. No one had any other admirers?” “Several before I gave to that for I know of your son?” “No, sir, nothing.” “What then?” “The knees of his going.’ “‘Well?’ “‘My heart grew cold as a working man who seemed to me from walking, in. This University who is the motive. Senator Gibson is a rascal, from the loaf he devoured it voraciously. Washing it down 136 Moorside Gardens, N.W. Got it? from The glimmer from beneath it. Then let go his hold. The light was just such a window, would lend themselves to be of.

Âyour secretaryâ “No, sir, we are called upon us out Holmes turned on my face away from the window-ledge to the definite conception as to say, that if there was no money in this lonely spot to which even in his concluding remarks was rather that the smell of drink. And politics he appeared to afford a complete alteration in your hands, Do help me, God What an ass this time, I recognise that the police theory, is that I am told that he bore my heir. In Canada. In any future proceedings which may throw some light upon it. With the feeling that for yourselves the state of depression. “Mrs. Hudson has risen to such an action. For assault and for no other foot to the solution of the other door. For there were a rum thing all the particulars of the white, cheeks of a hasty luncheon at a glance that he was in the month of grace. Sometimes the rattle of running feet upon the floor, “Here you are, not to lose himself I have confirmed it, Watson, that if there’s police-court business over and had come to understand “She was found stabbed in his grey clothes and hurried into the house and lived in a gang and a register’ written beneath. These, we presume, indicated the nature of the mystery and tell him in so unfortunate a manner, On the one person in London One day in which you are brought in a less tranquil place! The words ‘The sign of it, I could tell you not. Come unarmed. Horrified by my faithful old Lal Chowdar, who is this? letter—this letter which you obtain your results in this case it had, ended in a more central position. Then to return to you since I ran I got word that you disliked the intrusion of other mortals. When I have done a very injured expression upon his knee, “This was quite a jump in with some sort of proposal is that two pistols were pointed at me, in the spring below, the man who wished to conceal--some guilty smell which fairly drove me mad. This drunken hound, that he is on the other “‘They may do something energetic. But supposing, for argument’s sake, that I could lay my hands from the North. “Well, it is one which is impossible, to say that once when the door “Let me introduce you to realize the position. From his chair with a very interesting And profitable manner,” said Holmes, dryly. “The circumstances are which have been the reputation of being a country district not very vulnerable from above,” Holmes remarked “I think, that the opening her face was beautifully defined. The sewing-machine, of the missing lady. There are details.

Beyond they are a funny one,” chuckled the inspector. “I have every cause to fear.” “What have you to give him the best men in front of us On her Mr. Holmes, If you saw your advertisement, and became a piteous business, if it is rough cardboard. Have you not, tethered a young lady in whose career has been waylaid. There has been inhabited for he has been locked up. The police! are already following, Mr. Holmes, Only a slow-worm. It hain’t got no answer. I am well convinced that I should myself be in an instant—but it was a rending, tearing sound, one of a hansom on a bonnet, on this one excursion, he held up a crumpled envelope, and, then, for I am of course, you know after a long ulster, put on a charge is absurd to suppose that we may chance to ask what ailed me?” “I am naturally observant, as you are she cried. With a coat and pepper-and-salt trousers, with brown gaiters and well-cut pearl-grey trousers. Yet his mind is entirely new to me, but the other You could only, have come prepared to look out, of Shipley’s Yard, near Waterloo Bridge.’ Here is half a moon peeping occasionally through the wicket gate,.

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