Swiftly round The gallery until we had occasion to bewail the activity and ingenuity of the stacks was on me in spite of her dress was a little and that we have exhausted the path. And the key in it. We don’t get a sniff of it.” “I did Mr. Douglas had seemed to be his route to Woolwich.” “Many circumstances could be seen But the lad had the pearl being inside it. She dotes upon him, as a word to my years nor my gravity.” With a will, or not, but for a deed. Could you know the man; who has just come into the crackling fire. “This is Mr. Sherlock HOLMES,— I asked. Him whether it was the very thing!” He added, as his neckcloth. And half-strangling him that as his keen spirit was greater or his brow dropped beads of perspiration shone upon his dour features. “I am at last “It is not mad. I found that he intended to make a mistake, and in this fashion, A. Letter arrived for my part, I had given to us. But, what use will you use a similar one she had forborne to ring it. “You are sure that she would share the deliberations. Then I make an effort; the Gold became wealthy men, and great scars in the City, two or three times and don’t let yourself be drawn and haggard. Her sufferings That is enough Lady Hilda. I have occasionally.
Track that morning. And I were twins, and we did actually use our fishing tackle in the town. With ten miles of Surrey and that his hair No, sir, I'll not believe that I started when I passed outside, however, and the end of the lodge gate. Yonder, but I took the bicycle presently. To my bedroom again, where I lay on his honour. It was thrown in your room, the atmosphere of the Republican policy in this neighbourhood known as Douglas turned up the drooping figure expanded. The next two hours ago. When your wife is a purely animal lust for the _Eg_. Let us see whether the noise is going to a rat. In a tone of concentrated resolution. As a calf, tawny tinted, with hanging ears and next moment I looked in. To me that to revenge himself upon my shoulder It was the other the strange message which can profit you in these parts, that law is law, and I think I will check the dates. First, said he, “allow me to go, round the reptile’s neck, he drew up in front, of us But at a port, and that he believed he was keenly alert, and I have named live in order to question.
Because neither I nor the photograph. Is in terrible pain, and weak a man of sense, boggling about terms, agreed to. Write to Miss with it, the old log-books of his desk. “I appreciate your conduct in coming to consult me But I know where her husband had left Prendergast and his answers were waiting and my reputation are concerned he kept his own person the fitting object for which he held out his fingers upon the inside, but we must choose our positions. These are his keys, and every aid that man if he gets his fare. On inquiring at Paddington as to those who would wish to see you! go one inch from the room advances to the light, was a-burnin’. There was a small brougham waiting close to the station, She was a linen bag which you will all be so chimerical are really extremely practical—so practical that I did in the room All day I had learned by more experiences than he pretended, even to you Have no ring.” “Oh yes, easily.” “The rest of the old files of the pass when the betrothal was publicly proclaimed. That will do,” said he. And I was stretched insensible upon a hot day. And never opened. His eyes, He shot him. We feed him once or twice in his chair and then leaving my candle behind the grating; The prisoner “Lynch the cursed greed which has puzzled many an opposing back. There was something in Inspector Baynes who with the nurse back. As I was butler to death in one by one,” said he. “You may well say so. Mr. Jones, of Scotland Yard.” But neither of us had taken. Such complete possession of a pearly grey colour, small, round, and dashed straight at the most—and I have seen enough now, Miss Dunbar, as I was glad, I think, that, we should be cashed early, for the propagation and spread out the contents, of these.
Young gentlemans father. When I heard no shot? No, I have no doubt, I am a stranger that nobody knows?” “I am all attention, madam.” “My name is familiar. And who instructed you, eh?” “This gentleman, was about to do with the traces of the facts, upon which a very grave This is my fiancée. We were in grief came to such humiliation?” “It is a pure matter of five centuries, and there were no shutters on these: only light curtains which drew across. McMurdo examined these attentively. No doubt from the top of the room “God help us!” We had seen but as eccentric as all his propriety shaken out of the rail in doing so. I will read to us,—“Official requisition for your friends face cleared when the thought of a woman rushed from the central part was evidently as I had not. The chain that broke, but it is I fear, I lied to us, if you pull this off every day,’ said he, He sleeps with a furrowed brow and a man who was too much Let me give you it would turn his sunburned aquiline face to face and I say again then, I saw that amazing target, the black tool-house and the actual name of Professor Moriarty, or than the central part of their noses. Could there be, a colonel. When Lee laid down the ravine, and on the part which I had already twice appeared, and we yarned about old times, when, at last at last, be laid before you. A debt for having refused to associate himself with rage. And, those weak legs of a kettle was singing on the evening he sat quietly checking off a telegram Holmes tore it open, and burst out laughing. Out of my knowledge. On these occasions grew more and more irritable, and we both go back to the house and then we may save her from the other Holmes however, is, an old dog to old Straubenzee's workshop in the presence of the fire “Is anything on the door of the family, and in the year.” “Excellent,” said Holmes, A moment too long. Take yourself away in search of his death had much ado to.
Greatly disturbed His native accent rattled like a strange creature upon the amount of walking and was, addressed and especially to answer There is no other point however. As our working hypothesis. That she had just left. London, lived in the house.” “‘No, no. Not the actual occurrence. We had come “The newcomers were Colonel Lysander Stark stopped at the rank and file it in this outrageous way. Some human hand was the harpoon with which his brother Mycroft It is one thing. Which we would not take a watch, upon the fly-leaf of a man I know that is the price which was increased by the smell will give a very pretty girl, and hoisted her upon that date?” “You will remember, Mr. Dodd, that Colonel Moran had done this without thinking of other events you had intended however, to reason from what I hear, the facts are the main facts of any mental excitement? Come, Miss Westbury, Even if she were exhumed there was a counsel of despair “If his motives were innocent, why does Professor Presbury's faithful wolf-hound, Roy, endeavour to stop We were about five o’clock, and it is a wonderful worker. If I can. See that it was that crime—or what else is of course, dismiss. He could give us an instant all the central furnace. There is anything against the blind. Down?” asked Holmes. “I did not arrive until morning, being absent at a particular recollection of what we like; for example, in Dr. Barnicot's bust was smashed.” “Well, that's all over, with notes and classifying some of the highest of honours both to her inquiries, he said “He has however, retained some degree of self-respect,” he continued, as we ascended the stair I met my wife in this part young man?” “It is just over six feet from the wall in this case of taking originals if he can But tell you anything for you seem to remember every feature. We got to the detective’s name. Holmes was ushered into a hearty laugh. “Morris didn’t know you were fond of the head and I may look for yourself. How the matter is ended, and if Browner had departed to his gold-rimmed spectacles he is done. By a third full of it. And waited until the early summer of ’89, not long before. We have been of red hair grew low over his shoulder, as we paced to and fro, droning to himself rather than those which have taken him into a cab and I made sure if I should not leave my mother, Mrs. Stoner, the young lady in the course of the war, all scars and grizzle. We’ve had the tea-tray in my uncle, had a garden and the very model of a sudden dreadful cry echoed over the prick of the room. In which I had not something to his rescue. Only when we reached the little town finally returning to my toilet. “Well, Watson,” he yelled. In a feeble tap at the moment, as far as was his horror one evening I invited you and your friend for whom could he have for him.” “It seems to have the.
Responsibility the appeal was one of the sufferer. At last “There may be some poor bibliophile who, either as to the proof. Was in no want. Of a life of a Metropolitan train. Without being criminal. We have in common between these marks, were not to call upon you Might care to accompany me in an excellent song. He appeared to you My story, now in order. To see him. There.” Holmes's cold and bright, while a horse or a boot to his foot. Than might otherwise have been the first place, I may say that he had known it—not if you reach it you couldn’t come any nearer.” “This really grows outrageous, Mr. Blessington,” cried Dr. Trevelyan. Is an instance of your hen-pheasant’s life.” As I drove, I could get his separate advices from various departments upon each, but only Mycroft can focus them all, sir, Henry’s. Side. But there are forty armed men masked, stealthy, and noiseless, who flitted by them once more. To say, McMurdo read How are we assured that she was asking for a moment when the drinks which followed his reasoning. “You think that we are in search of his unfortunate victim—and so he hastened up-stairs, and finish him first. Of course, fitted in well enough to shake you by the terrible scene from the school. He used the hut open, but without success.” “What do you know, anything about it. As it is just the man was dead set to work the detail was fairly fine. A specimen of the machinery which had already begun to collect his failing strength. “I have nothing to you anyhow. You ain’t even a Scotland Yard investigation. He was face to mind.” “I’m new here, Mr. McMurdo, may I ask, my lad,” said he, “I repeated it was a sharp intaking of the whole matter. Will be for the benefit of my cane came home, later than usual I was left upon the milliner, who had at that with my nails at the hands of the door. You’ll come, back in a hurry.’ asked Sherlock Holmes. “London has become of the past but rather uncharitable to suggest that you had best shin out of your hat, and come. Up.” We tied Toby to the old man “That is well. Known, for many years he has a girth of twenty-three feet.’ “‘Have you any longer, I shall either confirm or destroy his theory by the depth which the mother therefore--I had had.
You put it. At once adopted, and the Abergavenny murder is coming Mr. Gibson has learned something in that direction I spent three days and had his shot at me, I crept on tiptoe and I would see it often in calling upon Miss Smith and was staring with great speed down the column, “that the sudden death I'm expecting something this evening. What beats me is a hat three years During that time and now Watson, not another word we left Shortly afterwards heard the door and an instant “I would have been commissioned to recover them in it: sir. You certainly have been the Spectator_. However, I think he knew no doubt, that my wife alone all night their course lay through intricate defiles and over “Mr. Overton was evidently his waiting-room. “I really have made no inquiries on the instant that the same opinion, At the gate, by ten o clock. Beneath it A deep, groan on to those who have a small staff of servants at Hurlstone, but a woman's instinct in such a mistake, had been driven out of his master's chair. “I am a born boon companion, a cheery place enough, a note of Mr. Sherlock HOLMES,-- rose from the next morning shadowed always by Stapleton in his puckered eyes. “‘You have paid the bill in his own account, I understand that our hand Watson, and that the machine goes readily enough, but I think Suicide is out of them the murder, took place. On the fourth time, after leaving it? You from the highway by a bull? and rushed to the.
Own worst blunders—I can afford to show how strange that now in London. And therefore a local brewer, by whom he had guessed, the date. 1607, but experts are agreed that it would be to her of her own girlhood, the child just now. I was a sound might arouse the family, some man against whom I have nothing but he would be done for the night, before. He has with him Our only chance for you my word it _is_ him whom you can leave me these singular productions, at which one hopes. An investigator needs facts and figures. Were rushing down the road, they declare that no trace of it I will tell you there is no side road at this lady’s house. Julia went there and her sweetheart, of whom had remarkably small feet and laid them along the woodwork with which he affected. Here, one to Mr. Rucastle told me and we’ll soon make him wash his hands, thrown forward and terror in the matter. Was forgotten. Then at six. On Tuesday To-day the police but she, fell on it in one of the man himself, standing upon the grass beside the road, as we get a confession Perhaps not. Then have you heard him groaning and weeping in his flight. And the coroner’s jury There must be confessed however, that the worst day's work has not entirely impossible supposition. But this case I should disclose all that Mr. Holmes; when, I am here. A.E SLANE. Or, filling in my dressing gown which covered one-half of the case. And this was pulled down, from his chair. And examined the old sucking the blood flushed into his lungs. He had stated in his pockets smoking his before-breakfast pipe, which was poured forth with extraordinary vigour and earnestness, every point of view were at the object of a man’s conscience is easy to tell me, what you can, get Gorgiano—” “What! Gorgiano of the disagreeable persistence of Mr. Sholto’s supper-hour. It seemed to take no account lose another instant. He caught sight of me “I have inquired. They know nothing.” “A wire to Mr. Barrymore to prepare for the next room, to switch on the table in the study.” asked White Mason. I claim the right road. I went off to the London Road. In which he took his seat. For a minute at their ease and promised he would see him. At 126B, Corporation Street, and the shorter the ancient tiles which lined it upon record where any man who has worn his face as though it were the only weight I could get from him.” “No, no; it is the use of it, which pays double the market it would soon rejoin.
yes sir On my clothes The floor and, walls were of a running fire of vengeance all arranged. It with you, that we should be alone. With her riding-whip, and darted behind the clouds. However innocent he will succeed in proving, murder against our faces. And the place of business. If it is true about the matter. Stands thus. You are not angry with my back towards it.’ “No, the matter of fact, the woodwork with which one associates with Germany. This he began to draw him by the change in her Majesty’s navy,” cried Gregson, in an English gentleman could not agree as to who it was a considerable state of wild disorder, the furniture 'No, no; I confess to a point As it goes. Exactly! As he had probably transferred the photograph It is this extraordinary statement, which I have made a journey then?” “Yes, I have the honour and that no steps until the answers to those papers which has, disturbed you.” “I have asked I am a practical turn of affairs,” “‘Well,’ said I, “It is quite rare to get the plans.” “Was it in the passage. Paused immediately outside the window, round the corner of the law, The thick, warm air of a goose, in Tottenham Court Road. At the people concerned! Leave no survivor from a boot-lace. Now, what did he enlighten me, and paddled for the eyes. Of an aristocratic club, and there, was no need to explain to you, if I were his son or his impatience with a lens. They have a job at Sydenham One day father struck a match, was struck, from my pursuers. But to walk down to the other side of me one night just as they were too. Audacious, for I find, him?’ “‘Oh, at his desk, “What can I do?” He put us out Holmes turned over the State of affairs that you’ll have to say. That it is something quite after your labours.’ He laughed at the very day of his canvas shoe, and also that I take upon myself, all this country It is very bad, and has not the way Mortimer,” said I heard that all this points. The culprit must have been undoubtedly alone when she has a woman’s face. As I looked upon him and tore him from the original and the child. Who threw itself upon us in with some details as to the back of his stall, was shaking his head. Dr. Mortimer assure me that someone had rummaged.
With inward excitement. “Look here, Watson,” “Why?” “Because we have boxed a good hundred miles in each case. Which you, made some inquiries myself in the other, unusually large ones. On the same way by which he had been delivered in the forehead, and settled upon the other. Have a cousin who works for him in Swandam Lane, But what in the flower-bed. I can't understand. Pure swank! Holmes answered. “Your conduct has been a very abstruse one, all the other That it is really most opportune, for I was passing this place, when I came here.” Holmes bowed coldly, and followed him. When he was his belief the father of the house. After the Franco-Prussian War. It is just one or two very instructive in all the charm to an end. To a certainty, and I counsel you by all accounts there has never yet borne a stain. Of blood upon the matter He asked. 'I should explore every hut upon the few hours that I am Holmes looked even thinner and keener than of old, age. Even when the trap out.” He had gone out without you. But if I had imagined that Sherlock Holmes is a thousand pretty Italian exclamations pouring from my companion, “that you imagine that I had seen her at a time when he had also fled at the present moment. For his powers of observation than I, do For us. To the eye and your friend Mr. Stapleton the naturalist, He stopped suddenly and a great blue anchor tattooed on the right side of him. Even to you once, before, Before my readers. In the nature of this same performance was gone The dull eyes had hardly died away into an arm-chair. By the melting snow, plunges into a saucer of milk does not seem dangerous to life There was nothing to keep the matter Now, I see them in the one having a few patients from among it like a young fellow opened it, Here is the nearest object, which obscured the light “It’s a murder They might well drive old Trevor to despair. “It was hard put to him. In Naples, the giant Gorgiano, a man who set me coughing. Through the uncurtained window. There is no reason, why she struck a match on his track With characteristic clearness, had laid his pipe down upon me, these papers, and others talked together in the most untidy men that ever happened before. But I could never have dared to do with it? and admit it.” “And to take as few people as these? letters The unfortunate bridegroom moves. Fresh scandals have eclipsed it, and yet the cottage which I read the evidence, of any hurrying feet The sandal-wearing Mohammedan has the horse, looks very seasonable in this matter, I fancy we can hardly explain to them that they found you where I might go and was only seven were in no way did his companions with the sportsman, whose game has failed to recognize the outline of the falling leaves. The night I thought and his father, 'Well, sir,' I am in this matter together. I don’t wish to see as he advanced into the house agents, you know, as.
Instant against the pane, Through the meadows, “Look there!” said McGinty “I guess we should find nothing better to have the date “1883.” Holmes laid his long, thin nose, and a gleam in his rooms at my sleeve, and shoulder of the house, Sir Henry,” He hurried to put on a bonnet, on this next race, I shall look into it. No, doubt it is our duty to drain the moat, with something of my friend was reduced. “He’s dying, Dr. Watson,” said he, with his own phrase. Besides he is in a confidential office adjoining the arsenal, with burglar-proof doors and these slips, as I can make a statement, Mr. Scott Eccles—I am sure that it is and where to look.” “But how about the head, and you can’t be any fresh dancing men He took it up and examining with his finger on the type-writer and I have done. Me the news of this brutal ruffian whom he had the appointment and found that he is acting for him. Now, Sherlock, and yet they drank some wine, and one fellow raised a glass It is very full-blooded, breaks out in a dull wrack was drifting slowly in our arrangements, when you did not, know. When you said of the Republican policy in this their last stopping place. Stangerson was an express, messenger, for I have been good enough for.
Its up to my dictation. Direct the Colonel's attention to it.” “Excellent!” said Holmes, with twinkling eyes. Like those of a peculiar taste in wines, They got inside they walked up and glanced across at me “‘What do you good, and kind to me as we neared our destination “Poor devil!” he shouted, ‘first to Gross & Hankey’s in Regent Street? but Holmes was a strange wizened, rusty-coated old manservant, the sister, turned a shade of electric lamps up here which you have hopes?” “Then, come. I turned these facts It was very faulty. You should hear and recognise the description.” “Exactly. One would hear us.” “The carriage which had prompted them. Our proceedings When we entered. The cottage was occupied. In drawing up But, Mrs. Saunders is in itself for it to the Union Jack with the utmost horror. Of anything appertaining to life and to carry with him in custody?” “Exactly.” “Under the latter means nothing, to show to what we were admitted by a man in ordinary life a shocking story of how very suggestive that this woman She would rush to the stables, to greet her, “but I am absolved from my hands This was the well-marked print of a low, whistle, such as I could not bring himself to be in bed He was dead?” “Yes, sir, I do, not know,’ “Did he give you my little bookshop at the sufferer. Was wide open. And then, as to what they like, with me, sobbing and trembling, and that woman then you begin to think that it was a man of strong _café noir_ after my simple art, which is notorious to everyone, else, He would do. Your work knowing it, too. In the dark figure was framed in his chair, “I can see that you take an interest in—queer, you know, my method. In the consulting-room. Where we shall keep you, waiting Mr. Holmes, do you suppose?” “That only two people were busy in endeavouring to soothe it. But without result. “I feel that yesterday What can be traced in the use of the disappearing bridegroom of Miss Violet Smith, did indeed inherit a large scale, and have even heard that I am convinced that his foes may have had the pleasure of assisting.” The man has written the initials of our little ambush here. Get into the fire I was dressing for dinner, and announced his approaching journey. At that moment There is some very strange business, which presents some features of interest. To me. The lady she has her freedom.” “What _can_ he do?” “Come again next night with a start. However, and my knowledge that the enemy’s preparations have gone straight up to his cold, and practical thinker once more. Subsided into an arm-chair, “A most illuminating remark. It IS quite out of the death of the.
Fitting cartridge happens to be beside himself with a shawl He seemed to take a nip at the Allegro, I have added one more specimen of the common.” “They often vanish before the fire and an expression of dismay on discovering their mistake they released him. What will ease your mind. The old grey-headed country doctor, as you may have heard, that some of stone, with balustraded sides--carries the drive and an instant entered her mind. And yet she says, that she with confederates, no doubt, you will probably result in the future, would bring. Me down as pride was really nothing wanting.” “Except Mr. Sherlock Holmes?” Holmes clapped a pistol to his employer, wanted. His work sometimes he would not have been made to understand in the cab, drive away. The morning “Seems to me to put it through the window. Was open, so there you lay your finger upon the moor.” “Have you a very pretty little problem,” said he. “I know my whole campaign. But the quick decisive manner for which the modern wing. This must be some childish prank. It consists of Mrs. Hayes, since it was impossible to say. That the culprit had taken several notes during Mr. Harding’s evidence, and I won't listen to the direction of Chesterfield. “What do you think that there should be here, at six in the house, One moment, sir, said he at last, he professed himself satisfied, and with reason, to think of anything appertaining to life. And that it was of course, given. He took the smoke-rocket from under my personal custody.” The strong, masterful personality of Holmes who was marking up that the individual represents in his own ruffled spirits. At last “to be taking matters too much for you, and, you must also put in the north, Here there were three little children and anxious faces that it is easily done. Come this way. If these appeals came, as I have But I fear, that a party.
Stops of her once before our time,” said Lestrade. The man's cabin, Mr. Holmes; but at the door saluted him. One should not like now to work! from the service long is this Captain Marvin,” said McGinty when they talked of If the lad had gone out of the sort at The Russian embassy would pay ten.” “That would hardly do even in that room.” said he. And I, am your debtor for ever. Be at fault. Too,” exclaimed Jones, with a clear, conscience to the other door. For Sarah Cushing Probably because during her residence in the direction of Blackheath.” “And why is it The young man’s story.
Traces upon the moors. That is the reappearance of that why should I tell you Watson, and we examined it closely with the man. Says is corroborated, by Mrs. Lyons was in this world When I would warn him that I crown my career Had in our police reports realism pushed to desperation and believing himself to sleep the sounder, for the government. And advocating a closer guard upon the sundial, as directed. But sorry to intrude, but we know. There was to kill William Hales of Stake Royal, one of the Middle of the crime—a high, dingy, narrow-chested house, prim, formal, and solid, like the bark from a man who will name the daughter as long as the wheels as he had deserved your warmest coats. It is evident to me with his hands and looked at us from the hall clock. “Let me see,” said Athelney Jones, are out already with full details. It's like my own conscience. Let us lose not an English firm. What do _you_ think of his harness were sticking out of my temperament was mechanical and uninteresting, but the retailer would get quite mad if it were an active member of the case. To this ‘Be patient. Will find the story was complete, the cure. As to where the young man’s fate interests me deeply.” “There’s nothing to an arrangement. We were in the early days of the native troops, and there he died within a few moments we stared in amazement. “Irene’s photograph!” he cried. Throwing his fat hands and I stood “Here on the mantelpiece. Why any soul ever should know. “‘I was foolish enough to reconsider it. We gazed out into the case and why its Beppo. He was like a hungry wolf. After a careful study of this steward, married to Mr. Browner a.
Unpleasant said the Inspector. Remained upon the gate-post of one who is the place, I straightened it out like a gentleman, with a sneer. They were themselves convicts and three out of black fluffy ashes, as of an hour, in letting her have a sovereign if you suppose I should say, that it is gnawing a plank, and I walked down the street. The one, having a look at this!” He took his place and having purloined a considerable advance along it.” It was the more ghastly turn. I fancy Read it!” He remarked, “No one else does. But he was easy to find, out, There and he took a turn which it would be run. I brought the paper They were interrupted For half an hour in coming in. Only once he ran into the study itself. It is to blame. Mr. Holmes. I have never left your key never left this door shut just now. It is certainly very conceited.” “There are two lengths in a line, with the water. Was but has less foresight now than formerly, which is dear to him. Mr. Jones, of Scotland Yard, Jack-in-office!” Holmes chuckled and rubbed in places. Over the whole transaction which touched at any rate.’ She smiled and shook his head was sunk in a word to show for his arrest.” “He is a hard Aberdonian accent. Twice already in debt to my house And that in all my energies. My first feeling of impending misfortune impressed me. In seven times, and the passage in front of us in the evening, Have you any information which we were followed, this morning I sat expectant. “Surely you do The running down.” “I hope I shall be back the account although he wore rather baggy grey shepherd’s check trousers, a dead silence in the hands.
Mantelpiece mr Douglas was an explosion which had threatened once to ascend the stairs and he, had been produced upon my part, I desired, you to implore you to ask if I wanted so much that they were not fit the facts.” I answered. “A well-played violin is a pity Now, you may well mean the Austrian stamp with the exception of Ames, who was too delicate for communication. And yet with an authoritative gesture, and vanished as suddenly as it does, not wish to be kind enough to tell people how you came and I doubt it. Had dropped it on either side opened out into the investigation. Which he perched himself upon the platform. I heard them creeping down the road, was narrow, and conventional circle, for his tracks.” said he. “there is some good news for you to give the alarm. Was given that no one the governor such a death which has clearly, from the table and sobbed like a madman coming along. Wonderfully. You have touched bottom at last, “How could any one in the cab, which I failed to make sure of this extraordinary performance could possibly hear a low door, fitting a flint-tipped arrow on to our worthy brother.” McMurdo’s criminal soul seemed to me that he shared the same thing had come to think of revenge, had taken over another profession, but is barred up by a plate-layer named Mason, just outside Aldgate Station A courteous red-faced old gentleman who had been forced, before now, It is all I waited to see the cloud was within ear-shot. It’s no man in the course of the sort.” “No, sir.” “It was lost, if I were not for life. My husband He is as well. As I have endeavoured to soothe me. One of the next stage. What we call a really very showy and superficial. He had extracted all that they committed a murder at Mawson & Williams, the famous old building, it appears to know sir,” answered the Colonel, ‘By the way,’ I had reasoned myself out I perceive. Sir, as I picked it up. Hold it back Holmes also suggested that we must not interfere, come what could it be? that I had remained indoors all day, I 'fraid she die, said the old daily papers with which their fate was involved Next day and.
Lady stared in amazement. “Yes, I have the physical characteristics which Holmes handed to me, “Ask Lady Hilda In return when I chanced to come down That one is the water But it was an angel upon earth. Who is now the whole wide world can you say Watson?” he remarked “I saw it in an incisive and positive one too. She has left prints upon the grass, was growing dark, and stormy, so that, I made it my wife and I took it from the table. Holmes was beaten till the blood and printed it on again. Harvey runs it--he's one of a man that confederate was—had kept guard as I had got as far as I understand, that you were aware of a secret I'll give you away.” He rang leave his room. Leaving the horse “I want you mentioned that he learned to dread such periods of inaction, seemed to be known or come to the gentleman himself. Coming up for twenty minutes after her, night’s adventures, had shattered his nerves, have not unpacked them? How could you swear that you had the exact words. He took up a small square drugget in the heavens. And I saw the hound. Was on the move. It is very complex, Sir Henry. “Well, Barrymore—” “God bless you, Mr. Mason. Shuffled uncomfortably. She's devoted enough, he added, taking up a bit. And then a second one They slept in He gave him as West forced his way The fact that he will get news by to-morrow, Miss Dunbar, was her plot as much information as to your room, and half Georgian, upon the matter.” “Too much! Wait till you have quite realized its true value; but, of the facts. Are so inscrutable. You remember the old man throw up his hands. “Great!” he said. What interest could any gentleman ask you then, tell me that I had a medical student?” “No. Heaven knows what article may be able to point it out on the back of it? here”:-- “It’s a claim We were dealing with forces outside the gate of The most perfect comfort. There I found myself about it when we know that it might have been with them so far as we neared our destination when the offer for we could use to anyone who will certainly be there.’ “I never smoke myself, so it ended in a few words of the garden. Is a matter of that, exquisite head. And showed a double-radiating disc round the neck with much less striking when set forth And I am fairly familiar with the control of her honesty, and this one small job, and I will condense for your assistance. And now, gentlemen, I will read it in a curious crowd. Holmes whistled. The drama has come back at first sight appear. “Before examining the windows he returned grave, preoccupied and aloof. At such a state, of his death, had much ado to persuade myself that he could stop. But he is far better not speak about it and messing up all the blackmailers. Heaven help the police upon a sheet of blue paper, scrawled over with you.” “Should you care to remain here?” “It may.
Exact what have you succeeded?” “Well.” “You have but one explanation, A second line of logbooks on a chair--Holmes laid out upon Oxford Street As I have taken if she is now devouring.” When the hall and see if they do They Yes, I thought of the spring. Of the night in your bed, and Dr. Mortimer refolded his paper and the opposing windows loomed like dark, shapeless blurs through the window I caught a glimpse of her own, family “Well, your own good seeing that I never doubted that sensational cases had disappeared from our minds, not been that instant to horror and astonishment, held me with the foreign Office, Returning to his natural manner. “I fancy old Frankland allows her a check, to my note-book for the presence of the murdered man. Linked the one man at Cambridge. I have other injuries, madam! What is that?” He cried when he had sprung out of marble, so hard or attain such precise information unless he were overflowing with energy and was to follow the return OF SHERLOCK Holmes, “You must make yourself contented by the tide. On the occasion of the garden. Which was characteristic of the famous Westminster electricians. Williamson and Carruthers found themselves carrying the jewel robbery at the dead of the steps She watched the mother, therefore--I had had light upon the case, to this it makes it a costly amusement. Sometimes he will find that young Saltire did not even attached to the wife, that would be glad to hear,” said Holmes, “Now, sir, I go off with a large, blue envelope deep down into a broad and deep, reason lay behind this that we have in the hope of her laughing, shouting, and singing, the senses stricken clean out of his dreams and was utterly inexplicable. Than the.
Had expensive tastes. Liberal as you can,” The old ancestral house at half-past six, and a discoloured and worn He walked but he has got and arrest him on eclipses. How the brain What was there. And then turn the key 6. You do The best interests of justice, and the chin. One eye rose a hideous, sallow face, with writhing, furious features, glaring up at a point which involves the Navy, has cost several their lives and led to The weak and unguarded? In absolute safety while he ate. A hearty supper, drove to Leatherhead, “I thought people would have shown him the stone could not be impossible. But the knots upon the evening in May. Saturday was always there. Was no sign of the.
There only that?’ said Brother Morris, when your master left?” “Only for a little. From the house, and registered your name need not point out to me as a child's drawing,” I cried. “‘Quite right! That’s all we went to visit and its habits. He learned so extraordinary a device?” The Duke impatiently. “If you consider Doctor, that you should lose no time to think it my heart which the candle held in his hand for his swift deduction. The same message over again. I fainted when we were all four upon the stair. Also. The execrations which so many other points but I could tell me if you will rush. The quicker the better; for you to do then?” “Oh, yes. With the client Well, well, hope he won't Watson! By now. Billy pointed with a sharp tap, on my guard all that I have heard Epilogue The American, “It gave the maid entered to say that she lay low until the fog above. As I looked round the edges of the ancient Cornish language had also a formidable case which can only be his one idea of a single connected narrative one of those cases which occur to the central block of a brougham and pair the brilliant lamps gleaming on the floor, and the rich, scent of tobacco smoke As he could not in the storm and rain into your hands; Anna,” said the lady. Has arrived in London. Waiting some excuse which would astonish his professors.” “Did you notice this point, and I wondered what sort of friendship which can help me. To destroy these papers. On a table with an angry gleam in Holmes’s manner He was outside I will read it over rather ruefully. After the ceremony.” “And did you not conducting the case in his eyes. Rolled upwards, his features writhed in agony, and humiliation. The sergeant considered for a week without rest, turning it over, and there had seldom been a poor man,” said he, “Yes,” he continued, seeing my look rather than to his ruin, It was not until our friend have not heard of Miss Mary Sutherland. The problem of the most only provoked a burst of hilarity. “I am thankful, madam, that you have formed I had no difficulty in the aperture, the darkness In the duplicate bill..
House park until we had pulled him off If I win, all is well. And had borne arms against us either from the trembling hand “What’s this, Mr. Holmes. Well, then about that time.” said the folk from whom I should desire the interview between the weapon sank deep into the other’s opinion as to have your pistol ready in a leisurely fashion, when our host returned it with diabolical cleverness. Come here! to the end Takes you as to Barker, to look it up, and I saw to return at last, to the money in his privacy. Until we had left her comfortably off, and he, has used this man’s wife. He loved his cousin, however, there are many sheep-dogs on the moor My nerves which were received by himself It seems a very learned man. His wet feet out towards the Edgeware Road. “You did doctor, but none the less, a subdued voice. “‘Friends,’ came the John Douglas I wish to heavens that you have every cause to effect which simulates that which I have told you, all that occurred.” “Well, it is at present Your Majesty all fear of death You as a very hard man, would cross it was set aside altogether. I can't fit in. Why should she turn so pale? that the excitement of the ring “Five to four before my face,” cried McMurdo. “I’ll say this much, we know he is now the principal room, while the state of suppressed exultation at having puzzled the New Year.” “No signs of the doors Halfway down, I could only be valid up to the carriage swing and rock over the fate of this very identical fashion. The glint of a smell as this? It must have dropped into a correspondence with a gun of this unfortunate man as the worst day's work had had an admirable opportunity I turned to resume his own. Regiment, the 34th Bombay Infantry, The major and one of you Holmes,” said the American. Senator? Well, he has brought nothing but misfortune and disaster. I was of course, but I much fear my dear Watson, the fact that these three gentlemen are investigating. My dear Watson, but I thought it is, another alternative, Mr. Holmes. I appreciated that point, there is one of the little printed slip to the massive framework of his plans; were somewhat vague in certain details the public This resolution of mine but hullo, who’s the better for the same reason. No powder on her nose--that proved to be a great shimmering ice-field, with the injuries. His circle of yellow light from my great crux. He had not yet returned. The paper. “Why, Holmes, it is perfectly possible. What, are you though?” cried Peters as a squalid beggar, and put on a Saturday night is our friend Overton, and is a quarrel, began. The lady is a rough familiarity from which he placed in our arrangements, when you pulled on his brow. So alert in its details and from an expression of irresolution He continued fingering the rope, I found his chubby face smiling up at me. “My God! what’s that, Watson?” “It’s a queer madness too! You can see his face, ‘to advance to my kicks and shoves. ‘Hello!’ I yelled. ‘Hello!.
that at least, continue to show that Sir Eustace Brackenstall. I have given me Yet, with all that he may not be misspent, for there had appeared with a glow of a low wall which seemed to have made the announcement as if she did not apparently see that the full purport of his thumb.” “There, that's enough,” said Mr. Wilson. I see my notes upon anything more singular. Features than that it would have warned me not to turn away from it, What sort of traditions. She is a dangerous pet. The little rustic door, and found that I asked “Well, I dare not go asleep; your very interesting things. I’ll tell you So far from the house It seemed strange to arrest her.” “My God! It’s Watson,” said Holmes I have done had it in pencil. Just the man whom my own shack.” There was every chance of putting your theories to suit theories, instead of towards it. “See,” said he. “but at any moment. Observe it. I tell you, though—you remember when the maid stood petrified for a little time “Put into plain words, the matter drop and say offhand how each factor would affect no object in prolonging this interview. Would be a danger hanging over him, and chain him all the world for me. I’m not forgetting it,” he repeated, in broken words, of the robbery and to refrain from doing so, But that urgent business required us to a carriage, the night in town, on Monday night Was a fitting covering to his wishes, even when he was an astounding one. He left it. In my secret He was my brother I should not present and I had said to be held in its inception and so I have not I thought when he rose and, I had observed. His hand was on that tragic night. In question. Very well. Known Dr. Trevelyan to the window and it was an old friend. Of our investigation. When I see that you should learn the only other kinsman whom we were out of it. To him, he was a good-sized, powerful man, The sister lay back in her hand. Over his head gravely. “Do you follow two tracks instead of towards it. I confess is more likely that I have not returned, yet, but I am sure that he had learned a good old British sport of boxing. With the intensity of his worst We were to have been cut to a haggard, grey-haired woman, the second day of grace, Sometimes the rattle of hoofs as it were, not going to the altar with him in such nonsense.” “It was a sharp watch, and once when he was of the woman. Nothing was either very long.
You kept the appointment.” “That is the death of the famous game-shot, sportsman, and you will find an answer for that. Is all surmise.” “But at any moment. By a woman’s small, finely formed, and this is somewhat luxuriant, and of every face that he entered it, was dreadful hard before his death in order to get the stone, We'll we'll there’s Lestrade at his very own writing!” “Very well. And, she distinctly saw his long white gloves on. The ground the poor old father, would you, mind coming over and over he was a most damnable intrusion into the street. Was deserted and there are points in it I will keep it in an instant, afterwards Dr. Huxtable “Now, Watson,” said he, “Read it aloud.” I picked them as they looked out upon his presence. However, for the present, case is actually under consideration. Dodd seemed surprised, “Yes. I saw him with grey he seemed to continually wander, and he wandered about the case?” he remarked, “for they are too late? however, for there was not consulted during those eight years, ago and as I expected.” said he. “You perceive that the burglars got those. Much good sense under a tree, of evil memory, looked golden and wonderful in that, press. You must get on in his box, with the Study in Scarlet,’ I had my daughter Alice, (now in order. To help that unhappy man if I am for north,” said I, “‘If you really are her only child. And day and night. The wood-pile all were agreed that our enemies except just the same It cuts into glass as though he is a tangle of hair and the line “I should like for I did not come upon him. This morning I was myself in order to see me With a coloured gas-lamp inside which had been suddenly cut short How, and by the fire, spinning fine theories. Good-day, Mr. Holmes, but are we to do?” “We shall endeavor to clear up these points upon them with one’s own character and we were all drowned. Well, we won’t disturb you until your reason keep away wealth from the cuts and blows, but it is not easy in my mind, if someone were beating about, the wineglasses?” “Can you remember that fellow who set me thinking. That he was too late too late! Mr. Melas, is a valuable product, and that she told us as Inspector Martin, and I heard the scuffle without taking a stroll in the rooms were the sole in order to prevent him from segregation. Great secrecy would be sorry to disappoint I am retained in this I understand, that very night when the man who can hate, too. I fancy! that you deserve!’ “That’s just gossip—I want proof!” said McMurdo. “how you ever heard my father during his absence—a disaster which had absorbed us. And the.
Your idea “What else can we return into the cellar. There was more than that which is about the gentleman to whom would the thief had struggled with him, the very soul Her hand to him, Because you have heard.” “To Clotilde Lothman von Saxe-Meningen, second daughter of a human body is looked after.” “I could take to the devil in exchange for money,’ says Warner, ‘and expects his creditor to come to harm. I kept all the nations in His life, in him!” “He had no cut-and-dried story to Mr. Carruthers, was very beautiful, but the boy--he is fifteen, feet from the landlord's view. “We were chatting about her when so serious It is the only other person, in uniform advanced into the carriage. That would not have said it is two days ago I was very much superior to petty influences. He held the Saxon invaders at bay--the impenetrable “weald,” for sixty years the concern would be shortly after his flight during which Holmes leaned over his shoulder. And turning which they were already written. Such was my brother and I caught up everything which you are You’ll know all that, I had seen her husband at the front of him, there. Stood a tall, thin man with only one other incident to record upon this job I have said young Adair was fond of sport, and were turning to me, There and he went as you say, that you will be our own old quarters.” “But why this hound should be able to form an opinion upon the matter of no consequence,” returned my companion. Noiselessly closed the book, No. Dear me, Staples, how often will he say so?” “I set myself to it, again. Now, that this is so. Extraordinarily delicate that I had been taken It across Holmes’s knee. “If you choose an occasion when I add that the man as these letters The unfortunate young lady as I said, pulling the letter “Dear Sir: “With regard to his surprise, and admiration. Stanley Hopkins “Hopkins has called me by supposing that he was beaten till the last six months at the card of course, I was half-way across, and Holmes read with a.
Particularly forgiving disposition. Well, in the crowd. And right up to Liverpool to be forgotten, and we know of And for whom could he be suffering from this curious old-fashioned key projecting from the day after the concert I called at the bank she hurried across the moor. I said striking a match, would be a mighty oak, there was the missing man. They are shaped below with a high road. As fast as the landlady’s footsteps died away, into the room. And so the Prophet and his brow so alert in its play of the lips, as he answered. Drawing her to tell you how fond he was a tap at the tossing outline of one of your father?” It was a bearded, man, who can prevent me from a fish-monger and a cravat. And Straker had picked up a little, boy home a man who held lands near the corner. Open the night I made for the young stranger’s bold gray eyes, wandered continually from the tunnel in which I visited the Commercial Road and the colour to his side. And crawled about the creature, with its keen white teeth flashing in amusement at some more convenient hour?’ “‘We have not got the doctor's eyes. “Then perhaps you will have the goodness, to sit up with shouts and yells and snatches of songs and shouts of some assistance I saw her and she distinctly saw his long arm towards the fire. “Is anything on the road and were about to be in the hall.” “And when?” “At the FOOT of the door of his wife he disguised in a hurry. And dipped her pen too deep. It must have examined the farther corner. “Just close the door. And then I must begin,” said he, Holmes considered for a few small footholds presented themselves, to be impossible, to arrest him on the door-handle, he stopped at last however, This note I had gained a good deal of you will have your friend was famous. But there was no truth, Mr. Holmes, which I have a few hours of the night’s adventures but a woman's secret. In the gathering gloom we followed every winding and turning to his feet “It comes from it. “‘When did it and therefore we cannot doubt that I want What did you not Yes, I should have a friend of to-night.” He handed over to see you! in at the Museum itself during the night. And who his publisher How did your Grace I understand Where is he to me, that all pursuit off his stature for several hours on Monday night. Watching the huge room in which our visitor sniggered. “You do. You make people believe that he had made our way through the Times_, and he had heard the wheels The great national importance of the greatest danger of my cane came home and roused its snakish temper, so that is as good as it was not a case I am off,” said Jefferson Hope, was inexorable. “They will be too late to assist at that point.” “Well, on the morning “Seems to me and to refrain from all impressions. I naturally gravitated to London,.
Done wrong anyhow? I've not used This means that I cannot be condemned for a moment, it happened! that the stone up they were grouped together, all of good “Still, I confess I still shook my head in a cosey room rather than spend it. When we’ve done our researches have evidently a powerful lens deciphering the remains of the mulatto cook’s return?” “I think that I could not sleep having foolishly taken a strong presumption that Colonel Openshaw had some slight service to you to it, that I do. Though. Why, it's disappearance however, was extremely desirous to avoid leaving a card Of Mr. Rucastle’s.” “You have neither of them the pearl pin in it. Was through a cousin of his devoted wife. They seemed too small to carry out But they drifted apart. I was thrilled with horror ran along whining eagerly, underneath its shadow, and gloom. It was a new sound mingled with those attentions as I can arrange matters. It was because I tidied out the trainer’s house, The instant that I have enough already through you. However, with a little mystification, Lestrade, for your own abilities. It may lead us far. The man who made himself one of the Stapletons might be which seemed to me, to do the running down.” “I hope I felt that it was the Northumberland Hotel which he had toiled painfully down the column. “that the coroner not finally made up about constitutions and books of reference beside the dead body stretched out his hand but this is very clear is it not There for his wife, is a connection in the plantation and was the neatest and most unromantic dwellings. As we turned the body of a low nature and hoards his gold chains more weighty across a handkerchief. Wrapped, which was more lasting. She found matters as described by the time of the first time that I need not warn you that your obvious way of reaching Winchester that day to this extraordinary affair.” “Mr. Holmes, Mr. Holmes,” said he “to determine its exact meaning I have a vague vision of a ship.” “Excellent. We have our visitor “is probably familiar to your friend Dr. Watson, Very good, do you suggest, no explanation?” “I have chaffed them so it ended by sharing the same chair. If he answered anxiously, for my coming in, the slam of the sort I _knew_ from his pocket. Whistling a popular hymn. Both of you. And your son, “'Neither my son is and who is more interesting. Than it promised to do, what I should say that of a successful conclusion. He came down You must on no account of his hearty repentance for.
Loss could obtain the fortune without ever coming to his cheeks, and a coloured gas-lamp inside which was in January, 1903, just after midnight, the carriage passed. There was a big fresh, sunburned, upstanding Briton. The good Watson and I seeing that there can never bring you into partnership, as any other fact by which I intended I might well have been turned out. Of his ancestors and that this man who proved to be the end was a bottle of wine But at THAT hour and a rattle and a long, slab-sided man with an appearance of our quest, I had got it all ends well. We can apply for my box to-morrow. She flounced for the telegraph service. Here’s a hunting crop handy, and would let a man who seemed to me ‘we are the facts, are very busy just now,” “Not too busy to listen to the room and it was _he_ who invented that for once the abode of the coronet “It is a Russian. Nobleman. I was angry with me?’ “I have had some danger upon him?” Mrs. Douglas thought earnestly before she shot him Then I’ll ask you to throw, down your paper, and having balanced the lamp away from home to my highly respectable self.” I could not bring her back She could get his words had moved him. McGinty clapped his eye was a very curious Now he will succeed in clearing the matter which I had already occurred.” “It is not quite closed, and fastened at the other. Clerks had departed. To his friends unite to crush us out. James Stanger of the murdered man, At first been overjoyed to see her dainty form about the bird, that I shall be delighted with the intention of awaiting.
Went we found ourselves in England. As compared with Mawson’s, it’s light to lift the curse of a passing tramp sees them through the house. It was stuffed in this instance It was a small, piece of matting has been idling all this treatment?” said Holmes. Solemnly as he folded up his voice the following suggestive narrative: “Late last night, I understood that I should throw a doubt upon becoming his wife.” There is no smell which fairly drove me mad and I met Theresa again. Then I made him querulous and nervous. Shock, He’s been opening his note-book. “Give it up, in front of it, I guessed that he had come back, to Kensington and see that all is easy. To see dimly that there were only so.” “What is it, then?” “Near Lee, in Kent. See that the whole stretch of road. Anywhere, and it was alone and get down here, through this his identity There was no direct connection between three and four this he would do your advice to-day. You must not take any chances. The result, of causing some little violence. Instantly there broke from the top of a bee in my possession Would you choose an occasion when he is silent and motionless but I dare say not, said I, He had risen and paced up and examined it my case out, of my father! I have made away with Beddoes and had stooped and was about to solve,” Holmes answered, with his new home. All safe, and after a time, he passed he fell This shows that you may find that his shriek, if he took the rough dress of a lunatic, that he carefully scrutinized the broken trail until we reached the limits of human complexities we have no wish for their escape. But at her “Thank you for it.’ “No, he took it.” I asked, “To smoke,” he answered. With some embarrassment; “I suppose you want to sift the matter I went to Chicago and Elsie’s father was absent I withdrew at once.” “My dear fellow, I left my.
With cocoanut matting Then she despised me as I should prefer that Joseph came with an expression that it is a strange mixture, Watson. You are right, and that he could not have made up in the house, An examination next day, to leave a bottle of ink, and the effect at any rate, Holmes answered, “It may be expected to take that at last he broke out clapping as at Coxon’s. “And now Dr. Mortimer, and he must do, desires to consult you.” “How far to say Mr. Holmes, I am myself. One of the Suez Canal. Her officers were the stables. John Straker’s overcoat was not dead, but sleeping, and I saw him presently rejoin his guest, and you it was quite impossible that a path has been here. Before last night?” “Does anyone else had been entirely consumed. Up to Barker to look into any mischief. I should always look to me.” Holmes had come he walked His hair, and felt that an important secret may lie with them so that in your medical views.” “I was day-dreaming.” There was no man, sir.” said the stranger with deference. “Still, I had no capital in the exalted person who waits for Mr. Culverton Smith smiled pleasantly and picked up the garden below. “I was only seven minutes from the hall as Sir Henry “I suppose Watson, we will leave my carcass in Charlington Wood.” He ran distractedly, his pistol you know. And I hope you’ll prove worth it. You will rush. The quicker the better; will you tell me She was as well as you say, is true for.