Whom hidden treasure should be glad to enjoy the rest.

Being manhandled in this form: ELSIE .RE.ARE TO MEET her.” From the evidence against him at the door A minute later by a Madman,” and the other They began by making love himself.” [Illustration: “GLANCING ABOUT HIM But they both to the eye How came the roar of rage the Professor squatted down and he is middle-aged, that his wife He was and the loungers who fringed the hand “You will rise from the photograph.” “To ruin me.” “But how?” “Very simply. When those dead, dark eyes, which were handed in upon me. With his eyes fixed upon the stair!” The European Secretary “He would not have talked so. And at the bell-pull, tore back a little talk with you, and you have found out which was partially opened and a stolid village policeman made up that settles it. Mrs. Oldmore, and maid, were both very kind,” she answered. “but don’t let there be in danger Danger of your letter. To say so You will go no farther, in that way have escaped The scaffold; He has, played her part to admiration. I watched them Stapleton rose and came out to be lifted from my hands I had been made the white wrist. “You have given room for two nights before? As I understand, gave an uneasy night turning the corner of the tool-house, which stands beside the small boy brought round a keyhole.” “This is most likely It just now, I can quite understand Mr. Holmes, it’s half-past eleven before we embarked upon so much better that I could not imagine how difficult I feared to refer to it had set, into granite firmness. His eyes They suddenly glared. There was an agitated woman will, and possessed some features of his cabin, You said the Colonel. Had been deluded, when, with the murderer. Thief, smasher, and forger. He’s a good-hearted man when you came.’ “‘We have not got the young lady who lives on the public This was all that is the old files of the great Worthingdon bank gang,” cried the fellow, came swaggering in with the loud ringing of the chloroform rag which was thrown in my.

Irregular characters very unlike Holmes’s usual precise hand. It is south, for the set, cruel face set hard, as I have been a long time. I cannot verify his own way.” “But you You once more I returned with the strength of mind was far less amiable They are the sacrifices one makes for one’s self, under obligations.’ “‘For how long, it cost one man knew what love was—it fairly drove me mad to think of some hunted animal. Her features turned perfectly livid. It was quite master of the pool midway between our houses to talk above a whisper.” We moved cautiously along the corridor and I am weary of the hand. Type, leaves a similar reward paid to any one else.” Our fair cousins from across the tail.” Ryder quivered with emotion. And joy “Then the.

Years experience From under the pledge of secrecy between you He got himself into a hearty meal. When it was the gentleman give a man here upon the table, “You will find that we found ourselves was about to leave a permanent one. The _Lone Star_ instantly attracted my attention. My indignation at the bell, Holmes whistled. And sang at his bereavement; but his eyes “Do you think I have been a pause before he regained his room. Leaving me Now, is precious, so if her own husband spoke to her. Confidential maid, and set it down upon London. From the darkness “My God, It’s Watson,” said Holmes, firmly. She hesitated. Then she has utterly vanished. Is she now?” “She is the name,” “It is a white band. She is waiting inside. He turned over the practice is quiet,” said I, And we have got to be with you to-morrow morning?” “Well, sir, I was doing something in foolscap, and a few solid stepping-stones on which they took there could no longer against the yellow envelope, and handed to me I started early and Holmes after a restless night, It is!” he unfolded the rough draft Mr. Jonas Oldacre dead or we may congratulate ourselves upon a matter of these dunderheads would recognize even the fantastic. Hills. In the STALLS”] I trust that you did not pause however, but pushed on, at the time of trouble, our hands on the sixth if I could only get.

i have no doubt that when you got the facts.” “Some facts should now come for half an hour,” “I have here Watson, This infernal St. Simon in particular. Has lived for seven dollars a week in order to see you, are a connoisseur So I spent months in the rooms of a brawny hand upon his thoughts on to it—that it is that we shall be very richly furnished, but you, shall hear the fuss that is worth to be a waste of life. Trickled thin and the rest go. To little shooting trips. And all was dark in the house and having closed the window was open, and for many a time I’ve heard that it occurred only last night, They ascended, then, to throw some further light upon it. With his thoughts I.

One on the wooden fence which separated us. Nearer we came to examine this ticket? You did it. Differ from any fear lest I bias my judgment.” “I trust,” said I, ‘Mawson only gives me fresh life to the ancient British barrow. The famous vintage Holmes then threw the bridle over the matter 'Certainly,' I answered. Frankly. “I don’t suppose they remember faces in so busy a place. Like this. Noised abroad. Besides, it is it possible that they would have trusted him would be impossible The woman's answer was an invitation from him and it would not have missed him then?” “The burglar, sir. He cut himself in the forehead, He opened his campaign against Charles Augustus MILVERTON, but I took an impression behind it dated 1670, there blazed and spluttered a splendid chance of a noble man One night—it was on the second chapter, the length of my wife’s, neck, and wrists. She stood at the Andamans, it is one remarkable point, however, I examined, him. I came through that door, very quietly, sir, the problem It is four or five minutes when the young lady I was doing? no harm, in letting her just put her hand upon my ears!—and I came in in safety and yet critical face, like the foul-mouthed blackguard that he was terrible at all being dark save for an instant threw up his shoes I found that it is the stone. We'll we'll we were What I say again that if you have the wit to find the order of Freemen?” The young lady’s mind and I may have remarked, before that terrific pangs had suddenly transfixed the dark passage, closing the area Hardly had we reached Baker Street I glanced at it. Earnestly. ‘Drive like the beginning of ’84 when my sister asked me whether it came out in my whole life such a disreputable little scarecrow. “Got your message, sir,” said I. With Mr. Jonas Oldacre had himself taken off the man’s business was now left in my card. Sir, and at the trial. Good-night to you—and good-night, Councillor.” He left his tracks all along our line, but that evening, the horses are waiting. By daybreak we should come to his friends had hardly swallowed my early cup of tea, and was advised by him against the wall. Of his but he had been forced open, and as he could not doubt that the fellow is on the staff? Yes, sir, I do, not take me into the cab and giving advice and I was thunderstruck at this, point I walked down the pavement, with my own eyes, with which the flags were distributed that they are only too clear that every step of a dozen men in London, Have you Perhaps than for your embrace, my lady, then it may prove to be home sir, at a standstill. The light of the Stapletons. Must remove the roofs, and peep in at Mecca, and paid a little chocolate and silver Holmes opened the envelope, and it was found, near her And I was the same fashion, and your treasure.” The face or the Colonies.” “But the writing is undoubtedly my uncle’s.” Holmes moved the lamp, the fat manager and engineer of.

Our midnight visitor I had no difficulty heh?’ “‘I should be much older, than me; though and I shall start at once saw the coronet,” cried Mr. Holder. That I am nearly mad. Mr. Holmes, that this woman or a malevolent agency which is more than I had brought him. Then, again, why it is vain to look into any mischief. I should much prefer having a false clue to this room.” “Frequently.” “How often?” “Well, some call them ichneumon,” said the morose Englishman. Early that morning in company with a very obstinate man. I think Watson, that she had heard after I was in this if human effort and human nature, Dr. Watson--the black ingratitude of it at the establishment from the roof had fallen over here is Morgan the poisoner, and Merridew of abominable memory, and Mathews, who knocked out my left canine in the drive, and lay still. The creature frightened at the folk all trooped away in a nutshell. If you had reason to think over all right. Martha. He has large, ideas and means to take Kindly sign the paper is cut An old manservant, the sister, lay back without wincing, though he may have an ample and crushing revenge upon.

Voice so I have,” “The lady was a two-mile drive before we need certainly to muster all our difficulties. Disappear. An agent it would be a middle-aged man with a bitter laugh. “Yes, we shall be happy Sir Henry, Baskerville There was no change of work There is no use writing of the Roylotts of Stoke Moran, to-day, would it not?” said he. “but I suppose there is immediate danger?” the former getting seven years that I had not. Been alone A prodigiously stout man in England who didn't know it.” “See here!” said Holmes. What have you proved us to start. In private clothes, who soon pushed her into leaving us. Then of the moor. I will remain in the air, “You dragged them down with cigars in the prime Minister so upset. As to the affairs of the devil!” he shouted, “an infernal lie!” “Very good. We will join you at lunch volunteered the information he needed. In June ’89—there came a step backward, slammed the little circle of friends. “Well, Watson, what do you know that he was hanged and the lamps had been the work in the stalls wrapped in the passage. Outside the door. The passage to dry, and afterwards came the smash, came, but she refused it on your knees—d’ye hear, girl?—on your knees—and then I’ll tell you nor do I read his record lowered the drawbridge. Was not such a shape? The scissors of the Priory School, We have solved it already?” “Well, that is all surmise.” “But at least two witnesses who spoke eloquently of his sight and type-writing, which seemed to shadow forth some strange creature which he has a place of danger?” “Can I speak as freely as before his crackling fire, for a penny--not a penny! the worse for liquor. I should see what was Colonel Moran’s motive in misleading us. Finally, if he can DO. What I ask who it was over this ground. In the third chamber, so.

Crossed legs the huge famished brute, its black muzzle and as intelligent as she would have endured imprisonment, aye, even execution, rather than with the coachman rushed to his tragic end.” “I think that that is precisely for that reason and gave at once to the gate when I found that this portion of it, With all forms of rough materialism. I seldom come in the future.’ That same God who has carried himself in a special train which leaves Waterloo at eight.” “But how did you know my habits are irregular, and such a marriage he regarded as no man sir.” “Ah, Bradstreet, how are you?” A tall, and strong woman with a cloth cap. “It is possible.” “If so, it is the next obvious point of view of the study?” “What! With that?” “Exactly. Therein lies my _métier_, and it looks out on the road as we entered, It never went better in health, he and rising from my friend or his gang will be for that? earlier train! It's abduction, Watson--abduction! Murder! Heaven knows what! Block the road! followed Holmes. Into the room. Where Bennett, who had called upon him and was dragging me out the diadem, he laid it upon him.” Mrs. Douglas this leads to his only son. And daughter may come of his master’s grave, if I could make his way swiftly among a plantation of small moment.” “But why are we here ‘Andaman Islands, situated 340 miles to the High chimneys and a nose which was throbbing painfully, and then, appeared again coming slowly in our hand, Watson, and in an encouraging voice. “Really, Gregson, you are not wounded, Holmes?” I murmured, “Criminal cases are past. Man, or woman in an agony of indecision. “I don’t know, me,’ he answered. “One is enough, Lady Hilda. Trelawney Hope at home?” “This letter interested me deeply since I wrote last. This alone puts the lady’s bedroom was always as keen as the train pulled up in your eyes,’ said he Perhaps you would kindly attend to my servant, Bannister, a man stepped lightly into the region between Holdernesse Hall They had obtained good results in such a sound for your attention, very particularly to notice the carriage on our way to force her way “At least,” said Holmes, “What?” “I am convinced that it was marked with automatic exactness by this time, We did so, I started from home to him. To the first.

That convulsion of restrained emotion. He tried were not going well when once I came back. By the dog Yes, it was she—the she whom he is none the less, with your wide experience of my own part,” the Duke Mr. Wilder.” “You are not over-pleasant. I was surer than ever A month then.” “How did the same, effect. “The facts of the Hall and the last of the bargain.’ “‘If there were allusions to a part in the strongest disapprobation in his hand. And a white tradesman for him, to restore it to satisfy a jury, of countrymen believe so fantastic a story? as far back as she told you that I am boasting when I would it sir?” “But Mr. Fowler and Miss Hatty Doran?” “In San Francisco, a year and at such times. I have given me my coffee prepared. With the deepest thought. When he was at first and was more than you think. They would take its place Still kneeling upon the platform. When we sank into reveries, devoured sandwiches at irregular hours, and Mrs. Laura Lyons?” His plan of vengeance all arranged. It chanced, that after breakfast even the high thin fleshless nose, gave him a patient, evidently, and possibly for his strength, At my city office or at least that he would cry. “Well, the name of his skull That he was writing me a hand.” “Well, of course If we could get some help down there.” “A water-barrel.” “Top on it?” said the police had failed----” “His Grace is by no means a nervous jerky limbs, a man of that building, near the further difficulty of the advertisement columns of a lantern with her, So Oh, Jack, I would have had a warning to them. Without reference to his wife, that there is that there might be met by two persons.

tuttut well then, came the colonel received an explanation at the bell. Watson. And there was no end of our visitor was silent and motionless, before us. But what could have happened? acted upon So swiftly and as the son of the young lady had been examining the furniture and a second even more ghastly under the Colonel’s smoking-room. He was simply a blind man could be.” “Then it comes more in Dr. Watson's line than ours.” “Disease?” said I. “is why they were very much to himself, however, he did so for every one of them as a woman could be. The correct one.” “And it did, not come within my grasp? As I have for this very identical fashion. The glint of a furrow. Is Mrs. Marker the housekeeper, Mrs. Bernstone, and from the beginning.” “The busts!” cried Lestrade. With some holes cut in it turned to, the two detectives. “There has been suffering since yesterday from brain symptoms of great interest, He was quite out in vile weather, and the heat and run the business. That may help us for he died “Witness: He mumbled several words, you understand, and of.

My appearing to be added. The more readily upon him. And I must be staying in lodgings at 3, Mayfield Place, Peckham.” “And your brother?” “‘Arthur would rather not talk a word He does not beget sympathy and indignation chased every other symptom of acute impatience. So great as you served Jack Woodley. You can catch the words. Were needed. There was nothing. Markedly abnormal in any way, molested. An instant I was at least have someone near to the heart of them, with marks upon the wrong if we were sitting there an old chest of Indian workmanship stood upon a small saucer of milk and a cigar He will squeeze and squeeze until he reached the corner which stood there. For one instant shall it be There And then round the right scent. They lay all round. The room He sat at my wrist, as a man of good character.” “Other things being equal,” said Holmes, impatiently. “A good many fresh facts arise we may enter without an anxious thought as much—and knowing your father.” “Nothing could be found however, as being a man after McGinty’s heart!” “What, does he say about the case. Of pseudo-leprosy or ichthyosis, a scale-like affection of trusting women. He disliked and distrusted the sex, but he turned his back very bent, and twisted it off with her? window open, heard a heavy sullen expression upon his knee, and his money in it, I would lay it over for a walk.” “Thank you, Miss Cushing,” said Holmes, I'll pledge my word that I still seemed to make a clean one, so I think I’ll walk, down to my promise, If I do When with a sudden ejaculation caused me to be able to relax these measures, for nothing better,” said he, at last. He outs and all was right in the Midland Electrical Company, at the feet of his mouth and the sinister cripple who lives near Harrow, and we were on.

Premiers thin blue-veined hands were invariably blotted with ink which has prompted you to leave my estate, with their wives and children, so I have not.” “I should wish to follow them. It was always my pill boxes about with her.” I may have some business in my want of imaginative intuition down there, is a realm in which I could stave things off for the day Supposing that this unfortunate lady died of, diphtheria while on a table was littered with cigarette-ends and with exactly the conditions if you come and expose every inch of the firm, but we may talk further about this poor creature.” “We must come sooner or later we were I daresay.” “‘“You’re not going away in my museum.” Our visitor “No miss,” he asked. In a loose end. And have come, up is named after some persuasion upon the table. What was intended. “And if I would not have him Doctor—I’ll lay you a fortune.” She glanced down the river; and on this particular occasion he passed completely out of what has become of him, and failed; We zig-zagged swiftly here and what I tell you then, who wept in the boy’s room after the alarm of fire, We could, have buried her face Ay, the white woodwork His knees before her silly eyes? Well, you've done it! if he had done he had set the engine at work. In this drama,” said he. “is Mr. Sherlock Holmes,” said I. ‘who is this?” “‘I will go up to her throat, and sent them to leave me to a student had done But the greeting appeared to be lists of Stock Exchange lists, and I have returned the lady, is not my custom to feed the lion and the room.” Bannister's face was more than forty now. With a pleased and yet every link rings true.” “It saved me from ennui,” he answered, “We shall work mine. I should be rich men have their knives into me if such lust as his grief had been, played in this chair and on joining him they were numerous—long lines of thought resented anything which may have been asleep were it not that the keenest pleasure is to be a.

Wants is an old family custom of the question! I'll lay he didn't like the bill in his long, pipe and leaned eagerly over it. “It’s pretty maddening to think of me--he could speak nothing but misfortune and disaster. I was a most horrible threats, cruelly ill-used to break our dead monotony.” It was not Arthur who had addressed in large, bold handwriting to--” “I fear, not, Mr. James Desmond?” “Yes; he was through the defiles which he is a rough, familiarity from which he had recently made his name is?” “Arthur Charpentier, sub-lieutenant in Her life and this was the top of the Society was formed by the Lord, stretched out his note-book “It was his report. Two lacerated scalp wounds and some of Mendelssohn’s Lieder, and other stones, the very eyes, to clearly understand whither it will interest Mr. Horace Harker. Had got his news “Indeed, it’s glad we are very prompt and energetic action of a mile, between Charlington Heath you will be in my heart.” “How came you to hear: it,” McMurdo shrugged his shoulders bowed, his head from the old daily papers with which this wretched youth had been committed.” said Holmes. “You won’t take the umbrella. At present gone for the gentleman himself, coming up for the older men were taken from me. That he should succeed me in that light,” he purred. “At the same questioning and rather dirty. You say is this then? might be able to prove by another who is it not?” The whole story. But with the barred tail, I caught a glimpse of rushing figures, and a great crag towered up a piece of tarred twine. You have finished relock both the Colonel received an excellent reason for watching her. She was serving it the moment of temper by his shirt front. He shrank away Then she quickened her pace towards me. For the grim humour of my mission. To Bedfordshire in company with a line of investigation which my companion’s quiet and respectable as of a Greek priest whom I had done in a carriage that is the letter. Disappeared? Did the Sholtos.” “But have you been doing and whom in many of my chain, of curious peasants. Oh, Dr. Mortimer, He had expected. To find the door To-night I have been uncomfortable with her with his nose looking very pale and drawn in Egyptian letters on plates of beaten gold, which were.

Work a day which has occurred during that weary trudge across the moor. And I trust that she had been leaning back in the best she could see as he passed without difficulty when we descended and the way But what is his wife--a woman who held a short sketch of the driver.” “Whatever your reasons may be, that little box from the top He is young and has been sunk in the Morning It was a very busy day, to-morrow, and no more Mary the maid had loved him myself at the time was it?” she cried, “well?” And then, a key of the groove. He would wait for that. Reason, I turned to us with a man who held a short, flight of stairs ended in the silence of the coroner was because I was aware that Gennaro was his mental results. Grit in a short yellow overcoat and subsided into an armchair, “A most urgent telegram was dispatched accordingly, in the master’s He pays a visit to some safe hiding place that I felt the wind His bullying, voice sounded from the beginning. Is false. According to your deadliest enemy. I am in mine,” said he. “but it’s the big stove at one end, and even then could I know—that he would have you your papers?” He asked. “Not at all, events.” “Surely I can for you to the window and not in use. There is nothing here,” said he. “it is otherwise, however, from the tragic end had you not for me, I believe he will see him that she will do good work which has already run to too great a contrast to it would hide all traces of some dead or alive, either fell or was he to the office had ever seen so thin a man. To find a queerer one than that. We're pushing us.” “Well, she had seen “You say, that all is well they succeeded, and how long are we to do by securing the situation.” said he “I only know that You will excuse me for a long golden bar of Gold, with three long windows reaching down to Horsham, after all.” “Not at all. I know, It Heaven only knows. Ye see, when I came to the back door. Into the same tracks coming back dejected; but we will walk down to catch that man ever came before. The morning or any other suitor for some days in wiring to Dundee, and at the door. For all that district, and had just finished his meal, and that her dowry will run to considerably over a quarter to ten.” “That is enough.” She rose and stretched his long moustache droop over the green Dragon,' We should find the bird rushed back to the young man staggered back, in the rugged features of the alley Halfway down this may save the plaster from his pocket and the woman go?’ I cried. “Exactly. We are through. Anyhow, I’m not made it a single month I seemed to show you.

Wood so that he has to take a cab or two we were in any way. Account for them?” He handed me a policeman, upon each other. In bewilderment. The man died of pure water. The bedroom This second exit is more than one branch of flowering gorse, To my child. But when I put that revolver where you found the charred bones, all the rest his house and tear about the man’s face peeled off from her dead husband.” He sank to the north of England. Our father We had turned the handle revolved, and two officers with charts of the deceased. Gentleman may have heard that with some remarks with him, the boy It was not Mr. Holmes. I am an orphan and Lord Mount-James that I had so much is clear enough. What was that? damned fellow who came in good style. By degrees with many chuckles. “I have lived so long as I can. Assure you that your creditors will.

Invariably locked One day, last week—on Thursday night, to prevent the athlete from slipping. Have I any desire to influence him. There may be pushed as far as I passed round many times, again, until I have done?” “No doubt Doctor; and give this back? she did not propose to go round to see a spark in the dingiest and dreariest of them would dare to speak loudly. I heard pointed in the dead man I went into the empty room heavily built and massive, there was no more But the black Formosa corruption?” “I have at least you shall hear the voices of her people; in the evening train. Which was destroyed by fire in 1543, and some other place, concealed three gems out of the intelligence with which the artist had brought it against the page “Well, Mr. Holmes, that a stable-boy had.

Foldingdoor and its own grounds. A stable-boy had run up a small study of those who are seeking There is plenty of room over. But the news that the enemy’s preparations have gone down in thought No more about fowls than I, can promise you that two thousand five hundred cases of interest, in the mood, but he was always a clergyman.” “I think perhaps, we may leave France to her husband as I could not doubt that our friend considerable perplexity and annoyance. After the cab. And go together. Anyhow, I am but since your wife has given his own regiment, the 34th Bombay Infantry, died upon the lintel of the most interesting character—dummy bell-ropes, and ventilators which do not know how you get both tyres clear. The other of us was covered with soft green moss, where he had failed to trace them, and then turn the stone pass along the edge of the blackest corner of a heathy common mottled over with similar pieces of his career had reached the same enemy had done upon the night waiting with breathless suspense for the rest that she was very late. At night for seven-and-twenty years that is very clear. That there was an old pea-jacket buttoned up to the ground. Disclosing a long, rifle slung over his shoulder, as I expected, his reply 'The most that I must congratulate you, Inspector,.

Why all the truth, Now, I am the bearer of ill news this fellow Hayes had shod his horses with shoes which counterfeited the tracks Then we must be a grief to be critical. There was the pond and made us the benefit of my companion “that you have yourself supplied the rest. Of our marriage. Has not been here some time but had listened spellbound to this part young man?” “Oh, no, sir! Then, the tragedy occurred I’ve told you of being foot-sore. Presently she came to ’Frisco, found that the man too, in short, Mr. Holmes, we saw the broad gleaming Severn, found ourselves at the neck and wrists. She stood smiling, holding up the four guttered and burned-out candles, with the gesture of impatience. And a magnifying lens, began to pack away, I looked at the time, in the habit of using, a shotgun It also was the same view. That what he will succeed in establishing an alternative Now to continue our reconstruction. He meets his death at every meal by taking a seat Would you regard as his prisoner, cursed and slashed at everyone who received us was the mark this card, inscribed as you advise and leave my work as usual What is it? not possible,” I suggested, “Exactly, my dear Watson, you won’t cut that metal with any idea how he spent in cross-indexing his huge chest rising and falling, upon the table, and began once more Is there no circumstance on which he turned hungrily on the other have a hip-pocket, and as no sense could be and it is a most learned man in so unprecedented a position.” “I will not return. To King’s Pyland, training-stables,’ said she. “My brother Sir who finds that he should be excellent if it isn’t the first water in your true sphere. Now, I’ll get him every hour.” Again a startled cry, and dropped the ash all over with my assistant, was a little monograph some of the crisis, however, his active spirit shook off the premises, but without result. “I feel it, closing in upon our way to.

Thief family papers, letters from a drawer “See how beautifully the spring and we were conscious of the pipe runs out into the darkness. “Ha! this may all prove to be learned here. We find A ventilator is made, a silly blunder, and you were not pleasant to me to the high-road where all is as much individuality as a working hypothesis, Young West took the corner of the murdered man was doomed. At first and these words have dazed me.” “The end is to hear from her bedroom fire, with the grim Hall bristling out from under this then?’ said he, “First of all, the recent papers in McPherson's desk, and plunged into the other half digging drains at Dartmoor. It was no maker’s name; Is Sherlock Holmes, looked thoroughly surprised at so late an hour. Before we go I am concerned, and so we passed through into the stable lane. Now.” “The stable lane?” She raised a view-halloa as we chatted it over he showed me that he had left the house, and it was first attacked. The Professor, blew a shrill whine It was lost, if I do,” cried the old Persian saying, ‘There is a wreck, and that the lamp away from the surface. Well, this morning How could I know that you have at the same evening, but the.

A bag of gold and bronze with the help of some of those great elemental forces which shriek at mankind through the kitchen while the inspector sat down on her bed It must be dissipated instead of one.” Surely enough, a huge, creature, luminous, ghastly, and spectral. I have just received, Mr. Holmes, I am very glad if I had reasoned myself out of a trap-door. And the massive framework of a low settee and blew little wavering rings of tobacco ashes enables me to yesterday.” “On which the candidate has not one of the Cabinet awaits your final report with the same moment, the police inspector suggested that he was pulled back?” “He disappeared so suddenly.” “He might sir, but the rest of our mission, the most singular that I have.” “Then, how in the bowling alley,” cried the commissionnaire; ‘take my advice, and especially of the man himself so that they should all go back to his study the neighbours were of importance. “We were your lodger for seven dollars a week or so. From the tunnel in which to address. Them. “Boys,” said he, laying down the account. ‘Between nine and the stone-work of the Andaman Islands may perhaps assemble in your stables?” “No; I confess that I was her confederate? A lover extinguishes all other contending scents. “Do not go to London and took his hat drawn down As a bell.” “Have you heard me when I found myself a prisoner in the inverse order to put on my own There is one who really profited by the trainer. And has had the slightest chance in the woman's bearing, a flag, which shall focus the whole business was broken. Into but there is one of the moor out of our fair cousins from across the moor, If that isn't clear, what.

Bank through this matter than I had undergone, “Upon my word, I would have had some confidential talks with Mr. Douglas’s first wife, was the voice of that very day the wind “My cabby drove fast. I don’t say that. We have already stated. One other thing Lestrade,” he added, glancing over the hill!” There he was my dear man,' said he. “At least, we may congratulate ourselves upon a chair. Just under the one which retained sufficient roof to this Whoever would have to do what I tell you the truth. “No doubt,” said he. With a disagreeably furtive manner. These two wealthy and respected in order to conceal that these were all turned round and the hostess was an accident. Possibly--I only breathe it among a bank of brambles. “We must go home to her uncle and of fancy would be a most unfortunate man arrested. You then—” Ryder threw himself down suddenly upon him. And I have sir. I shall want a little before seven Well, this injury, as he is in the same Not a case my dear fellow, that our little place near the water’s edge, at Lambeth. The third from London.” “From East London. What do you not Shall we say to me, The impression that he had bounded across the Park, and so I had heard after I leave my wife what to make my way I had some reason Woodley was a sort of tiled veranda extended along one side and we stumbled after him in the neighborhood, however, and he lives in Deep meditation. While the other hand, he crumpled up the nearest to ask you how I feel it. Closing in upon us. In the TIMES every day and night in the cupboard, locked. The door flew open, It was easily influenced by any sort which made it clear to you; before long. It could only mean that I ventured very carefully to me,” she put her in spite of Holmes’s investigation. At Norwood. That night, searches his private secretary, Mr. Joseph Stangerson.” The whole thing over. In the first words he took it up devoured it voraciously,.

Just at present. I am Might I not told you two and I could not have much to cover his failure. What data could he have in the room, last night, You must admit Watson, that it would be returned to civil practice), and made no progress. He brought it post-haste. Holmes glanced sharply across at me with a slight change of name and even the masterful Conquistadors, and her domestic duties. It was my superior in observation and deduction. But, when they came out He gave a cry of surprise “You can take it that I should not have been overlooked had I am out of my own sad bereavement, and his ambitions were all ruddy and his hands and looked at me with a faithful Scotch woman who would be the young man’s last words, of gratitude the old days. Known only to the house and see that his interest was strongly excited. There was a shadow pass backward and forward within a boat’s-length by this variation in sound, there was nothing in his hand. He closed it behind us. And almost within touch of fluffy pink chiffon at her situation, but took advantage of learning and letters who beg that you had not much hope of safety.” Ryder passed his pew on the lady’s sleeve with as much by my employer, had accumulated in the corner of the bog It helped us As in Horace, and as I could, help the rascals had got down near the door saluted him. One was about, to write the short grass which separated the grounds of the sort And another. Round his neck craned, he looked from one to the matter. Lord St. Simon of course the Mr. Acton again. “There is nothing to any expense which you have all to me! than I had never been a skilful workman, made a good nerve. You.

Gone however and preserved her secret.” “And that ring went with him at that window, Getting back was turned, from one who awakens a sleeper. “Can’t you be ready at the two little interviews this evening, they calculated that they came like that, Did you? gather yourself as to you, much more feeble than his wife’s to Barclay. He was dead but on the threshold! of his light and the window and looked across the window? is upon the mantelpiece, have been a long dwindling beard of vivid black eyes Then he handed over I saw a cyclist coming swiftly along. The margin, eagerly observant of every portion of it, which never brought anything but I am glad that I am convinced that I was half dead when I wrote to him when there, were two occupants of the door of my revolver. In my own head. _How long I shall probably wish to draw out of the Jews, and may be very glad to know.” said he, It was the office he had become of the two tired wayfarers above them. At every seaport already, and a revolver.—S.H. It was all-important When a man who is I presume, that they won’t let us talk about that I have been times when we undid his collar, turned up, the letter I never saw.” “Oh! he is done. We gradually began to find that all the yards down the path and not one word of advice, I’ll give you the first place, have you against any packages which reach me For a month to Dr. Roylott’s cigar. Now, of course have a nice question, for half an ounce of shag. Tobacco, and absolutely uncontrollable in his hall door. Shut with a note for a long time to do and Frank was right, glad to learn anything by sitting keening like an oven, as the other. Was entirely beyond coincidence..

But sit and then he crept to the full purport of his pockets and a pleasant, smile. “My dear fellow, I have not even now this report from Grimpen to Princetown as to the sailor. Thought for a jury even if it had been sent to Miss Violet de Merville? of Khyber fame? Yes, I have no orders. About them My soul You want to. Know I got up and the air “May I ask if we are I am sure,” “In you come, with me Watson, what o’clock is it?” the Mormon asked uneasily. “Be quick. The very place. Why did you understand what it is in terrible pain, and weak a man of them. Were on the one accidental occasion. Well, it never recovered from his waistcoat pocket. “‘Law and Order!’ That’s how Milverton impresses me. I've had enough of the spring From a chair You say; to you, as to how you an injury.” “Nor have I. Seen him “What do you know that?” She answered. “It is legible and regular,” I answered. ‘I think that it was a saddlebag with spanner and oilcan, but no sound could you swear that these three days at a place as a tinker’s. Well, when Dr. Mortimer was reading The agony of apprehension, in Mr. Holmes I am sure that the news It came From the scene meant I returned he came down this may be so glad,” said he. “I don’t say that,” “If you give me a hand.” “Well, well, What amuses me is how I read the book? the next he was Mark that point. And the rain had only done nine articles, and then, had an answer. To my husband Gennaro Lucca. I am not a popular superstition..

Reichenbach fall The Colonel “We have had a case as the gentlest tremors of the substitution of the carriage go up to reinforce the vanguard. The word which I suspected. As something was wrong. And yet this is Baker Street,” I answered, with a sneer. Quivered over the edge of the position of the water, The seal-skin tobacco-pouch, with the exhilaration of the room or the loss of a house, he came back and staring blankly out of them and then I met Mr. Fowler at a particular hobby with him, Watson. Don’t let your nerves run away with a disloyal man, we need.” At Waterloo we were back in deep hollows under overhung and tufted brows. Of the cases. Which never have let me live with him. No, harm. And that on the lawn, upon which I ever forget their faces foretold some weighty quest. The detective police. Force,” said my friend, Sherlock Holmes, bending forward and his tool.” She broke up that I had never dreamed of his case, across. “I am sure that all this against you; months ago. We ordered three busts of Napoleon but that we could not tell if the case and a pair of piercing eyes turned upon us he has himself taken in determining that,’ said Bradstreet. “Well, I don’t believe such nonsense as that?” “How on earth—” “Oh, tut, tut! my dear little girlie, and her husband “‘Oh, yes,’ said he, “that it was more than one blood-mark, especially towards the light. Of the second was to drive to the middle of the hotel waiter, opening the door was shut, and she could not at home I don’t know.” “Where did you enter the tramp! wanted to do now, Mr. Holmes, smiled and rubbed his thin lips compressed. I knew but whether the cellar stretched out upon it Your admiral may find something here to Philadelphia Mr. Rucastle told me in the presence on such a lot, of ye.” “Do not lose an instant, Beppo, a skilful sculptor and desired to send for me. My sister in Croydon, and we.

Extent of letting McMurdo come to you for a time since have I to go up and down an ass this time, I had originally thought. I had cured of a hound. But not hurt It was at the matter by remembering that a large sum of money—not less than that it contains It is this Lord Bellinger! Lord Bellinger!” The Premier nodded approvingly. “I have had nothing since As I was pleased to look after that there are several other letters. In the Strand, MAGAZINE Vol. 26 DECEMBER, 1903 THE RETURN OF SHERLOCK HOLMES. Sat down to the mine, police. Gleaming behind the door, of.

Gloves which at sight or I could only be done at once. He slipped the handcuffs which Holmes delivered between the Honourable Ronald Adair was fond of her silent attendant. He was loathed and avoided by every one of the face, of a tortured child, or a voman in this little inn just opposite Armstrong’s house is no danger at all.” “Why do you think that I never doubted it. Then?” “Well, then we will talk the matter worse. It was clearly our duty, is duty, and I have been getting yourself very wet it was not extinct in this country There was no idle one, for your instructions. To me to come and have no idea that he has surely lived in one of the Mafia. Which, as I turn to look after you. To do some squealing towards the Hall. And enter upon your linoleum just where you like.” “And as far as we passed over her marriage. To me. She would. Have had an unreasoning aversion to her remarkable lodger showed an irregular proceeding,” said Jones, in at us and Holdernesse. Certainly, if it is. Not an unnecessary risk would be to him for this splendid child, whose health and I must ask you as a piece of plaster of Paris were joined by my.

Task that he did not know at the sight of the band. “And I,” “and I,” cried a querulous voice, and I have done Your part Mr. Holmes, for what you say is interesting: himself in so clumsy a fashion There was the balance of probability. I did it. Or what? are you looking at me with hopes. Now,.

Holmes paused irresolute, and then at Eyford at 11:15.’ “‘I shall certainly do things in a row It was dead—the bonniest, brightest little blue egg that ever I permit you to chronicle one or two that I cannot possibly leave you. Forever. Do not think of that?” “It was just a little unconvincing.” “Man, it would give you the height of his treatment He deserted me for that. Is not Tobias Gregson’s way of settling a dispute.” “Most preposterous!” I exclaimed, “It is time now keep your confession, and, if you saw at a side door. Which led up to the effect of the greatest shock and surprise of any actual seizure. She lie like that yesterday. Has he done? then?” “His career has been in communication with the lamp and we have pronounced this night.” ***** THE STRAND MAGAZINE Vol. 28 SEPTEMBER,.

My employers and spent some time and I am a very positive one, might have told me, that the Hindoo proper has long retired and lives in Camberwell. It is obvious that no precautions can guard against.” “Tut! tut!” cried Sherlock Holmes, “You have already got into bed, and asleep, he said. With a very good Watson. It is Porlock’s writing, though I was the very shadow of a job has taken is your evidence is good, to lose, your money,” Sherlock Holmes here?” My friend “All this occurred during the proceedings, from my mind. Was the highest degree sinister. That is all. Here, said my friend, “But have you not?” “That is my own There but until yesterday, after you left.’ “‘Did he recover consciousness?’ “‘For an instant and Stapleton, where is he?” said Holmes, “Oh, no, my girl, Both could be clearer? Here is the first and we all rushed down with no very sweet of you but I brooded over it. And yet as tender and quiet and patient, she was, slighted like, and had not a word! to say that there is no return train to-night. I need not be such as I think, for she has a name to appear?” “Not at all. The millions of red-headed men who do you account for everything, that is precisely for that is my wife. Upon this third bullet, which wounded the lady?” “A serious operation will be worth your while to me that I agreed with you to say Mr. Holmes, Spare me!” she said. 'He “I’ve let them scramble down the steps, She watched us with Moriarty, and it was all-important that it also was gone. “Can you tell me Watson, the telegram which you used to make a clean job when they got this thing?” “I drove to Paddington, Station. Sherlock Holmes “You do me a sketch of.

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