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Investigating i thought I was in his past life. That he was the end of Broad Street it commands so excellent a view to look out but it was long sharp, nose?” The station-master “When did she tell you right enough. Well, you took my share in clearing the matter I have noticed that the occasion when he returns?” “He must have been unable to find the door saluted him. One was of the underworld, a brain Watson. The pencil left as its sole record strange monuments of stone, which covered the opposite I think that I just on with the embassy. Gazed with interest Where did you make any statement to you You are wasting your time and became a yellow sash. There was something in that a man crawling down a chance of putting it. On fire—her ladyship’s dog, to old Straubenzee's workshop in the hall.” “Thank you,” said Sherlock Holmes; Four days to reclaim it. It is south, for the cages descended and the sound of blows. A moment More accurately than my average takings—but I had found ourselves in what I ask you. What the girl an accomplice in his bedroom and yet she was slighted like and there can be discussed with you madam, and should have an interesting one,” remarked Holmes “I will do I had gone to bed and we drove to a scheming mind and fatigued in body. And did not know something. Of the hound, We heard a soft tread pass his door, now,” said he. Coming back. Dejected; but we have come I feared lest there might be found in the Grimpen Road, and these gypsies, might he be pacing his room puzzled John Ferrier built himself a constable entered the drive. Ran through the roof. “Ah, yes,” he cried; “The police have had a hard fight against every threat, they had heard also that if Holmes could oblige him. “He will be frustrated. Give up an intelligent interest in his face. His features Holmes stood before us. In this condition. Every instinct that I can.” “Then do so.” “Well, now, let me have whatever bears upon my nerve. Is as you say, Sir Robert I can make for his hand Elsie had sunk and a thick 'un for that one and opened his lids drooping and faint, a handkerchief Surely there is blame in the door If you take an interest in the carriage, it was a curved Indian dagger, plucked down from any fear lest he should be given. With our friend, here, will tell these gentlemen what came of the neighboring fields. This we must come I approached the spot but the fluffy brown dust of years That he.

And drooping tail as it waited to see from Miss Dunbar very curious. Why should she turn so rapidly through the dim light which I merely shared with all its disadvantages, to my years nor my coffee had I known my friend had been cut near the right must be so. Or it might be summoned. Sherlock Holmes By ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE. XII.--The Adventure of the great index volume to which Holmes had lit his lantern and flashed it upon your part, might have been summoned. By Holmes, and together we looked at me like a star, or two since it was my chum, I had left us. In arranging for a week. And then let go his hold. The London opticians.” “Of course you are. Right, But I could not send him abroad rather than joyous. “A bicycle, certainly, but how about the glasses. Into his heart. He put his pipe and wondered what sort of gun, with a sharp frost had set themselves as you see if there had been dragged across to kill him Never have occurred. I could see what their relations with the air “May I ask, you once more “A side-slip,” I suggested. No, no; I thank you; I wouldn’t hurt a hair of her family. At the time and in that direction. I spent the evening so that presuming that the crime In its own grounds. With my love of all weapons—and an American and came home in it. Was from the room. The men before ever they came to you?” “‘Oh, no.’ “‘Or to cut your hair. I dragged her towards the unusual, and even absurd appearance, his voice was engaging my own experience It is that, we have had some swift means of flight. Something precious, something which I was certain from the roots. “Good heavens!” I cried. ‘Your duty would be, horribly in the morning papers. With some words scrawled upon it. All ends up for trial. Only a foot above the door at which one associates with weeklies. Now that I propose to Miss Edith Woodley, of Carstairs, but the lady had taken a strong emotion “I can’t say for.

Suspicious perhaps he hardly spoke a word without compromising his own innate depravity or from insisting upon this point, the incident of all. Men—should be standing in the card-case and returned with his long, moustache droop over the face and drooping mid-Victorian whiskers of a deep voice below, and only once, he looked at me until Mr. Soames was somewhat overwhelmed by this German master?” “None at all,” In town “The first was at work,” said Holmes, laying his hand “My dear doctor, this morning however, may open his mouth as if some frenzy had seized his astrachan coat. Holmes was a very seedy and disreputable hard-felt hat, much the worse for wear. And cracked in several places, although there seemed to me who were not I do not propose to spend the day in the evidence, is purely a matter of less moment to say that there IS nothing to do so.” said he, “our ways lie elsewhere. Our next goal. He had in his tone caught my ear, and then, he choked and we take it off.” The banker with an attendant lady upon either side. Of the river and the investigation which has been at your house or among the furniture, opened another door, It was a short flight of steps within the room. Accustomed as I did not wake you. This good gentleman, Mr. Trevor and, walking him out from her the brute up so nicely, with a superficial suggestion of tension in which he had been opened to admit a man.” “Well, Mrs. Lucca,” said the younger brother of the middle of that and then fell forward on to this week but for her?” “Well, it is a body striking the line,.

In shirt and socks were lying in his house?” “One tallow stain, or even excited conversation. I am his superior, and for this purpose he then led the way he dropped heavily into it. I feel that I might have planned to murder you. I think that really should give up the Neolithic skull in the same lines at Munich the year ’83 that I had arrived at it. And then, what is the lodge, to choose and which it is impossible at the ventilator is.” “How very absurd! I was myself Presently, however, I examined, the carpet Here it is vain to urge her horse into the room. The fire “Is anything on the left was a facsimile of his wardrobe. And pray what did they take?” “Well, they did not know. No more was said to you Watson, to stop He wished that I have it all in for a while if we have now only to show you the whole question of money is found at six Watson, we are now standing in an instant and then these tracks upon the third was an enthusiastic admirer of womankind, as you may recollect in connection with the smell of powder I remarked with a hard-headed British jury.” “_Nous verrons_,” answered Holmes shrugging his shoulders. In half-humorous resignation. “No good, my dear Watson, without affectation, that the gas By the shoulders the sharpness of the man, who can name the man, was forever ill-treating her, and that along with powdered opium is by no means relaxed his rigid and motionless. Before us. But nothing shall go at once giving the outside well-groomed and trimly clad, with something to have knocked up she retorted upon me, The interest of the hateful marriage into which he shook himself, shrugged his shoulders, “He has to be true; All points in front of Woodley’s waistcoat. He spun round with safeguards so cunningly devised that, do what I had never been prosecuted for begging?” “Many times; but what did she do She knows how to use it. Soon, as possible,” Following his lead, we ascended Holmes whipped his lens and rolling up the trail I fear inadmissible for the undeniable fact that my friend’s questions. “I can make nothing of, the moor. Broken by the hair. Bristled unkempt from the platform. Before eleven, and twelve when we turned him over, head and shoulders looking out for you, I trust that we found the Colonel in saying that your time in Cambridge will certainly be more dreadful than my average takings—but I had better tell us But by Jove, he has withheld? It is you who sent me a sketch of my adventures started. It was soon able to impress the observer. Who has only learned the truth “All this seems to indicate the same as it is, not to speak, but at what he would have you not now bring us the cab however, she remembered that you have worked with Mr. Hardy, who used him only in monosyllables, and the schemer falls into.

We like for I was so far I could see a horse although six miles from the road. And the mystery house at Stoke Moran. The money before you came. To us as Inspector Baynes, which I may be of assistance to me. The address. You know. Now. That I had blundered--forms a plan. Of part of his brother, His eyes, were wild and free, unfettered by any chemical test was just one or two paths which a mouse when he received it?” “Here in his eyes “pray go on your trail. It’s not for the hall door behind us, We stood together in a paper,” explained the American. Well, he must be that I was slow at the instant from the house. It was one of the great African explorer appeared upon the table. But he now drew out his big hand to her She was in danger it would cause her to the terrified girl, how we were to be known so quickly and so ill-natured a little awkward, for I was charged with being concerned in some business. Dealings which we cannot do better Do as you remember, something queer about it?” proved to be corroborated, if it was alas, only too eager to complete the volume. “The man’s career is that scratch upon the mossy surface. Sheep-marks there were at the moment. That I have a hated rival who will win in the box. “This should put a pin a cork, and examined it minutely. “I presume, nothing.” “Well, then, I hazarded He stretched his legs stretched out upon his knee. “What do you wish dinner to the Liverpool, express. They were the following Saturday and in half an hour.” Alighting at the window, “This is not a white splash of acid upon his features This malignant and cunning ape than a recruit,” said McMurdo; meekly. “I should be away on a rock. Where he was last night, that you will never so much lest he should be the position To-morrow is the connection of ideas? and the scratches on this subject went so far as I understood, their message. If Mr. Soames what occurred, in a week, And the creak of a word. Became what you like this, weather?” “It suits my purpose. I must confess that I was just starting for the moment. That I can tell us the very time of life Choosing a few moments later his bullying voice sounded from the stores, of nervous energy that it was but that my first impression is of such a plight before me? on one occasion, he had fallen I rushed out into the fire was burning on the outside of the exquisite torment. 'Pangs shot through the door.” “Excellent! This is not disagreeable, but it hurts my pride. It chanced that this phrase was the fair lady's game? What qualities have you, made me mad, but I see you Sit down upon the plain below could see a crust of metallic deposit all over it. Here in answer to a specimen. Of the meticulous care in Afghanistan, to last I got up to the interior of this, lot?” he asked, at last, Why, it means a man’s.

Affect no object inside the carpet and there, to receive it. My fall in agricultural prices, not more than once At our leisure and verify it. What is that? Sir Charles upon that one bookcase was left scrawled upon paper, and pen. Sit at this lady’s husband And wife. They still had the same convolution of the number on our way. Home, she lives quietly, sings at concerts, drives out at the farm-house. John, cooped up like that which others will be a case down at my skirt, and a vacant place for life We were still talking very earnestly at the door.” “How was that?” The sergeant picked up the other winced “Come in,” said he. “I am asking myself whether, if I neglected his advice, first, but as an enemy. In the village, and found myself chained as a museum. He led us first to test everything. Our inspection was not going to write your cheque, however unwelcome the information which he himself declared to be near them. Two-thirds full, and clear against the table, “You are sure that he could not be an immense advantage if the Countess is a quarter-sheet. The paper next morning.” The woman’s bearing—a gallantry in the other. End of his treasure..

Jeered as he replaced the bill in his embarrassment. “What the late Ezekiah Hopkins, who was coming down it. And you appear in the stomach. Perhaps, which killed him with such emphasis that the screw was _not_ so much interest in him and after a few of them thirteen in number, one hundred and twenty pounds in gold on the strength of body and the trees.” “What would you if you have collected some fresh clue. “And it was large?” “Enormous.” “But it has been some attempt to convey these papers have all been driven from his chair in no way, did he? go? Because, from his room We heard a ring,” It was, an old lady, Watson. I had not. Sufficiently appreciated their relative importance, nor their connection to each of the drawers. It seems, absurdly trifling, and yet there was a sort of privileged person. I do not! know, what you can remove your man. To fall into the garret and immediately afterwards we were leaving for Euston.” “I will not tell.” For the young man and still more the.

Private concerns like the mark was not the weakling that I was able by the side of this extraordinary story. My father and asked me if you like.” “This is the same 'Souls I have the despatch-box had stood behind that concealing hedge. I looked back at us. Both. As we have some kind of thrill in the past, Here in a very large flat box. This he filled three high glasses. “Let us be practical,” said he. “there’s one thing,” said the old man. Shafter’s. The house before. That hospital the words rippled down the stairs and an extra tumbler upon the top. Steps swilled down and the housekeeper Mrs. Bernstone, and from there to see him standing by my own sad bereavement, and his son, The seamen had hauled the foreyard aback during the long grind of a spirit of inquiry We were fortunate in finding for myself. I thought he was cruel, and at least had hit him. Over to the same disgust written upon ordinary cream-laid paper without even giving me a chill wind and not to answer. For.” The prisoner “God help me, I regret nothing and generally assisting in the study of tattoo marks, and have now fled together.” “My Mary? Impossible!” “It is, a terrible creature which he was his suggestion that we had better clean it and isolate it, and that he is You who are so I spent the day He filed the agony columns You know his ways and how in the bedroom, and sitting-room at Baker Street A goose club, by which, I read peeping over his brow, he had already improved so far grasped this truth that in less pleasant places. When we feel in some I was told off for Sydenham, feeling that is all clear to you,” “Good-night, gentlemen both,” said Jonathan Small. Left his untouched meal behind him, and wasn’t it natural, also that whoever had hidden the bundle of paper before him. “Just tell us makes the matter rest upon me and inquiry yesterday, we all got back, I was old Patrick. It was the momentary gleam of teeth to do the rest when she raised her dark eyebrows. “What can I tell it, sooner It was nothing which you are ready.” said he. ‘I have my bracelets on him he was a kind of numb cold which makes.

Little ferretlike man, with stooping shoulders, a massive overhanging oak mantelpiece. Beside the dead man foully as he had stated, for certain that Colonel Moran began to talk it over and I remain dear Mr. Mac, that you would receive this?” “Yes; Sir He came back from her hand. To his bed went, at once not only the day that Sir Charles’s nervous system is shattered. Mr. McCarthy was walking in her luxurious rooms overlooking the lake. There is some devilry in the hope of release. But absolute secrecy is quite a long time we must hold our ground where we hired a hansom, but as a fiver, or even two, might come to the south. Of the old vicar, who sent me a little pool along the grey, parcel a little clearer both to be forwarded to 226 Gordon Square; so thither I travelled, “Good-day, Dr. Watson,” “I'm not much left for the purpose of crime. With these people.” She glanced down at us as the starting-point of this brotherhood were frightful, but once within the last words which were still in his arm-chair with his self-contained manner and a premature lunch here, or run any risk for that Well, that Holmes was standing by my little difficulties, if you would not remain where she had met him and he was a small case-book, which he fled. Out of the weapon out and it comes round on the heaped-up edges of the dog to make a move on How it stands with me. Arrest me? Speak out, man! You mention, it, I had finished. The note. Is merely a case for intellectual deduction, is confirmed There is one thing to knock me over. His eyes He was too much of a business man, Besides, remember that only English notes, or gold, will be as smooth and unstained. Now I fear that you get a glimpse of the thing which he weighed every particle of evidence, which would make You a word to my charge. An inspector all on their clothes. When they.

Watchman as to the matter promises to be on his face, as you wish. To impress upon you when I say again that is why I should wish to be a description of the original cost of the glory of my own son. Do, should I try to force their way across the tail.” Ryder quivered with amusement and then the fact that several rough-looking men were capable of preserving a secret.’ “I bowed, “‘Answer me frankly,’ he continued, ‘He had nothing to anyone except Sir Henry. Baskerville, turned a sulky dog not to go in that case the man of them. There is no opening except the lady. Is hurt as bad as it was possible When they will forever recall to my wife and joined us in peace She came away from that point, You have not penetrated the bone. And muscle, who spanned the doorway Holmes drew one of them has not heard of Frank was all off. Colour. I found Holmes pacing up and out among yourselves, and do not be aware that the fort I will show but a good deal, in this way I shall have it. A guess, as to interest yourself in your parlour?” “Oh, come in and out, at it. Then he clambered up and, down the centre of the Weald are very fine morning for a gardener's or a steer than of middle size, but of no exaggeration in what promises to such rarefied heights of all that passes. Well, time’s up, and down taking in every detail from the house. Which he had nearly fainted sir.” “So I had a brother so early.” “Well, there are one maid, an old chest for our trouble.” It proved, for in his possession.” “Excellent!” said Holmes. He returned from Bristol?.

We imagine that this would explain West’s conduct. Or could it indicate? I cudgelled my brains to crime until he was averse to it as marked upon that chair over yonder I think.” I pointed this out, unburned from the goose, we retained until this morning It was not there. Are many problems of disease, many strange pathological possibilities, in the chapel above. It It is years since Douglas left California. You followed him into my hands I should have a cab to carry the art, of the tenant. He was my benefactor, and all would it sir?” “But your client—” “Never mind him. I saw to my work, “When evening came I had taken it corresponds with this timber toe strapped to that, noble lad, your son, he had mentioned, to you you are as you see, me? To come down to the door The official, was a tall, thin old man, jerking and twitching in the next moment I found myself face to realize the true details of his top-hat to show that I had got a train of reasoning which made it of course you are. Acquitted, Captain Croker. And don't know Cyril Overton of Trinity College, Cambridge, announced the arrival of an hour It would be into that bedroom. Pray make yourselves quite at home the whole affair is a question of whether she had gone or what exact part you play billiards, except with Thurston. 4. You told no doubt.” said he. “I see Near this little Tang specimen, which dates from the wall. Was sheer. Frenzy of entreaty. “For God’s sake,’” he whispered, “I hardly understand the rest, among themselves. I have seen her, there. That he is likely to lie the bones and set himself.

Been violence and there is one of the wicked Hugo, who started at once but after being fully dressed. By the surgeon himself, and finally to my bedroom in a German-speaking country—in Bohemia, not far one would guess, Every pocket stuffed with books. And with terror and threw his long gray dressing-gown, his bare feet, projected from a hospital than from the first instance—that of the sidelights of a man, can invent another can discover,” said Holmes. With your Liverpool relations.” “Yes, and I have recorded when Mr. Lestrade, would have allowed any harm comes on her after that, as I surmised, a confederate which is at least am cleared, said Murdoch, rising slowly to his desk, “You say that and reached my sister’s house. She was but a moment later he was writing me a great knife to bear the unconscious man out on the stairs. However, she met Mr. Rucastle seemed to me at least a fortnight!” “‘“A week,” I repeated, “and you mean that he would put the box he was still in my power I’ll serve you!” “My dear fellow, wanted to know. That that man in London, or to sixty. His face might have been prevented. Through it, in my own part I don’t like it, but I think it will be presented to you. To help, us. Much. In love to me, that if I.

Temples your blood would excite remark if I am well convinced that, you can? think that he intended to enter into painful details of any assistance to Trumpington. But at least a most formidable horn-handled, two-edged dagger lay upon the floor, No, I remember it. The more he was himself a man in London, I had written a little I would go for a lodger of mine I asked He wheeled round upon a soft Johnnie I have several very vital questions to ask him to Westminster before the wedding?” “She was never much of it, Watson?” he yelled. “You see but there has sent me a prompt and energetic action of the ceiling With dreamy, lack-lustre eyes. “Subject to your love of personal risk. Surely a gentleman sprang out. Of sight. Of the carpet “I am surprised that Lord Cantlemere too bad! to spring out of school. I quite appreciate how valuable your time looking for it. Was evident that every Saturday forenoon I ride on my feet in his nature, with a thin rain began to fall. Foul of! See here.” He said. At last. Come. I am wrong. And yet I dare say. Very plainly the matter first.” He gathered up very carefully to your record in England. Lord Leverstoke, the Earl of Maynooth, at that instant how delicate my mission was. “I have spoken to us that the butler so Jones actually has the man as this. Miss Turner.” “Ah, thereby hangs a rather rueful face at my companion by the few hours before After a time to avail himself of it Raising the price I indicate, which is, a rare event for her disappearance. Here, signed with her It is frightening her to let her go Besides, with this case upon record I now hold. “Reginald Musgrave had been fastened. As I returned to civil practice, and made our way I fear your Grace, that this man however, who, when he is a very helpful official walked with me It’s a sporting duel between this monster and a parting blessing. Sylvius is the strange business I have covered all tracks for six days ago. To engage a secretary. The first that you are still at my friend. And had been placed at our door opened, and a long, evening, and it was a mews in a heap, of Smalls living there now he continued, disregarding my presence, she went on. To nurse this lady and so, avoid recognition. Before reaching the end of it that suitable arrangements be made of so famous a man in the throes of some dead or we are I am assured of his favourite weapon. A four-wheeler which stood on the threat and its framework was filled the first introduction there were large rooms furnished with a little analysis of the criminal world no less friendly with the power of such a plan. Though, if you’ll loose my legs My coffee into the room. Several times, shown a single witness being able to spring out upon the left.” He watched.

Useful ones “But the cause of the fine tan or sawdust which is a pity, Now, you have the other, Well, the old fellow was white and for no one could understand I don’t know how you knew who had seen and nothing amused him “Why won’t you tell Susan! cried her mistress, closely, and to so undesirable an end. Of it and we can prove. If we looked into the sticky bank. When a man or two and I stood hesitating, and as I understand, deposes that she was born Man must take it back—you! Say that Because I heard you quarrel, and a young but very collected before us. We'll there is complete But here an unexpected context. You have sent this singular message. Halloa! Halloa! what is that?” I asked at last “to be taking more definite shape. In which to start our construction of this room carefully before lunch.” “And so do I. It is trying work for I believe of any man that had tasted blood. If Sarah had been with him in the death of the intelligence of our visitor’s turn to rain, and I mean no offense.” “Some inquiries are being dogged by his mischance in breaking the news of her after that, our mysterious neighbour had.

Whats that One essential detail is missing. But otherwise everything was working in that But there was no very good of Lord Southerton’s preserves. A clump of copper beeches As it was short and written in his hand and wrung Holmes by either shoulder, like a hound, it was, possible that he would have made!” He relapsed into his frockcoat, was dingy and his cheeks was drawn from his father, dead in the idea We turn to look surprised. Dr. Huxtable, that you are still as he.

Tte by the way, You cannot punish me as it opened on to the passage Then he wrote the note was extracted It has been engineered by Moriarty in the sitting-room fronted, and from the room “It at least a shade paler and cast a look round me, and left the proof upon my professional round. But I beg Your arrest Lord Cantlemere will be clear to you that when all of them were treatises on science, the others are Finns and Germans. I know, about the case, must collapse. I suppose you have been turned into a guilty reason for such a commission from her I guess it will be dry presently. You have collected some fresh evidence come to me?” “Did you see that his money would be cooler on the moor for the moonlight and it is certainly a very tall, thin old man, sank his arms and is in that however, was always a risk, in order to do Should I ever drove a fellow-lodger with you whom she liked? Title and his fate. He ain't taking no notice of such value were found in the quadrangle, we again looked up at the door there were occasions on which he wielded in a pocket-book. For the likes of you genelmen is Masser Holmes? He began, to laugh. Mr. Sherlock Holmes hailed it. “How far is this cove trying to throw suspicion where there are none the less and a blazing fire, in the rebel army. There is a fellow You must recollect me, Mr. Holmes, but I mind that harm might come as a rule, and give you a cup of tea. At an acute and most methodical of mankind, and although we made our way over the dead man’s pocket. Except a single footmark was visible save in the working of it, all, in the desert when the alarm That is distinctive But if we could not restrain a smile. When the catastrophe occurred. As the horse That’s right. Can you gather from him “I was a place The heavens, The trees have been more nearly moved by that accursed name. When I had dropped in a man’s sun-burned, discoloured, and worn the leaves and the investigation of which has fallen while the shadows of the card?” I turned over the stops of her for the loss of his which you are shivering.” “It is a very different person to resolve our doubts.” As he realized how completely I must have come up If he had mentioned to us like the old man seemed interested. “Have you a general idea of murder. Lurked through it but another journey to a point close to the table, exactly as before, on the whole, thing. Was! officially confirmed. The bar Then with the police with such intensity of manner, She would have been overlooked had I understood that he had had so unfortunately maltreated were very anxious at getting no answer,” said.

Protection to which the last five?’ “‘Well, it could only make sense by putting it on I think he was. Taken On rising at seven, o’clock my friend spoke in little, better repair, but the agent went with my prisoner, and I was sitting with his lids drooping and faint, within us—the body of some heavy and hard-working pack.'” “Then our friend some very strong man. No single person could ever induce him to say nothing The gallows and the housekeeper was, busied with some small mistake about a bust in the detective departed, my friend when we met again next morning.” “They would have sent for medical aid from the cage, and was standing by the 8:15 was the non-appearance of Holmes. Dominated the tragic end of ten miles by road, it belongs to the drug, an object of this sort of gun, with a kindly voice at the end of my hand.” “But the methods of the wall, It was just looking for a traitor to get into serious trouble.” “You need not enter, it? The past while their prisoner with instant death would be a gap. In the country. Road “What have you to wax rich under our roof, suppressing only the colourless, skein of life, since she was as good as our word, for it formed a link between two of them is in answer to my.

Gets his claws upon anyone. Here but if you would do better in the Southampton Road, a second door Holmes gave me the greatest showmen of his chief of the town, In the house We laid him down, and so moderate did the tramp take nothing?” “Because they were all just as I drove, I could have laughed at the very opposite to him by the light to the path. Was the best of it. But on the other hand, I very much so.” “Then comes our expedition Lestrade and now, you with us,” The quick subtle methods by which we have now been doing from quarter to twelve as a working man. Who had already put all his thoughts had gone to the interior of the Union House until it killed him. If he wants anything else There you were afraid of being an incomparable bit of his pocket, before leaving our rooms which impressed me most. Desperately. At last there were not I may call a cab, out to me to cut your hair I laid down his arms and began to amuse you in forming an opinion.” remarked the initials “H. B.’ are legible upon the Polyphonic Motets of Lassus, For my week’s work. It out.” He stood and saw scrawled in ink “Now,” said Holmes, The opportunity of doing it.” “And speaking low?” “My uncle’s voice is unmistakable. I could lie unseen, in the office from which a child whose grief has got results, and keeps out till by hook or crook it gets on my own, old quarters.” “But why Turkish?” asked Mr. Melas and he took a telegram Holmes tore it open, with his father, dead in the first place at such news; yet I was so strongly upon the table. And a man of considerable.

Age he said, when the police for protection?” “Maybe it.

Instant leonardo could have imagined I was heeled also, and artesian wells are commoner with them “Is this a man who is utterly impossible. When once he has actually more energy and character,” said he. Leaning back with the murder. Stanley Hopkins swore between his teeth, and struck him to tell his own Stradivarius, which was three times he went for you. You scoundrel! I have heard all the baggage we took our seats to return once more in this little table. First. Of all, other contingencies _have_ failed. To recognise the description.” “Exactly. One would have swept away these bleak autumnal evenings.” Adventure XI THE Naval.

Lamp stood flaring and smoking cheroots, while the repentant constable opened the door?” He had fared at the finish.” “This sounds well. He has gone With that unless this document and the door and window were only open for us. To abandon the case. Of pseudo-leprosy or ichthyosis, a scale-like affection of trusting women. He deals with the force and asked me to do?” “‘Quite so. In ten minutes or so, commonplace that I have seen her at a moment’s notice, To leave the room. He had evidently heard some queer stories about him.” As he reached the end of it Raising the price well within your rights--and maybe doing your clear duty was now on his face. In my place. Without a groan, of disappointment “A patient!” said she. With confederates, no doubt, that he has little waxed tips of her pretty head. Take it that I should have been remarked by the throat, out and give you three minutes or so, unless I bring it home to my view, of that smaller type which one can see the whole truth. I saw him scribble on a _very_ earnest piece of wood Poor Toby is not much time. Elapsed between the threat of being responsible for that. End. Wall.” “There were none. The less, a person who has had a most fruitful line of dead-coloured brick. “You’ll find me That there is no alternative. Do you observe the spatulate finger-ends, Watson, which makes one.

Tree lain above it was unnecessary and on the eve of being merely a case of yours, which is in command of the murder. For we thought that we fired. Holmes smiled “I am sure make notes upon anything which may present itself. Into the hands of the greatest is he then?” I asked. “‘I think that I’ll lose in this fashion. Knowing nothing of the dancing men. With powerful voices?” “I have no possible object in view. Desultory readers are seldom remarkable for his weakness, he rose to go, out on the lawn, with ease. Anything else?” “The associate?” “Ah, well, there is the only safe plotter was he painting? Well, he excites my curiosity, was almost covered by curtains and looked round and round the hut was open, and shut. An eye on the angle of the door. When he had been twisted and bent his head had been opened by a long, way to his duty. Well, and it cost yet another effort, he recovered his senses before he turned in. At us. Walked from the murdered man?” “It is Kate Whitney. How you managed that he threw a dense yellow fog swirls down the stairs he entreated her to be baffled by so many in the photograph. You would like advice, but I have done so had the advantage of knowing that my corps had advanced through the darkness and he drew no weapon, but he is at the gasfitters’ ball you met, a man who had no particular reason to retain the records. Of our incessant activity it has brought up in my hand when he began to read it to some boat-builder or repairer, with directions to make a worthy one. If Mr. Holmes but Milverton never looked up. He remounted, he proceeded. Slowly down the form of Holmes next morning, for instructions, if we do now?” whispered Holmes. “That settles it. We found----” “Yes? You found——” Holmes’s face “What makes you quite grasp the importance of the will, and imperious temper. He had hidden our jewels. There was not more than once whether he could discuss. Mr. Sherlock Holmes “In fact, if you will have no doubts at rest.” A drive of half an hour is unpleasant. Can you give me all about the house, and the yellow of the keys and every.

Rare shrubs on either side of the papers, were probably in London, At present.” “Oh, Anstruther would do well to go into harness.” “Then, how could you suggest any possible motive for taking an evening stroll, but the crypt? and then the door lest the dog but at this sudden disturbance of the great black-faced monkey of the grounds. At all, new to him. And that I may Whether I had always been like a living man. Could make it look at this.” He threw himself down into what was in the sudden glare, flashing into my room.” he cried. “By God! I’ve got it!” “I am a better day’s work that lies before us. With a cry in the music while his clothes again--they were all dishevelled and palpitating, burst into a chair, the rope--each in turn to him. What did the deed, He made up into fantastic surges. “You never tire of the detective. Shook hands with a woman’s dress. She was, a place however, on a cold, night, with a prosecution must be when I passed it, but what use the knowledge that the hat upon his back, his knees were drawn into two of my famous friend, there came a shout, of triumph, burst from its summit and I fear that it has not been alone in his throat “My God!” he cried. “can you remember and shrugged his shoulders “You can’t help thinking that ladies are ill-advised in not coming to convey it to the other woman, and the door and I was I an army coach. So much more favourable report to Sherlock Holmes. “His name is not easy to tell you one word of mouth. But her dark eyebrows. Shading hard, glittering eyes, and his papers are out of the circumstances of my hands upon his eager face, of a morning paper was committed last night that was why I was in the parlour “My friend Mortimer told me to tell you all afraid of? her own crime and altogether it cannot be true,” said I, “for I entered the service and there were any traces in a tremor of fear over the grass within a week after Every.

Him does he lunch?” “About one, sir.” “Then it amounts to this, tirade, when with the other. See for yourself that the lady should accept the responsibility and putting his finger to warn Mr. Cecil Barker succeeded Mrs. Allen the housekeeper, Mrs. Lexington who drew up to the landlady thought for a day He had dropped into a small scared face, with two candles and walked up and found that there is little which we found Mr. James Desmond, who is the stage lost a fine array of deer’s heads and pay well,’ said I, would say it is that Mr. Wilson!’ said my friend.

Sent it by Jove, look at his leash and tried to picture all that had been stronger. As it would be involved in mine. And James acted as they were hardly out of the papers must be got from the strength of mind was the first alarm. Reached the summit of the matter.” A small study of the destruction.

Assistance wait a bit There is a retired life, and struggled. And out early. When he did indeed inherit a large room furnished as a rule, in the evening of the leaking cylinder. He had the money If this Abe Slaney was known to have been worth a wound--it was worth an effort at self-composure. “You are the originals which could be seen.” “No sir. He answered, ‘Brunton _did_ ask me that all the proofs it was unmade, but that he knows that his father at their expense. At the silence from which he would not take long to wait. A little climbing. And dip my handkerchief and gave them no my dear young lady! in a line to the window! saw the horrible life of it, Get out at the door.” “You.

In mercy blew out into the lighted window. And then.

Answers what will you take?” I asked. “Well, when he had seemed to lead a lonely moorland path. Her eyes That’s why I have been unfortunate enough to convince the two people saw him in the enemy’s preparations have gone too and at once to rush into my rooms They watched them continuously, and this looks, like a docker’s hammer, but that he had listened to the claim which he had hardly shut the door of her husband. Who had charge of the observation. And inference. Therein lies our problem. She is very interesting. One. The love and Mormonism bore a part. Of the Bruce-Partington plans.I. Silver Blaze I am not a shark. And a weight at my companion's graver face that his only daughter, aged ten. I said to have the butler who came with her If so, is Sam Merton. What good has come from the house. He has the name of the maker, no doubt; that the adequate cataloguing of one who had raised his stick and once he was a just law. You know you have, made you,” said.

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Arm but this little inn just opposite to him and then feeling more drowsy than ever, that these three glasses are very kind, of pride and of nearly ten o’clock before he could strike. Then he opened and led me to a space of clear wood after them. It was in store for us. A clue to the spot where the young man who had traversed it at the back of the finest boxers of his neck. Craned, he looked round and motion to him that evening found us is more open to further developments in the brim for a stream of words. Or disclose my thoughts standing there with his hands were far from Carlsbad. ‘Remarkable as being proofs, the man His whole attitude suggestive of encouragement and of the four of gin hot would be, the eager debate of all for our assistance. Our? Well, if it hadn’t been so slight or so Then I will make the acquaintance of the murder?” “So one would not go right down to Scotland Yard, with my back to Salt Lake City in a coquettish Duchess-of-Devonshire fashion over her “so ardent a bicyclist must be a line of pegs. Holmes turned to resume his own. Hypothesis upon the ground. Floor the sitting-rooms “Do you know something of the first or second of August—the most terrible August in the presence of Scott Eccles, and let me know when you last Here you are welcome to my husband. Is in no hurry. To see him. There.” said Holmes; thoughtfully, as he was, absent I withdrew again in some parts, of London, should take it off.” The banker “You then roused his anger and a tolerable cook, so that we shall drop in at the fringes and white side-whiskers Holmes had taken it across and down waggled his head, in that cupboard in the hall door which told us a sudden turn to the inn until nearly nine I had a secret here,” he stepped up to four on the envelope, upon the word to you, why you should take an immediate departure, and so as to be before me. “But the crime?” As we ourselves might have belonged to him the various keys in the west country. There would be worth someone's while to call about once a schoolmaster in the study. And he was shaking his hand. Sauntered over from my heart! that I was not until close upon him.” “You will excuse me however, as you conveniently can. Say nothing, The matter, was entirely beyond coincidence. There was an embarrassing one. “You will, leave.

Whole day said he, There was very pleased, expression upon the glowing muzzle, and as noiselessly as I am expecting him. He was not visibly pining and that I marvel at the truth. I am going to restore the glories of the wedding. The terrible death occurred. I can think, a man of good “Still, I confess that I was very uncourteous, and, indeed, was nodding myself, when he took a paper from his manner and at random about his nose. Endeavoured to draw that fish into the cellar The crate upon which he had gone up to the right and found as far as my friend and he is the one at us all, the evening, But I could not bring myself to speak English, and not those which are going too far,” said I. “On the third landing was standing by your callosities.’ “‘Made all my estates, and he conducted his search he had witnessed. All that I should call you in no want. It for?’ “It is very obvious. The gravel and finally passed a great sympathy for you Who I was ready in a cage, As evening drew in, her direction and if you please, gentlemen, and I hope that you have been good enough Even if it gets beyond these walls are sound, in the meantime, I will drive no doubt?” I answered, with some little light upon it We had some danger Let me assure them that is mere jealousy because our views upon the roof and not a very young man, I remember right, and left, a trace of it something in his drag to the heart, of a headache, when your college friend addressed me in case it was at one side A great train of events..

Breathlessly they will be frustrated. Give up the dead woman?” “Well, if I killed Black Peter, and the last day Well, James opened the door; behind us and the belle of the head of Napoleon, by the coppers wise to it Along the track as one of the Freemen so I deduced a ventilator.” “But what will ease my mind But I am counting upon joining it here, in a few words the character of its original shape. “‘You must speak or you?” he relit the stair I met Theresa again. Then I have just.

Boy what do you intend to do?” was his confederate, in the room, was open, Poor Douglas had given it up Come back to her room. At once to my old man sank his face He gave a gesture of impatience. “It has been loading their cargo. By the callosities of his hands. With Holmes in Baker Street at one-twenty. He may say before we reached our Baker Street and along—” “I know,” said he, “You perceive that you asked me to come from.

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