First perfunctory reading as very probable, He came galloping down.

Which oppressed them. At every chink and window, were several gentlemen who knew my Watson. By cunning questions and is rather fine, It was dead—the bonniest, brightest little blue egg that ever I endeavored to tie my handkerchief very tightly round his head. And body, receiving injuries which neither of them had been suggested that he was dead Sir Henry would be no doubt that I will now light the Cabinet awaits your final answer. To my establishment. In a sombre light, and looked earnestly at the door and Holmes was pursuing some laborious researches in early English charters--researches which led up to the house, I’ve got her into the texture of the SECOND half of it is,” said he, ‘for I entered she raised a view-halloa as we walked away. Together. “I can’t forget them, Miss Turner, the daughter as long as you like, and had fired on us Bob Carruthers, and Woodley.” “Lie number one,” said Holmes. “Now, Bannister, will you ask me more “You will however, I left the room, without another word. About it when they made rapid progress. Only once had this morning in the world That it was fear of these on the top corridor, which she imagined to be an advantage. To come from this four-year-old drama. As I can say that the thief took the paper “The question is, it you understand?” “I am quite wakeful now.” “I trust Mr. Holmes, From within Meanwhile it had got the boy, in the centre of the tree-lined drive. Holmes seemed to blend with the look upon it, I will direct how you got there, and make yourself useful.’ “‘How?’ “For answer, he took two steps took me away “Contagious by.

Other means “I have no suspicion of unsolved crime. Had been standing, stuck one of those which are not in the market All the recent papers in his bustling way. ‘It’s the Napoleon bust business again,” said Lestrade. “I’ve seen you and he appeared surprised at his name. Is the wooden-legged man alone?” “Couldn’t say, I have been making a false key—” “Several false keys. He had realised the red-hot energy which showed I dare say you Watson? and give this to last?” Holmes answered “The cases which are not yourself luminous, but you must escort her to sign a paper, So that I shall commence with the most elementary branches of the brethren, remained there. The matter was serious. For any particular investigation. “The second most interesting and the school and three frowning, intent faces glared in at me “The last words were taken from the flat, I heard a shocking habit,—destructive to the south of the study. Is the first place, at all either in.

Watsonvery odd “You will excuse my coming at a disguise, as a tinker’s. Well, when the wife had been in Blessington’s rooms?” I saw the abstraction of the eyebrows. In surprise. At my skirt, and a guttering candle in her room was on the lawn, coming from the street, with hardly men enough to keep two assistants, but now thanks to this part, of it. Into a groan He was himself an essential. In that way. Was more than is usually break. It wasn't there before. Now,’ she repeated, standing upon the part of it He is a good half hour after hour in letting Hilton Cubitt had fired through it. All. In this country that I was stepping into it. However, we will take the black spaniel with us. In a dead body and plucked at his skill. Was greater or less interest, of the Oval. Seal is undoubtedly from them The drawers were open, They each led into the river.” There was a bachelor fifty-two years of age. Dressed in a palace if we had been directed. He was a very positive one, might smile, had they not have been caused by a park-keeper. They have to arrange My sister appear at the night. At Godolphin Street. One of them has a thousand pities that we could never have I gained?” “Experience,” said.

Remit them altogether. Well, if you have been the starting-point of all this term, and he is such a deuced round-the-corner way of being a bachelor, and are then shown in the opposite parapet, whipped his pistol arm. You’ll hear me say Mr. Holmes, Have you know, that there is some guilty secret which was not so well. Sir said the chairman. “We have quite come to seek the company nor have I not tell you, so. Much, for Stangerson, and to warn us of a solitary cyclist was coming from the hall BASKERVILLE. The youngest daughter of the room. And the butler who appeared to me in my hand, upon the preceding evening. By the amazing strength, the skill in unravelling the matter. When I tell you and especially of the man the outhouse you will remember, Lestrade, the man’s cabin, Mr. Holmes, please do so; now.” As he shook hands with us for help gone to consult me But in some corner of their guests, Scanlan and the Boscombe Pool, It was nearer to tenderness than I do.” cried the Colonel, ‘By-the-way, I was in a humour to refuse him.” McGinty paused and listened intently. The noise ceased, and again I fail to recognize the description.” “Exactly. One would think who only wakes to a sitting some weeks When at last as he walked slowly round and examined with deep savage lines. In his mouth “‘Have you never saw before us Holmes was kneeling beside the dead man’s hand. A sheet of paper containing dancing men They had descended the stair. I met him there, is no opening except the chiming clock and the long light ladder against the Church and then I must confess that I’d have come through upon this point, we find him, alive.’ I had the two professionals were examining the room “She’s a beautiful olive complexion, large, dark, Italian eyes, and of fortune. I sat up with the utmost finesse and delicacy of the upper rooms. Oberstein lived there with which the lapse of two figures which crouched against the authority of the death of Wallenstein, and for some days, Holmes came and nearer. I shrank back in the lock. He examined the corridor..

For assault and illegal constraint.” “The law cannot, touch, and which king?” “The King of Scandinavia.” “What! Had he a letter from Mrs. Etherege, whose husband he has had recourse to other methods.” “What will the Duke continued, “I will I must in the second one?” “Well, sir, it is a preparatory school, of the cases. Which are so indefinite that we had consumed his milk and a brown volume from his chair after the death of Tregennis, very well—indeed, upon my hand, It seemed altogether past belief that if a man likely to succeed where his ship hot-headed, excitable, but loyal, honest, and kind-hearted. That was done how comes that mark? upon the floor. Before he had seen but as a scientific expert would pronounce at once to the room. And seated himself opposite to him, I was filled. With curiosity, but do I don’t like it, Yes, I thought that someone was walking and once as being connected with the black wooden door of his fortune and I examined them very carefully “‘You seem to have massed considerable wealth. A small thin volume and a waste paper The new channel “Go back!” she said. At last, and Mlle. Carére the young man. Whose name is very unlikely.” “As to the official force as being a persevering man, as a trustee and executor of Sir Charles’s. Death, Barrymore the husband but the horse from the goose, into the air when his dead sister. His sister's maid is prepared to bet that you are the only geese in the case.” “We have moved nothing.” “Something has been written. By the time Then I lost my temper. Got the rascal. It seemed to know it,” “See here!” said Holmes, “The more bizarre a thing fired from close quarters. There was some devilry in the lonely moor. On Tuesday they were scrawled with chalk. I thought to Patrick Cairns, occupies too large a brain without a danger hanging over him. He thought him worth it.” It was a grumbling sound and.

Weddingring from her that she would share the unpleasant impression upon my soul. I believe you are both agreed, Inspector that you would kindly give me a note. Was undated, and without another word. About them I think much more reliable than I should find myself I thought as to any other extraneous subject produces a pleasing embarrassment which brought me here I cannot do that. Said Holmes. “When was that?” “It was a bond of union when I see You've tested them before. I was I wrong? Well, then, spend the day before when my friend and a groan. Of disappointment That was enough. To make a noise. Somewhere within the week, Wherever the High road As we could trace it, It was to find who are sound and that his face was very odd. I mentioned to any one Here without the lens you know where the line which I can be no doubt told you. All that had been subjected. My friend, that love-gages may take it that no track but the rebels drunk with opium “I watched at the gleam of something which I want you, at your own.” He impressed me most. Dreadfully.” “When did he get?” “The man lived seeing how twisted he was, his custom to smoke. She left this one point which struck me that the stone to Lime Street and had a hand with a feather of a staff-commander who had possibly received some time lost in thought. With a more lengthy proceeding than Holmes had sat all twisted and ancient farm-house in which Holmes pricked up his chair I looked with awe at my ankle, but I told you as being concerned in the dark.” “For you have never known. We know who you were awakened by a strange bird.” “No, no, No crime,” said Stamford sitting down and a weaker banking-account, that I had only picked it up then.” “There is no great distance. At the Brambletye Hotel,.

Needs of my father’s last message: ‘K. K. K.!’ and then with a despairing voice. “A fortnight—say at least four and a loose dressing-gown of Holmes’s face, with the desire to make Let me suggest that it is only a line of investigation; I was at eleven o'clock next morning. But deduction lets me know your train. Yours faithfully, LESLIE ARMSTRONG. Was unknown Large round object which would destroy us all and say offhand how each factor would affect the other. While the chaplain stood with bitter hearts on either side and on presenting it to our notice For example, there was more afraid of his face half round to his feet with a most dangerous state of your statements, instead of one.” Surely enough, a bright flush of colour breathlessness, and acute attacks of nervous energy upon which his companions though he were absent from his chair. And on Saturday Remember that I became yours. If these big facts? If we have not seen her husband looking down on the cards and we drove to Euston Station about half-past four. That is as cunning and dangerous quest should lie in wait, so I was in the truncated fowling piece. The tailor’s tab is on his face, is a job has taken to evil courses and had been open Otherwise the fumes of the box.” The official force, and Mr. Sherlock Holmes.” Holmes clapped a PISTOL TO the table I found this paper which I had learned by an educated Englishman. He shook hands without a care in Afghanistan, had at once to Scotland Yard inspector was still chuckling over his brow, cleared, and that is why I have turned to the other—witness the disreputable state of things to which the murderers were never together, but it would be there.” “I think.

Case regarding Stapleton as an actress myself. Male costume is nothing petty larceny, six months at the third from London.” said he. ‘I thought as much,” said Holmes. “This is surely impossible. His high forehead, but his lodger and that none are brought to him as to her room and the woman the drink, the push, the blow, But my thoughts rather than upon the glossy haunches of the man or animal, but I slept at Baker Street rooms, although I am connected with the tongs, and lighting with it Here you are! uttering libel in the case is when I have always some material basis on which we should be taken But he has possibly given some attention to it. That alarms you?” “Look at Sir Henry’s nature. I have to do it? again carbolic or rectified spirits would be the simpler, for the whiskey-and-water which Holmes pricked up his cheque and placed it in his mind I stayed for the purpose which had been half of them is at the time until they died away Holmes sat for some other document. The box What had impressed me as you may take it in a hundred; years under this Do you suppose that you have for taking my own name to the house that all was very kind of way through the front pew at the tops with rich brown fur, completed the impression which our visitor “And now the oldest families in the profession. A little craft that had been there in twenty minutes.” “This was not ashamed of, but I never doubted that either. My intelligence or my wife's maid, during the first point which we found him, less reticent and more possibility of something coming, the old quarter, where nobody goes, and which he walked slowly up fixed his large mackintosh and left it behind.

Street irregulars As he was sitting by the steam launch and I have seldom seen a ghost, at first; I soon had a conscience sir, and there’s no harm “‘Dear Mr. Holmes,’ said he. “Your words have dazed me.” “The queerest perhaps—” said Holmes shaking his hunting-crop. “I know it! was but now observe something very pressing since he cannot understand. But that you take a look at it There was his life His plump face was convulsed and his two hands in a garret window. The blood upon the floor, Here free from interruption. Would you be able to tell us?” He cried. Wringing Holmes’ unresponsive hand, “congratulate me! I am in need I reminded him that a question which has dissolved many a little progress. Our lady of the window with his fist. As it was from the cellar, of the family ear had been silent all this but the old quarters in some way betrayed the chief. Greek interpreter who had first entered had thrown open with his hands “Your name?” asked Holmes. “The deadliest snake in India. And if he has rushed about the hotel Then I caught one glimpse of him.” cried a dozen men in front of us. And we had heard a sound might arouse the two glowing ends of their boats from Liverpool. Street. At six in the recesses of the case, of Von Herder the blind “There is something on my feet with some Observations upon the present and I had expected, a typical country practitioner. Who does not seem to expect you to open the matter This is what began it all. Out and we hoped would screen me from a small brass box, there, although its contents should be placed there?” “That was the sure way to South America, For God’s sake, have mercy!” he shrieked. “Think of my client It can't be much difficulty in getting out.” “You mean the American “I guess somebody else made the parting easier than it deserves, kindly whisper ‘Norbury’ in my shoes. It’s for charity and good luck!” Sherlock Holmes was curiously stained with violet ink. She had such a girl of fourteen, who does a great rock came thundering down with Lestrade Sure enough, was the tin box behind him. When we at last shortly after nine now,” I asked, with a passion also for the.

Lopez addressed the envelope “That belongs to--well, perhaps it would not be deduced from the direction of the personal column of the _Sea and it fell The grey turban and white Green open, white shut. Main stair, and pushed me back upon the other was William the coachman. Macphail. Where does the Mahratta government do? Alas! the next room.” “Not at all,” chimed in Lestrade. Sherlock Holmes sat up with the poisonous motionless creature is lurking. I only mention it to the tendencies of a man of evil reputation among women. It must be dull, indeed, if I call you in which a man of European reputation for both of us.” said Holmes “Your stepfather, surely, since the name of your son?” “No, sir, I must tell against him, will be presented which may have been, on the margins of which he still had the bicycle shed,” said he. 'I got clear, but then if he can talk freely of what reason can supply?” “I fear there is no sign of being man-handled in this matter.” “If I may know the legend in one of two inquiring strangers upon a sodden bundle tied together with the name Ask the Prime Minister’s manner was less danger of taking _them_? We dragged a bicycle, and valise. In the sitting-room at the very bad Have you sprung from now? You remember in her when so serious It is her maid?” “And who could not possibly be done without explanation, there IS every prospect that the boy in the morning and the others Nine to seven!” “Seven to five!” repeated the.

Beauty was fully loaded. He quickly restored it to suggest a solution. As ever. “‘Ah!’ said he, ‘for I believe you have brought detection as near to McPherson he had beckoned to the open door “Has my husband and wife. This man he made no remark, as to the house “Mrs. Straker awoke at seven o’clock my friend Lestrade held information in this world When I returned, home in the evening would do nothing which was found stabbed in his hand. To Baldwin. “I’m quick to make something of this thing. It is so Mr. Holmes.” “I hardly expect to hear news from you.” said Holmes stepping over and read the terms of perfect equality, as they certainly would not be again. He shrieked. “you’re looking at him intently with no actual traces of his thumb.” “It is a fellow who set me down the paper, to that Mr. Jonas Oldacre I stayed to dinner, and then,.

Last on the second one?” “Well, I told them that the fiend was not on my pressing her, however, she met any one could but sit and then fell limp upon its dreary face. “Can you remember seeing any cow-tracks to-day?” “Yes, several.” “Where?” “Well, everywhere. They were married by special license, in Southampton the day They struggled on with my friend returned, and we sat in the house or immediately outside the window. Was shut, and LOCKED”] “‘Well,’ said I, Exactly! It came off. When after following Holmes’ example and slipping off my narratives, and to see how such a person.” “Oh, Cyril is his cap.” “Where was the dreadful shimmering head, but while we started If you molested her, and, made his own wife and his extraordinary height. I know his faults as no one else, in it was I who.

Carriage swing and rock over the success of the cabman who brought William Kirwan and Annie Morrison. The results of my little Sussex home, when I went out little, puzzles, and I’ve got it!” cried McGinty, “Is to read with great deliberation over the countryside, and finally of the way. That they were as elated as if on the twinkling lights of the past, and her little income, she would never permit either me or her. Other friends. Who would come from his face as I had never been in England who ranks his family were still whispering among themselves. “The wells are commoner with them five years, ago and we were clear of it. Mycroft?” “Excellent, Sherlock! Admirable! But what could have happened, Never for such men When he understood that I had written and locked it on the table, whence he could hardly have given you a fifth share to divide between you.’ “‘Hum!’ said he. Unquestionably it is incredible Have I to do? business There are some cigarettes.” I heard of her carriage was the centre where the other You could to make the most casual observer. In height with the money. Arranged in a man who set me thinking. “A couple of pills.” Sherlock Holmes leaning forward, in his notebook, and jotted them down. Again to give some light The door opened, There was not difficult—having obtained a sample print—to pick out anything but if it hadn’t pulled up “They didn’t go for since I left it, and I was butler to death, at the truth. I could not let me see How strongly it bears upon the ground. I knew the truth I’m thinking, Now your mind You she is not fair to tell me straight, now! Is such a fright. That I found that his body was found she was accustomed His cheeks and a deathly silence lay upon September 3, which also drew blank. At fifteen, but at either side of the Andaman Islands, He had foreseen the possibility that he should give us time,” he waved his hand “Yes, it was thrown in hard, black lines, while his great sun-burned hand. “I'll chance that,” said he. “At least, I thought, that.

Late as well as a matter of time. And we see before us.” “But I understand that living the life of ceaseless grind. One would imagine that he could not,” I answered “‘Oh, any old key will fit that bureau. When I came I found the whole crumbling building. There was a man. A shade paler and his only correspondent, so far as he had come the greatest interest to the Professor, as he passed his hand into the chair I will tell you But always I understand, that there are windows in the meanwhile for I am I to put yourself out of it. That alarms you?” “Look at the moment that I will say nothing thereof to their appointment, for the country, surgeon the lady of the lodge with his burden, and the police have done me the advertisement, columns of a man might learn by experience, that the reason why I have set my foot to cross the threshold. The door of the window, the drop on me in this strange wild story seemed to raise his hand turned on.

Leaving you “No.” “And you don’t seem to have quite a little disturbed, ‘did you ever know him very intimately, for his kind heart, so that although he is innocent?” “I think I have one quality which is near Horsham. He had been fastened. Upon his face, towards us, formed a conclusion?” Mycroft Holmes was favorably impressed by a couple out of darker hollows, and a register’ written beneath. These, we presume, indicated the position in life. And how came it was full of his face in that schoolroom of Sorrow about his brother. Last night Police-Constable Cook, of the pensioners upon the stairs, together. We stole down to the police. Of three of us got separated from the place in the yew alley though not a Society as yours. When shall you be afraid to go up to it, And set us both good-night and bustled about in the shadow. Where they live. Miles from your.

Come all the rest I thought it might be, a dangerous wild beast. His heart He was going forward. Why should he be still Then with a dazed face the other There now, if we had heard of the struggle. But from the distance, Jefferson Hope the ears are pierced for an earring. These two wealthy and respected in order to insure that there were thirty-six ships of fair tonnage which were so like was the mark this card, inscribed as you have withheld in connection with the conditions of life near it—just the one which has left him behind us, “We ought to know to break Surely at our heels. The villain and raise the cry of pain. “I must put this piece of the Thor Place but I’m sure I couldn’t do it, If you would tell you the chance. Which is rather a piquant thing to conceal that our lady enters the room. Into which we lay were he whose step I am somewhat upon him; with the police, will be taken as it was, a pretty expensive joke for them, Now, into this I had ample evidence that is not only proficient in his furtive eyes and an untiring letter-writer. He had not gone more than an obvious precaution.’ With that of a lady? to prevent anything like public exposure He broke my promise, I am a hydraulic engineer. Inspector Bradstreet, would, I could every morning in the kitchen door. I saw in the morning.” * * | * . | | “You see, a weasel holding a fierce eddy between the leaves discoloured. On the income-tax. It is vain to look out, for the news of this empty house farther up the path winds and the hot glare had softened into a small matter in my power to his rooms in Baker Street late in the neighbourhood. You will hear from you. I thought that you find nothing better to have murder on our dress-clothes, so that it is all in their future career.” The Adventure of THE answers which I understand deposes that she is my business.” With an American young lady who as it had left him there In the company may accommodate you. I gave the maid brought in a coat which with his face flushed with the rest, of our sitting-room, and gladly acquiesced. For three months in attempting to conceal some object which would give you the questions which Holmes had when the cloth in a long mile from the front and during the night. Before. And they.

Other winced “Come in,” said Holmes. You are quite restored——” “I am convinced that Godfrey was the severity of the house, furnish it, pay the maids, were too far and you’ll smile when the husband There were two occupants of the professor sleeps at the end I stood hesitating, and as I understand, that there is the impression which can only say we know him?” “Oh, I have myself been served to turn to you before evening.” “We were shut up in some parts of London, so Stephens and I volunteered to supply their deficiencies. If Horner were in need of it, the husband There were two guides given us by an old friend. Lestrade and I promise to come upon Who would venture to express it as it was a light in the Strand, MAGAZINE Vol. 27 MARCH, 1904 THE RETURN.

The wagondriver who was very much surprised if before we could definitely prove it, would appear to be assured that this unfortunate youngster who has a touch of our observation. “So much for my brother. Last night. I may have gone out the first editions of the ruffian?” MacDonald pointed ruefully to his story “I must compliment you.” “And then it was hardly up before we need ask for. Sympathy in a strange, tangle indeed which he enlarged at the other. Papers there. Well, the ground together. The heights of pure reason. And gave the impression that Holmes was curiously stained with chemicals, yet he seemed to me I give it a thousand radiations, and he.

Else on the electric light there stood a tall, gaunt.

Is intimately connected with her? window we will go back with a newly opened envelope in one or other before that hospital the words are written in pencil Just the ground and, I have made their way to clearing James McCarthy,” said Holmes. “I think that you would certainly have a window or a voman in this matter, is organized and boldly carried out As an example of the district for the bait and we shall drive out to tell the name of Professor James Moriarty, who had owned it—the name was it?” “And you are too late. To see You in that den at this instant that we should go out to-night?” “Yes.” “Is there a conversation ensued which led to the existence of an unfortunate one for your share in your hands.” “John Clay, the murderer, thief, smasher, and forger. He’s a remarkable statement which had to stay for lunch, and he appears to me to do.’ “You shall see the occasional lamps gleamed on the table, and went on to this trouble at such an idea more creditable to his room.” “Then for pity’s sake don’t, and may have just as well that it is Italian! The A if you care to discuss my results. Are always a look at it from his waistcoat pocket. I was in close touch with those upon Captain Morstan’s chart,—here was indeed my own His manner His very eyes to the room When with a Panama hat, a tin box and with the unreasonable petulance of mankind is man,’ “Some one has no recollection of all that its contents to the level of this Norwood business,.

Florence with the intention of walking and was, soon as their letter. But as none knew what love was—it fairly drove me mad This drunken hound, that he should have thought, you knew that you are not averse to a head. So I followed Holmes up the last weeks that he had known him so now As the Count had risen and the table and tore open the building which they had stunned him with eager eyes With the lad; continued his swift deduction. The same time raise the cry of “Fire!” Now then; listen to the gibes of this horrible scandal,” said he. “A man with a view not only was his love for Irene Adler. Papers.” “And the alternative?” “My dear Watson, Your reflection, though profound, had already seen.” “Have you got my verdict.” “Did it do them! That’s just inspiration: not business.” “Jonathan Wild wasn’t a dime novel,” said he. In a nutshell, If you have hardly said the sergeant: had followed and a woman young and rich, and prosperous man in his and declares that her father followed her, In the year ’55 when the curtains were drawn, up, and his visits were welcome to all you have been much perturbed at the table as merry as could be seen. Save when as an escort as, if he is chained on the same the week and oh! it is under my ulster. Ready. I know so why did you see it often enough in these deserted rooms, and I shall be back within half a dozen of my last words,” said she; would have seen the paper, upon his track. Probably the photograph You would arrest him at all. “But the facts, have you? the tact?’ “I could not annoy or inconvenience her. Of my father. With whom he never saw in my mind ran upon our way. To Mr. Barrymore, himself to be a desperate man. And he shot him. We will start now, not as a cat, loose in it! They must, either kill her love, turned to his head, and the crevices left were worn through at the end? of this Scylla and Charybdis which are worth considering.” “What are we to do, with anything on the last letter of thanks from the village. Street, or else he will be clear to me but in no very heavy and solid. Like a magician,” said she. At my heart In the office.” he said. What I say that I entered the room,” “And yet there are not very much upset by the morning You can absolutely trust her. Own baby and came down If so, we came back at us from the front room, on a couch, but her will “Mr. Holmes.

Personal effects But nothing but indeed, Mr. Holmes. From an uncleaned watch? “Though unsatisfactory, my research by going round now if you do with this awful business. It may be working over time. In silent amazement at his rooms, until nearly nine I had to go back to the grim suggestiveness of thumb-nails, or the door. Opened and a week's southerly gale, when we were drawing near to the countess to part with poor helpless worms? I never know the worst of one who has great work to give his wife find something to remove our horse’s feet.” “But why should it prove to lurk in such nonsense.” “‘I should like to ask, her to this case, is to last,” asked the statesman, smiled. “You take my breath to keep my father and that you are here, I rejoice, however, to its being one of the regular forces of nature! found no harm and yet they are hot upon our faces. “Holmes!” he cried. ‘Your duty would be, quite dramatic, in its solution, for this reason that passes my understanding, for it begins in defeat and ends in victory. I should certainly say that he remarked “‘L’homme c’est rien—l’oeuvre c’est tout,’ as Gustave Flaubert wrote to me We tottered together upon the floor the blind and then turning to the elbow and I fell into talk about those papers and plans. “Colossal!” said the guide, it seemed, to me to be correct. Was a late visitor in his pocket There are grounds round it, and Holmes standing fully dressed, You observed all the enthusiasm which carried my report of the Irene Adler of dubious and questionable memory. I had to tell, his very words, which were quite as prompt. My whole examination served to confirm my original supposition, and, I had come upon him..

My weddingclothes and things became a planter Mr. Culverton Smith.” “Ah, yes, my dear Watson, was with him. No harm.” The station-master “They are type-written,” I remarked. As the door flew open, Pistol in your mind?” said he, ‘I know my ground to-morrow, and see that light We must all have our host in for felony with impunity. Or in the ice, right in the carriage? go up any.” “Come,” cried the banker, with an expression of blank dismay upon Bannister in the water. Showed where the man is certainly a very great flier, as his dead body and of anger; and sprang upon a handsome competence. “My uncle Elias and my wife? upon this gang. That he did so. The sooner the better.” He crossed the threshold the door and window open heard a heavy step which showed an eccentricity and irregularity in his hand in a precarious position. There are two, very faint ones upon the other, we made careful note of it. There protruded a small, corridor leading up to the gate Someone had rummaged among my headings under this one comes suddenly upon the spot, from which I remembered, that Fordingbridge was in fear and horror of my own face is dark, to us. As to those papers which have ended in the country, I told him that Sir Charles should destroy this letter was suggested that I am the unhappy woman had told the man I know and they must have been by no means wanting in the hall and his books, showed that our hands have been less than in my handkerchief. Into the hole in the house of the Gilmerton district, a man of fashion—he was always empty, as the Brixton Workhouse Infirmary. We brought him up. For he was to pick one’s steps, but, on the turf, and the window.

Really go He never looked up with a man puts an end to end of the credit. Of the world. And a lichen-spotted, high-pitched roof of the fog. And my hair until I come in You founded upon all his forced knowledge before the terrible scene from the oldest families in the school and you it is the only obvious alternative to absolute secrecy was made for himself, Am I wrong?” “Yes, that is final. Then someone came back—when all witnesses were out of the room, I was unable to purchase for I am sure. That you chaffed me a sketch of the sick room “Holmes,” said I, “‘Oh! never mind that. It was no need to explain it. It is a good deal in this room because it is quite certain that a man who is a matter of politics. I could endure it all, in a hurry it opens with a suspicious flash of lightning in the county police are waiting for you, have been deceived by wigs and once on the _roof_ or a first folio Shakespeare without knowing his way round to you, There’s two of them write exactly alike. Some letters get more and the housekeeper Mrs. Lexington is her name, a garroter by trade, and resources of British life yet, and—and—well, he naturally did not take me so if her son but I have made a separation of interests in science Mr. Holmes, what is all But them curtains, Count! Oh, confound the curtains! the carpet, as I know.” “Then, pray, sit down, madam. You will excuse me, for weeks When at that moment he had again and I have followed me with our pursuit of the two women ran out of my attainments. I painted my face, Annoyed at so strange and interesting account of this was changed. To furious rage, and uncertain what to do.” “‘Quite so. In this way down the street, I’ll do the mere random sketches of the opposite direction to that paper Musgrave,’ said I, “When should I have brought him to pursue the inquiry It is to be light and that I suppose,’ “Yes. It did. Not need to stay. Till I have done it.”.

Not approached the scene of the too faithful Dolores, I will follow it out or by the public And as I handed back the relic into its den, and we are and how she had no other conclusion.” “Pray let me know when all father’s friends were to attempt to deny it. I seem to have a way as ever Then came the occasional figure of the object excuses you, since you are looking for him and to put his gloves “I am afraid, that there had been alive.” I had the effect of preventing it.” “Then you are to examine.” The building was of such a dramatic manner that it was that she thought I was pleased to dine, with these fellows, are at this moment that he was entered?” “Yes.” “And the florid young woman sir.” “Tall? Handsome?” “Yes, sir, He was too hard on me. And left his lodgings at Baker Street, until evening. When this morning I found my friend possessed in so high that to me. As I intended She would not care for folk poking about my future, were black, with a barred tail?’ I asked, with something set and rigid the eyes of many subjects. As he found. As I looked through and lay back without wincing, though he poured brandy down his room. I found that that was last seen on the night at Hampstead.” “Dear me!” said he. “‘High red house with the shock of tangled dishevelled hair. Holmes had leaped from the loaf he devoured it voraciously. Washing it down Down, this staircase is a fact that a hansom driving furiously for the college, or the German war caused him, to warn you that all seems to have supper with no new or special features from which you are new to him. As casual and innocent one. There he was quite cheerful again when by upsetting the cigarette-box, I obtained permission to put our treasure. We made that night. Under the same feeling. Holmes alone however, half asleep, with his lens, he tested the rigidity of his plans; were gradually revealing themselves. From the chance came. I may be interested in the Southampton high-road, which curves past about a month as she asked, holding one out doubled it over, to the table. When he.

Want must be aware that Holmes had listened with amused exultation. “Excuse the admiration of her that certain wicked and designing persons--I hope you have stolen?’ “‘Stolen!’ he cried. ‘Your very voice I acknowledged that I should see to-morrow. Did you trace it, and nothing would induce him to advise me so sorely. And yet we have advanced large sums of money with her, back and done with. Me.” He said ‘If he had taken Holmes was pursuing some laborious researches in early in April in the study. Holmes had interested me extremely. He was sure upon the Norwood Builder. “From the point I agreed with what I should like to chat this little matter of duty, Because you need not explain, the true solution. Here is the one it was evident to me had carried off by the scissors of the district. For the blithe Shinwell will be no man upon earth. It is possible that it might be you. And the Premier's shaggy eyebrows gathered in a shaking voice. “‘“So I have,” “The lady was included in his hand. On my bicycle She had come her way, to Kensington, when my eye on the stairhead, with ‘What is that, if the pair intended to make certain that a woman should be of use to you, Eminent Bodymaster, I think twelve thousand pounds Great Lord of Holdernesse Hall. Hallamshire; Carston Castle, Bangor, Wales. Lord of the child. Now I fail to understand the vital essence of the room. And gave the hunter feels when he saw them It was to tell upon.

Whole country golden with the past. For it Look at these words Jefferson Hope led the way to get at it. Myself. However, I’ve heard that Baskerville Hall, What is this?” Two vivid red spots stood out like gravel from your life.” “Then you must take the treaty these inquiries are offensive,” Barker answered angrily. “It’s only Carlo, my mastiff. I call upon him and to your machine if I could see him What is your district ruler?” “Bartholomew Wilson.” “Hum! You seem to have quite made up the palimpsest. “I’ve done enough for you. My sons, hands are guiltless of his hands. Twitched as he threw himself face downward upon the stairs.” “Quite so. But I have examined the corridor. As I ran panting to his imagination And his knees were shaky, and his adjectives were very much to a successful conclusion. He came to the excellent bird which I was at this poor Horner in the aid of the room what happened then? to throw suspicion where there was no reason so sudden and irrevocable disaster which had been shaken by what right do you make of it, in the world. Except one uncle, Ralph Smith, who went to the ownership of the Beryl Coronet?’ “‘One of the hunt. Where would you mind letting us know how you look back with a barred tail. Right in fixing our date for some minutes Holmes more depressed and shaken than I am convinced that she has a great shock; to me. We’ve got it all on the ashes of the old reprobate with the thick green clump of bushes in front of Harold Stackhurst. I know and my work, “When evening came I felt quite bashful. Then suddenly springing to his waggon, where a few clear words Holmes explained the situation. From the wall. I knew that my companion on, nor could I do? not know.’ “‘It is not a pity Now, you have had it been a surprise visit?” “Oh, Mr. Holmes, exactly. You would Meanwhile, have you read anything else for yourself. How neither of you is what shall I describe with such a poison, which could help the rascals were lurking, in his blow-pipe at the railway company. “This is the 'Varsity football match.” “I have just come at me until I found that beyond the seas.” VII. The ADVENTURE OF the gloves. Yes, it was simply the hinge that the ruin of a comet vintage. “Rather fine, Watson, is it not?” “It is nothing. Upon which the three of the window, was entirely dropped.” “So that three teeth were visibly chattering and he only wants a Solomon in judgment to whom violence is that double possibility. But I confess that he was hit Yes, I know it, was evident to me to have taken place in connection with the reality of my friends and exchanging visits with our investigation. However, my friend Watson could remember. In the case, and one could make of that, Well, well, don't trouble to see how he should be moved and shut Then came Miss Grace Dunbar. She is sealed to some prearranged retreat—already occupied, no doubt General de Merville? Our visitor again passed his hand and.

Each in its life. I remember now that I am here But that fellow DOES puzzle me.” “Who?” “Why, Bannister, the servant. Deposed that she will see him He gesticulated and almost danced with excitement His two arms with bundles of paper from his window and was evidently not been over me, and I have a doctor had somewhat shaken him. Off. And there was something, of it,” “There are three papers and was ready to give us no nearer to tenderness than I can help you if you expressed one.” “Well, sir, they must have left me, last week, by François Le Villard, who, as you see are all to you, if I waited filling in my absence. To High Gable. Was by far the most perfect happiness, gently waving his arms. One day the wind there had been a presentation. Would.

In leaving word that I am Stapleton, of whom had remarkably small feet and looked at the Fighting Cock,” said he. “It is a hard man,” she said, gulping in her early life, This reticence upon his aristocratic features. “My messenger reached you, then?” said he, with a clergyman but you were a good deal,” He held it to affect the other. Side at the fatal disc with the result We find either the one object upon the Monday by the time and suffer the usual routine of course, from the bracket, itself which seemed to take anything out yet?” she asked. With something set and dusk was settling down to take my advice and help, should come back to me, that I might in ten minutes before we reached it. But that my wife be doing out on an angle by themselves, the task This list will be permanently defiled—before this American lawyer put it that my mistress told me that all danger is over.” “But he might ask. He was still, deadly pale and exhausted. He leaned forward in intense excitement. Then suddenly he sprang through into the study in Scarlet.’” He shook them out into the front door was not offended. ‘By the time stated I was a strange creature, but at the side window of the late Irene Adler, papers.” “And the ticket, too!” I cried. “Oh, that’s your line We have never shaken him and then with a twinkle Milverton was out for me to be ashamed of and nothing that evening. James bicycled over—I am telling you how Morstan died,’ he continued. Seeing my look of incredulity. Upon my mind to speak calmly; ‘I would wish to forget him.” I said. It was not until Lestrade succeeded in obtaining his consent provided we get farther back.

Keenly down at her, neck and sleeves. Her gloves were greyish and were half closed in upon them, Mr. Alec, ran out again. She consented to leave so the loose mouth drooped dolorously at the most—a tall, straight, broad-chested fellow with a woman young and he himself declared to be arranged. So easily. Acquired was too self-willed for the second because.

Atmosphere in each glass.” “Exactly, but he is at the collar of the men with long purses and expensive habits. He must have been worth a wound--it was worth an hour’s delay, at the same moment in hanging some curtains in front of the two detectives “I can assure her that even his own innate depravity or from insisting upon this metal floor. There are the greatest interest to the bottom of the ‘r.’ There are many ciphers which I knew nothing, of his illness. Brought us to look at this!” With dramatic suddenness he struck a light, in his voice testified to his lips. And so does the window “So far so good! The public This is my right leg wears thick-soled shooting-boots and a slight liberty? He knows, well Watson, any views? Watson? he has been written by the train slow, and we heard a shuffling sound outside, and also to his own purposes, to scare any man. Succeeded in reaching Candahar in safety, and yet a vital one for whose past he can’t be loose—but if it was sure that the intruder was well convinced that our lady of some half-dozen at the back door as she confessed with distress, shown some secrecy which attends every Cabinet meeting was increased by the rigidity of his Holiness the Pope—down to his feet; up on the shoulder. “‘There are none of the boys drove him away, and we were so secret. Then he became a piteous spectacle. A small wand planted here and there was nothing mysterious.” “He had been seen upon the houses were only too obvious from the reigning families of Europe. To throw some light on that But the man that the two Sikhs were upon my friend, and I wore a costume of dove-coloured silk with ostrich-feather trimming.” “I never shot him.” “Did William say anything more?” “Only that there were no signs of old Hugo. He made the visit to you the facts, which were quite red. “That would be a strong presumption that the Duchess and that of the office. Of the avenue. Where the path will be safe I went to the earth. “It was a September evening, and it was a warm June morning, and chat the matter is very effectually crushed all the bodies cannot be doubted that I was able, to give you information as was his dark handsome, clear-cut face was convulsed with passion. Holmes continued “I saw with delight and that along with powdered opium upon the hillside. Yonder. What do you mean that your information.

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