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) SHERLOCK
HOLMES
By A. CONAN DOYLE.
Author of "The Adventures of Sherlock lloliuet."
"The llounJ of the !nkerville." ' ' he Sum
of the four," "A Study In Seirlei." lit.-.
The Adventure
the Solitary
Cyclist
No. 4 of the Series
of
(C..'irii. JMI. A !';! U Wi
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( Cif'lto, l'Ci. MtClmr,. J"ii..i, t'.J
i:nM ill.- viMix 1S!-1 to
Fj liH.il. im-hiie. Mr. Slier
I lock Holmes was a very
IHI 1U.1U. 11 PHUT lu
say that there was no
imlilii- case of any ilitli
i iilty lu vhn li lie was
uot consulted during those eisht yours,
mid there were hundreds of private
cases, some of tueui of tin1 iii-i-t In
trleato ami extraordinary chat-act---.-.
In which lie ilayeil a prominent a:-.
As 1 have preserved very full n t s o
ffll these cases mul was myself i"-. - m
ally entitled in many of them. : ma.,
be iuiaiMiod -ha. it is no c.iy r:u t
l.uow whii h i Mmuld scicci to 1. 1.. !
fjre the pulil.c 1 isliiill. however, pre
poi-ve uiy former rule ami pive the pre;'
CT Vice to those ( a-es which derive tiie.v
in erost not so tinuh from tlic lirutnlity
of the crime as from the ingenuity an. I
tU'umatic liiiulity of the solution. For
this reason I will now lay before the
reader the facts connected with Miss
iolet Smith, the solitary cyclist of 1
Qurliugton, and the curious sequel of
our Investigation, which culminated in j
unexpected tragedy. j
On referring to ruy notebook for the i
year lSOo 1 find that It was upon Sat
urday, the 23d of April, that we tlrnt
Uard of Miss Violet Smith. Uer visit
vas, I remember, extremely unwel
come to Holmes, for he was immersed
Et .the moment In a very abstruse and
complicated problem concerning the
I culiar persecution to which John Vln
ccrut Harden, the well known tobacco
millionaire, had been subjected. My
friend, who loved above all things pre
cision and concentration of thought, re
sented anything which distracted hh
attention from the matter In hand.
And yet, without a harshness which
vas foreign to his nature, It was Im
I osslble to refuse to listen to the story
cX the young a;d beautiful woman, tall,
graceful and queenly, who presented
licrself at Daker ..cruet late in the
eyejiiug and implored Ills as':istanee
and advice. It was vain to urge that
lils time was already fully occupied,
for the young lady had come with the
determination to tell her story, mul it
vaa evident that nothing short of fore1
:ou!d get her -lut of the room until sue
lnui done so. With a resigned nir ami
ir. Hotucwhat weary smile, Holmes beg
ed the beiiriful intruder to take a
neat and to in.orni us what it was thai
ras troubling her.
' At least it cannot bo your health."
Kfliil lie as t.! ; keen eyes ilat"e I over
her 'So anient a hii-velis? mu-t be
flill of energy."
-h" glaneed down in siiht -c
aw:, feet, and I observed l!ie
roilirlieliing of Ilie side of tile sole
ell by lhe frietioti of tlie e !g .
peil.il.
' ' Vc. 1 Ijiev.-le a g.). I ' i .. !
Uoliues. and that has something
wilii my visit to you today. "
My friend t.,.;; n,,. j;,,;.-. u:,.
fiaiul mid examined it wi.ii m r,.
atfeii;j,,n iiiid n.i little sen; ir..cni
at I.e.
iga! eall j.
.1' til
. .Mr.
t-i il .
: ..-.e l
j.-e an
a;; a
scientist would show to a spei.-im.-n.
"Von will e.ei;se me, am sure. II
la my business." said lie as lie dropped
It. 4 I hear!" fell into tin- error of Mlp
liOnllig that .'oil were typowritiiig. (if
course It Is oloiuiis thai it is
Vou observe me - .rui. i.- li.-j-.-e
XTat.soii, wlie-i: i ; o..il:!.n : I
fes.-iions: 'j jiel e I . jl !.; .
the 1'aee, lio ev.-r ' - .... ;j
music.
- ollds.
i pro
,, bout
tll.-nej
tyije-
It towiirtl il.e li.fi.t y ;,; ., i
ivrit'-r does i .; .... .,. T!i! i I
H tiiu-ii'-ia:;."
' Vi-s, .Mr. II i,i;.i- . 1 t. ... :, ii.n..
"In tin- imuiU-;., : :.. e-.j.
y ii
fiolu
J'pUf COlllIlil-Xelll."
"Vcs, sir; near I-'aniham. on the bor
Uerj of .Surrey."
"Now, Miss Violet, what has happen
ed to you near l'arnhaiii, on tho bor
ders of Surrey'"
The younj; lady, with great clearness
and composure, mudo the following
.-urlous ututemcut:
"i-'-T father 1 ; Oeat!, Mr. Holmes. lie
,waa James Kmith, who conducted tho
orcLeBtra Bt the old Imperial theater.
kly mother and I wero left without a
relation In the world except one un
cle, Italph fimitli. who went t Africa
twenty-five j-eurs ugo, and we have
never Lad a word from bun since.
,Vben father Iert. we were left very
Hpor, but liwwiH told, that
ll.ll.STUATLI)
nv T. I. STEI LE
iiu-it- us nu anver i-tst-nienr TO me
Times Uniuiring for our whereabouts.
Vou can imagine how excited we were,
for we thouu'lit that some one had left
us a fortune. We went at once to the
lawyer whose name was given in the
paper. There we met two gentlemen,
Mr. t'arruthers and Mr. Woodley, who
-.ere home on a visit from South Afri
ca. They said that my uncle was a
friend of theirs, that he had died some
months before in great poverty In Jo
hannesburg, and that he had asked
them with his last breath to hunt up
his relations mul see that they were in
no want. It seemed strange to us that
I'ncle lialph, who took no notice of us
when he was alive, should lie bo care
ful to look after us when he was dead,
but Mr. CarruUiers explained that the
reason was that my uncle had Just
heard of the death of his brother and
o felt responsible for our fate."
"Excuse me," said Holmes. "When
was this interview?"
"Last Ieceniler four months ago."
"Pray proceed."
"Mr. Woodley Beemed to me to be a
raoet odious person, ne was forever
making eyes at me a coarse, puffy
faced, red mustached younff man. with
his hair plastered down on each side
of bis forehead. I thought that he was
perfectly hateful, and I was sure thai
Cyril would not wish me to know Btict
a person."
"Oh, Cyril Is his name'." Bald Holmes,
smiling.
The young lady blushed and laughed.
"Yes, Mr. Holmes, Cyril Morton, an
electrical engineer, and we hope to be
married at the end of the summer.
Dear me, how did I get talking about
him? What I wished to say was that
Mr. Woodley was perfectly odious, but
that Mr. Carruthers, who waa a mnch
older man, was more agreeable. He
was a dark, sallow, clean shaven, silent
person, but he had polite manners and
a pleasant smile. He Inquired bow we
were left, and on finding that we were
very poor he suggested that I should
come and teach music to his only
daughter, aged ten. I said that I did
not like to leave my mother, on which
he suggested that I should go home to
her every week end, and he offered me
I a hundred a year, which was certainly
splendid pay. So It ended by my ac
cepting, and I went down to Chlltern
Grange, about six miles from Faro
ham. Mr. Carruthers was a widower,
but he had engaged a lady housekeep
er, a very respectable, elderly person,
called Mrs. Dixon, to look after his es
tablishment. The child was a dear, and
everything promised well. Mr. Car
ruthers was very kind and very music
al, and we had most pleasant evenings
together. Every week end I went home
to my mother In town.
'The first flaw lu my huppiuess was
I the arrival of the red mustached Mr.
I Woodley. He came for n visit of a
week, and, oh, it seemed three mouths
i to me. He was a dreadful person a
bully to every one else, but to inc somc
i thing inlinitely worse. He made odious
j ioe to me, boasted of his wealth, said
; that if I married him I could have the
! liuest diamonds lu London, and finally
; when I would have nothing to do with
' him he seized me in his urms one day
! lifter dinner he was hideously strong
! find swore that he would not let tne go
. until I had kissed him. Mr. t'urrutliers
came in and tore him from ine, on
: ivIiii-Ii he turned upon his own host,
i l.n x-Uii.g him down and Vutting his
lace o,,eii. That was the end of his
I visit, as you can imagine. Mr. Carruth
ers apologized to ine next day and as
! sureil me that I should never be ex-
posed to such an Insult again. I have
not seen Mr. Woodley since.
"And now, Mr. Holmes, I come at
last t i lie- special thing which has
caused me to ask your udvlec today.
Vou must know that every Saturday
forenoon I ride on my bicycle to Faru
liam station in order to get the
10 town. The road from Chlltern
(irange is a i iae!y one, mid at one sput
11 is particularly so, for it lies for over
a mile beuveen ( 'hai'lihglou. heath up
on one side mid the woods which lie
round ('harlingtou Hall upou the other.
Vou could not liud a more lonely tract
of road anywhere, and It Is tjuito rare
to meet ho much us a cart or u peasant
until you reach the highroad near
CrooUsbury hill. Two weeks ago I
was passing this place when I chanced
to look back over my shoulder, and
about 'J00 yards behind mo I saw a
tnuu, ulso on a bicycle. He seemed to
be a middle ngi-d man, with a short,
dark benrd. I looked back before I
reached I'arnliani, but tho man wus
g nic, so I thought no more about It.
Uut you can imagine how surprised 1
wus, Mr. Holmes, wheu on my returu on
the Monday I saw the same man on the
Hume stretch of road. My astonishment
j aw iiicrriicu Men nil- im nit'iii 111
curred again, exactly as before, tin the
, following Saturday mid Monday, lie
! i1hvasUei(bisdistaiieeanil did not nu
! lest me in any way, but still It cerlnlu
j ly was very odd. 1 mentioned It to Mr.
' Carruthers. who seemed Interested In
: what I said and told me that be had
ordered a horse and trap, so that lu fu
ture I should not pass over these lonely
roads without some companion.
"'lhe horse and trap were to have
come this week, but for some reason
they were not delivered, and again I
j had to cycle to lhe station. That was
: this morning. Vou can think that 1
looked out when 1 came to ('harlingtou
heath, and there, sure enough, was the
man. exactly as he had been the two
weeks before, lie always kept s.i far
from me that I could not cler.rly see
his face, hut it was certainly sunn1 one
whom 1 did not know. He was dressed
In a dark suit with a cloth cap. The
only thing about his face that I could
cleaily see was his dark beard.
"Today 1 was not alarmed, but 1 was
tilled with curiosity, and 1 determined
to timl out who he was and what lie
wanted. I slowed down my machine,
but he slowed down his. Then 1 stop
ped altogether, but he stopped also.
Then I laid a trap for him. There is a
sharp turning of the road, mid 1 ped
aled very ipiickly round this, and then
I stopped and waited. 1 expected him
to shoot round and pass tne before he
could stop. Hut he never appeared.
Then I went back and looked round the
corner. I could see u mile of road, but
j he was not on It. To make It the more
extraordinary, there was no side road
I at this point down which he could have
I gone."
Holmes chuckled and rubbed his
I hands. "This case certulnly presents
j some features of Its own," suld he.
, "How much time elnpsed between your
i turning the corner and your discovery
I that the road was clear?"
"Two or three minutes."
"Then he could not have retreated
down the road, and you suy that there
are no side roads?"
"None."
"Then he certainly took a footpath
on one Bide or the other."
"It could not have been on ibe side of
the heath or I Bhould have seen blm."
"So by the process of exclusion we
arrive at the fact that be made bis way
toward Charllngton Hall, which, as I
understand. Is situated In its own
grounds on one side of the road. Any
thing else?"
"Nothing, Mr. Holmes, savs that 1
was so perplexed that I felt I should
ot be happy until I had sees you and
had your advice."
Holmes sat in silence for some little
time.
"Where Is the gentleman to whom
you are engaged?" he asked at last.
"He is in the Midland Electrical com
pany, at Coventry."
"He would not pay you a surprise
visit?"
"Oh. Mr. Holmes! As if I should not
know him I"
"Have you had any other admirers?"
"Severn! before I knew Cyril."
"And since?" ,
"There was this dreadful man, Wood
ley, If you can call him an admirer."
"No one else?"
Our fair client seemed a little con
fused. "Who wus he?" asked Holmes.
"Oh, it may be n mere fancy of mine,
but it had seemed to me sometimes
that my employer, Mr. Carruthers,
takes a great deal of interest in
He lias never said anything. Ho
perfect gentlemnu. Hut a irirl nl wnvs
KllOWh. j ((
"Ha:" Holmes looked grave. "What 1
does he do for a living?" I
"He is a rich mnn." J
"No carriages or horses?"
"Well, at leust he is fairly well to do.
Hut he goes into the city two or three
times a week. Ho is deeply Interested
In South African gold shares."
"Vou will let me know any fresh de
velopment, Miss Smith. I am very
busy Just now, but I will find time to
make some inquiries into your case.
In the nicttntimo take no step without
letting mo know. Goodby, and I trust
Unit we shull have nothing but good
news from you."
"It is purt of the settled order of nn
ture that such a girl should have fol
lowers," said Holmes as he pulled at
his meditative pipe, "but for choice not
on bicycles in lonely country roads.
Some secretive lover, beyond all doubt, j
ISut there, nro curious nnd suggestive
details about tho case, Watson." j
"That he should appear only nt that j
point?" '
"Exactly. Our first effort must be to !
fuul who uro tho tenants of Charting- f
ton Hall. Then, ngaln, how about the,
connection between Carruthers und ,
Woodley, since they appear to bo men I
of such a different type? How camel
they both to be ho keen upon looking;
til lialph Smith's relations? One more
point. What sort of a ineiii-.ge is It
whli'h pays double the market price for
a g ivcrucss, but does not keep a hor a1, (
although six miles from the station?;
"Vou will g i down?"
"No, my dear fellow; you will gj
down. This may be some !r :, !g lu
trlgue, and I caiiii it lire-1; ithcr
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