I. -- The Adventure of the Empty House.

IT was in the spring of the year 1894 that all London was interested, and the fashionable earth dismayed, by the murder of the Honourable Ronald Adair under most unusual and cryptic circumstances. The public has already knowing those particulars of the crime which came out in the police investigation; but a nice deal was suppressed upon that occasion, since the case for the prosecution was so overpoweringly strong that it was not necessary to bring forward all the facts. Only now, at the end of nearly ten years, am I allowed to supply those missing links which do up the whole of that remarkable chain. The crime was of interest in itself, but that interest was as nothing to me compared to the impossible sequel, whic