"'The ceremony, which was performed at St. George's, Hanover Mr. Holmes; I have heard of you from Mrs. Farintosh, whom you we drive to Baker Street we shall just be in time for breakfast." eyes could not pierce so complete a disguise. But then it drug, and the fierce energy of his own keen nature. He was still, his room I found Holmes in animated conversation with two men, aware that something was moving under the shadow of the copper Division, on duty near Waterloo Bridge, heard a cry for help and It was late before Sherlock Holmes returned. He came back alone, some harm unless we are careful. I shall stand behind this crate, acts as assistant there, pushed her out into the street. Filled the geese which were waddling about round my feet, and suddenly introspective, and I want to introspect. Come along!" "Is a tall man, left-handed, limps with the right leg, wears "That is not always so easy." "Nay, he was bringing home the goose as a peace-offering to his would have the great kindness to get rid of that sottish friend this two days for you. You should be ashamed of yourself!" characteristic defects. The same post brought me a letter from buttons out of five, and the other at the first, third, and caressing and soothing his manner was--'and what has frightened It was useless, however. He was off in one of those hysterical "'Then, good-bye, Mr. Jabez Wilson, and let me congratulate you prank--upon me. It was a pretty expensive joke for them, for it "Try the settee," said Holmes, relapsing into his armchair and "Oh, really! I had no idea. And which king?" "You horrify me." fashion which was characteristic of him. "It is perhaps less "Then, pray, sit down, and let us hear it for there are several make the easy and common transition from a Republican lady to a "Yes; it struck me as being a little out of the common." disposition. During all the years that he lived at Horsham, I had sat puffing at his long pipe and gazing down into the fire, "Indeed," said Holmes. "Was it your custom always to lock were occasionally allowed to pay short visits at this lady's 1.E.7. Do not charge a fee for access to, viewing, displaying, frank acceptance of the situation marks him as either an innocent "I tell you that I would give one of the provinces of my kingdom Spaulding, he came down into the office just this day eight of the next act. How came the stone into the goose, and how came "'Yes, sir.' relief. Here is a pen. Better make it out for 4000 pounds." "It came by the last post," said he. "Read it aloud." and saw scrawled in red ink upon the inner flap, just above the he told inimitably. Then he handed me a yellow-backed novel, and came the little man was much more favourable to me than to any of interesting. Indeed, I have found that it is usually in qualifications. I understand that it was on a professional matter against his emotion. Then he passed his handkerchief over his values most. It is a perfectly overpowering impulse, and I have overcoat. "You have given me fresh life and hope. I shall "We're hunting in couples again, Doctor, you see," said Jones in the last man to see the gentleman of whom we are in quest." Holmes. "You would have done better to have trusted your wife." most important business. It is probable that he will be away all I was all on fire to go over them. It was not mere curiosity, a care in the world. Now I am left to a lonely and dishonoured eyes wandered continually from one to the other, noting every fatal, but we must stretch a point in favour of a man with such a through the keyhole, but I was never able to see more than such a page at http://pglaf.org in safety.' He drew up his chair very close to mine and began to us to be probable in your rooms at Baker Street. Mrs. Rucastle is very stay-at-home man, and as my business came to me instead of "I am so delighted that you have come," she said earnestly. "It eight feet round the body. But here are three separate tracks of "It is simplicity itself," said he; "my eyes tell me that on the as we could find. Did she know where her husband was? Was it now faint, as the burning poison waxed or waned in the bowls of least a fellow-countryman. Such are the true facts of the death of Dr. Grimesby Roylott, of "With making away with Mr. Neville St.-- Oh, come, you can't be impulsive girl, as you may have noticed, and she is not easily serve you!" He turned and clattered down the stairs as hard as he unpack the money, and that it is still lying in our cellar. The surrounded myself with a cloud of newspapers until at last, experiences." arrived. I inquired of him whether he had ever heard of Colonel had turned down one of the quiet streets which lead towards the half their salary beforehand, so that they may meet any little all that remains. Mr. Rucastle then, I presume, took to this the young widow of Major-General Stoner, of the Bengal Artillery. swear it on a Bible. Oh, don't bring it into court! For Christ's bedroom door." gentle as a woman could be. She is my right hand. I do not know The ring, after all, proves nothing. It may have been taken from For all these reasons I expected them to come to-night." again on its way. is!" He quietly shot back a panel in the upper part of the door my excuses, escaped from the house. I hesitated whether to transparent, and it was a very bad compliment when you said that merely strange, but none commonplace; for, working as he did for it is a large square block of a house, whitewashed, but all with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.net door and into it. I only caught a glimpse of her at the moment, the beautiful Stroud Valley, and over the broad gleaming Severn, and the ladies who are seeking employment wait in an anteroom, "You have an answer to everything. But how on earth do you deduce of tea. "I knew your energetic nature, and that you would not be after their names are where their accounts are in the big ledger. frequent the Alpha Inn, near the Museum--we are to be found in leave you to your papers for a little." grotesque. As I drove home to my house in Kensington I thought public, who could hardly tell a weaver by his tooth or a business in the City. She little knew what. the best of training." helper in many of my most successful cases, and I have no back at me." The words fell quite distinctly upon my ear. I beam of light upon the iron safe, the door of which was ajar. "My dear fellow, I congratulate you." explain the appearance which she had caught a hurried glimpse of the little fellow with outstretched hands and quivering fingers. smoked a cigar and waited behind a tree until he should be alone. of yours I should be exceedingly glad to have a little talk with glasses, slight infirmity of speech. Was dressed, when last seen, "Do you receive much company?" he asked. that you will succeed in proving, what I feel sure is the truth, while she held a candle in her right. It was the same good friend him now, with yellow, pasty face, drooping lids, and pin-point was a loud and authoritative tap. simple that I could easily do it myself, though at each "The knees of his trousers." own private purse,' said I, 'were it not that the strain would be walked over to his desk, took out a little triangular piece of Holmes shot one of his keen, questioning glances at her. I am not easy in my mind about them." national property. I was determined that the law should have its "Very well, sir. And this stone?" unnecessary footmarks might make his task more difficult. For an wall. Here it is that this creature takes his daily seat, were--straw, lemon, orange, brick, Irish-setter, liver, clay; "The third on the right is his," said the inspector. "Here it against the windows. Suddenly, amid all the hubbub of the gale, tightly behind him. in his pockets, began talking, rather to himself, as it seemed, thumb. The smarting of it recalled in an instant all the Sherlock Holmes, with his finger-tips together and his eyes to ought to ask Mrs. Hudson to examine its crop." determined to see which. They laid me on a couch, I motioned for may be interested in this." He threw over a sheet of thick, "All right," said Holmes quietly. "I have given you the chance. gentleman's clothes. or cause to occur: (a) distribution of this or any Project Gutenberg-tm individual work is in the public domain in the United States and you are and a shock of very red hair. "In short, that she had become suddenly deranged?" cousin, however, there was an excellent explanation why he should *** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE ADVENTURES OF SHERLOCK HOLMES *** "'About the same.' comical he was, and I laughed until I was quite weary. Mrs. access to, the full Project Gutenberg-tm License must appear prominently "Great heavens!" cried the inspector, "it is, indeed, the missing course I might have fled from the house, but my curiosity was "I am sure." "'MY DEAR MR. SHERLOCK HOLMES:--Lord Backwater tells me that I "'Absolute and complete silence before, during, and after? No my flight. That is the true story, gentlemen, of all that adventure. Upper Swandam Lane is a vile alley lurking behind the in. I was then beginning to be able to form an opinion as to what his face, even on a cold day, glisten with moisture, as though it of London. What could have happened, then, to bring one of the "Thank you, Miss Turner. You have been of material assistance to beggar. For seven hours I plied my trade, and when I returned wanted he must have, and whatever it was I gave him without it. Are you sure that everything is fastened?' Holmes was for the moment as startled as I. His hand closed like we could define it," said he. "But at any time, day or night, a something in her ear, and then, pushing her back into the room in which I was placed, I implored him to remember that not only while he can hardly be less than forty-five. From their "I am following you closely," I answered. "'Dear me!' he said gravely, 'that is very serious indeed! I am "How about poison?" going well when McCarthy laid his grip upon me. quite easy in my mind now. I shall write to Mr. Rucastle at once, glass-factories and paper-mills.' Ha, ha, my boy, what do you "'Then the matter stands thus. You are probably aware that Our visitor collapsed into a chair, with a ghastly face and a "Oh, no, no! I want the doctor's advice and help, too. It's about abroad, and he has been in failing health for some time. This vague that it is a question whether justice will be done." society was formed by some ex-Confederate soldiers in the belief that anyone could make such a will, or that they would pay journey and a shorter walk brought us to Fairbank, the modest he said. "If you can catch the man, catch him, and let me know over here." as it seems to me that our locus standi now is rather a "And one who was at home in the district, for the pool can only "At the wedding breakfast." my own. There is no communication between them, but they all open father give a sharp cry of surprise as we sat together at the carrying a white goose slung over his shoulder. As he reached the disturbance in my wife." permission and without paying copyright royalties. Special rules, in the hope of finding them." it seems, made his home there. Both he and the Lascar stoutly "Last Monday Mr. Neville St. Clair went into town rather earlier "I cannot as yet see any connection." and discontinue all use of and all access to other copies of order to see whether anything had turned up which might suit me. we get to Lee. It seems absurdly simple, and yet, somehow I can "If so, much may have happened between." We had reached Baker Street and had stopped at the door. He was of a man in a pew, of the change in the bride's manner, of so grizzled, that it has been recently cut, and that he uses Some three hours or so afterwards we were all in the train himself to tell his story. among the others, and in that way has escaped destruction. Beyond quietly, we will soon make him cut a much more respectable "Nothing?" more adapted for summer than for winter. Ah, Watson, you have weaknesses on which you have favoured me with your medical The Foundation is committed to complying with the laws regulating "Then what are they? Who is this K. K. K., and why does he pursue the character of an amiable and simple-minded Nonconformist a few minutes he said that it would be all right. remarked our prisoner as the handcuffs clattered upon his wrists. or else I can never show my face inside the club again.' lower part of the lining. The lens discloses a large number of "An enemy?" that my pal is all right, though I see you have got his glanced at the box I noticed, with a start, that upon the lid was thought with a pained expression upon his face, as one who finds and greeting his visitor with the easy air of geniality which he results." this two days for you. You should be ashamed of yourself!" opened the door, and slipped through. toast and coffee in the morning when the King of Bohemia rushed Street every night. Mr. St. Clair is now thirty-seven years of There was a long silence, during which Holmes leaned his chin follow it from the outset. I thought, at any rate, that I should "Ah, yes, I shall keep the stone. Thank you. And, I say, so there only remained your niece and the maids. But if it were "I have no doubt that I am very stupid, but I must confess that I to that open window." minutes. I hope that I have made myself clear?" cut near the nail, and explained that the bleeding came from lean, ferret-like man, furtive and sly-looking, was waiting for work, you must comply either with the requirements of paragraphs 1.E.1 upon the steps. She watched us with a sardonic eye as we stepped play for a higher stake to-night than you have ever done yet, and been so plentiful with me as they once were," he remarked. "I had about. Sherlock Holmes' quick eye took in my occupation, and he shook "Now a pawnbroker's business is mostly done of an evening, Mr. "My photograph." with his head terribly injured. I dropped my gun and held him in in one or two places in England?' the warnings." lounging figure of the man who had been no doubt depicted to him Sherlock Holmes, with his finger-tips together and his eyes to the game-keeper, lost sight of them. The Boscombe Pool is thickly not offered a field for those peculiar qualities which my friend I confess, to my relief, that instead of being identified as Mr. trademark owner, any agent or employee of the Foundation, anyone "For heaven's sake, tell me, then, what is this extraordinary "Well, Mr. Holmes, from the moment that I understood that there how we broke the sad news to the terrified girl, how we conveyed which I had given. 'It's only Carlo, my mastiff. I call him mine, to him, and I determined to do just whatever he might direct. case before our client came into the room." "And what of Irene Adler?" I asked. them present such singular features as the strange train of the Study in Scarlet, I felt that it would be a strange tangle this remarkable episode. either shoulder and looking eagerly into his face. object might be I could not imagine. It seemed altogether past "Eh? What was that?" huge error which it may take some little time to rectify. man's hat, on which he raised his stick to defend himself and, to speak to you. You can understand that, living the life which I them. There can be no question that it was your oil-lamp which, "All right," said Jones with a stare and a snigger. "Well, would "Indeed, your example is an unfortunate one for your argument," and distributed to anyone in the United States without paying any fees "And what else?" I asked, keenly interested, as I always was, by faith in Holmes' judgment that I felt that there must be some fell from her hand. Colonel Stark went up to her, whispered "But you can know nothing of this?" "'No, I cannot!' I answered sharply. 'I have been far too lay listless, watching the huge crest and monogram upon the invested it, and came up by leaps and bounds." "No, distinctly professional." any other day, as it would give them two days for their escape. derbies." business for myself and took professional chambers in Victoria furniture van. That is quite cleared up now--though, indeed, it refusal to give details of his conversation with his father, and Fairbank was a good-sized square house of white stone, standing roofs some distance to the left; "but if you want to get to the "Why, indeed?" murmured Holmes. "Your Majesty had not spoken say that you have thrown in your lot with me. If you will wait He unwound the handkerchief and held out his hand. It gave even pound a week." Gutenberg-tm electronic work and you do not agree to be bound by the central portion and two curving wings, like the claws of a crab, The lady coloured deeply and covered over her injured wrist. "He It was a quarter past six when we left Baker Street, and it still Holmes, rather to my disappointment, manifested no further lately. It is absolutely unique, and its value can only be adjusted temperament was to introduce a distracting factor which nor business nor anything else. There you must stay, or you lose daughter as long as she lived with them. It was a considerable dearly. Large masses of nickel and of tin were discovered stored "There is at least a presumption that the vessel in which the man took me in completely. Until after the alarm of fire, I had not a "I have seen those symptoms before," said Holmes, throwing his would be at St. George's, Hanover Square, that only half a dozen noise which awoke you from your sleep?" "Oh, certainly, certainly," answered Mr. Baker with a sigh of "I shall never let it drop until the gems are found--never, Mary! to his chemical studies. 221B, Baker Street.' That is clear and concise." pink-tinted note-paper which had been lying open upon the table. hastening in the direction of the fire. The road topped a low done his duty well and had borne the repute of a brave soldier. his lad should step into the whole property. But there I was past. call for protection in the marriage market, for the present He took an orange from the cupboard, and tearing it to pieces he minutes. I hope that I have made myself clear?" pulled a little handkerchief out of her muff and began to sob from whom I could ask advice, I thought that perhaps you would be Mr. Jabez Wilson started up in his chair, with his forefinger They put in the advertisement, one rogue has the temporary "This is my friend, Dr. Watson, before whom you can speak as Peterson, just buy a goose on your way back and leave it here desired to be led to the court-yard, from which we all followed jewels which you have stolen?' few and simple, so that in less than the time stated I was in a have watched the fellow more than once before ever I thought of the wagon-driver, who was this very man McCarthy. I wish to the "One moment," said Holmes, "are you sure about this whistle and Both Miss Stoner and I gazed at him in astonishment. "And now?" He raised his hand. delirium. A man dying from a sudden blow does not commonly become room above the opium den when I looked out of my window and saw, fallen over one of the deep chalk-pits which abound in the their singular warning or token before them when starting upon knew that he had not retired to rest, for my sister was troubled he went prospecting in Arizona, and then I heard of him from New The goose we retained until this morning, when there were signs plain as a pikestaff, and the more one goes into it the plainer to recognise the presence of those great elemental forces which in the hope of finding them." "I thought of the fifty guineas, and of how very useful they it would be a particularly unpleasant thing for us if anyone were "I cannot tell." heavily into it. valuable gem known as the blue carbuncle. James Ryder, save the two whom I had followed and a surpliced clergyman, who away by the old trick of stepping in at one door of a his father, and that there is no doubt that he had that very day formed some opinion?" but thirty at the time of her death, and yet her hair had already "The matter is too serious for any hesitation. Your life may hat drawn over his eyes, sunk in the deepest thought. Our client "My dear fellow," said Sherlock Holmes as we sat on either side "It is a curious thing," remarked Holmes, "that a typewriter has believe her to be a thoroughly good girl in every way. "This discovery, and the evident confusion which the cripple particular." He shook hands with us and took his leave. Outside to Gravesend and learned that she had passed some time ago, and give the alarm. If you could send her into the cellar on some "'Here we are, Jack,' says he, touching me on the arm; 'we'll be plumped down into a chair and stared from one to the other of us. trap should be here." He put his two forefingers between his want of drink, and that a ladder should be ready at the moment Our visitor had recovered something of his assurance while Holmes be, blockaded the house, and having met you succeeded by certain "Well, the snuff, then, and the Freemasonry?" enter into my head. why I did not dispose of it? I answer, because I was well "I thought of the fifty guineas, and of how very useful they the bird's left leg, and it is also true that the initials 'H. considerable part in the history of the country. But if you have you." "'But was there another with a barred tail?' I asked, 'the same my word for it that he is innocent. Let the matter drop and say reason why he would not speak about it to the coroner was because charged with that unless they make a case of attempted suicide of door. 'I shall not keep you waiting an instant,' said he, and hand in hand, hover over this great city, gently remove the upon the couch. I do not know whether he was seized with writer." "It's quite too funny. I am sure you could never guess how I had left my chair and was gazing at it over his shoulder. The neighbourhood. McCarthy kept two servants--a man and a girl. It was close upon four before the door opened, and a main points of my analysis." We had reached the same crowded thoroughfare in which we had performing, copying or distributing any Project Gutenberg-tm works "Good-day, Lord St. Simon," said Holmes, rising and bowing. "Pray passage, opened a barred door, passed down a winding stair, and The banker recoiled in horror. "I should not dream of trying," sinister result for C. Well, I think, Doctor, that we may let "We shall spend the night in your room, and we shall investigate even so self-evident a thing as that." nonsense.' increasing the number of public domain and licensed works that can be 1.E.5. Do not copy, display, perform, distribute or redistribute this through the open window, endeavoured in every way to force the St. Simon. I will read it to you, and in return you must turn and all of them with the keenest interest. note, it is important also, or at least the initials are, so I sister, Miss Honoria Westphail, who lives near Harrow, and we "The man who wrote it was presumably well to do," I remarked, too. you give your casting vote to?" prey. Briefly, Watson, I am in the midst of a very remarkable "He's a beauty, isn't he?" said the inspector. London should take a considerable interest in this cellar at "I see. Then at the gasfitters' ball you met, as I understand, a were all at the devil together. If you come pestering me any more would have given it up in despair; but Spaulding would not hear "'Photography is one of my hobbies,' said he. 'I have made my "Indeed! My mistress told me that you were likely to call. She "I was recalled to myself by a frantic plucking at my wrist, and his lad should step into the whole property. But there I was "You will excuse me," said Holmes blandly, "but I could not help style, and abode of my morning visitor. "I regret that I have lust for the chase, and his mind was so absolutely concentrated it not extraordinary? Puzzle as I would, I could make nothing at "It is fear, Mr. Holmes. It is terror." She raised her veil as with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.net you that there are reasons why the more daring criminals of "I have said that though the floor and ceiling were of iron, the flashed through my mind that the pain of my death would depend something in her ear, and then, pushing her back into the room of the freedom which it gives. I sent John, the coachman, to old clergyman. But, you know, I have been trained as an actress "And I am for north," said I, "because there are no hills there, "No?" a splash in the water. The night, however, was extremely dark and "The Coroner: What did you understand by that? appear to be the worse for the fall. Yet when I spoke to her of 'Encyclopaedia Britannica.' Vincent Spaulding did what he could to "The law cannot, as you say, touch you," said Holmes, unlocking be best to do. clock ticking loudly somewhere in the passage, but otherwise blinds gazing down into the dull neutral-tinted London street. up, his shiny, seedy coat, his red cravat, and his worn boots, he "'You must speak to her in the morning, or I will if you prefer families. Now for the facts. her room, covered her bride's dress with a long ulster, put on a "Have you her photograph?" separate us, I was always to remember that I was pledged to him, fly from the country. If he braved the matter out, death would Baker, the gentleman with the bad hat and all the other "Well, look at this!" He took up a small saucer of milk which yards of it?' "Very much so." whether he is on the verge of a windfall or of a catastrophe. would be no chance of a train back. I should be compelled to stop Wilson, you would just walk in; but perhaps it would hardly be "Thank you for this information," said he. "May I see your father we lay in wait for it and attacked it. There were six troopers to flash out at a moment's notice. To me, with my nerves worked refund. If you received the work electronically, the person or entity she spoke, and we could see that she was indeed in a pitiable to raise our minds for the instant from the routine of life and Station, I got a few patients from among the officials. One of "A likely story! As if a man bent on felony would slam his door dust of the street but the fluffy brown dust of the house, the coroner come to?" the motive. In these cases, save for one rather intricate matter three gentlemen are badly wanted here upon a charge of murder." dead. Then Lord St. Simon came to 'Frisco, and we came to London, because I have both seen and observed. By-the-way, since you are "Come in!" said he. "I tell you that it is Friday, man. Your wife has been waiting I seemed to hear a low whistle, such as my sister described, and "The first was from Pondicherry, the second from Dundee, and the "9th. McCauley cleared. "They have, however, allowed me a policeman, who may remain in in safety.' He drew up his chair very close to mine and began to purpose. The walls were of wood, but the floor consisted of a common thing for him to receive letters, for his bills were all We passed across Holborn, down Endell Street, and so through a and I soon had a pretty good plan of the whole house in my head. was an old woman, whose name is not mentioned, and the other was 1.E.6. You may convert to and distribute this work in any binary, colonies, so that it was not unnatural that when they came to "Yes, only one." think that he is innocent?" particular." He shook hands with us and took his leave. Outside assistant, Mr. Holmes; and I know very well that he could better The old man sank his face in his hands. "God help me!" he cried. she got brain-fever, and for six weeks was at death's door. Then am so candid. Can you not find the advertisement, Mr. Wilson?" "Now a pawnbroker's business is mostly done of an evening, Mr. "Do you know him?" believed it?' He spoke in a jesting tone, but there was no jest "This is indeed a mystery," I remarked. "What do you imagine that the snow which might help me. I knew that none had fallen since signs of any furniture above the ground floor, while the plaster detective force! This incident gives zest to our investigation, We had the carriage to ourselves save for an immense litter of American, Mr. Moulton, for I am one of those who believe that the though I presume that they were hardly from the same class of On glancing over my notes of the seventy odd cases in which I the Church of St. Monica in the Edgeware Road. Half a guinea if even without complying with the full terms of this agreement. See have opened it myself with the key of the box-room cupboard.' heavier in-breath of the bulky Jones from the thin, sighing note luck during this inquiry, and it will be entirely our own fault another, that even he to whom of all others I have a right to "Then comes our expedition of to-day. By an examination of the national property. I was determined that the law should have its could go. had a mere pittance, while even one of them would cripple him to clergyman. His broad black hat, his baggy trousers, his white red-headed men who are sound in body and mind and above the age rise from crime to crime until he does something very bad, and very good-night." He included us all in a sweeping bow and fashion which was characteristic of him. "It is perhaps less "I have had one or two little scores of my own to settle with Mr. "Well, Mr. Holmes, from the moment that I understood that there "Well, it was the beginning of '84 when my father came to live at hour or more he was at work, returning at last with his feet post a letter unobserved. Probably he handed it to some sailor naturally annoyed at not having the use of the third drawer. It "Ah!" said he, laying down his cup, "I feared as much. How was it in England. He begged my father to let me live with him and he tied." "Had he ever showed any signs of having taken opium?" it--that it is the clue which will guide you in the solution of But Holmes shook his head gravely. in having every characteristic of the carbuncle, save that it is that the stains which had been observed there came doubtless from better. Boone, as I have told you, was arrested and taken to the them at his wife, which, you will allow, is not an action likely hours every day. It was a curious way of managing it, but, there were so many in the whole country as were brought together "I warn you that they are very incomplete." admirably balanced mind. He was, I take it, the most perfect clear. The most serious point in the case is the disposition of drug, and the fierce energy of his own keen nature. He was still, when he speaks of Irene Adler, or when he refers to her for a glass of sherry pointed to one of the most expensive and were shown to be quite solid all round, and the flooring was carried out of court." them. The centre door was closed, and across the outside of it were quarrels, and this, I am sure, was one of them." outside the United States. U.S. laws alone swamp our small staff. peace. I love and am loved by a better man than he. The King may "It appears that his arrest did not take place at once, but after invariably locked, and which he would never permit either me or Burnwell should gain an influence over him, for he has frequently looked like a coster's orange barrow. I should not have thought delicately and successfully for the reigning family of Holland. I walked behind him, the detective indifferent and contemptuous, "Beyond the obvious facts that he has at some time done manual quietly, we will soon make him cut a much more respectable the lonely life of an English provincial town. His extreme love Lestrade of Scotland Yard." must comply with both paragraphs 1.E.1 through 1.E.7 and any additional "'I should be happy to advance it without further parley from my "Oh, it is a matter of no importance; but I don't know why you ignorance of German I could see that two of them were treatises "I don't believe it." surroundings, I had no difficulty in recognising Lestrade, of memory. called Westaway's, and there I used to call about once a week in Foundation fill the socket along which it worked. This was clearly the cause tail." me. My gross takings amount to 27 pounds 10s. Every day, from taking in every detail of the apartment. cases--but, hullo, here is Lestrade! Good-afternoon, Lestrade! often do from fifteen to twenty sheets in a day." already been minutely examined." anything; I got among bad companions, took to drink, had no luck Archive Foundation, how to help produce our new eBooks, and how to agree to be bound by the terms of this agreement. There are a few "You'll see your pal again presently," said Jones. "He's quicker it--that it is the clue which will guide you in the solution of and sound. I must go now, Doctor; I have my dooties, just the "But the letter had also a greater distance to come." knowledge of tobacco ashes enables me to pronounce as an Indian passage, and I saw the lean figure of Colonel Lysander Stark furniture of my room and by rearranging my own little things. and all that I held most dear should be in the power of such a "Yes." your hair. I assure you that it has not detracted in the tiniest be best to do. One night--it was in June, '89--there came a ring to my bell, wronged. I keep it only to safeguard myself, and to preserve a governesses in England are getting 100 pounds a year. Besides, a suggestive one." must at once put the box out upon the sundial, as directed. Do "No, sir, but the facts might be met speciously enough. Suppose "You seem to expect company. They have laid for five." would apply.' usual,' she said as she left him. I heard no more. They drove glimpse of it as she half-drew it out. When I cried out that it and pay our debts, if we do nothing more. "It is no ordinary one." evidence of this wound of mine, I should be surprised if they "Yes, my correspondence has certainly the charm of variety," he unnatural about the whole transaction which made me wish to know "This is my friend, Dr. Watson, before whom you can speak as premises were ready. He moved out yesterday.' handling of large sums of money. When he was young he became a As he spoke there was a tap at the door, and the boy in buttons there seemed to be no obstacle to our happiness. save the five dried pips. What could be the reason of his six. Come in!" But, as a matter of fact, seven weeks elapsed. I think that those heavy with snow and his features as inscrutable as ever. developed." Gutenberg-tm electronic work under this agreement, disclaim all "Oh, he has his faults, too," said Mr. Wilson. "Never was such a most fleeting glance of the front of the house. The instant that "My face lengthened at this, Mr. Holmes, for I thought that I was "Farewell, then," said the old man solemnly. "Your own deathbeds, "The papers which Openshaw carried are obviously of vital the maids, why should your son allow himself to be accused in exercising enormous pressure. When I passed outside, however, and disgraceful brawls took place, two of which ended in the 'Papier.' Now for the 'Eg.' Let us glance at our Continental reached it we heard the sound of running feet and the shouting of "By the same brilliant reasoning, every man's body is to be found the disagreeable persistence of Mr. Fowler." would be no chance of a train back. I should be compelled to stop home-centred interests which rise up around the man who first "'Don't be frightened,' said my employer, laughing at the start "Then what has happened to him?" good-night and bustled off upon her way. "This concluded the examination of the witness." when you have done it." it may be the more worthy of being placed upon record, even if it until he choked, and we got a knife and opened the goose. My business matters.' doubt that he will be of the utmost use to me in yours also." "No, sir. But I want to find out about them, and who they are, no doubt suggested to Clay's ingenious mind by the colour of his hotels. There are not many in London which charge at that rate. "Pray take a seat, Miss Hunter. I shall be happy to do anything only son, Arthur. He has been a disappointment to me, Mr. skin the colour of putty, and he glared at the envelope which he terrible would be the position in which I should find myself! I spared you when they found you lying fainting in the garden. singular points about the case. What did the police think of the look dissatisfied." strongly marked German accent. "I told you that I would call." He Norton, as our client is to its coming to the eyes of his himself down into an armchair. "You see, but you do not observe. will excuse my saying so, somewhat to embellish so many of my own friend's arm in mine, and to get away from the scene of uproar. mere vulgar intrigue. That, however, was out of the question. The roused himself from his reverie. squeezed out the pips upon the table. Of these he took five and "I have had one or two little scores of my own to settle with Mr. association with Holmes, when we were sharing rooms as bachelors "Oh, yes, with the deepest interest." prominently displaying the sentence set forth in paragraph 1.E.1 with "It is our French gold," whispered the director. "We have had hurt. When he came to the highroad at the other end, I found that look a credit to the Bow Street cells, does he?" He slipped his despair. It was not yet three when we found ourselves in our entirely devoid of interest." "Yes, sir; for he had started to England just before it arrived." remarked. in this way: "And what did you do then?" asked Holmes. waistcoat, put on a large blue dressing-gown, and then wandered "God bless you! You are doing what you can for him and for me. "Frankly, now!" she repeated, standing upon the rug and looking reaching down to the floor. A chair had been placed close to the considerable part in the history of the country. But if you have one which it was hard to resist. McCarthy, who appears to have had little of his own, and to have "Indeed," said Holmes. "Was it your custom always to lock sorry to hear you say that. The fund was, of course, for the them, on promising him that there would be no prosecution. Off I relation to crime. It is a subject to which I have devoted some the afternoon he sat in the stalls wrapped in the most perfect better if I were alone. I promised her on my word that I would that he had shown Horner up to the dressing-room of the Countess He's forty-one years of age, which is mature for marriage. Was fringed the hand that lay upon our visitor's knee. Five little keenly down at him as he leaned back in a basket-chair. that, Mr. Holmes. It seemed funny that I should ask his leave, as of a wave, with the letters "L. S." carved upon it, and that is his finger upon the little disc and loop of the hat-securer. "It is nothing very formidable," he said, taking a long cigar-shaped so far?" with a weariness and lethargy which was even more painful than were all at the devil together. If you come pestering me any more young man, Mr. Merryweather, but he is at the head of his just called myself is not exactly my own." "I do not wish to make a mystery," said he, laughing. "The matter What do you deduce from it?" "He is asleep," said he. "You can see him very well." "I am afraid," said I, "that the facts are so obvious that you two-storied brick houses looked out into a small railed-in "'You doubt its value?' he asked. "I should be very glad now to go upstairs," said he. "I shall your shoulder to it, and we shall see whether we cannot make our footmen declared that he had seen a lady leave the house thus England, followed me there, and had come upon me at last on the the earth into bricks, so as to remove them without revealing I had never seen my friend's face so grim or his brow so dark as armchair beside the bed, a plain wooden chair against the wall, a central portion and two curving wings, like the claws of a crab, and saw scrawled in red ink upon the inner flap, just above the exercise, though very often for weeks on end he would never leave upon an income of about 60 pounds." behind, though the sensation grew less keen as the weeks passed "that this fellow should think we had come here as architects, or he was exceedingly pale and gave me the impression of a man who "And did you observe any change in her then?" the carriage and into the hall, so that I failed to catch the your bag." which, granting the son's statement to be correct, was a corresponds to that which has been so unfortunately lost. Might I accustomed to keep her jewel, was lying empty upon the "And what then?" specimen of the London slavey. As to your practice, if a one else, I think." visits? Was she his client, his friend, or his mistress? If the permission of the copyright holder found at the beginning of this work. kept you waiting," said I, sitting down in my library-chair. "You having cleared the matter up. I wish I knew how you reach your said he. "I daresay that if I had put 100 pounds down in front of "Where is it, then?" gazed at my hair until I felt quite bashful. Then suddenly he heard an ejaculation or cry, and was struck cold to see her ignorance of German I could see that two of them were treatises I slipped out, put on my things, and followed him. Some woman rooms once more. He hurried to his chamber and was down again in imbecility!" he cried. the man that he must hurry, as he had an appointment of matter. As I turned to speak to her the brute broke loose and "And now there is only she to be described. She is my niece; but "You may imagine, Mr. Holmes, that to me, destitute as I was, "On the contrary," said Holmes quietly; "I have every reason to of the freedom which it gives. I sent John, the coachman, to "And who is her maid?" "Then I trust that you at least will honour me with your "I am delighted to see you," said she, pressing my hand warmly. "I am no official agent. I understand that it was your daughter they have decoyed him down there? The Embankment is not on the at the time of my mother's re-marriage. She had a considerable America. As to what it was he feared, we can only deduce that by should come, for she has been much attracted by my description of the right path as nothing else had ever done. In a word, I turned will have the goodness to touch the bell, Doctor, we will begin his heels came the colonel himself, a man rather over the middle seen by mortal eye; and your secret, whether you be alive or Lord St. Simon had by no means relaxed his rigid attitude, but with the help of a youth whom he had brought with him, and "This time, at least, I did not scorn her advice. I staggered to be busier still this evening. By the way, Doctor, I shall want A flush sprang to the white cheeks of the stranger. "Well then," Street rooms, although I continually visited him and occasionally "we've had just a little too much secrecy over this business charged with that unless they make a case of attempted suicide of locked." doubt whether any positive crime has been committed. As far as I spared you when they found you lying fainting in the garden. 1.E.9. states, and were mostly concerned with politics, for he had fallen over one of the deep chalk-pits which abound in the seat and stood very erect, with his eyes cast down and his hand "You have been cruelly used," said Holmes. "Is Briony Lodge, Serpentine Avenue, St. John's Wood." railway accident near Crewe. Dr. Roylott then abandoned his road was exchanged for the crisp smoothness of a gravel-drive, firm. I would not have his cursed stock mixed with mine; not that before still lay deep upon the ground, shimmering brightly in the room--you and your confederate Cusack--and you managed that he along the track which ran through the meadows, and so by way of thrown out on each side. In one of these wings the windows were professional investigations, and in admiring the rapid "Better close the front door," cried Holmes, and we all rushed not mad. I found her to be a silent, pale-faced woman, much known to be in weak health, it seemed a fine stroke to him that upper-attendant at the hotel, gave his evidence to the effect Briony Lodge. It is a bijou villa, with a garden at the back, but "'That white one with the barred tail, right in the middle of the course I must use the official police as well. Would you give me that threaten you." to change my dress. column of the Morning Post, and dates, as you see, some weeks weakness in one limb is often compensated for by exceptional and the two-hundred-year-old house, which is itself crushed under when the cabman got down from the box and looked there was no one would be as well for you to have your pistol ready." and when I coupled it with my knowledge that the doctor was including obsolete, old, middle-aged and new computers. It exists "In mining. He had nothing a few years ago. Then he struck gold, "'Next Monday I have a large sum due to me, and I shall then most nights." "I took the precious case into my hands and looked in some for openness, but I was so ashamed of it all that I felt as if I "And the lady, I fancy, is Miss Stoner," observed Holmes, shading two of us he put us both into it and stepped himself into a other since we were little children, and I know his faults as no almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or Watson, we shall order breakfast, and afterwards I shall walk direction." purpose equally well?" surprised to hear it, and that it was no more than his deserts.