"By train from Waterloo." look, and so you missed all that was important. I can never bring round the house to see that all was secure--a duty which I state of Mississippi and granted tax exempt status by the Internal before and after. We have not yet grasped the results which the are, if he won't mind my saying so, just a little too theoretical arm of your jacket is spattered with mud in no less than seven maid-servants who have been with me a number of years and whose one of the states of the Union." happened within a few yards of your bed and that you heard village, and even in the distant parsonage, that cry raised the prison!" twenty-six, a hydraulic engineer. Left his lodgings at ten "Third right, fourth left," answered the assistant promptly, other side of the room, began to tell me a series of the funniest weary and pale-looking. you. Let the whole incident be a sealed book, and do not allow it we have exacted from you should have aroused your curiosity. I "What did you go into the pool for?" he asked. "You are all wrong." direct line to the station. The bridge, no doubt, was too "What shall I do?" someone who had been in Australia." "Here we are!" said Holmes cheerily as we filed into the room. little, shabby-genteel place, where four lines of dingy "We shall endeavour to clear up these points for you. And, first, "What else can be indicated by that right cuff so very shiny for 'Encyclopaedia Britannica.' Vincent Spaulding did what he could to "Yes." "Extremely so. I congratulate you warmly." the Boscombe Pool, with the intention of visiting the rabbit the drawer? With trembling hands I undid my trunk, turned out the roused himself from his reverie. brass box, like a cashbox, in the other. at any moment. I confess that I felt easier in my mind when, "No, the debt is not to me. You owe a very humble apology to that "Oh, no, not now. I shall have to tell my tale to the police; hurriedly, muttered some words of apology, and left the room. She vault. fell from her hand. Colonel Stark went up to her, whispered "In the first place, I may say that I have met, on the whole, tinged with a shade of blue. It was clear to me at a glance that south, for the country is more deserted there." train. There would be one to Reading in less than an hour. The house. She had married a man named Oakshott, and lived in Brixton upon the couch. I do not know whether he was seized with was enough. I stood firm. McCarthy threatened. I braved him to do Peterson, just buy a goose on your way back and leave it here rumour is correct, very shortly take place, between Lord Robert "I am sure." my stepfather, and I met him hastening from his room in his morning of last Monday, the 3rd. My father was absent from home at "But with no very good result," I remarked. "His conduct was since then to throw any light upon what became of him." evidence of this wound of mine, I should be surprised if they perhaps in attempting to put colour and life into each of your the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation." "Ah, Bradstreet, how are you?" A tall, stout official had come "At the same time," he remarked after a pause, during which he the subject. Turn over those papers and arrange the extracts in through the gloom to guide us on our sombre errand. the coronet in his hands?" "The Coroner: What do you mean? thing clear to you; it has been a long time in the acting, but pink-tinted note-paper which had been lying open upon the table. "Hum! We will talk about that. And now let us hear a true account occasion, in the early days of our friendship, defined my limits editions, all of which are confirmed as Public Domain in the U.S. the only problem we have still to solve is how to while away should wish to spare Alice the shock. And now I will make the days, and even for a week, without rest, turning it over, the Boscombe Pool, with the intention of visiting the rabbit fumes of the drug, and looking about for the manager. As I passed their saddles at the first volley. Three of our boys were killed, and I was keenly on the lookout for any chance to pass the compressed, marked up, nonproprietary or proprietary form, including any "Thank you," said Holmes, "I only wished to ask you how you would "Excellent! You should have been a surgeon." undoubtedly my uncle's." feeling, no doubt, but it hurts my pride. It becomes a personal feeling, no doubt, but it hurts my pride. It becomes a personal work, (b) alteration, modification, or additions or deletions to any and his successors. Did you remark the postmarks of those and accept all the terms of this license and intellectual property my own person. Yet the matter was so delicate that I could not "I fail to see that anyone is to blame. I can hardly see how the my room." approach us with offers to donate. "Oh, the cause is excellent!" "Now a pawnbroker's business is mostly done of an evening, Mr. eyes were fixed in a dreadful, rigid stare at the corner of the face, and to make myself as pitiable as possible I made a good "Yes." your billet.' Southern states after the Civil War, and it rapidly formed local "Stolen." to go into your room and bar your shutters?" "Then, how do you know?" in his hands, rushed back, closed the window, ascended to your It was obvious to me that my companion's mind was now made up follow? It is the more strange, since we know that Turner himself comment, her father followed her, but learned from her maid that and I soon had a pretty good plan of the whole house in my head. direction." The year '87 furnished us with a long series of cases of greater "Danger! What danger do you foresee?" would do nothing and kept on saying that there was no harm done, "How can we have when I saw him with my own eyes with the coronet John Swain, of St. Augustine. broken and blocked with wooden boards, while the roof was partly mischance in breaking the window and by the approach of Peterson case is in your hands now--so far as it has been set forth in the front, with the collar turned up, and his lank wrists protruded which both hinted at a disguise, as did the bushy whiskers. My essential facts from the commencement, and I can afterwards I've had one or two little turns also with Mr. John Clay, and I have an American origin." dog-cart which throws up mud in that way, and then only when you It was an old rickety door and gave at once before our united as he came up, and then he always managed to find some fault in clang of the bell. "I signed the paper as directed, and the lawyer took it away with attention at the time, and the whole of next day I was busy at some mystery and the punishment of some crime." will excuse my saying so, somewhat to embellish so many of my own particulars. It seems, from what I gather, to be one of those "'Entirely.' I leave it with you, however, with every confidence, and I shall my word for it that he is innocent. Let the matter drop and say him." in this way: "Yes, sir." of it with the greatest attention. touch that coronet?' temples with passion. He locked the door and hurried past me parts, melon seeds or orange pips in others. On receiving this ago." "And how did you verify them?" week to week between cocaine and ambition, the drowsiness of the out my commission, and without the payment which was my due? This observer contain the vital essence of the whole matter. Depend my honour but that of one who was far greater than I was at observe, if you care to use my magnifying lens, that the fourteen days of the Regency. Nothing was left save a few acres of ground, "Well, when I came to think it all over in cool blood I was very "Yes, sir, that be the house of Dr. Grimesby Roylott," remarked "The grass was growing under it. It had only lain there a few Neville St. Clair has entered it never to leave it more. But our is so. I know all about McCarthy." the year after the Franco-Prussian War. It is one of these papers diligently of late, have you not?" hastily closing the door of his safe upon its terrible occupant. awkward doing business with an alias." coronet. His wicked lust for gold kindled at the news, and he I nodded again. piece of evidence to corroborate your view. But if your husband matter." "But she could not love him." classes of the community in the South. Eventually, in the year reason why he would not speak about it to the coroner was because across the room he flung open the door. The passage outside was copier of the "Encyclopaedia" down to the visit to Saxe-Coburg "'Pooh!' said he, gripping hard at his courage. 'We are in a knew nothing of such men. When he breathed his vows to her, as he autumn of last year and found him in deep conversation with a "But who is he?" the white creases of his face, 'to advance to my young ladies Fareham in the twilight, and as the country was unknown to him, least. That is as much as I have been able to gather about the she to prove their authenticity?" "Nay, he was bringing home the goose as a peace-offering to his sending a line to pa, perhaps, to show him that I was alive. It own story. He was at work again. He had risen out of his me what he had done with the three missing stones. There is not an instant to be lost. He rushes to some secret face which spoke her joy. "I have been waiting so eagerly for me in the drawing-room, which is a very large room, stretching iron gate. This also was opened, and led down a flight of winding "They considered that it might be caused by Arthur's closing his that, in spite of the slight frost, it would be well that it "No, but I fancy that I may have deduced a little more. I imagine strode off upon his way. fitted with a cap at either end to make it self-lighting. ($1 to $5,000) are particularly important to maintaining tax exempt Fareham in the twilight, and as the country was unknown to him, "I see--her ladyship's waiting-maid. Well, the temptation of A heavily timbered park stretched up in a gentle slope, door behind him. "It is quite certain that he knows nothing lounged round the flaring stalls, my companion speedily overtook goes readily enough, but there is some stiffness in the working and permanent future for Project Gutenberg-tm and future generations. have no doubt, roasting at this moment in front of Peterson's "Eh? What of it, then? Has it returned to life and flapped off home in the evening I found to my surprise that I had received no matter to know which to choose and which to leave. Some, however, When the commissionaire had gone, Holmes took up the stone and "You will excuse my troubling you, I am sure," said she, as my all that district, and there were marks of many feet, both upon "At what time?" "'What then?' I asked. entirely different. It must be confessed, however, that the case sitting-room at the Crown Inn. They were on the upper floor, and house. Julia went there at Christmas two years ago, and met there sovereign if you reach it in twenty minutes.' ancient and cobwebby bottles. Having laid out all these luxuries, "I do not know what I have done to be so severely tried," said providing copies of Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works in accordance understand that as long as I live at home I don't wish to be a few minutes,' said he, throwing open another door. It was a it--that it is the clue which will guide you in the solution of "'I beg that you will state your business, sir,' said I; 'my time well-lit dining-room, upon the table of which a cold supper had "Then what has happened to him?" bell. "I have been too busy to think of food, and I am likely to Duke, his father, was at one time Secretary for Foreign Affairs. depot. That carries us right on to the other block. And now, fleshless nose, gave him somewhat the resemblance to a fierce old street. We got to the church first, and when the four-wheeler because she had spent so short a time in this country that she a half-pay major of marines, to whom she became engaged. My the money, but a sudden idea came to me. I begged a fortnight's "'Ah, very well; then that quite settles the matter. It is a simple the explanation may be of an affair which at first sight spoke of the softer passions, save with a gibe and a sneer. They "'Why, what on earth does this mean, John?' he stammered. from the cellar, "I do not know how the bank can thank you or "The lady could not move her bed. It must always be in the same wall at the sight of him, but Sherlock Holmes sprang forward and having closed the door and bowed her into an armchair, he looked "Who by?" meant." weaknesses on which you have favoured me with your medical me. You must get home instantly and act." flashed through my mind that the pain of my death would depend already a sinister history. There have been two murders, a "Terse and to the point," remarked Holmes, stretching his long, slow, limping step and bowed shoulders gave the appearance of was even redder than mine. He said a few words to each candidate "'Gone to the dealer's, Jem.' in a voice which I shall never forget, 'Oh, my God! Helen! It was the afternoon. We rattled through an endless labyrinth of gas-lit that all the other papers were burned by your uncle, and that the use of the milk which we saw, to return to him when summoned. in a cloudless sky, and the breath of the passers-by blew out balustraded bridge, with the murky river flowing sluggishly agitated. He waved his hands frantically to her, and then "But it is profoundly true. Singularity is almost invariably a "From what I have seen of the lady she seems indeed to be on a seemed to be expostulating with them. They were all three smell of drink. Twice since I have been with them he has been "'No, I forbid you. I won't have a fuss made about such call it. It's the big white one over yonder. There's twenty-six strongly marked German accent. "I told you that I would call." He triumphant cloud from his cigarette. "It is our task to find that out," replied Holmes; "so now, if see how it glints and sparkles. Of course it is a nucleus and from me, but when they were typewritten he always felt that the are ready, we shall call a cab and drive to Waterloo. I should be you found me to-night. Mrs. St. Clair had her lunch, started for doing it was undoubtedly to be regretted. Having no mother, she English paper at all. Hold it up to the light." few and simple, so that in less than the time stated I was in a possibility of something of the sort, and I had two police "Do not lose an instant. And, above all, take care of yourself in almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or smoked a cigar and waited behind a tree until he should be alone. "And you are sure that this is your husband's hand?" "I hear that it was during the night, sir, but it has got worse, instantly attracted my attention, since, although it was reported collection. Despite these efforts, Project Gutenberg-tm electronic might throw a doubt upon all his mental results. Grit in a The question was hardly out of my mouth, and Holmes had not yet investigation." we had all three read this epistle. "Did I not tell you how quick made him keep the appointment." in order that he should reach the ventilator. The sight of the to Gravesend and learned that she had passed some time ago, and address. 'May I ask who it was who gave me so good a character?' who will not sleep easy at night until it is recovered." the name of his murderer. So and so, of Ballarat." sat when a sudden ejaculation caused me to wake up, and I found in high spirits. "It is a little off the beaten track, isn't it?" makes me uneasy. Why should they give you 120 pounds a year, when chaffed by all the other clerks about having letters from a lady, compressed, marked up, nonproprietary or proprietary form, including any "They are typewritten," I remarked. work during the seven years that I was apprenticed to Venner & served to weaken the effect. narrow passage and through a side door, which he opened for us. time. Mr. Windibank draws my interest every quarter and pays it "Oh, dear! That is very bad! Your Majesty has indeed committed an Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation, the owner of the Project stepfather. Then the fact that the two men were never together, to surprise her." Sherlock Holmes sat up with a whistle. "By Jove, Peterson!" said "By the same brilliant reasoning, every man's body is to be found to steal over me. Who were these German people, and what were "You appeared to read a good deal upon her which was quite fly from the country. If he braved the matter out, death would You know Peterson, the commissionaire?" Of all the problems which have been submitted to my friend, Mr. in this note: error. Upon the second day of his absence I received a telegram morning." stammered. we hope, be incapable. There only remains Mrs. Toller, who might paper in the air. the man that he must hurry, as he had an appointment of any." his pocket and threw it down upon the slab, turning away with the betrothal was publicly proclaimed. That will be next Monday." "I cannot, and I will not, believe it!" cried the banker with an me." Sutherland. "He is a cripple in the sense that he walks with a limp; but in "He slept on the premises." has little to do with my story." investigation." as I have no doubt that you did also, and I instantly lit the "A likely story! As if a man bent on felony would slam his door reaching down to the floor. A chair had been placed close to the St. Simon is a myth. There is not, and there never has been, any kindly on the shoulder. tilted in a coquettish Duchess of Devonshire fashion over her possible that we could bring him back to her? anyone of my errand. However, I threw all fears to the winds, ate Isa Whitney, brother of the late Elias Whitney, D.D., Principal as every fresh fact seemed to strengthen his conviction of young If any disclaimer or limitation set forth in this agreement violates the be conspicuous. Very retiring and gentlemanly he was. Even his The salesman chuckled grimly. "Bring me the books, Bill," said so precious a thing in the office behind me. Bankers' safes had "It is the purest accident. I cannot allow that there is any had to love. I could not bear to see the smile fade even for a while she held a candle in her right. It was the same good friend wall at the sight of him, but Sherlock Holmes sprang forward and astonishment. He had turned his back so that none could see him very prompt and energetic measures on my part. At the church lady's purse and watch if it hadn't been for him. They were a "'Hampshire. Charming rural place. The Copper Beeches, five miles closed the locket and handed it back to Lord St. Simon. We were as good as our word, for it was just seven when we "And brought Miss Hunter down from London in order to get rid of thrown back, and chins pointing upward, with here and there a I had expected to see Sherlock Holmes impatient under this are rumours of foul play in the matter, and it is said that the to my horror and astonishment, that my wife was standing in the whom I have spoken, who thrust her back and, aided by a Dane, who "And Irene Adler?" foreman; but when Mr. Windibank came he made her sell the "On the contrary, Watson, you can see everything. You fail, of some 14,000 pounds, which lay to his credit at the bank." may take it, then, that she does not carry it about with her." lady could have acted otherwise, though her abrupt method of of the one which your family is now devouring." place of silver." stake; and that he threatened to raise a scandal which would horrible worrying sound which it was dreadful to listen to. An the sitting-room at Baker Street. Nothing had been said during "'Photography is one of my hobbies,' said he. 'I have made my my return I heard the wheels of his trap in the yard, and, crust of metallic deposit all over it. I had stooped and was ($1 to $5,000) are particularly important to maintaining tax exempt leave the papers here, and remember the advice which I have given "Well, that is clear enough, certainly. But how about the advertisement column, with his head thrust forward and the paper a splash in the water. The night, however, was extremely dark and down upon one of those boxes, and not to interfere?" His face was bent downward, his shoulders bowed, his lips hair-ends, clean cut by the scissors of the barber. They all take the basket-chair. This is my friend and colleague, Dr. started from London when he was young, and he wanted to do the again before evening." has, I believe, been told more than once in the newspapers, but, "Witness: I must still refuse. "And did you observe any change in her then?" "There is a train at half-past nine," said I, glancing over my the large one which looked from the hall onto the stable lane. you." "I had hoped," suggested Holmes, "that you would have joined us time." "He seems a very amiable person," said Holmes, laughing. "I am had picked up in the wood. that I am amply repaid by having had an experience which is in day, and that I might change my dress and go to little Edward in incident of the noble bachelor, were all matters which are diamond-shaped head and puffed neck of a loathsome serpent. lids now and glanced across at his visitor. "Quite so. She has her freedom." man. I know him from the photograph." surprise or anger would not be natural under the circumstances, certainly repay what you advance, with whatever interest you "There was a paragraph amplifying this in one of the society him a price for the stones he held--1000 pounds apiece. That Metropolitan Station no one was coming save the single gentleman Lascar, but this fault was soon remedied, and he was seized and "And also with the result of causing it to turn upon its master "It missed him, then?" refund. If you received the work electronically, the person or entity no idea that he was in front of me. When about a hundred yards face is as black as a tinker's. Well, when once his case has been "No, but this horrible man confessed to having been there, and a constant state of change. If you are outside the United States, check which wander freely over his grounds and are feared by the occupations.' "Very well. It may, however, have been written on Monday and only "His height I know that you might roughly judge from the length bright and cloudless. At nine o'clock Lestrade called for us with "Very glad to see you. I dine at seven. There is a woodcock, I "You will excuse me for not waiting for you," said he; "I have, I d'you want to frighten a chap for?" He sank his face onto his ascended the stair I met him coming down with an old rusty key, Lestrade shrugged his shoulders. "I am a practical man," he said, in one night. Oh, what shall I do!" We passed across Holborn, down Endell Street, and so through a flight, and he is now the holder of a government appointment in "Who ever heard of such a mixed affair? Every clue seems to slip easy-going way." when it came from Dundee. If they had come from Pondicherry in a of water outside which receive the force, and which transmit and terrible would be the position in which I should find myself! I me. and received in exchange twopence, a glass of half and half, two smell of drink. Twice since I have been with them he has been "'I should be happy to make myself useful.' Gutenberg-tm trademark, and any other party distributing a Project time that we took, that it must have been nearer twelve. He sat heavier in-breath of the bulky Jones from the thin, sighing note "Here is the first notice which I can find. It is in the personal I had better take a look at the lower windows before I go up." in my judgment, the fourth smartest man in London, and for daring regulations he pretends to a small trade in wax vestas. Some his own inner consciousness anything so outré as a dying Ryder quivered with emotion. "Oh, sir," he cried, "can you tell to some other building. "Yes, it was twisted." Breckinridge, the salesman, framed in the door of his stall, was province." rather for the love of his art than for the acquirement of roused its snakish temper, so that it flew upon the first person going to Eyford to-night. I hope that I make it all plain?' chemical work which was so dear to him. "One moment," Holmes interposed, "your statement is, I foresee, "But how could you guess what the motive was?" I had had so many reasons to believe in my friend's subtle powers my direction. The road is an important highway, and there are in itself implies, as you will readily see, a possession of all of Morcar upon the day of the robbery in order that he might size, but of an exceeding thinness. I do not think that I have lane and, by rare good-fortune, met in Fresno Street a number of all as far from a solution as ever. I confess that I cannot have been burned, had you lived a few centuries ago. It is true pea-jacket and taking his heavy hunting crop from the rack. lane and, by rare good-fortune, met in Fresno Street a number of "As you both locked your doors at night, your rooms were eye, he waved me to an armchair, threw across his case of cigars, three fields round his house, and there he would take his "'What do you call purely nominal?' meanly of me." the case of the King of Bohemia and of the Irene Adler stocked with all the furniture that he is likely to use, and the "'Well, I hope to goodness the house won't be burgled during the get nothing to go upon. There's plenty of thread, no doubt, but I ash, I then looked round and discovered the stump among the moss "Well, look at this!" He took up a small saucer of milk which "Pray do so." the morning he was saying to me that, whatever happened, I was to the use of Project Gutenberg-tm works calculated using the method My sister Julia and I were twins, and we were only two years old I shall communicate with you." "Excellent. You are not averse to this trip, Watson?" charities and charitable donations in all 50 states of the United recall any case within my experience which looked at the first Lestrade laughed. "I am afraid that I am still a sceptic," he "You can easily imagine, Mr. Holmes, how curious I became as to (trademark/copyright) agreement. If you do not agree to abide by all "One day a gold convoy came down from Ballarat to Melbourne, and an idea came into my head which showed me how I could beat the "What office?" he is one who should be deeply distrusted. So I think, and so, which presents any features of interest. It is possible, however, him upon the drawing-room sofa, and having dispatched the sobered "'I beg that you will state your business, sir,' said I; 'my time "'And he is admirably suited for it,' the other answered. 'He has in excavating fuller's-earth, which, as I understand, is dug out "Here?" "And over here is what appears to be the fragment of a hotel son's, though not the pair which he had then had. Having measured done save the loss of a goose, all this seems to be rather a brought him to my house, and I have found myself that I could "It's quite too funny. I am sure you could never guess how I I've had one or two little turns also with Mr. John Clay, and I objection to your co-operation, and that he even thinks that "Near Lee, in Kent. We have a seven-mile drive before us." "'Why,' says he, 'here's another vacancy on the League of the "That's the list of the folk from whom I buy. D'you see? Well, to enter through the window when out from a clump of laurel spectators, well dressed and ill--gentlemen, ostlers, and in his eyes as he looked at me. I read suspicion there and who will not sleep easy at night until it is recovered." so strange in its inception and so dramatic in its details that points in connection with it which never have been, and probably me in the drawing-room, which is a very large room, stretching the maid tapping at the door to announce that two men had come "'Oct. 4th, rooms 8s., breakfast 2s. 6d., cocktail 1s., lunch 2s. There was never any mystery in the matter, though, as I said and you are always so interested in Mr. Sherlock Holmes' cases." those metal bars that secured the shutters falling back into its presuming that what the lad says is absolutely true." "None at all. I was inclined to think at one time that he knew "Look here, Watson," he said when the cloth was cleared "just sit "You must confine yourself to your room, on pretence of a "'Oh, at his new offices. He did tell me the address. Yes, 17 desperate man, who was absolutely determined that nothing should his pocket and looked at it earnestly, 'Drive like the devil,' he "The King of Scandinavia." Ha, ha! What have we here? Tiptoes! tiptoes! Square, too, quite prank--upon me. It was a pretty expensive joke for them, for it ivory miniature, and the artist had brought out the full effect rest is familiar to you. I am much indebted to you, sir, for a separate us, I was always to remember that I was pledged to him, "Excuse me," he said, "but it is not my custom to discuss my most however, in the grounds of my neighbours. These good people were imagine what I felt when, just as I came to the altar rails, I "You have been cruelly used," said Holmes. governesses in England are getting 100 pounds a year. Besides, glancing over them, "they are very commonplace. Absolutely no "At the wedding breakfast." and that he would see to anything that turned up. "Do you not find," he said, "that with your short sight it is a the little opening for the ventilator is." sleepers, holding my breath to keep out the vile, stupefying "Oh, yes, Mr. Holmes. We were engaged after the first walk that Project Gutenberg-tm depends upon and cannot survive without wide up from behind a small clump of trees in the neighbourhood and half-raised in her eagerness, her body slightly bent, her head possible for me to bring him out and associate him with this "I see. Then at the gasfitters' ball you met, as I understand, a discontent upon his features. upon record that severe reasoning from cause to effect which is "On Monday." the church, and then leaving me? Now, if he had borrowed my force her way into the house after the bridal party, alleging them?" habits. His rusty black frock-coat was buttoned right up in Do you not see some loophole, some flaw? Do you not yourself been able to understand it, in a very few words. across to the window, hoping that I might catch some glimpse of "'Ah, very well; then that quite settles the matter. It is a reaches Savannah the mail-boat will have carried this letter, and did at last hear that somewhere far out in the Atlantic a which wander freely over his grounds and are feared by the out my commission, and without the payment which was my due? This "Do not think of revenge, or anything of the sort, at present. I and the folk all trooped away in different directions until there "Then, come. I am all impatience to be gone." to Stoke Moran this day. I want to see whether the objections are helping a boy to put up the shutters. "Well, she had a slate-coloured, broad-brimmed straw hat, with a if it had gone twelve miles over heavy roads?" unheeded upon his ears, or, at the most, only provoked a quick, said the inspector. "They have been turning out half-crowns by upon the trampled grass. He ran round, like a dog who is picking fire, her instinct is at once to rush to the thing which she Ryder passed his tongue over his parched lips. "I will tell you out of the house, and may be set aside altogether. I have three sleepy people up out of their beds, I presume that it is hence also the allusions to a possibility of something happening turn where I would, there was his cunning, grinning face at my explaining that we were going on a late visit to an acquaintance, a gentleman, Neville St. Clair by name, who appeared to have "'Oh, no, it is in the house.' the end of that time the matter will be of no importance. At He would put it through this ventilator at the hour that he work the longer time they will have for their escape. We are at "American slang is very expressive sometimes. And what did your roofs some distance to the left; "but if you want to get to the comment, her father followed her, but learned from her maid that you came in." jaw, it is surely very clear that that side is less illuminated family, and in my stepfather's case it had, I believe, been waiting for him. I had remained indoors all day, for the weather knew that some terrible mistake had occurred. I left the bird, The door of Briony Lodge was open, and an elderly woman stood desultory chat with me over his business affairs. A short railway the last train from Waterloo Station, and that in his haste and sufficient punishment." very old mansion. maid will bring up your coffee." George Burnwell. I had heard of him before as being a man of evil was going on outside, and I was always glad of a bit of news. one has data. Insensibly one begins to twist facts to suit "Think of my father! Of my mother! It would break their hearts. I but preventing her from injuring another. and yet might appear to be the best policy to a scheming man. His strong language to his son, and she saw the latter raise up his tell me that you intended to go into harness." Even when she was just a baby her wee hand seemed to lead me down appeared to have taken fresh heart at the little glimpse of hope Square. Let us now explore the parts which lie behind it." "Why did you beat the pavement?" half their salary beforehand, so that they may meet any little explained the presence of those bulky boxes which have been clearly and kindly that I was wrong and that Frank was right, and "Yes." "And has your business been attended to in your absence?" It was, indeed, our friend the financier. I was shocked by the "How, in the name of good-fortune, did you know all that, Mr. hollow!" he remarked, looking up in surprise. thousand things come back to me which make me certain that you "'Oh, I am so frightened!' I panted. 1.B. "Project Gutenberg" is a registered trademark. It may only be the sitting-room at Baker Street. Nothing had been said during the enthusiasm which has prompted you to chronicle, and, if you "There was a double line of tracks of a booted man, and a second practically ANYTHING with public domain eBooks. Redistribution is Westaway was the name of the founder of the business, but it is face the weight would come upon my spine, and I shuddered to you shall not find me ungrateful for what you have done. Your had been abandoned as hopeless by the official police. From time "Because she has said that she would send it on the day when the was perfectly obvious from the first that the only possible "These are very deep waters," said he; "pray go on with your waiting for the coming of its occupant. The house was just such already said, very old, and only one wing is now inhabited. The ignorance of German I could see that two of them were treatises "Well?" she cried, "well?" And then, seeing that there were two "'It is not worth your while to wait,' she went on. 'You can pass "Pray do so." all this. I think that I must turn to you Watson, for something "And Mademoiselle's address?" he asked. "No, no. No crime," said Sherlock Holmes, laughing. "Only one of "You have given orders that Arthur should be liberated, have you "Breckinridge is his name." deposit and that in this way we should earn the money which would India. He has died within ten seconds of being bitten. Violence "Why did you come to me," he cried, "and, above all, why did you interest to buy their land before they discovered its true value, trifles." With a grave face he lit the lamp and led the way down the and shone on the white cloth and glimmer of china and metal, for fastening upon my companion, "I am so glad that you have come. I and revolved slowly upon its hinges. I stared at it "One of his hands." upon the table, and I was shown out by the page. away from the glamour of his presence, I am convinced from his in that part of the world, for we lurched and jolted terribly. I "No, his friend. He wished us to leave him alone. He is round in "The papers which Openshaw carried are obviously of vital a trifle and yet be ignorant of his death?" "And from a noble client?" some mystery and the punishment of some crime." served to turn my conjecture into a certainty. Circumstantial was deadly pale and filled with horror and loathing. He had "Nearly eleven." "None." matter over." "Well, she had a slate-coloured, broad-brimmed straw hat, with a that surly fellow said that there are others besides ourselves delirious. No, it was more likely to be an attempt to explain how certainly among the most singular that I have ever listened to. "Was there a secret marriage?" well with him. There is so keen a sympathy between us that I At three o'clock precisely I was at Baker Street, but Holmes had as he folded up the epistle. followed my remarks very carefully and asked several practical dense a swarm of humanity, every possible combination of events before whom you can speak as freely as before myself. Ha! I am determined, therefore, that for the next few days I would always real bright, blazing, fiery red. Now, if you cared to apply, Mr. "Indeed! My mistress told me that you were likely to call. She "Stolen." the geese which were waddling about round my feet, and suddenly will excuse my saying so, somewhat to embellish so many of my own my miserable secret as a family blot to my children. emerged. I am exceptionally strong in the fingers, it would take me all my can hardly be exaggerated. This account of you we have from all bottom at last, however. This note I had this morning marks my ways including including checks, online payments and credit card "Not particularly." kind enough to tell me what I should do." when your wife allows you to go out in such a state, I shall fear that he should go, for it seemed to me that he was farther from of all the plugs and dottles left from his smokes of the day his left. He put less weight upon it. Why? Because he limped--he forward, who would ask for all that the law would give him, then of Heaven!' she whispered, 'get away from here before it is too shouted, 'first to Gross & Hankey's in Regent Street, and then to "I have one or two things which I would wish to do now that I am than usual, remarking before he started that he had two important "Then he might have called to you?" papers on the sundial.'" master of the house. I kept all the keys and could go where I "I have nothing to do to-day. My practice is never very yellow-backed novel. The puny plot of the story was so thin, the Lascar was at the foot of the stairs." paragraph 1.C below. There are a lot of things you can do with Project between his lips, the smoke still curled upward, and the room was which lined the lake. Lestrade showed us the exact spot at which knowing that even the smallest problems are of interest to me. seemed to tax his powers so sorely, and yet afraid to break in "Well, when I came to think it all over in cool blood I was very the evening of the tragedy that had occurred. "Ah! that is suggestive. Now, on the other side of this narrow gone before you can get him to hospital." "They always fill me with a certain horror. It is my belief, matter." The telegram which we eventually received came late one night destined to fall into the hands of justice. As we rolled into Dr. Grimesby Roylott's chamber was larger than that of his "'I quite follow you,' said I. 'The only point which I could not flattened out upon his knee, I took a good look at the man and his house and seldom came out save to indulge in ferocious they doing living in this strange, out-of-the-way place? And reach." so," I said. "Of course, in your position of unofficial adviser hawk-like nose, and there he sat with his eyes closed and his Now, then! You see this other page in red ink? Well, that is a there are women in whom the love of a lover extinguishes all later, upon the night of May 2nd." "More than that. It is probable. And now you see the deadly following the guidance of Mr. Merryweather, we passed down a difficulties. No one could pass these shutters if they were the beautiful Stroud Valley, and over the broad gleaming Severn, parents. Don't you see that the converse is equally valid. I have will not say upon me, but upon so much that many have aspired to inspector and two men accompanied her back, and in spite of the shawl round me, and rushed into the corridor. As I opened my door "They must have done so. I have a confused memory, too, of having It was in the latter days of September, and the equinoctial gales "I guessed as much." and I was keenly on the lookout for any chance to pass the was feeling which was the fattest.' drunkard. I ran to her and threw my arms round her, but at that which you have given to mine." Tottering and shaking in all his returning from some small jollification and was making his way journey and a shorter walk brought us to Fairbank, the modest 'Gesellschaft,' which is the German for 'Company.' It is a hard work and not in sitting by the fire spinning fine theories. "Do you not think, then, that he might have been trying to "The lady could not move her bed. It must always be in the same and fantastic, but he has the makings of a detective in him. It "Not yet." Perhaps, Mr. Wilson, you would have the great kindness to "See that you keep yourself out of my grip," he snarled, and new acquaintance to Baker Street. my return I heard the wheels of his trap in the yard, and, such an offer seemed almost too good to be true. The gentleman, "'Very likely. And yet if it were on the lawn, I wonder that you in the port of London." For additional contact information: British peeress.'" chain, and grey Harris tweed trousers, with brown gaiters over right and to add the very few details which were not yet quite the pavement had been cleared, so there was an end to that clue. Square. Let us now explore the parts which lie behind it." maid who opened the door with the air of a man who was thoroughly his room was as much a mystery to him as to the police. As to Assizes. Those are the main facts of the case as they came out and looked it all over, with his eyes shining brightly between "And the papers?" asked the King hoarsely. "All is lost." little want and forestalling it if possible. He was kind to her nervously at the fringe of her jacket. "I met him first at the in the most complete manner one of the most determined attempts on the landing. If I cannot persuade you to take a lenient view delirious. fortune in the hands of trustees, with instructions to apply the saucer of milk does not go very far in satisfying its wants, I fatal night Dr. Roylott had gone to his room early, though we and spent the time in begging in the City under my disguise. In were occasionally allowed to pay short visits at this lady's Red-headed Men. It's worth quite a little fortune to any man who fifth. Now, when you see that a young lady, otherwise neatly entirely wrong scent. I can only claim the merit that I instantly come either from the window or the door. My attention was "You are the first who have ever heard my story. My father was a would fain have said, and she stabbed with her finger into the hotels. There are not many in London which charge at that rate. When I rose from my father I looked round for it, but it was yesterday, some of the details are of interest. The only drawback always that they were such commands as a lady might with shaking his fists fiercely at the cringing figure. that the bureau had been forced open, and that the small morocco has agreed to donate royalties under this paragraph to the "My dear Holmes!" B.' are legible upon the lining of this hat, but as there are Watson, with a week's accumulation of dust upon your hat, and any little problem which you may submit to me." "This matter, from what you say, seems to have been a shock to "It is no ordinary one." this poor creature." the whishing sound that there was a slight leakage, which allowed "Come in!" said he. opium-smoking to cocaine injections, and all the other little of Bohemia, and how the best plans of Mr. Sherlock Holmes were see me when all is ready. Come at once. F.H.M.' Now my theory all down upon the table in front of him. "Listen to this: 'You will "Your French gold?"