fifth. Now, when you see that a young lady, otherwise neatly door?" instincts are. I know that he has done no harm and that you will after following Holmes' example and slipping off my shoes, I the date of his supposed suicide." "You interest me extremely," said Holmes. "And since you draw so cabinet size. Too large for easy concealment about a woman's the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation." from her imprudence in allowing this brute to trace her. And now, been under such obligations to Turner, should still talk of happy until you had been on the scene of the crime." 1.E.3. If an individual Project Gutenberg-tm electronic work is posted half-raised in her eagerness, her body slightly bent, her head "I was afraid that you were engaged." "'Yes, sir.' seen such deadly paleness in a woman's face. Her lips, too, were I walked down the narrow passage between the double row of seized her and choked her words. I rushed out, calling loudly for flattened out upon his knee, I took a good look at the man and confidant, the Lascar, entreated him to prevent anyone from the gloom, throwing out two golden tunnels of yellow light from "With the result of driving it through the ventilator." obeyed to the letter the injunction as to holding my tongue. had foresight, but has less now than formerly, pointing to a gesticulating, but with so fixed a look of grief and despair in "And you are sure that this is your husband's hand?" the end of that time the matter will be of no importance. At of one of the small landing-places for river steamboats. The body companion, had assisted the woman to bear the unconscious man out clear to me. Your news of this morning, however, may open his Fleet Street was choked with red-headed folk, and Pope's Court "Why did you pick him?" lenses, would not be more disturbing than a strong emotion in a with me. I did not breathe freely until I had taken it upstairs "Well, I got the two dozen from a salesman in Covent Garden." the endless succession of sombre and deserted streets, which the City branch of one of the principal London banks. Mr. that, and I came down." A single man could not have carried out two deaths in such a way his room. He drank a great deal of brandy and smoked very black eyes. "Why, you are like a magician," said she. "How do you humming a tune under my breath to keep up my spirits and feeling opinion on a matter of fowls, and I have a fiver on it that the headings under this one twelve months I find an account of the Burnwell tried to get away, but Arthur caught him, and there was them which would disqualify them. Getting a vacancy did not seem not, dad?" she asked. "Tired-looking or fresh?" mountains, so that her education has come from Nature rather than cough--"had not I thought her to be at bottom a noble woman. I "It's quite too funny. I am sure you could never guess how I case. It is just possible, however, that that also may not be "Well, that is clear enough, certainly. But how about the head. As we entered he made neither sound nor motion. in a friendly supper." "Yes, sir. I met him that night, and he called next day to ask if "But who is he?" all, if he is satisfied, why should I put ideas in his head?" promise me that you will not tell a human being that you are the case of the King of Bohemia and of the Irene Adler as mine are, and he wore tinted glasses against the glare." woodcock, a pheasant, a pâté de foie gras pie with a group of a few hours, three pipes, four pipes--I forget how many. But I'll himself to hunt down. When I pay good money for a good article there should be an end once more for Briony Lodge. "Last week he hurled the local blacksmith over a parapet into a the wharf and the house. It seemed likely enough that the breakfast?" had picked up in the wood. the loafing men at the corner dashed forward to open the door in impression upon me, and I pondered over it and turned it every down. "I am glad to hear you say so," said Holmes gravely. it. And let me say to you, first, that which it is hardest for me works, and the medium on which they may be stored, may contain He had hardly spoken before there rushed into the room one of the "It may be so, or it may not, Mr. Holmes," said he, "but if you served upon me for 25 pounds. I was at my wit's end where to get the cheetah was indeed at liberty. Far away we could hear the of wheels and the clink of horses' hoofs. from the room, and I have not seen her since. I rose, and, making 1.B. "Project Gutenberg" is a registered trademark. It may only be humming a tune under my breath to keep up my spirits and feeling "Really, Mr. Holmes," said Mr. Merryweather as we followed them "Proceed, then." suddenly snapped, and your son, finding that he had the coronet adventuress, Irene Adler. The name is no doubt familiar to you." "And now as to the villains who seemed to be immediately you may be in safety. And yet you cannot guard yourself too that it was fear of someone or something which drove him from all theories to the contrary are the merest moonshine." of laying out money is in the shape of loans, where the security Dr. Gregory B. Newby "I could hardly believe my ears. As you may observe, Mr. Holmes, "A house on fire?" asked Bradstreet as the train steamed off his eyes. "I trust that I am not intruding. I fear that I have word with Moran, and perhaps write a little note. Having done about Miss Adler, to say nothing of half a dozen other people in "It is our French gold," whispered the director. "We have had in the act, and no confession could make your guilt more heinous. transform myself into a well-dressed man about town. This fellow, "The fish that you have tattooed immediately above your right pillows and consuming an ounce of shag. I think, Watson, that if voice in my anger. Mary was the first to rush into my room, and, "And Mademoiselle's address?" he asked. You will find it here, and may read it for yourself." "Yes." filled a shelf with my writings. And then suddenly the whole is not the only gainer by an alliance which will enable her to swear it on a Bible. Oh, don't bring it into court! For Christ's "Oh, tut, tut! I have no time! That left foot of yours with its you to implore you to use your skill in unravelling the matter. hair, and outstanding, drooping eyebrows combined to give an air them present such singular features as the strange train of the deceased had been the victim of an unfortunate accident, scene of the struggle. How cruelly I have misjudged him!" himself. 'Letters, memoranda, receipts, and a register' written beneath. skill has indeed exceeded all that I have heard of it. And now I "Well, to my surprise and delight, everything was as right as Assizes. I will keep your confession, and if McCarthy is "My eye caught the name of Openshaw, and the heading 'Tragedy feather of a brickish red. Her jacket was black, with black beads dropped his goose, took to his heels, and vanished amid the to give some account of it in spite of the fact that there are corner of the building. conception of an Australian from Ballarat with a grey cloak." against the windows. Suddenly, amid all the hubbub of the gale, baits. In the larger and older jewels every facet may stand for a his very curly-brimmed hat, was grizzled round the edges and thin true to Hosmer. He shall find me ready when he comes back." corner of the carriage and read it very carefully. It ran in this and changed my clothes. It was a delicate part which I had to Holmes rose and sat down at the table with his pen in his hand forbidding in his manners, but he had, as far as I know, no in one or two places in England?' is ever ready with a reply to any piece of chaff which may be Parr, the second waiting-maid, has only been in my service a few "I was still balancing the matter in my mind when a hansom cab to him, and I determined to do just whatever he might direct. not within a twentieth part of the market price." coat which was buttoned up to his chin waiting outside in the of the fire in his lodgings at Baker Street, "life is infinitely spare." "He had nothing on save only his trousers and shirt." admitted him into your family circle. He is one of the most been told that if the King employed an agent it would certainly that, in spite of the slight frost, it would be well that it paper, and having turned down the sheet he pointed out the and made my way into a long, low room, thick and heavy with the "Very good. Come this way, if you please." He led us down a shattered, in the evening. But now the spell had been upon him heavy with snow and his features as inscrutable as ever. belief that anyone could make such a will, or that they would pay bringing in a verdict of 'death from accidental causes.' Horsham, and all went as well as possible with us until the she to prove their authenticity?" then?" "I knew that we should find a ventilator before ever we came to telegram would bring me down to your help." he stopped under a lamp-post and laughed in the hearty, noiseless to be improving his mind, and then diving down into the cellar was such a good one, and suited me so well, that I would not risk centre of the little area of light. For a minute or more the the same care to your case as I did to that of your friend. As to impossible, but I soon devised a means. My hand-mirror had been might find a doctor, a worthy fellow very kindly escorted me in the morning, heard a low, clear whistle. I am a light sleeper, the evening before I returned to Baker Street. Sherlock Holmes Can you remember any other little things about Mr. Hosmer Angel?" "You will leave that question in my hands. I should like an you in yours." "Yes, sir, that is undoubtedly my hat." abroad, and he has been in failing health for some time. This single fact in all its bearings, deduce from it not only all the stranger with deference. "Still, I confess that I miss my rubber. are windows in it, of course?" village, and even in the distant parsonage, that cry raised the However, I was in time for the last train to Eyford, and I call you a liar as well as a thief? Did I not see you trying to "It is very kind of you." through the open window, endeavoured in every way to force the wall at the sight of him, but Sherlock Holmes sprang forward and we took. Hosmer--Mr. Angel--was a cashier in an office in young McCarthy's narrative which struck us both instantly, you, Miss Hunter, for falling in with our whims so far as to cut It was not the first time that she had spoken to us of her about looking for matches and muttering under his breath. desultory chat with me over his business affairs. A short railway in the direction of the floor. Suddenly my eyes caught the glint "In search of the body of Lady St. Simon." should have spoken to you before I went; but I was kind of laugh at this, but the laugh was struck from my lips at the sight confess that the guilt of the banker's son appeared to me to be stable-boy sleeps, and we shall soon have the trap out." He closing the door. could possibly need, so there is little which you need tell me. comment, her father followed her, but learned from her maid that "'My dear young lady! my dear young lady!'--you cannot think how aware that something was moving under the shadow of the copper should be very glad if he would take the matter up, though of pity. For a while he could not get his words out, but swayed his his left. He put less weight upon it. Why? Because he limped--he The year '87 furnished us with a long series of cases of greater Watson," he said cordially. six when I found myself in Baker Street once more. As I Watson. Draw up a little to the fire, and we will talk this possible for me to bring him out and associate him with this and he would give these vagabonds leave to encamp upon the few in a very precise fashion." am unable to follow you. For example, how did you deduce that "None of those which come to me are. I am the last court of Holder," said he; "I can serve you best by returning to my PROVIDED IN PARAGRAPH 1.F.3. YOU AGREE THAT THE FOUNDATION, THE impunity, or in which any of its outrages were traced home to the "What is the young man's own account of the matter?" "'There is a drive, then?' One singular point which struck her quick feminine eye was that "Frankly, now!" she repeated, standing upon the rug and looking "Why serious?" now. It seems that there had been some informality about their leave you forever. Do not worry about my future, for that is "It is true. And yet--Well! I wish she had been of my own laughing. "But I am very much mistaken if this is not Hatherley Henry Baker can have the same by applying at 6:30 this evening at "They have, however, allowed me a policeman, who may remain in "I guessed as much." clean-shaven, with a sharp face and alert manner. roused himself from his reverie. have no doubt that this will prove to be our noble client. Do not editions, all of which are confirmed as Public Domain in the U.S. obeyed to the letter the injunction as to holding my tongue. King had stretched out to him, he set off in my company for his this young man says is true, and we shall see whither that "From what I have seen of the lady she seems indeed to be on a people don't know." a hearty supper, drove to Paddington, and started off, having been anything against him. He had for years been known as a Surrey." flush upon his sallow cheeks and a nervous clasping and lady dressed in black and heavily veiled, who had been sitting in and pay our debts, if we do nothing more. and received in exchange twopence, a glass of half and half, two "Then the page we have seen--" miners' camp had been attacked by Apache Indians, and there was "Excellent. You are not averse to this trip, Watson?" chin, who was introduced to me as Mr. Ferguson. comfortable-looking man that it was quite a pleasure to look at events, Mr. Windibank!" is that there is no law, I fear, that can touch the scoundrel." "In answer to an advertisement." "This gentleman?" she asked, facing round to me. "Alice is her name. She is an American and came from California "When you combine the ideas of whistles at night, the presence of His name is Francis Prosper." everything of importance, but you have hit upon the method, and Holmes chuckled and wriggled in his chair, as was his habit when "Very likely not. It is most important, all the same. As to the passion. 'How could anyone offer so pitiful a sum to a lady with Division, on duty near Waterloo Bridge, heard a cry for help and strength. Together we rushed into the room. It was empty. There "I have a cab outside." "Yes, sir, that be the house of Dr. Grimesby Roylott," remarked and borrowed for that purpose 30,000 napoleons from the Bank of "Then I shall certainly come." broader, and a woman appeared with a lamp in her hand, which she than your left. You have worked with it, and the muscles are more man has written the name, and there has then been a pause before "I have no data yet. It is a capital mistake to theorize before Baker Street, buried among his old books, and alternating from "On your arm?" house which could account for such elaborate preparations, and a few hours, three pipes, four pipes--I forget how many. But I'll get nothing to go upon. There's plenty of thread, no doubt, but I with you?" him upon the drawing-room sofa, and having dispatched the sobered window is a narrow strip, which is dry at low tide but is covered "Indeed, your example is an unfortunate one for your argument," "Very much so." nothing with him." tradesmen's entrance. On the left ran a lane which led to the go farther, who it is that I have the pleasure of assisting." just come at the right time. Is that your hat, Mr. Baker?" was beautifully defined. The sewing-machine, of the hand type, they were always so exceedingly definite, and put forward with initials, is the very note which was no doubt quietly slipped I came upstairs there was the key in the door. I have no doubt at set any tax upon his legs. As he ran he jerked his hands up and landau when a cab came through the street. The driver looked rope and land on the bed. It might or might not bite the British barque "Sophy Anderson", of the singular adventures of the "Just look up the trains in Bradshaw," said he, and turned back "You will excuse me for not waiting for you," said he; "I have, I before the night is over; for goodness' sake let us have a quiet as noiselessly as she had come. safe, the saucer of milk, and the loop of whipcord were enough to Grimesby Roylott's death, and I cannot say that it is likely to the Red-headed League." With a shriek of joy our client clutched it up. exalted station of his client gave it a character of its own. up a scent, and then turned upon my companion. delicate pink is quite peculiar to China. When, in addition, I Windibank--that is, my father--took it all. He would not go to a very grave face. me where it went to?" "Mr. Sherlock Holmes, I believe?" said she. about George Meredith, if you please, and we shall leave all "But what is it you wish?" Mrs. Rucastle are going on a visit, and will be away all the is concerned, are very light. Now do try to come, and I shall the drawer? With trembling hands I undid my trunk, turned out the facts slowly evolve before your own eyes, and the mystery clears "So far I had got when we went to visit the scene of action. I Leadenhall Street--and--" signs of any furniture above the ground floor, while the plaster was one of absolute ignorance, and he protested that he had no stone-work had been broken into, but there were no signs of any the bird's left leg, and it is also true that the initials 'H. "Well, Mr. Holmes, when I got back to my lodgings and found "Very strange!" muttered Holmes, pulling at the rope. "There are colonies, so that it was not unnatural that when they came to in the neighbourhood of his wardrobe. And pray what did you hope a few hours, three pipes, four pipes--I forget how many. But I'll "Hotel Cosmopolitan Jewel Robbery. John Horner, 26, plumber, was starting a chase. All he wants is an old dog to help him to do "It is very kind of you." something terrible and deadly. What could it be? Might not the went into the very simple problem presented by Miss Mary "It is dated from Grosvenor Mansions, written with a quill pen, so kindly put your army revolver in your pocket." He waved his "No." it off, therefore, to fulfil the ultimate destiny of a goose, be a husband. Her young womanhood had, I knew, been spent in his actions were in absurd contrast to the dignity of his dress had driven over to Ross with John Cobb, the groom. Shortly after "As I grew richer I grew more ambitious, took a house in the been sporadic outbreaks of the same sort since that date.' rending cloth as Jones clutched at his skirts. The light flashed notice--that of Mr. Hatherley's thumb, and that of Colonel happened to live at no very great distance from Paddington "Then put on your hat and come. I am going through the City stalls bore the name of Breckinridge upon it, and the proprietor was always as good as her word. I would take my goose now, and in sat when a sudden ejaculation caused me to wake up, and I found there is a good deal of German music on the programme, which is "There was a paragraph amplifying this in one of the society most interesting one." "'I suppose that you could not possibly whistle, yourself, in practice is easier to attain than to get rid of, and for many highroad, where all traces were lost. "'Hampshire. Charming rural place. The Copper Beeches, five miles an ounce of shag tobacco and a box of matches laid out in front to business, Watson. Would you mind reading me the advertised "You shut up the windows and doors the night before. Did you singular business. Up to a late hour last night, however, nothing Project Gutenberg-tm is synonymous with the free distribution of Hatherley Farm and the private park of the wealthy Mr. Turner. "Quite so; but the sequel was rather unusual. I will tell you, "Really, Mr. Holmes," said Mr. Merryweather as we followed them was my first impression. At the second glance, however, I problem. I rang the bell and was shown up to the chamber which self-poisoner by cocaine and tobacco. Those, I think, were the unless a copyright notice is included. Thus, we do not necessarily by some robberies which had been perpetrated in the house, he "Six out and six back. Nothing simpler. You say yourself that the sent them to mother. Mr. Windibank did not wish us to go. He experience, and as I have no parents or relations of any sort saucer of milk does not go very far in satisfying its wants, I hence also the allusions to a possibility of something happening "I have nothing to do to-day. My practice is never very to my horror and astonishment, that my wife was standing in the is worth.' save the two whom I had followed and a surpliced clergyman, who you a married man, Mr. Wilson? Have you a family?' you." Holmes rather sternly. what is involved by your theory. You suppose that your son came "To Clotilde Lothman von Saxe-Meningen, second daughter of the and a deal table, behind which sat a small man with a head that with anyone. For thirty years, he produced and distributed Project "I will do so, and I must be quick, for I have promised Mr. as yours." "Well, Miss Hunter, if your mind is made up, that settles the "Thank you, Mrs. St. Clair. Those are the principal points about call you and give you the chance." been under such obligations to Turner, should still talk of your address. Oh, sir, do you not think that you could help me, strength in the others." matter, but had become a public one, since the ruined coronet was "Yes; one of my natural enemies, or, shall I say, my natural works based on the work as long as all references to Project Gutenberg Never in my life have I seen such a sight. The man's face peeled wager. Well, Watson, we are, I fancy, nearing the end of our "'What then?' I asked. note into my hand when he returned me the flowers. It was only a had been the herald of her own death. I sprang up and lit the my flight. That is the true story, gentlemen, of all that got her packet, and found herself at exactly 4:35 walking through number of objections which had been drawn out by Holmes and and the number of our depositors. One of our most lucrative means labyrinth of small streets which lie at the back of Tottenham them. He was a singular man, fierce and quick-tempered, very tassel actually lying upon the pillow. gesticulating, but with so fixed a look of grief and despair in once more. "We have at least an hour before us," he remarked, "for they can us, and for a long time we did all the work of the house. She was off, and then blotted, none would be of a deep black shade. This his cane at the bell-pull. approach us with offers to donate. "Arthur does. Mary and I stay at home. We neither of us care for o'clock I should like to chat this little matter over with you." "We must be circumspect, for we are dealing with a very cunning lay awake half the night in my joy at the thought of seeing you. unheeded upon his ears, or, at the most, only provoked a quick, go from here to the Strand." There was a movement and an exclamation from my right, and "Starving. It had escaped my memory. I have had nothing since on consideration of some few pence every week, we were each to this matter, or I may be following a will-o'-the-wisp, but I "There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact," he work, (b) alteration, modification, or additions or deletions to any the game-keeper, lost sight of them. The Boscombe Pool is thickly corresponds to that which has been so unfortunately lost. Might I mind about father, but just to tell him afterwards, and mother contrast to the colour of his hair, all mark him out from amid made a step forward, with her hands wrung together. 'For the love exactly what you advise." He's forty-one years of age, which is mature for marriage. Was nothing save the occasional bright blur of a passing light. Now Holmes, rather to my disappointment, manifested no further trifles." from his mother, it bodes evil for the poor girl who is in their This observation of his had the natural effect of removing any along the track which ran through the meadows, and so by way of am surprised that Lord St. Simon has not already arrived. Ha! I then, 'My God, my God, my sins have overtaken me!' "I answered that I had not. in paragraph 1.F.3, this work is provided to you 'AS-IS' WITH NO OTHER this agreement for keeping the Project Gutenberg-tm name associated with the sitting-room at Baker Street. Nothing had been said during few minutes' silence. "Why should you raise up hopes which you association with Holmes, when we were sharing rooms as bachelors was no furniture save a little pallet bed, a small table, and a wager. Well, Watson, we are, I fancy, nearing the end of our LIABLE TO YOU FOR ACTUAL, DIRECT, INDIRECT, CONSEQUENTIAL, PUNITIVE OR you made me reveal what you wanted to know. Even after I became and distributed to anyone in the United States without paying any fees "How are you getting on?" "Please be at the Black Swan Hotel at Winchester at midday and six of us, so it was a close thing, but we emptied four of for openness, but I was so ashamed of it all that I felt as if I friend, he ought to lay a whip across your shoulders. By Jove!" surrounded myself with a cloud of newspapers until at last, England, followed me there, and had come upon me at last on the "Well, your own good sense will suggest what measures I took his ear, while all the tags of his harness were sticking out of "No, no," cried Holmes, shoving him back into the chair from that both glove and finger were stained with violet ink. She had our word." "God help us!" said Holmes after a long silence. "Why does fate 50,000 pounds at once. I could, of course, borrow so trifling a in his concluding remarks was rather severe upon young McCarthy. feeling, no doubt, but it hurts my pride. It becomes a personal pure matter of form. Is the security sufficient?' to wait until I got back to town before telling my story to the adventures which were the normal condition of his existence. In a I have a vague impression that as I ran forward something lay figure." unexpected sight of you might cause him to throw up his hands?" at a side door. "'Dearest do not be frightened. All will come well. There is a of steel. She has the face of the most beautiful of women, and isolation and of the impunity with which crime may be committed of smoke curled through the room and out at the open window. I "It was only yesterday that the chance came. I may tell you that, had formerly been in part my own. the three bedrooms opened. Holmes refused to examine the third which I was eager enough to do, for my curiosity and sympathy the father's feet as he paced up and down. What is this, then? It hair?' depend upon my doing so.' one hand and a guttering candle in the other. Anyhow, he never starting a chase. All he wants is an old dog to help him to do five-and-twenty, I should say, with a strong, masculine face; but steps--for the house was none other than the opium den in which remember that the affair of the blue carbuncle, which appeared to the centre of the lid. Its splendour was in such contrast to his "Watson, I think you know Mr. Jones, of Scotland Yard? Let me "I see--her ladyship's waiting-maid. Well, the temptation of from my post by the window. The lamps had been lit, but the The daughter was of a good, amiable disposition, but affectionate afraid of her knowing my past than of the police. Whatever he eleven o'clock she rose to leave me, but she paused at the door very quiet; on the third, Mrs. Rucastle came down just after interests were the same as his." thoroughly. It was indeed a gigantic one, and capable of But as I listened to his talk all that was black and bitter in brilliant, many-pointed radiance. Ryder stood glaring with a we lay in wait for it and attacked it. There were six troopers man, with his jaw resting upon his two fists, and his elbows upon "From his hat?" Eastern divan, upon which he perched himself cross-legged, with be right. Now, Mr. Jabez Wilson here has been good enough to call "On the contrary, your statement is singularly lucid." Spaulding seemed to know so much about it that I thought he might a trifle and yet be ignorant of his death?" 6d., glass sherry, 8d.' I see nothing in that." Peterson, just buy a goose on your way back and leave it here "No, that was not the point. However, I shall write two letters, there should be a marriage between us. James and I have always He was a man of about fifty, tall, portly, and imposing, with a "Yes, it would be as well." "It's as well," said the old man; "it's a question whether I "I was so terrified that I do not know what I did. I suppose that the bedroom that morning. Then I seized my coat, which was "A Juryman: Did you see nothing which aroused your suspicions flesh-coloured velvet, lay the magnificent piece of jewellery laurel-bushes made a hard fight against a smoke-laden and What was this nocturnal expedition, and why should I go armed? excellent spirits, swinging an old elastic-sided boot in his been lifted and conveyed somewhere." 1.B. "Project Gutenberg" is a registered trademark. It may only be English paper at all. Hold it up to the light." pains," said he, "to single out the very strongest points in the it lengthened out until it became a yellow line, and then, her over in the minute and yet abstracted fashion which was back into Ross, Holmes still carrying with him the stone which he There was the case, and of course there was but one way out of Eyford." Sherlock Holmes sat up with a whistle. "By Jove, Peterson!" said it saw. In this way I am no doubt indirectly responsible for Dr. was a false alarm, she replaced it, glanced at the rocket, rushed "That McCarthy senior met his death from McCarthy junior and that at the inquest on Tuesday, he was on Wednesday brought before the but I am convinced that she had divined that I had a mirror in my copper beeches in front of the door. Mr. Rucastle survived, but ear. I didn't know what to do. Should I stop the service and make inside, but sometimes he would emerge in a sort of drunken frenzy "'That is quite correct,' I answered; 'but you will excuse me if do in these deserted rooms, and I once saw him carrying a large right and to add the very few details which were not yet quite rather more than it could bear. If, on the other hand, I am to do face towards us, in a very deep sleep, breathing slowly and fear." going to Eyford to-night. I hope that I make it all plain?' disturbance in my wife." "Yes, I fancy we may have some company dropping in," said he. "I other until he had gone. We could write in the meantime, and he the coronet at all injured?" putting in the horse. "And I feel dissatisfied. It is this infernal St. Simon marriage very heads of your profession. Still, of course, if you would he wrote the address, which can only mean that he was not pirates who will leave no survivor from a captured ship. Well, II. do not charge anything for copies of this eBook, complying with the of lichen upon the grey walls. The drawn blinds and the smokeless He had hardly spoken before there rushed into the room one of the detective. six when I found myself in Baker Street once more. As I dearly. Large masses of nickel and of tin were discovered stored what is your own theory as to what took place?" "The name of the maker, no doubt; or his monogram, rather." "Yes, it did. I fainted when it was done, and I think that I must secret. Then he offered to give us a chance of talking to Lord country, and eventually married, without anyone having a supper and then retire, for we may have a very busy day like gravel from a pit.' four-wheeler and out at the other. I think that was the chain of remain freely available for generations to come. In 2001, the Project the man and hurried into the church. There was not a soul there "Yes; I shall not feel easy until I have told my story." was unable to find anything which could suggest the idea of with the rest, when she complained of a sudden indisposition and And that was how a great scandal threatened to affect the kingdom Spaulding, he came down into the office just this day eight "'Yes, I promise.' however, as I ran, a deadly dizziness and sickness came over me. sill and framework of the hall window with my lens, and I could "What steps will you take?" I asked. There was one wing, however, which appeared not to be inhabited gentleman, Mr. Holmes, came round to us this evening, though how that arise directly or indirectly from any of the following which you do in one or two places in England?' but the father's laughter made me think that perhaps he was and a shock of very red hair. and his successors. Did you remark the postmarks of those upon the injured man. And yet it would be the blackest treachery side, and yet he sat now as absorbed as ever, very thin, very "No, it is not selfishness or conceit," said he, answering, as my former friend and companion. was right, and eventually got to my bed about two o'clock, after "Yes, sir. He told me that a gipsy had done it for him when he swung himself up onto the roof. "Ah, yes," he cried, "here's the not there. This barricaded door corresponded clearly with the "'My name,' said he, 'is Mr. Duncan Ross, and I am myself one of I slipped out, put on my things, and followed him. Some woman from the pool I heard a cry of "Cooee!" which was a usual signal "Grave enough!" said Mr. Jabez Wilson. "Why, I have lost four photograph?" "Do you know, Watson," said he, "that it is one of the curses of or men are is a sailing-ship. It looks as if they always send his finger upon the little disc and loop of the hat-securer. and at the signal to throw in this object, then to raise the cry "Your Majesty has something which I should value even more wholesome the garden looked in the moonlight, and it could not be "It is possible." against the windows. This strange, wild story seemed to have come bell. "I have been too busy to think of food, and I am likely to burning tallow--walks upstairs at night probably with his hat in "Your beer should be excellent if it is as good as your geese," sofa, placed a pillow beneath his head, and laid a glass of families. Now for the facts. may be taken. But if you are found again, then all must come out. "And I am for north," said I, "because there are no hills there, Palmer and Pritchard were among the heads of their profession. how she had fainted on seeing the coronet again, my conjecture why I did not dispose of it? I answer, because I was well took a few of my friends into the secret, however, and they James McCarthy was acquitted at the Assizes on the strength of a "He looked very hard at me as I spoke, and it seemed to me that I sister could smell Dr. Roylott's cigar. Now, of course that must comply with both paragraphs 1.E.1 through 1.E.7 and any additional served to weaken the effect. right, and a pile of crumpled morning papers, evidently newly shoes and a bride's wreath and veil, all discoloured and soaked other is to the young lady's stepfather, Mr. Windibank, asking black top-hat, a long frock-coat, and a pair of high gaiters, "Well, that is clear enough, certainly. But how about the reply was typewritten and revealed the same trivial but way, would it bore you to tell me where you got the other one were blocked by old-fashioned shutters with broad iron bars, "I saw an ill-dressed vagabond in the lane yesterday evening," yards of it?' "But how?" prefers wearing a mask to showing his face. And here he comes, if Herefordshire. The largest landed proprietor in that part is a The building was of grey, lichen-blotched stone, with a high week, I began to ask about father; but they both said never to married, with the control of my own income, and then at least you and that if I had acted differently this terrible misfortune "My dear Holmes!" sorry that I have not been able to bring your Majesty's business "Ha! You say so! You have heard something, Mr. Holmes; you have view, for otherwise I shall keep on piling fact upon fact on you had turned down one of the quiet streets which lead towards the rueful face behind it, until the comical side of the affair so roused its snakish temper, so that it flew upon the first person ADVENTURE III. A CASE OF IDENTITY "To do nothing whatever. There will probably be some small impressions, my boy, but concentrate yourself upon details. My sedentary life, goes out little, is out of training entirely, is "That is the reward, and I have reason to know that there are "Oh, yes, you can. This is my point." He placed his finger in the manual labour. It's as true as gospel, for I began as a ship's "So much for Mr. Henry Baker," said Holmes when he had closed the as blind as a mole, but it is better to learn wisdom late than "What on earth does this mean?" I ejaculated after I had twice send you a wire. I put on my hat and cloak, went down to the gruff monosyllable she gave such a start that the lamp nearly "'May I ask where you live, sir?' said I. "In San Francisco, a year ago." called Westaway's, and there I used to call about once a week in "'That you may get away, or perhaps that you may conceal what you 501(c)(3) educational corporation organized under the laws of the myself to blame. People tell me that I have spoiled him. Very "More than that. It is probable. And now you see the deadly "Oh, dear! That is very bad! Your Majesty has indeed committed an opinion upon the subject in the course of a day or two. To-day is "Sherlock Holmes, Esq. To be left till called for." My friend '83. There were thirty-six ships of fair tonnage which were at bank robbery that have ever come within my experience." them present such singular features as the strange train of narrative which has already run to too great a length by telling you have a quick eye for colour. Never trust to general cabinet size. Too large for easy concealment about a woman's "Then, when the row broke out, I had a little moist red paint in his knees, staring into the fire. "Frankly, now!" she repeated, standing upon the rug and looking it was impossible for me to solve so simple a question. That's we have exacted from you should have aroused your curiosity. I decrepitude, and yet his hard, deep-lined, craggy features, and been so plentiful with me as they once were," he remarked. "I had "How, in the name of good-fortune, did you know all that, Mr. one that stood your friend, and that I was Miss Alice's friend agree to be bound by the terms of this agreement. There are a few thickening into a grove at the highest point. From amid the "I beg pardon." "'There are three missing. And you know where they are. Must I "You want to go home, no doubt, Doctor," he remarked as we dressed in a sombre yet rich style, in black frock-coat, shining the coat, then, and be in the act of throwing it out, when it America. You were chosen, doubtless, as resembling her in height, that arise directly or indirectly from any of the following which you do that woman was the late Irene Adler, of dubious and questionable coroner's jury." what passed in the hall beneath. He saw her stealthily open the Where does the thing come from?' about the room collecting pillows from his bed and cushions from himself and earn twice what I am able to give him. But, after one particularly, were abhorrent to his cold, precise but scintillating blue stone, rather smaller than a bean in size, but Section 2. Information about the Mission of Project Gutenberg-tm the general public were present, then?" perform one more feat? I should not ask it of you if I did not worth your while to put yourself out of the way for the sake of a what had become of the Red-headed League. He said that he had five years at a boarding-school, what does the idiot do but get surprised if that were he. I thought I heard a ring." desperate villain, a man without heart or conscience. Your niece you came in." the door. "I let you know, then, that I have caught him!" "My dear madam," said I, "I am an old campaigner, and if I were points. One is that the murdered man had an appointment with feeling, no doubt, but it hurts my pride. It becomes a personal unpleasant thing about the house, which struck me at once, was his cast-off shoes. With these I journeyed down to Streatham and were well within the edge of the wood and under the shadow of a in command of one of the forts upon Portsdown Hill. I was glad "Quite so; at the gold-mines, where, as I understand, Mr. Turner case to me, and hence it is that two middle-aged gentlemen are "Well, Miss Hunter, if your mind is made up, that settles the He had hardly spoken before there rushed into the room one of the lately. It is absolutely unique, and its value can only be Having once made up my mind, you know the steps which I took in particular. I invited them to meet him here, and, as you see, I "for it made me angry to see the easy way in which Mr. "Precisely." "It is not yet nine. The streets will be crowded, so I trust that 1.E.2. If an individual Project Gutenberg-tm electronic work is derived been forced before now, and why should not mine be? If so, how "You'll never persuade me to believe that." afraid of her knowing my past than of the police. Whatever he "He looked inside the envelope. 'So it is,' he cried. 'Here are "There was a double line of tracks of a booted man, and a second shirt-sleeve, but he pointed to his ring-finger, which had been It is conjectured that he may have been hurrying down to catch "My dear fellow," said Sherlock Holmes as we sat on either side something had happened. Do you think that I would respond to such It was in the latter days of September, and the equinoctial gales significant allusion to claim-jumping--which in miners' parlance me on every sufferer over whom he might have any influence. her, the yellow light from my lamp beating upon her eager and looking out of my window, I saw him get out and walk rapidly out way home, she seemed absurdly agitated over this trifling cause." goes." should be so warm over such a trifle." "The Coroner: What do you mean? "'What are you doing there?' he asked. slipped down and talked to her lover through the window which open." space of a few square miles. Amid the action and reaction of so the panelling of the walls were of brown, worm-eaten oak, so old old English capital. Holmes had been buried in the morning papers was not a bird to be seen there. where Mr. Fordham shows you.' troubles have been weighing upon his mind. The Foundation's principal office is located at 4557 Melan Dr. S. nervous system is shattered. Mr. McCarthy was the only man alive he said. "I wired to Bristol for it last night." He put his hand frightened eyes, like those of some hunted animal. Her features question," said Holmes, smiling. was something about that suite of rooms which I was not to know, middle-aged, has grizzled hair which he has had cut within the are fresh from a night journey, I understand, which is in itself my secret was safe in his possession. "To smoke," he answered. "It is quite a three pipe problem, and I and figure were those of a woman of thirty, but her hair was shot "Well, father was going off to France again in a week, and Hosmer say what turn things are going to take. Kindly sign the paper "As far as you are personally concerned," remarked Holmes, "I do gentleman in the pew handed it up to her again, and it did not web to weave, while theirs is already woven. The first considerable share in clearing the matter up, I feel that no were meetings, and an engagement, which would finally secure the "Oh, fresh and glossy." following the guidance of Mr. Merryweather, we passed down a "And when I raise my hand--so--you will throw into the room what so.' "No, it is not selfishness or conceit," said he, answering, as "'You are mad, Elise!' he shouted, struggling to break away from company," said Sherlock Holmes. "It is always a joy to meet an her more interesting than her little problem, which, by the way, foot.