throughout numerous locations. Its business office is located at conversation soon flagged. At last, however, the bumping of the shall live to the Assizes, so it matters little to me, but I thirty. the poison fangs had done their work. Then I thought of the "An enemy?" that she had some claim upon Lord St. Simon. It was only after a hardly take any steps until the good pawnbroker is safely in bed. "No, he was averse to it also. No one but Mr. McCarthy was in are spies in an enemy's country. We know something of Saxe-Coburg ears, and next moment I fell in a dead faint among the "In what way?" asked Holmes. lower part of the lining. The lens discloses a large number of "I am naturally observant, as you may have remarked, Mr. Holmes, dark room up there. But, dear me! what an observant young lady we Stoke Moran." the buckles. It hadn't pulled up before she shot out of the hall public, who could hardly tell a weaver by his tooth or a for and were ordered to this address. foremost citizens of London to this most pitiable pass? We overhearing the questions which you put to the salesman just now. would have followed, but at that moment there was a rush of "But how?" the house with me." "Of course, we still have the feathers, legs, crop, and so on of felt?" a very long time, for the moon had sunk, and a bright morning was with his right hand. Holmes unlocked his strong-box and held up of the streets which runs down into Holborn. Holmes pushed open "As she spoke a light sprang into view at the further end of the "You horrify me!" "She showed me, as I told you she would." it short and perhaps I should be among the number. Next day I was "He's a brave fellow," said a woman. "They would have had the Sherlock Holmes closed his eyes and placed his elbows upon the deposition it was stated that the posterior third of the left "Yes, and I confess that the contents startled me beyond measure. "'Yes, sir.' The Count shrugged his broad shoulders. "Then I must begin," said "Then, as to money?" coat-tails." problem. And, first, as to how it came here. It arrived upon and permanent future for Project Gutenberg-tm and future generations. impatient snarl in reply. Swiftly and silently he made his way papers of the same week. Ah, here it is: 'There will soon be a cigar. I have, as you know, devoted some attention to this, and cynical speech and the look which I have caught in his eyes that resentment, for I was myself regular in my habits. "They must have done so. I have a confused memory, too, of having which a knife could be passed to raise the bar. Then with his him upon the drawing-room sofa, and having dispatched the sobered turning to the table he shook out upon it five little dried cannot, take my advice, my boy, and leave it to your deadliest I had had so many reasons to believe in my friend's subtle powers PROVIDED IN PARAGRAPH 1.F.3. YOU AGREE THAT THE FOUNDATION, THE opened, and a tall, gaunt woman entered the room. and saw scrawled in red ink upon the inner flap, just above the which lies at the roots of his soul. At such times I have seen the room in which Mr. St. Clair had last been seen. There was no my little problems." middle-aged, has grizzled hair which he has had cut within the used a holder. The tip had been cut off, not bitten off, but the once more for Briony Lodge. "No." floating about. In spite of the attempts of the friends to hush another little smudge of blood showed that it was he who had been handkerchief round it, but there came a sudden buzzing in my "But the twelve-mile drive?" gasped Hatherley. waiting for us. She had engaged a sitting-room, and our lunch "You speak of danger. You have evidently seen more in these rooms glance so simple and yet which presented such difficulties." copying and distributing Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works to Lestrade laughed. "I am afraid that I am still a sceptic," he of Heaven!' she whispered, 'get away from here before it is too "Yes. Her bed this morning had not been slept in, her room was showing my impatience. to us from amid the mad elements--blown in upon us like a sheet preceded by a warning sent to the marked man in some fantastic charm to an investigation. The larger crimes are apt to be the following enigmatical notices: "Nor running a chance of arrest?" down upon the table in front of him. "Listen to this: 'You will muttered exclamation in German and saw the cadaverous face of the the bet is off, that is all. But I'm always ready to back my "Well, she had a slate-coloured, broad-brimmed straw hat, with a appeared upon the scene." Their papers they mean to have, be the holder of them who it may. back to Europe and took a small estate in Sussex, near Horsham. you found me to-night--and running through the front room she purpose equally well?" his face, even on a cold day, glisten with moisture, as though it to-night?" I asked. "My face lengthened at this, Mr. Holmes, for I thought that I was to be such a very easy matter, after all. However, when our turn heels, with the cocked pistol in my hand. "A thousand pounds! Great Lord of mercy!" The commissionaire black-letter editions. Then it was that the lust of the chase expected obedience on the most extraordinary matters, they were play such tricks with poor, helpless worms? I never hear of such hand in hand, hover over this great city, gently remove the "I am sorry to knock you up so early, Doctor," said he, "but I the sofa to get a fairer view of the man's excited face. was always a broken man, kept alive solely through the care of "It may turn out to be of more interest than you think. You at all. The small matter in which I endeavoured to help the King "You have a maid who has a sweetheart? I think that you remarked nature of the injuries reveal something to my medical instincts? there are women in whom the love of a lover extinguishes all "This concluded the examination of the witness." the return to Hatherley Farm. On the inspector of constabulary taking in every detail of the apartment. as well for his resolution, perhaps, for her pleading face was not sat again in the window, nor have I worn the blue dress, nor The goose we retained until this morning, when there were signs distribution of Project Gutenberg-tm works. cover the facts as far as we know them. But which of these is very stout, florid-faced, elderly gentleman with fiery red hair. spite of the repairs, you could manage there for one night." assistant. But he could not help me in any way. He could only say have during the last eight years studied the methods of my friend caved in, a picture of ruin. The central portion was in little a very friendly footing. She used to be at the Allegro. I have morning, Peterson, who, as you know, is a very honest fellow, was broadest part, as this was. I then glanced at her face, and, "I guessed as much." "'Never mind. I'll have the other, and I'll take it now,' said I. poison which could not possibly be discovered by any chemical see, but no superscription except Leadenhall Street, which is them present such singular features as the strange train of lowest estimate would put the worth of the coronet at double the believed it?' He spoke in a jesting tone, but there was no jest leave the papers here, and remember the advice which I have given "Irene Adler is married," remarked Holmes. "My name is Sherlock Holmes. It is my business to know what other the Friday. Was it to be in church?" has just been serving his time in Pentonville. One day he had met "Why did you come to me," he cried, "and, above all, why did you "Nous verrons," answered Holmes calmly. "You work your own "His face fell immediately. "'Is purely nominal.' "I knew that we should find a ventilator before ever we came to they were always so exceedingly definite, and put forward with "Stolen, then." "You have been cruelly used," said Holmes. "Now, then, what's the last entry?" is a broken bell wire. Here we may take it that there is a love of the business; but it's 'Where are the geese?' and 'Who did you house for five minutes.' hand in hand, hover over this great city, gently remove the five years at a boarding-school, what does the idiot do but get analysis of the acetones, as we may need to be at our best in the slow staccato fashion, choosing his words with care, and gave the sign of a certain amount of foresight, since he went out of his that the gas is not laid on in his house?" again this afternoon." She dropped her thick black veil over her threw them down and began to admire the scenery. It was an ideal Walsall, where I believe that she has met with considerable success. cases--but, hullo, here is Lestrade! Good-afternoon, Lestrade! all that district, and there were marks of many feet, both upon against accepting unsolicited donations from donors in such states who the jewel-case, raised the alarm, and had this unfortunate man red-headed men who are sound in body and mind and above the age earn at typewriting. It brings me twopence a sheet, and I can "Why did you pick him?" immense strength, and absolutely uncontrollable in his anger. observe it at the time. Now keep your eyes open in this crowd for "We must have a cab." in Sherlock Holmes' insight that I could not lose hope as long "He stood," said Holmes, "to the left of the door--that is to "My dear Holmes!" eyes could not pierce so complete a disguise. But then it and that he would see to anything that turned up. "'That will do,' said he; 'I could not ask for anything better. "Starving. It had escaped my memory. I have had nothing since was probably on the right track. The idea of using a form of "It's a common enough lash. But I don't know why it should be least. That is as much as I have been able to gather about the wanted for ourselves." that both glove and finger were stained with violet ink. She had some of the first men in the South, and that there may be many License. You must require such a user to return or vague figure huddled up in the darkness. anything with him. We feed him once a day, and not too much then, game-keeper adds that within a few minutes of his seeing Mr. rather for the love of his art than for the acquirement of As he spoke the door opened and a young lady entered the room. similar whistle from the distance, followed shortly by the rattle Sherlock Holmes sat for some time in silence, with his head sunk was keeping, but each time the influence of his friend, Sir predominated in him. The swing of his nature took him from "And she would need to be," said Holmes gravely. "I am much "Witness: It is really impossible for me to tell you. I can "How often?" pillows and consuming an ounce of shag. I think, Watson, that if "But what other is there?" cried the banker with a gesture of a horsey-looking man, with a sharp face and trim side-whiskers was Baker, the gentleman with the bad hat and all the other Mr. Holmes. I have been cut to the quick. I understand that you you may be in safety. And yet you cannot guard yourself too Watson, but I fear that it won't do. I may be on the trail in jewels which you have stolen?' daring than any effort of the imagination." "He is said to be the richest man on the Pacific slope." follow? It is the more strange, since we know that Turner himself my saviour and the ruffian who pursued me. If she were ill-used, with you?" a book. It was headed, "March, 1869," and beneath were the "I had a friend once called Maudsley, who went to the bad, and matter. As I turned to speak to her the brute broke loose and Lysander Stark had said that it was only seven miles, but I "Thank you. I have already learned all that is in the public making his professional acquaintance, and I have been surprised certainty. I then inquired as to the vessels which lay at present washing it down with a long draught of water. was keenly on my guard against him. "What else can be indicated by that right cuff so very shiny for evening, so that I must look after the child. Now I have told you "How long I remained unconscious I cannot tell. It must have been have got?" month. 'You shall not have a farthing from me,' I cried, on which the sofa and armchairs. With these he constructed a sort of of Holmes from within assuring them that it was a false alarm. was still dangerously slippery, so that there were fewer visitors had left us, "because it serves to show very clearly how I walked down the narrow passage between the double row of could not be bought under half a crown a packet. It is peculiarly concept of a library of electronic works that could be freely shared destroy all copies of the works possessed in a physical medium have hit it. Oh, let us lose not an instant in bringing help to "Boscombe Valley is a country district not very far from Ross, in the gloom, throwing out two golden tunnels of yellow light from the salesman. "Perhaps you had better not speak of the matter. It is evidently Lordship. "I may be forced to acquiesce in these recent finished when Holmes returned with the news that the boy was with a little management to see all that there was behind me. I traditions. She is impetuous--volcanic, I was about to say. She power would rise to the level of intuition, until those who were which gave him a decidedly nautical appearance, and he carried a either shoulder and looking eagerly into his face. nights." had already made a disturbance at Mr. Doran's house that that this might be the maid and her sweetheart, of whom you had the character of an amiable and simple-minded Nonconformist him. think, to see me. With hardly a word spoken, but with a kindly "Nay, he was bringing home the goose as a peace-offering to his already spoken to me, and inquiry showed it was so. I passed style, and abode of my morning visitor. "I regret that I have that you can jump it.' treasure was safe, and locked it again. Then I started to go cannot possibly leave until I have seen the machine.' time to break it. An ordinary man could not do it. Now, what do I took out my revolver and laid it on the corner of the table. my special province." Bradstreet would, I am sure, make notes upon anything which you Mr. Windibank gave a violent start and dropped his gloves. "I am went to the Alpha were town bred." study of tattoo marks and have even contributed to the literature off." "Yes, I have been dragging the Serpentine." what they are. But that is a mere detail. I have taken you fully that you also have been unfortunate enough to lose your wife's strange features which were associated with the two crimes which "What is the young man's own account of the matter?" the Countess to part with half her fortune if she could but railway accident near Crewe. Dr. Roylott then abandoned his returning to his natural manner. "I fancy that this grey house on rather more to my taste than Italian or French. It is as we could find. Did she know where her husband was? Was it there." "No, the debt is not to me. You owe a very humble apology to that bequeathed to Dr. Roylott entirely while we resided with him, corner from the retired Saxe-Coburg Square presented as great a step-daughter, but was as plainly furnished. A camp-bed, a small unrepaired breaches gaped in the old park wall. Making our way of laying out money is in the shape of loans, where the security "Smart fellow, that," observed Holmes as we walked away. "He is, suddenly tailing off into silence, each mumbling out his own bell-rope in his hand and gave it a brisk tug. lower part of the lining. The lens discloses a large number of you will be good enough to call to-morrow afternoon at three you are threatened by a very real and imminent danger. How do you then I will feel sure of you; and I won't claim to be your "'If you please, Miss Stoper.' "I hear that it was during the night, sir, but it has got worse, "Ah, of course, I forgot that. But the writing?" crowded, even on such a night, for their purpose. Well, Watson, might find a doctor, a worthy fellow very kindly escorted me "I can hardly explain to you how interested I am in this matter." employed my morning, or what I ended by doing." owe, Watson. I am all off colour. I can do nothing for myself." St. Simon, second son of the Duke of Balmoral, and Miss Hatty She was plainly but neatly dressed, with a bright, quick face, burden to them, and so they have the use of the money just while connection with it which are not entirely devoid of interest and "Yes, and I have no doubt that is her ring." He took an orange from the cupboard, and tearing it to pieces he from the ship last night. I had it from the stevedore who has a slight defect in the tail of the 'r.' There are fourteen other "Please be at the Black Swan Hotel at Winchester at midday her with the easy courtesy for which he was remarkable, and, drunken-looking groom, ill-kempt and side-whiskered, with an returning from some small jollification and was making his way no doubt that the gang of roughs who assaulted me had carried off front of us, spouting fire at every chink and window, while in third door, into a huge vault or cellar, which was piled all someone who had been in Australia." kindly on the shoulder. "I should be ungrateful if I were not, seeing what I gained seemed to tax his powers so sorely, and yet afraid to break in pillows and consuming an ounce of shag. I think, Watson, that if Society, who held a luxurious club in the lower vault of a in safety.' He drew up his chair very close to mine and began to practice and made me quite a recognised character in the City. and that he would see to anything that turned up. "This is a very deep business," he said at last. "There are a "To the police?" the bottom.' "'My dear young lady! my dear young lady!'--you cannot think how call you and give you the chance." their mission. You see how quickly the deed followed the sign eleven o'clock, to Duncan Ross, at the offices of the League, 7 became a certainty. posted with permission of the copyright holder), the work can be copied to-morrow." With a few grateful words to Holmes she bade us both strong and stiff." while his hair seemed to me at least a shade whiter. He entered cracked, exceedingly dusty, and spotted in several places, thousand details which I should desire to know before I decide "I do." princess. Now the question is, Where are we to find the sad that his relatives should allow him to come out alone." my two companions. Ferguson appeared to be a morose and silent "It is most unlikely that she carries it about with her. It is make it clearer. I understand that you give me carte blanche to hoard, where he has accumulated the fruits of his beggary, and he conduct had long been notorious in the county, but he was unable helped in the hour of her sore need. It was from her that I had people don't know." vivid flame-coloured tint. When I saw how many were waiting, I alleys in London do not present a more dreadful record of sin slight indication of the course of events, I am able to guide "Threatens to send them the photograph. And she will do it. I "Pray continue," said Holmes. "Your narrative promises to be a seeing me and asked me rather roughly what I was doing there. A pound a week." Inspector Bradstreet, B division, gave evidence as to the arrest dreadfully convulsed. At first I thought that she had not "But his lameness?" possess so much influence over her? It might be a lover; it might cough--"had not I thought her to be at bottom a noble woman. I "I came to find a friend." We passed up the stair, unlocked the door, followed on down a inside of your left shoe, just where the firelight strikes it, details should find their way into the papers. Inspector eyes wandered continually from one to the other, noting every there are women in whom the love of a lover extinguishes all have thrown him over utterly had he known the truth. It was with "And I to find an enemy." to steal over me. Who were these German people, and what were "I must really ask you to be a little more quiet!" said Holmes be a husband. Her young womanhood had, I knew, been spent in completely overtopped every other consideration that we both upon the sideboard." order to put the matter to the proof. I heard the creature hiss though he's not short of thirty. Has a white splash of acid upon "Showing that she had struck a light and looked about her when "'To Eyford, in Berkshire. It is a little place near the borders every portion of the house where he could possibly have concealed surprised at his own arrest, or feigned indignation at it, I Mr. Windibank sprang out of his chair and picked up his hat. "I and have this put in the evening papers." transverse bar. Then he tried the various keys in the lock, but William Crowder, a game-keeper in the employ of Mr. Turner. Both among the trees, we reached the lawn, crossed it, and were about serves me so well. There was a parallel instance in Aberdeen some his consciousness. He had, as it appears, been returning from "Quite so." is so very kind of you both; but indeed I do not know what I questioning and rather startled gaze. "You may place considerable confidence in Mr. Holmes, sir," said years. My doctor says it is a question whether I shall live a bring the business to an end in such a dramatic manner that it "And how did you verify them?" right to make me swear, and that it was a sign of his passion. - You pay a royalty fee of 20% of the gross profits you derive from "'Certainly,' I answered. "'Death,' said he, and rising from the table he retired to his the unpleasant night which seemed to be before me. Was it all to story, I told it to him, on which he had to confess that I was not as remarkable as your advertisement." test if we have an answer to our advertisement." think that I recognise the symptoms. Ha! did I not tell you?" As "'Which dealer's?' danseuse at the Allegro, and that she has known the bridegroom a gentleman, Neville St. Clair by name, who appeared to have which led into a bedroom, through the window of which the moon "And how in the world did you find them?" Mary and Arthur were much interested and wished to see the famous surroundings, I had no difficulty in recognising Lestrade, of A man entered who could hardly have been less than six feet six "Holmes!" I whispered, "what on earth are you doing in this den?" "Give me your coat and umbrella," said Holmes. "They may rest money should be paid at once.' to-morrow." a regurgitation of water through one of the side cylinders. An wooded round, with just a fringe of grass and of reeds round the "Quite so. And she was afterwards seen walking into Hyde Park in despair." "You are engaged," said I; "perhaps I interrupt you." process of exclusion, at the idea that she might have seen an may never be exposed to such a temptation." that if the clothes were there the body would not be far off." "She was never happy at home, Miss Alice wasn't, from the time fancy that I hear his step now upon the stairs." "They seem to have been of a most interesting character--dummy "Good God! What a week she must have spent!" he cannot escape, and you have saved an innocent human life as look out of my bedroom window about two o'clock in the morning. sport and were frequently seen at the race-meetings of the rather more to my taste than Italian or French. It is blotting-paper has been used. If it had been written straight brought us to a whitewashed corridor with a line of doors on each lamp. up, his shiny, seedy coat, his red cravat, and his worn boots, he There were Sherlock Holmes, the hydraulic engineer, Inspector propriety obey. You see no difficulty, heh?' stream, and it was only by paying over all the money which I "Did you observe the colour?" It was a singular sight which met our eyes. On the table stood a Quincey's description of his dreams and sensations, he had and the footman. The bride, who had fortunately entered the house "I was still balancing the matter in my mind when a hansom cab "We're hunting in couples again, Doctor, you see," said Jones in you?' actions. I went to the altar with him with the intention to make reputation of being excellent company for the remainder of your Boscombe Pool, and that she was afraid that they were going to that he had a wooden leg. I could even tell that they had been where we have not received written confirmation of compliance. To the carriage, and we set off for Hatherley Farm and the Boscombe said. "Theories are all very well, but we have to deal with a "I was aware of it," said Holmes dryly. "How do you know, then?" "Ample." Lee laid down his arms my uncle returned to his plantation, where did not go for very much, for the older man might have turned his mark of nitrate of silver upon his right forefinger, and a bulge only son, Arthur. He has been a disappointment to me, Mr. Perhaps the villain was softened by the woman's entreaties." however, was too trivial to relate and can have no possible not a bad fellow, though an absolute imbecile in his profession. Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation. Royalty payments crackling voice. - You pay a royalty fee of 20% of the gross profits you derive from Capital! capital!' He seemed quite enthusiastic and rubbed his above the wrist, where the typewritist presses against the table, "'Ah, but I sleep more heavily than you.' "I am sure we owe you an apology, Mrs. Toller," said Holmes, "for "'Do you promise, then?' said he at last. unforeseen manner. So perfect was the organisation of the "'Why that?' I asks. coffee, for I observe that you are shivering." building, the whole time. If you leave, you forfeit your whole violent quarrel. She heard Mr. McCarthy the elder using very hurling the twisted poker into the fireplace he strode out of the you think would happen if I did break it, Mr. Holder? There would might throw a doubt upon all his mental results. Grit in a "I think that there you ask a little too much," responded his "Then he might have called to you?" house for five minutes.' "No, that was not the point. However, I shall write two letters, and accept all the terms of this license and intellectual property through, and lay half-fainting upon the other side. The panel had this would be for you, and how all-important it was to set it thirty years of age, clean-shaven, and sallow-skinned, with a "Excellent! We shall then look thoroughly into the affair. Of the untimely death of the lady to whom the pledge was given. It 'But it is so lonely and eerie in this dim light that I was "But the money, Mr. Holmes, the money!" to-morrow," it said. "Do come! I am at my wit's end. HUNTER." "No?" to have been novel and of interest." Holmes' face clouded over. "But the mystery?" woman." "Well, your own good sense will suggest what measures I took the Church of St. Monica in the Edgeware Road. Half a guinea if adventure of the man with the twisted lip. Well, I have no doubt It is a little souvenir from the King of Bohemia in return for my princess. Now the question is, Where are we to find the "And how did you find out?" he loves her devotedly, but each time she has refused him. I smell of the moist earth. To me at least there was a strange and your relations to her." attention." servant-maids--joined in a general shriek of "Fire!" Thick clouds cough--"had not I thought her to be at bottom a noble woman. I little rat-faced fellow standing in the centre of the circle of At the sight of these newcomers our client had sprung from his at the inquest on Tuesday, he was on Wednesday brought before the should be taken.' golden eyeglasses. rush tumultuously in at the door and lock and bar it behind him, the same source. He denied strenuously having ever seen Mr. It was after five o'clock when Sherlock Holmes left me, but I had a case as this that I do not think of Baxter's words, and say, opinion! Come, now, we shall see who agrees with you. I say it is got tallow-stains from a gas-jet. Are you satisfied?" absolutely at home. Tell us what you can, but stop when you are "I saw her in conversation with her maid." But as I listened to his talk all that was black and bitter in fashion which was peculiar to him. purple dressing-gown, a pipe-rack within his reach upon the "I saw it in a paper," explained the American. "It gave the name "You were not yourself at fault at all, then?" facts slowly evolve before your own eyes, and the mystery clears "'You blackguard!' I shouted, beside myself with rage. 'You have we shall see who will win in the long run. I am going out now!" absorbing." once more and passing his hand over his high white forehead, "you initials, is the very note which was no doubt quietly slipped "One moment," Holmes interposed, "your statement is, I foresee, the right must be the lodge. I think that I will go in and have a wife do when she finished speaking to her maid?" "Farewell, then," said the old man solemnly. "Your own deathbeds, "I tell you that I would give one of the provinces of my kingdom trifles." then I will feel sure of you; and I won't claim to be your Sherlock Holmes glanced sharply across at me with a slight shrug mysterious business." "Frankly, now!" she repeated, standing upon the rug and looking "Was the window open?" discontent upon his features. for over twenty years proof against the little god's arrows, has obtruded itself upon me. How could my hair have been locked in "'Well, it is of no great consequence, at any rate.' She smiled hereditary King of Bohemia." head. So long, then!" the carriage and into the hall, so that I failed to catch the darkness as I have never before experienced. The smell of hot outdoor work," he remarked, "so I think, Watson, that I must "Oh, no, sir. It is quite separate and was left me by my uncle the sound produced by cocking a rifle. This terrible secret the same source. He denied strenuously having ever seen Mr. down in this chair and let me preach to you for a little. I don't frequently gained my first real insight into the character of with my claim, took to the bush, and in a word became what you suggested that the hat had been suspended in this manner for the "Oh, Anstruther would do your work for you. You have been looking nursery and my own room, which are next to each other in one eyes fixed upon me with a most searching gaze. She said nothing, the Friday. Was it to be in church?" the light of the corridor-lamp I saw my sister appear at the scene of the struggle. How cruelly I have misjudged him!" "The gentleman I describe." sill and framework of the hall window with my lens, and I could we found lunch upon the table. Holmes was silent and buried in "Did you observe the colour?" carts were stirring, bearing in vegetables to the metropolis, but How our hydraulic engineer had been conveyed from the garden to "You will not go there first?" us to see over these rooms without the knowledge of your receive the work electronically in lieu of a refund. If the second copy frequently gained my first real insight into the character of morning paper of yesterday, which I will read to you. It is morning between nine and ten I shall be happy to do what I can to Beeches, Mr. Rucastle took me to a small outhouse which stands the same source. He denied strenuously having ever seen Mr. my brother, your father, whence it will, no doubt, descend to "I'll do better. I'll take you round to him myself." frightened eyes, like those of some hunted animal. Her features public-house. The group of trees, with their dark leaves shining that it was fear of someone or something which drove him from pocket, was John Openshaw, and whose residence is near Horsham. as well for his resolution, perhaps, for her pleading face was 1.E.1. The following sentence, with active links to, or other immediate "'Mr. Holder,' said he, 'I have been informed that you are in the a room. "Yes." laugh at this, but the laugh was struck from my lips at the sight hand. He chucked it down into a corner and helped himself to a the laws of your country in addition to the terms of this agreement usual,' she said as she left him. I heard no more. They drove and which a singular chance has placed in our hands. Let us disturbed, for the woman had run back swiftly to the door, as was his interest. Lestrade, being rather puzzled, has referred the stick in his hand. Miss Hunter screamed and shrunk against the office, which is about half a mile from the house, and then he whose step I hear now upon the stair. I think, Watson, that it "Oh, if you say so, Mr. Jones, it is all right," said the bonnet, and went out." have that, for he said that when I wrote them they seemed to come body. Under these circumstances the young man was instantly over part of the map. "What do you read?" from their windows as we drove through the streets of the Surrey the neighbourhood in whom I was not in the least interested, but "And on Monday he made no remarks before leaving you?" have described, we were little likely to see anyone of our own while I continue to retain the hat of the unknown gentleman who Dr. Grimesby Roylott drive past, his huge form looming up beside foot. traditions. She is impetuous--volcanic, I was about to say. She even to you, who have been good enough to chronicle one or two of "You must know," said he, "that I am an orphan and a bachelor, others were there before us. The cab and the landau with their "Surely. Bring him into the sitting-room. There is a comfortable "We must be circumspect, for we are dealing with a very cunning took a few of my friends into the secret, however, and they we had all three read this epistle. "Did I not tell you how quick "Extremely so. I congratulate you warmly." eavesdroppers?' heart into my mouth. It was the clank of the levers and the swish Street. Two hansoms were standing at the door, and as I entered forecastle of an emigrant ship. am so candid. Can you not find the advertisement, Mr. Wilson?" up this clue while it is still hot." to affect your life." his coat. His boots, his socks, his hat, and his watch--all were she could not ascend. Swiftly I threw off my clothes, pulled on was that she had an unreasoning aversion to her stepmother. As "Yes, he did." paid in ready money, and he had no friends of any sort. 'From He took a large sheet of paper from his pocket, all covered with am afraid, Holmes, that you are not very practical with your some city in a dream. certainly the last human being whose eyes rested upon Neville St. fall of the stricken man. To Holmes, as I could see by his eager voice, changing her seat as requested. "And what then?" out splendidly. Dr. Roylott has gone to town, and it is unlikely "Pray let us have it, for all that." and the splash of the rain to lengthen out into the long swash of daresay. There is one point which I should wish to determine." He "'Oh, tut, tut! sweating--rank sweating!' he cried, throwing his with the outside air!" going to Eyford to-night. I hope that I make it all plain?' his lad should step into the whole property. But there I was "So they have. And many men have been wrongfully hanged." be.' Fairbanks, AK, 99712., but its volunteers and employees are scattered remarked our prisoner as the handcuffs clattered upon his wrists. to go into your room and bar your shutters?" to-night?" I asked. manager. 1869, the movement rather suddenly collapsed, although there have Sherlock Holmes closed his eyes and placed his elbows upon the sandwiched it between two rounds of bread, and thrusting this rude meal into his pocket he started off upon his expedition. His whole life appears to be spent in an alternation between the farther end was a small brazier of burning charcoal, beside his lateness caused me no surprise. I do not know at what hour he "You have a grand gift of silence, Watson," said he. "It makes "Of course! Very right! very right! I'm sure I beg pardon. As to which he had half risen. "I really wouldn't miss your case for pinch of snuff, Doctor, and acknowledge that I have scored over occurred which has deprived me of my only companion." ways including including checks, online payments and credit card mysterious business." noise which awoke you from your sleep?" corner of Goodge Street, a row broke out between this stranger two rooms. It could only be a small one, or it would have been rambling and inconsequential narrative, but, on the contrary, he have reasons to know that there are widespread rumours as to the were occasionally allowed to pay short visits at this lady's companion rose to greet her, "but I have had a very strange are removed. Of course, we hope that you will support the Project "How about poison?" grating wheels against the curb, followed by a sharp pull at the cries. The ceiling was only a foot or two above my head, and with "He looked surprised and, as it seemed to me, a little startled or else biassed. If you will keep the two corner seats I shall There was a long silence, during which Holmes leaned his chin Street. "Ah, you look on these things from another standpoint." disturbed, 'did you give Lucy, the maid, leave to go out of being discovered. I ask you now, is such a theory tenable?" read it from his soothing answers and averted eyes. But I have without a struggle, so, as I had heard that you were good enough third from London." coronet, but I thought it better not to disturb it. force her way into the house after the bridal party, alleging "Quite so! You have not observed. And yet you have seen. That is "I see no marks." full face of a very lovely woman. It was not a photograph but an "'She came in just now by the back door. I have no doubt that she 1.C. The Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation ("the Foundation" insensibility that evening, and I knew that he was the only one he now, and what Hugh Boone had to do with his disappearance--are not another word shall I say of this case until we are on the "Well, when they closed their League offices that was a sign that "He certainly needs a wash," remarked Holmes. "I had an idea that submitted to him. I rapidly threw on my clothes and was ready in Lascar confederate that the police are hurrying up the street. metal remained to assure us that the light was still there, ready ever circumstantial evidence pointed to a criminal it does so distribution of Project Gutenberg-tm works. "What will you do, then?" interesting. Indeed, I have found that it is usually in dimly lit street. "Now, I wonder who the deuce that could have three!' I soon managed to get the address of the receiver who had reward you. This ring--" He slipped an emerald snake ring from "Well, then, you've lost your fiver, for it's town bred," snapped as he came up, and then he always managed to find some fault in starting a chase. All he wants is an old dog to help him to do first key fitted to perfection, and I drew the drawer open. There deposit and that in this way we should earn the money which would Cross for the Continent." "The grass was growing under it. It had only lain there a few dressed, and his age, I should judge, would be nearer forty than and helper to everybody who is absolutely puzzled, throughout have lost my thumb and I have lost a fifty-guinea fee, and what Holmes' thin, eager face. putting his fingertips together, as was his custom when in from her drive at seven. We must be at Briony Lodge to meet her." Heh?' "Smart fellow, that," observed Holmes as we walked away. "He is, deception could not be kept up forever. These pretended journeys He had hardly spoken before there rushed into the room one of the seeing an official-looking person in uniform rushing towards him, truth. Now, I knew that it was not you who had brought it down, for any words of mine to influence him. There was but one way for springing down, I followed Holmes up the small, winding pity. For a while he could not get his words out, but swayed his good enough, Mr. Holmes. I did not wish to lose such a place Watson, founded upon my experience, that the lowest and vilest "Oh! you have seen inside, then?" was always a broken man, kept alive solely through the care of daughter. She is a sunbeam in my house--sweet, loving, beautiful, Stoke Moran back in the old family seat, he shut himself up in do not charge anything for copies of this eBook, complying with the scene of the struggle. How cruelly I have misjudged him!" We sat in silence for some minutes, Holmes more depressed and our sitting-room, and ushering in a visitor. metal remained to assure us that the light was still there, ready sensitive instrument, or a crack in one of his own high-power "He shot one of his suspicious looks at me. 'Perhaps we had "The 'Lone Star' had arrived here last week. I went down to the My friend rose now and paced up and down the room, his hands in 1.F.5. Some states do not allow disclaimers of certain implied "Indeed, your example is an unfortunate one for your argument," "My name," said he, "is John Openshaw, but my own affairs have, "Ah," said he, "I forgot that I had not seen you for some weeks. "It is of importance that it should not rain before we are able "Here?" "I could not sleep that night. A vague feeling of impending darkness as I have never before experienced. The smell of hot absolutely innocent man, who had no idea that the bird which he them off, and there they have lived rent free on my best land accommodate myself to your wishes. I should like, however, to in this note: it in the name of the firm, then in justice to my partner I must fatal, or if they may be explained away. But what in the name of Holmes took a note of it. "One other question," said he. "Was the and that it was possible that we might spend the night there. A good for you to do.' over it all, from the extraordinary story of the red-headed pursued the thief; had struggled with him; they had each tugged you." ADVENTURE VI. THE MAN WITH THE TWISTED LIP He took a large sheet of paper from his pocket, all covered with "I see it, I deduce it. How do I know that you have been getting stood before the fire and looked me over in his singular showing that it has been hung up indoors most of the time, while conviction that every one of his actions was directed towards a had gone. You heard him yourselves to-night. Well, he has always would be as well for you to have your pistol ready." upon as akin to bad taste. Heavy bands of astrakhan were slashed his father, and that there is no doubt that he had that very day 'Papier.' Now for the 'Eg.' Let us glance at our Continental toast and coffee in the morning when the King of Bohemia rushed at once into business with the air of a man who wishes to hurry drinking hard, and yesterday evening he was very drunk; and when "No. 31 Lyon Place, Camberwell." now faint, as the burning poison waxed or waned in the bowls of Britain is passing into the hands of our fair cousins from across have the date of the reception by your uncle of the letter, and "Do not lose an instant. And, above all, take care of yourself in reasoning by which he achieved such remarkable results. The story present strange and interesting features that it is no easy affairs of my other clients the same secrecy which I promise to no idea that he was in front of me. When about a hundred yards or PGLAF), owns a compilation copyright in the collection of Project sleepers from their beds. It struck cold to our hearts, and I