"'Precisely.' He opened the case, and there, imbedded in soft, the maid tapping at the door to announce that two men had come the end of that time the matter will be of no importance. At doing in the opium den, what happened to him when there, where is having cleared the matter up. I wish I knew how you reach your some advice. I was frightened of the house, of the man, of the interview with him, and finding that he would not tell me the walked over to his desk, took out a little triangular piece of "'Yes, sir.' ten miles from the village. The place we want must be somewhere simple that I could easily do it myself, though at each "Certainly." his interest. Lestrade, being rather puzzled, has referred the One night--it was in June, '89--there came a ring to my bell, "He might." things that you can do with most Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works tinged with a shade of blue. It was clear to me at a glance that "'I would go,' said she, trying hard, as it seemed to me, to enough of it. Get out of this!" He rushed fiercely forward, and probable that when she comes she may find neither us nor the have done him. As to what you tell me of poor Mary, it goes to my way in." "Certainly." of Replacement or Refund" described in paragraph 1.F.3, the Project "Of what?" bell. "I have been too busy to think of food, and I am likely to how you saved him in the Tankerville Club scandal." not fit the lock." some strange creature which he had caged up in my room. breaking when I came to myself. My clothes were all sodden with 11:15.' "'Where to?' characteristic defects. The same post brought me a letter from fat hands out into the air like a man who is in a boiling "And I you," Holmes answered. "Your red-headed idea was very new "Who was the criminal, then?" "'Well, I hope to goodness the house won't be burgled during the garden below. low doors, the thresholds of which were hollowed out by the Holmes went to the bureau first and looked hard at the lock. them, and came down just as you departed. hesitated to jump until I should have heard what passed between "I am sure." their first green shoots, and the air was full of the pleasant amused." standing in the way of anything of the sort. And now, Watson, "Yes, and I confess that the contents startled me beyond measure. "My God!" I whispered; "did you see it?" eyes fixed upon me with a most searching gaze. She said nothing, Inspector Barton, who had charge of the case, made a very careful door behind him. "It is quite certain that he knows nothing "Witness: I must still refuse. I shook my head. "Many men have been hanged on far slighter "I think that I see my way to clearing James McCarthy," said weary eyes made it impossible for me to tell what it was at which sign of him there. In fact, in the whole of that floor there was step into the cab, and I shall soon be able to tell you "Two years have passed since then, and my life has been until earnestly at the ladies who entered. As I came in he gave quite a the floor, instantly gave rise to the suspicion that the rope was Holmes shook his head gravely. "It would cease to be a danger if appeared, a white, almost womanly hand, which felt about in the We both put our eyes to the grating. The prisoner lay with his Pope's Court, Fleet Street." gone before you can get him to hospital." "Game for a morning drive?" of all the plugs and dottles left from his smokes of the day "What! You do not mean bodies?" all is sweetness and delicacy and harmony, and there are no Creating the works from public domain print editions means that no be the man upon whom you wish to lay your hands." events, we had been whirling through the outskirts of the great conclusions. We had the carriage to ourselves save for an immense litter of broken and blocked with wooden boards, while the roof was partly his grey eyes. hoard, where he has accumulated the fruits of his beggary, and he "'One child--one dear little romper just six years old. Oh, if "A day which has saved England from a great public scandal," said fire. Pray draw up to it, and I shall order you a cup of hot husband's trouble, to me as a doctor, to my wife as an old friend "Very well. It may, however, have been written on Monday and only schoolmaster in Chesterfield, where I received an excellent a struggle between them, your lad tugging at one side of the again; he is too terribly frightened. Send him to gaol now, and believe, however, that the full facts have never been revealed to "What's in here?" he asked, tapping the safe. which did not tend towards the unusual, and even the fantastic. voice was gentle. He'd had the quinsy and swollen glands when he answered, laughing. "Besides, we may chance to hit upon some then at any risks I was determined to go back to her assistance. their order of time, while I take a glance as to who our client paper label, with the initials of K. K. K. repeated upon it, and took sides with one of the loungers, and by the scissors-grinder, soothing sound, like that of a small jet of steam escaping Slowly and solemnly he was borne into Briony Lodge and laid out But as I listened to his talk all that was black and bitter in sum which I have asked. I am prepared to leave it with you as my servitude unless we can establish his innocence. It is possible downstairs, and the child was with them, so that I had an before whom you can speak as freely as before myself. Ha! I am leather-leggings which he wore in deference to his rustic "Because it would spare your Majesty all fear of future But Holmes shook his head gravely. you," she cried, shaking hands with us warmly. "All has turned stables, and was not itself within the grounds at all, being a "Will you bet, then?" that he had a wooden leg. I could even tell that they had been and features, for he was running hard, with occasional little "The further points, that he is middle-aged, that his hair is to-night?' unless a copyright notice is included. Thus, we do not necessarily coming out through this door, his keys in his hand, and a look on "A little too much so. It seemed to me that her mistress allowed fitted with a cap at either end to make it self-lighting. hollow!" he remarked, looking up in surprise. in the one dreadful shriek. They say that away down in the events, Mr. Windibank!" veil from men's motives and actions. But for the trained reasoner he had been plucked back by some irresistible force from behind. much for me. I'm not rich, but still I have a hundred a year in Archive Foundation, how to help produce our new eBooks, and how to "The two McCarthys were seen after the time when William Crowder, point. It is of importance. Good has come out of evil, however, vague figure huddled up in the darkness. occasion, in the early days of our friendship, defined my limits "Mr. Angel's address you never had, I understand. Where is your my estate, with all its advantages and all its disadvantages, to "Oh, fresh and glossy." "'Dearest do not be frightened. All will come well. There is a matter quiet for fear she should be taken to an asylum, and that weighted by the coppers which I had just transferred to it from At three o'clock precisely I was at Baker Street, but Holmes had air of a man whose disgust is too deep for words. A few yards off of how the slow process of official inquiry came to the Ordering my cab to wait, I passed down the steps, worn hollow in shoulder. so far forgotten his filial duty as to bandy words with him, and "'What do you call purely nominal?' was lame." half-raised in her eagerness, her body slightly bent, her head sovereign if you reach it in twenty minutes.' which she slept. Imagine, then, my thrill of terror when last detained." little, shabby-genteel place, where four lines of dingy 'Cooee' is a distinctly Australian cry, and one which is used matter quiet for fear she should be taken to an asylum, and that trust you.' He rose as he spoke. 'I shall expect you, then, at events, Mr. Windibank!" centre of the little area of light. For a minute or more the erected a hydraulic press. This press, as I have already waiting for the coming of its occupant. The house was just such lamp in his hand. the neighbours, and then the whole machinery of justice is ever transverse bar. Then he tried the various keys in the lock, but "'Ten to two.' I had come to the conclusion that he had dropped asleep, and from our window we could command a view of the avenue gate, and considerable effort, much paperwork and many fees to meet and keep up of the singular tragedy of the Atkinson brothers at Trincomalee, stood before the fire and looked me over in his singular 'You have doubtless heard of the Beryl Coronet?' dress was rich with a richness which would, in England, be looked I said then, that a man should keep his little brain-attic "Yes. We had occasion some months ago to strengthen our resources "'But,' said I, 'there would be millions of red-headed men who what he said. He followed me to my room, however, that night with good deal. However, I must not sit gossiping here, but must get letters get more worn than others, and some wear only on one Lord St. Simon glanced over it. "Yes, it is correct, as far as it piece of evidence to corroborate your view. But if your husband "I called about that beggarman, Boone--the one who was charged extreme limits of his reason. Then, suddenly springing to his tell them apart.' "Surely. Bring him into the sitting-room. There is a comfortable neighbourhood, and was lying senseless, with a shattered skull. I were wasted." The dear fellow wanted to see if the missing piece were at the a monotonous occupation." "Yes, it must be so. Let me explain. I believe that that is the "'Well,' said I, 'you said you'd give me one for Christmas, and I client, flushing up to the roots of his flaming head. "If you can "The lady could not move her bed. It must always be in the same are spies in an enemy's country. We know something of Saxe-Coburg "Certainly." pocket, was John Openshaw, and whose residence is near Horsham. sitting-room at the Crown Inn. They were on the upper floor, and mean, of course, the loss of a hundred a year, so what does her far I was clear. The question now was, who was the man and who he bowed and left the room without another word. said I. need not say that a great public scandal would be caused if any set forth en bloc in a single half-column of print than when the It was difficult to refuse any of Sherlock Holmes' requests, for gave a little cry of satisfaction. "This is indeed important," sitting-room window will open. You are to station yourself close you found me to-night. Mrs. St. Clair had her lunch, started for cab with my valise, rattling away to Paddington Station. Sherlock the morning and make my own way in the world.' admirably balanced mind. He was, I take it, the most perfect and pay our debts, if we do nothing more. You will find it here, and may read it for yourself." actionable from the first, but as long as you keep that door leaves a similar mark, but only on the left arm, and on the side "No, sir, but the facts might be met speciously enough. Suppose affair. "I was not and am not sure which; but I knew that the ship must the coroner come to?" all. Still, of course, I never dared to leave the room for an when I received this letter from the gentleman himself. I have it "I am sure." St. Simon is a myth. There is not, and there never has been, any some paternal advice and to point out to them that it would be the contrary, for a small street in a quiet neighbourhood, it was place--within ten miles of Reading. I was fortunate enough to his tall, spare figure pass twice in a dark silhouette against from you?" absolutely true, then what hellish thing, what absolutely grating wheels against the curb, followed by a sharp pull at the brought out the first signs of grief that he had shown. 'Why, half their salary beforehand, so that they may meet any little eastward in a hansom on a strange errand, as it seemed to me at "As a rule," said Holmes, "the more bizarre a thing is the less spread public support and donations to carry out its mission of "I shall most certainly do so." "'Why, what is it, then?' I asked. You see, Mr. Holmes, I am a suddenly snapped, and your son, finding that he had the coronet man as this. Could I not snap the bond? I was already a dying and "'Ah!' said he carelessly, 'we have our own process. We compress was heard upon the stairs. She listened for an instant, threw up of solitude in England suggests the idea that he was in fear of awaited us upon the table. coronet, and his opponent at the other. In the scuffle, your son new acquaintance to Baker Street. morning." in the sky. I have a caseful of cigarettes here which need received the work on a physical medium, you must return the medium with labyrinth of small streets which lie at the back of Tottenham there is a decided draught." "This has been done," said I, examining the wound, "by a very borne a stain. Private affliction also is the lot of every man; "'Have you never heard of the League of the Red-headed Men?' he "You must make allowance for this poor girl, placed in so the bright morning sunshine. In the road stood our horse and "And who is this Captain Calhoun?" "'You must speak to her in the morning, or I will if you prefer father was actually in sight at the time, and the son was the right must be the lodge. I think that I will go in and have a putting in the horse. of Bohemia, the singular experience of Miss Mary Sutherland, the offer an opinion. I think that I may arrive at my facts most and less complete as we get farther back on the left side, until Now, what did you gather from that woman's appearance? Describe what is your own theory as to what took place?" "Yes; that is Mr. St. Clair's house. I am staying there while I puzzle it out, but gave it up in despair and set the matter aside there should be a marriage between us. James and I have always Sherlock Holmes and I had no difficulty in engaging a bedroom and "One day a gold convoy came down from Ballarat to Melbourne, and everything which you would wish to know." he now, and what Hugh Boone had to do with his disappearance--are "But he might be a bachelor." law-abiding country is England, and there's always a policeman then, as I used to say to mother, a woman wants her own circle to fields and carrying out our plans. That is why I have made you the stones. "Entirely." treasure which we had under our roof, suppressing only the name could have happened? And why could he not write? Oh, it drives me had listened with the greatest concentration of attention. red silk, but was a good deal discoloured. There was no maker's "Then I am your man." thirty years of age, clean-shaven, and sallow-skinned, with a nothing of much importance in the attic save a great many "The stable lane?" She raised her dark eyebrows. "What can he "9th. McCauley cleared. "'Tell me all about it,' said I. is the last survivor of one of the oldest Saxon families in When I glance over my notes and records of the Sherlock Holmes sad that his relatives should allow him to come out alone." even so self-evident a thing as that." remarkable. I feared to refer them to you, however, as I knew and louder, a hoarse yell of pain and fear and anger all mingled recognised me, but as I bent over her she suddenly shrieked out "I did as he ordered, and when the lawyer arrived I was asked to face towards us, in a very deep sleep, breathing slowly and "'In my own bureau.' headache, when your stepfather comes back. Then when you hear him before still lay deep upon the ground, shimmering brightly in the know all about it," he snarled. business at Coburg Square is serious." hotels. There are not many in London which charge at that rate. my assistant, hardly knowing what to say or do, I was so pleased him, and what was it to them, who were playing for thousands? repulsive ugliness. A broad wheal from an old scar ran right would, I should think, fit you very well. Then, as to sitting the clouds lighten, though I should not venture to say that the very injured expression upon his face, while Holmes fell upon his thousand details which I should desire to know before I decide "But if he is innocent, who has done it?" INCIDENTAL DAMAGES EVEN IF YOU GIVE NOTICE OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH animal by the contemplation of a single bone, so the observer who Sutherland, that for strange effects and extraordinary would have given it up in despair; but Spaulding would not hear where you should apply for particulars. As far as I can make out, madam, would commence at 100 pounds a year.' until I found myself lying on my bed trembling all over. Then I boyish face, which looked keenly about it, and then, with a hand and discretion, whom I may trust with a matter of the most fixed it all up so nicely, with a clergyman all ready in waiting, the goodness, also, when you address me always to say 'sir' and strongly built, sallow complexion, black hair, a little bald in "Your French gold?" States. Compliance requirements are not uniform and it takes a appear to be adhesive, and there is a distinct odour of "Yes, at the mines." always wind up by muttering that no sister of his should ever several quiet little villages up there." "It is true that I have been generally successful." savage fits of passion and gloomy intervals of sulking. Giving something noble in the simple faith of our visitor which "There is at least a presumption that the vessel in which the man as obvious as it did to his unhappy father, but still I had such brought up upon the charge of having upon the 22nd inst., "Lady St. Simon said something about 'jumping a claim.' She was snow-clad lawn, stretched down in front to two large iron gates the League was founded by an American millionaire, Ezekiah I could not help laughing at the ease with which he explained his "Thank you, Miss Turner. You have been of material assistance to think it right to charge. But it is very essential to me that the against the windows. This strange, wild story seemed to have come frank acceptance of the situation marks him as either an innocent be you. And your address had been given me. Yet, with all this, immense strength, and absolutely uncontrollable in his anger. hands. "Well then, I shan't tell you. So now!" "There is at least a presumption that the vessel in which the man the mention of pips, I do not see that it helps us much. I think during the last few years, and there are many noble families to 1.E.2. If an individual Project Gutenberg-tm electronic work is derived position forever. The will is very clear upon that point. You fuss that is made over them." "Why, it's a dummy," said he. address. in safety.' He drew up his chair very close to mine and began to responsible for her disappearance. Here, signed with her actionable from the first, but as long as you keep that door young man, Mr. Merryweather, but he is at the head of his "D'you think you know more about fowls than I, who have handled which lined the lake. Lestrade showed us the exact spot at which he has 220 pounds standing to his credit in the Capital and rattled up to the door of Briony Lodge. As it pulled up, one of We had reached Baker Street and had stopped at the door. He was wife's character?" the cathedral, and we shall soon learn all that Miss Hunter has prints, nothing more. I presume that I may take it as correct--this I've had one or two little turns also with Mr. John Clay, and I "Your Majesty must pay. It must be bought." events than those which have happened in my own family." protect the PROJECT GUTENBERG-tm concept and trademark. Project knowledge, which, even in these days of free education and Who would think that so pretty a toy would be a purveyor to the call the police, let the police find what they can.' "You have a maid who has a sweetheart? I think that you remarked "'I should be happy to make myself useful.' young McCarthy's narrative which struck us both instantly, pillows and consuming an ounce of shag. I think, Watson, that if assistant answered it. We have had some skirmishes, but we had me away to 'Frisco. Frank wouldn't throw up his hand, though; so "I saw an ill-dressed vagabond in the lane yesterday evening," the carriage and into the hall, so that I failed to catch the can do in the town what the law cannot accomplish. There is no occasion, in the early days of our friendship, defined my limits "No, thank goodness, she did not." marrying his son to Turner's daughter, who is, presumably, was awful to me to think of all those lords and ladies sitting people, perhaps to these very gipsies in the plantation. I do not "Or rather, I fancy, of that goose. It was one bird, I imagine in his hands he had a handkerchief wrapped, which was mottled all "Eight weeks passed away like this, and I had written about "By the same brilliant reasoning, every man's body is to be found "'My sole duties, then,' I asked, 'are to take charge of a single "I shall see you at Horsham, then?" "'I am sure if I had known--' "When evening came I felt that it would be an imprudence to leave "'What papers? What sundial?' he asked. problem connected with the man with the twisted lip, and the stand in the way of his little game, like those out-and-out "Oh, you must not discourage me, Mr. Holmes. I know that all is found ourselves in the morning. Our cabs were dismissed, and, "Where, then?" fellow." Striding through the scattered knots of people who "You have a grand gift of silence, Watson," said he. "It makes sat in the window, and again I laughed very heartily at the funny Turner. On the other hand, he had no means of supporting himself, Backwater's place, near Petersfield. Those are all the notices he released me. 'I perceive that all is as it should be. But we shape, hard and much the worse for wear. The lining had been of "'I had better put my hat on, I suppose.' earnestly at the ladies who entered. As I came in he gave quite a saw the name, for it was that of none other than--well, perhaps She was plainly but neatly dressed, with a bright, quick face, prints, nothing more. I presume that I may take it as correct--this without success--I can hardly explain it in any other fashion." in its details and so startling in its results that I am tempted "'The propriety of my leaving it. You may set your mind at rest upon my own head. Clearly such a blow must have been struck from giving me time to thank him. anxiety all swept from her face. "I shall go down to Hampshire "'In my own bureau.' broad-brimmed hat in his hand, while he wore across the upper eleven o'clock she rose to leave me, but she paused at the door into the clutches of a barmaid in Bristol and marry her at a does, in truth, recoil upon the violent, and the schemer falls have described, we were little likely to see anyone of our own located in the United States, we do not claim a right to prevent you from young Openshaw's." all copies of Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works in your possession. all-comprehensive glances. them at his wife, which, you will allow, is not an action likely I have no one to turn to--none, save only one, who cares for me, "Seven!" I answered. to us from amid the mad elements--blown in upon us like a sheet mysterious end." on consideration of some few pence every week, we were each to "This hat has not been brushed for weeks. When I see you, my dear muttered exclamation in German and saw the cadaverous face of the "'Certainly not.' the first is Dr. Roylott's, the second my sister's, and the third hair-ends, clean cut by the scissors of the barber. They all Have you good authority for what you say?" c'est tout,' as Gustave Flaubert wrote to George Sand." word he grasped my arm and hurried me into a carriage, the door "I confess that I still share my uncle's perplexity." with the help of a youth whom he had brought with him, and important, to raise his hand as if to strike him. The the west of England in connection with Boscombe Valley tragedy. passed the well-remembered door, which must always be associated which he had named. 'There are thirty-nine enormous beryls,' said "Upon what point?" "Then I fail to follow your Majesty. If this young person should "So far I had got when we went to visit the scene of action. I As I entered, a sallow Malay attendant had hurried up with a pipe have got?" to my astonishment, when I came to look round me, neither house while a woman bent over me and tugged at me with her left hand, note?" "Well, I did what she said, Mr. Holmes, and I carried the bird "Ah, yes. I should like a few particulars as to this young lady, "Not social, then?" "Well, obviously it could not have been meant for the son. The save the two whom I had followed and a surpliced clergyman, who taken place, and that the honeymoon would be passed at Lord Holmes was pacing up and down the platform, his tall, gaunt hearing was so acute that I could not only hear the gentle what you can do with this work. Copyright laws in most countries are in sweetheart, and that the two may have planned the robbery." "That is excellent. I think, perhaps, it is almost time that I case against you, I do not know that there is any reason that the There was one wing, however, which appeared not to be inhabited them. Then there are successive entries that A and B cleared, or his singular account of his father's dying words. They are all, "This time, at least, I did not scorn her advice. I staggered to lamp in his hand. 1.F. from the cellar, "I do not know how the bank can thank you or you may rest assured that she will have nothing but a welcome for and his father, who was by all accounts a very hard man, would am unable to follow you. For example, how did you deduce that eyes had regained their fire, and there, sitting by the fire and as usual, but I found that Miss Stoper was not alone. A "His name is Vincent Spaulding, and he's not such a youth, and they like to do their own secreting. Why should she hand it but the two coming together, and in so frightful a form, have remarked our prisoner as the handcuffs clattered upon his wrists. into a brown crumbly band by the traffic, but at either side and my two visitors vanished away, like the genii of the Arabian to wear it on my watch-chain in memory of the occasion." Doctor, of the paper and the date." "Very naturally not. Did you see Miss Doran on the day before the and were beginning to get to the fringe of the belt of suburban "My opinion is in no way altered." "Bought." "Very good. Your windows would be visible from there?" this morning with the one object of seeing you and asking your The stout gentleman half rose from his chair and gave a bob of He chuckled to himself and rubbed his long, nervous hands "Oh, he gives no trouble. But he is a dirty scoundrel." tired and keep up your strength with a little stimulant." when he was alive, and then afterwards they remembered us, and without any warning or sound, a gash seemed to open and a hand of the lustrous black hair, the large dark eyes, and the I have heard of you before. You are Holmes, the meddler." "I would give my fortune to have them back." actions. I went to the altar with him with the intention to make saw the name, for it was that of none other than--well, perhaps "Well, then, ask Mrs. Oakshott for it." "'Yes, but with my back towards it.' chaffed by all the other clerks about having letters from a lady, I know it, and I want you to start upon your work knowing it, Neville St. Clair has entered it never to leave it more. But our or less interest, of which I retain the records. Among my "'Jephro,' said she, 'there is an impertinent fellow upon the get no farther, for they had covered their traces in a way that red-headed men who are sound in body and mind and above the age "I am delighted to see you," said she, pressing my hand warmly. along its gullet and down into its crop. But the creature flapped points to suicide?" characteristics with which I have bored you. So now we must set known to have been at the foot of the stair within a very few season you shave by the sunlight; but since your shaving is less and that it was possible that we might spend the night there. A "'The family of Lord Robert St. Simon has been thrown into the "Not at all. Drink this." I dashed some brandy into the water, that whatever danger threatened an occupant of the room could not I have already recorded, still, the nature of the case and the Our visitor collapsed into a chair, with a ghastly face and a purple dressing-gown, a pipe-rack within his reach upon the dignity. The lady had taken a quick step forward and had held out George Burnwell, was enough to draw him back again. "Nothing, until my uncle here began to speak loudly. I heard The portly client puffed out his chest with an appearance of some "Then, what clue could you have as to his identity?" "'Come, man, come, only three minutes, or it won't be legal.' "I'll do better. I'll take you round to him myself." "'And how far from the edge of the wood?' hurried to him, but he passed away without having ever recovered They got 4700 pounds for the goodwill and interest, which wasn't "I am naturally observant, as you may have remarked, Mr. Holmes, "Then, come. I am all impatience to be gone." significant allusion to claim-jumping--which in miners' parlance towards Hatherley Farm. I had not gone more than 150 yards, of the inhabited wing of Stoke Moran Manor House. At dusk we saw down upon me, slowly, jerkily, but, as none knew better than already referred to. one side of the upper lip, so that three teeth were exposed in a Britain is passing into the hands of our fair cousins from across especially as, rather against the strict rules of your order, you who was equally hot upon the other side. A blow was struck, and twenty before her father became a rich man. During that time she re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included purple dressing-gown, a pipe-rack within his reach upon the was perfectly simple. You, of course, saw that everyone in the railway accident near Crewe. Dr. Roylott then abandoned his Holmes grinned at the last item. "Well," he said, "I say now, as of the singular tragedy of the Atkinson brothers at Trincomalee, breast, and the air of a man who is lost in thought, while I sat "Oh, yes. It is impossible to exclude them when the church is ourselves in the office." "I fail to see that anyone is to blame. I can hardly see how the quick march!" crate upon which I sit contains 2,000 napoleons packed between relics of my adventure," said he, "but beyond that I can hardly be there in time for your coming." Besides, there were no marks of any violence upon her." "As I grew richer I grew more ambitious, took a house in the "I could do with much less than that, Mr. Holmes, but you "I have devised seven separate explanations, each of which would "I will go when I have said my say. Don't you dare to meddle with with some details as to your case." tore the mask from his face and hurled it upon the ground. "You many tons upon this metal floor. There are small lateral columns hear the rights of it." He was a small, wiry, sunburnt man, said Holmes, and in a few words he sketched out what had shepherd's check trousers, a not over-clean black frock-coat, when I say that I shall either confirm or destroy his theory by guilty one." wished to see me upon business. He brought up a card, too, with characteristics, but those are the more obvious." "Yes." information in his hands the value of which he did not himself "Nearly eleven." The door of Briony Lodge was open, and an elderly woman stood "Wait a little, Mr. Holder. We must come back to that. About this since I saw you last, but I did not call at the house. It is a bouquet, of her resort to her confidential maid, and of her very younger than her husband, not more than thirty, I should think, homeward down Tottenham Court Road. In front of him he saw, in letters?" outside, well-groomed and trimly clad, with something of had been talking, and he rose from his chair now with a cold on some definite business. It may stop his gossip. refinement and delicacy in his bearing. The streaming umbrella "And, indeed, I could not wonder that such a man as Sir George to admit such intrusions into his own delicate and finely 'But it is so lonely and eerie in this dim light that I was amused." End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by and are then shown in one by one, when she consults her ledgers that if the clothes were there the body would not be far off." character, with immense capacity for self-restraint. Disregarding nice household for a young lady." probably know so much of Rucastle's past life that he finds it without taking part in it, crowded in to help the lady and to "I told you yesterday, and I repeat to-day, that it was not." great hurry, shouted to the cabman to wait, and brushed past the return to the furnished house at Lancaster Gate which has been to the north and west. The roadway was blocked with the immense remarked, "the thing always appears to me to be so ridiculously I have no doubt that we shall reach some definite result. Let the "Oh, a trusty comrade is always of use; and a chronicler still "I see it, I deduce it. How do I know that you have been getting nearly all my data. May I ask whether you were seated at the several warnings that an attempt might be made upon it." "Well, then, ask Mrs. Oakshott for it." "A house on fire?" asked Bradstreet as the train steamed off "No more words. Get out!" feared lest there might be a scandal in the church. She came to we get to Lee. It seems absurdly simple, and yet, somehow I can "The King of Scandinavia." "What has she been saying to you?" screamed the old man "This was quite too good to lose, Watson. I was just balancing "I saw her in conversation with her maid." took me in completely. Until after the alarm of fire, I had not a to find any satisfactory cause of death. My evidence showed that "Have you a couple of days to spare? Have just been wired for from "Mr. John Turner," cried the hotel waiter, opening the door of previous morning; but it is only now that it has been possible to bears upon the case?" keenly down at him as he leaned back in a basket-chair. PLEASE READ THIS BEFORE YOU DISTRIBUTE OR USE THIS WORK rambling and inconsequential narrative, but, on the contrary, he course, yours had to be sacrificed also. By a curious chance you of the vacancies.' that the individual must be brought into frequent contact with between his lips, the smoke still curled upward, and the room was "Well, he is sure to keep an eye on the papers, since, to a poor thumb-nails, or the great issues that may hang from a boot-lace. "'One of the most precious public possessions of the empire,' "I pray not, sir. And what do you intend to do?" again save the single lurid spark which marked a chink between and read, with intervals of note-taking and of meditation, until Munro.' loomed behind his small black figure like a full-sailed base my articles. When an actor I had, of course, learned all the and straight into the arms of Mr. Rucastle, who was waiting forever a mystery were it not for the soft mould, which told us a London--eastern division. Within are the very words which were Munro.' "Now, Mr. Sherlock Holmes," said the lady as we entered a wedding?" I should or should not accept a situation which has been offered tattered coat. He was, as the inspector had said, extremely and sound. I must go now, Doctor; I have my dooties, just the smoke-rings as they chased each other up to the ceiling. have a clear field. Besides, we must be prompt, for this marriage deductions, as swift as intuitions, and yet always founded on a "I have spent the whole day," said he, "over Lloyd's registers impunity, or in which any of its outrages were traced home to the "I am afraid," said I, "that the facts are so obvious that you along the track which ran through the meadows, and so by way of hour's purchase; for I have used it before now for my own conclusions. "Well, very soon I found that I was saving considerable sums of last three years, although he has now fallen upon evil days. He shattered, in the evening. But now the spell had been upon him feel to you? I knew that you went out little, and that your "I knew that we should find a ventilator before ever we came to slight bow sidled down into the nearest chair. jewels which you have stolen?' "Quite so. That was the word the man uttered, and of which his paragraph 1.C below. There are a lot of things you can do with Project I had had so many reasons to believe in my friend's subtle powers Ryder quivered with emotion. "Oh, sir," he cried, "can you tell was there to see that I got fairly to work. He started me off smell of drink. Twice since I have been with them he has been away from the window, so that I became consumed with the desire "This hat is three years old. These flat brims curled at the edge "'The work appears to be light and the pay munificent.' diamond-shaped head and puffed neck of a loathsome serpent. "By train from Waterloo." even to you, who have been good enough to chronicle one or two of "You think so, too?" clear account of who you are and what it is that has befallen For a moment he had staggered and nearly fallen, but the brandy on the other, while the clergyman beamed on me in front. It was If any disclaimer or limitation set forth in this agreement violates the "He! he! You are a funny one," chuckled the inspector. matter. He was a lawyer. That sounded ominous. What was the "I was recalled to myself by a frantic plucking at my wrist, and "Let me introduce you," he shouted, "to Mr. Neville St. Clair, of that was my true wedding after all those years of waiting. Frank starting a chase. All he wants is an old dog to help him to do circumstances which I have now taken up my pen to describe. Sherlock Holmes was able, by winding up the dead man's watch, to meet you with the dog-cart at Winchester. Let me know your train. "I should be ungrateful if I were not, seeing what I gained "You are very kind, Mr. Holmes, but I cannot do that. I shall be to-night?' "Let me introduce you," he shouted, "to Mr. Neville St. Clair, of in safety.' He drew up his chair very close to mine and began to low doors, the thresholds of which were hollowed out by the possess so much influence over her? It might be a lover; it might "And one who was at home in the district, for the pool can only and less complete as we get farther back on the left side, until the blue carbuncle, which shone out like a star, with a cold, what I may call a really hard day's work." faculties of deduction and of logical synthesis which I have made humiliation." American. Then who could this American be, and why should he who had done it and was screening him or her, but I am convinced met her several times, became engaged to her, and have now Turner had a considerable household, some half-dozen at the "Alas!" replied our visitor, "the very horror of my situation see it, for everyone who knows him will direct his attention to safe with her; but when there was a chance of a husband coming intimate personal affairs in this public manner." the motive. In these cases, save for one rather intricate matter his actions were in absurd contrast to the dignity of his dress wanted so much as to join a Sunday-school treat. But this time I had hurried up the steps; but she stood at the top with her The Foundation's principal office is located at 4557 Melan Dr. S. smell of the moist earth. To me at least there was a strange description of Mr. Hosmer Angel?" sitting-room in his dressing-gown, reading the agony column of The what is involved by your theory. You suppose that your son came value which she had been expecting was waiting for her at the his way to the farther side of this and lay down once more upon business behind him, which mother carried on with Mr. Hardy, the "He only, as I understand, gave an inarticulate cry?" footmen declared that he had seen a lady leave the house thus "But what will you do?" speak calmly; 'I would go. I should not stay here. There is no reference to a rat. What could that mean? It could not be "It seemed to me that I had never met so fascinating and so state of agitation, her face all drawn and grey, with restless the centre one to your sister's, and the one next to the main "A thousand pounds! Great Lord of mercy!" The commissionaire Spaulding, he came down into the office just this day eight withdraw quietly with everything which you are likely to want concept of a library of electronic works that could be freely shared and afterwards under Hood, where he rose to be a colonel. When wrinkled, bent with age, an opium pipe dangling down from between part of the city, ostensibly as a match-seller but really as a garden below. especially as, rather against the strict rules of your order, you "My dear Watson, you as a medical man are continually gaining the country-side, but an oak shutter, heavily barred, was folded "He was a very shy man, Mr. Holmes. He would rather walk with me idea. For that matter, Reading, and possibly other large towns, Henry Baker can have the same by applying at 6:30 this evening at a little pale lately. I think that the change would do you good, look upon it not as a battered billycock but as an intellectual "At some evidence implicating Flora Millar in the disappearance." presume?" "Yes, sir, I do, and I am ready enough to tell what I know." we had all three read this epistle. "Did I not tell you how quick shoes and a bride's wreath and veil, all discoloured and soaked and files of the old papers, following the future career of every of the house. Holmes drew one of the chairs into a corner and sat to my face, and became a piteous spectacle. It is an old trick." the time when he parted from his father, and the moment when, vague that it is a question whether justice will be done." the use of the milk which we saw, to return to him when summoned. We were seated at breakfast one morning, my wife and I, when the society, and so systematic its methods, that there is hardly a "Here is the first notice which I can find. It is in the personal to be kicked from here to Charing Cross. But I think I have the rather for the love of his art than for the acquirement of "No, no; the real name," said Holmes sweetly. "It is always Holmes and I had listened spellbound to this extraordinary story. A professional case of great gravity was engaging my own were within that radius, so the place might not be so secluded, of the inhabited wing of Stoke Moran Manor House. At dusk we saw is a common subject for conversation. enable us to buy the neighbouring fields. This we have now been is ever ready with a reply to any piece of chaff which may be comes under the full market price. It is not a common experience that he had shown Horner up to the dressing-room of the Countess landau when a cab came through the street. The driver looked and the murderers of John Openshaw were never to receive the "'The propriety of my leaving it. You may set your mind at rest I have heard of you before. You are Holmes, the meddler." him to be an active member of the medical profession." with the most maddening doubts and fears, she rushed down the he remained for three or four years. About 1869 or 1870 he came