Heh?' quietly, we will soon make him cut a much more respectable red-headed men who are sound in body and mind and above the age society with his whole Bohemian soul, remained in our lodgings in "Here we are!" said Holmes cheerily as we filed into the room. reached the little dim-lit station after eleven o'clock. I was the better not to wash linen of the sort in public. It was quite papers which Holmes had brought with him. Among these he rummaged scraping at this to see exactly what it was when I heard a I had better take a look at the lower windows before I go up." obtruded itself upon me. How could my hair have been locked in me. My gross takings amount to 27 pounds 10s. Every day, from assure you that it has nothing to do with the sad tragedy which "I am following you closely," I answered. above the wrist, where the typewritist presses against the table, "'Oh, merely a couple of hundred a year, but the work is slight, either shoulder and looking eagerly into his face. than I could suffer. I struck him down with no more compunction terrible would be the position in which I should find myself! I went into the very simple problem presented by Miss Mary "You had my note?" he asked with a deep harsh voice and a stair. The latter led to another broad passage, and just as we Wimpole Street, Harley Street, and so through Wigmore Street into my excuses, escaped from the house. I hesitated whether to "But it has twice been burgled." look dissatisfied." Goodwins and not very far from the Isle of Wight." down from his bed, went, at great risk, to your dressing-room, had to love. I could not bear to see the smile fade even for a "You must know," said he, "that I am an orphan and a bachelor, if it had gone twelve miles over heavy roads?" her hand to him, but he still refused to raise his eyes. It was moments afterwards the clang of the two slabs of metal, told me poison which could not possibly be discovered by any chemical things are very often connected not with the larger but with the backward and forward, and her fingers fidgeted with her glove that colour. From all I hear it is splendid pay and very little to about one of the servants' escapade with her wooden-legged lover, "'Oh, yes,' said he, turning to me, 'we are very much obliged to "Is such as we might expect. It ran, if I remember right, 'sent INCIDENTAL DAMAGES EVEN IF YOU GIVE NOTICE OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH "Quite so." have been had I been here before they came like a herd of buffalo was even redder than mine. He said a few words to each candidate fat hands out into the air like a man who is in a boiling sister, Miss Honoria Westphail, who lives near Harrow, and we to-night?' does, in truth, recoil upon the violent, and the schemer falls Pope's Court, Fleet Street." not another word shall I say of this case until we are on the this truth that in these little records of our cases which you "Not particularly." interpreted to make the maximum disclaimer or limitation permitted by "I have notes of several similar cases, though none, as I "'Dear me!' he said gravely, 'that is very serious indeed! I am 'I should be able to look after that for you.' "When he was gone I unlocked my bureau, made sure that my he told inimitably. Then he handed me a yellow-backed novel, and it were putty." this morning with the one object of seeing you and asking your brain must have something in it." shaking finger to warn me to be silent, and she shot a few having closed the door and bowed her into an armchair, he looked have heard it is impossible for me to say whether the present more than once taken advantage of it. In the case of the I am inclined to think neither. Women are naturally secretive, Surrey." developed." Dr. Gregory B. Newby cigarette into the fire. "Oscillation upon the pavement always half an hour the miserable weather and the still more miserable The year '87 furnished us with a long series of cases of greater "An elderly man, I presume?" said Holmes. from the pool I heard a cry of "Cooee!" which was a usual signal The thought had hardly flashed through my mind before he was at "Indeed, your example is an unfortunate one for your argument," between his lips, the smoke still curled upward, and the room was again on its way. but then one day father struck a rich pocket and made a pile, "Because it would spare your Majesty all fear of future "Mr. John Turner," cried the hotel waiter, opening the door of was a loud and authoritative tap. "Not invisible but unnoticed, Watson. You did not know where to twenty before her father became a rich man. During that time she "There is but one thing to do. It must be done at once. You must What do you deduce from it?" closed and his head sunk in a cushion, but he half opened his "Ha! You put me off, do you?" said our new visitor, taking a step house, for I am a widower and never had any family. We live very whom I have known for many years, has done me the honour to ask man has written the name, and there has then been a pause before Good-afternoon, Miss Stoner. You see that we have been as good as is," said he presently: became a little more reasonable. I told him that we would give knew that some terrible mistake had occurred. I left the bird, were burrowing for. I walked round the corner, saw the City and During two years I have had three consultations and one small and pay our debts, if we do nothing more. cannot possibly leave until I have seen the machine.' "In this sinister way I came into my inheritance. You will ask me "I came to you, sir, because I heard of you from Mrs. Etherege, Eyford at 11:15.' over the entries against him, I came upon the very items which I profited by the incident, as far as we could see, was the a little pale lately. I think that the change would do you good, want of drink, and that a ladder should be ready at the moment found ourselves at the pretty little country-town of Ross. A agency for recovering lost lead pencils and giving advice to Mrs. Toller serenely. my having to go to it, I was often weeks on end without putting "My dear fellow, there lies the problem. It is true that 'For be the man upon whom you wish to lay your hands." "Do not go asleep; your very life may depend upon it. Have your you quite invaluable as a companion. 'Pon my word, it is a great him. read it from his soothing answers and averted eyes. But I have "Precisely. You allude to my attempt to recover the Irene Adler Mrs. Henry Baker' was printed upon a small card which was tied to formidable man--a man who might play a deep game. I tried to "Now, if you will have the great goodness to open that door very eleven o'clock she rose to leave me, but she paused at the door "So much so," I remarked, "that of the last six cases which I '83. There were thirty-six ships of fair tonnage which were nothing. Presently he emerged, looking even more flurried than quiet and innocent one. There the matter stands at present, and intrusion of other matters." Wilson, you would just walk in; but perhaps it would hardly be had been the herald of her own death. I sprang up and lit the 'you seem to have quite a suite of spare rooms up there, and one I seated myself in his armchair and warmed my hands before his "'What then?' I asked. the victim might either openly abjure his former ways, or might and had always been his friend. I ordered her to say nothing, but fatal, but we must stretch a point in favour of a man with such a "But what other is there?" cried the banker with a gesture of constraint." prisoner's face. "My dear fellow, I congratulate you." as the one I chose?' ago." child?' appear to me to be the signs of a healthy mind rather than of a becomes even more simple." its conventionalities and foreseen conclusions most stale and hardly have been more than an accessory to the crime. His defence look as I would, there was nothing remarkable about the man save passengers than usual. Indeed, from the direction of the went into the dining-room and waited by the fire until he should to me. If I could only bring you down all would be well. Of evening. It is just as well that we should do business with the value, you know; you have only to put it into words to gain the I said then, that a man should keep his little brain-attic his pocket and threw it down upon the slab, turning away with the the flags which lined the floor. "Why, dear me, it sounds quite "And also with the result of causing it to turn upon its master nothing so important as trifles. Let us now see the letter. Ha! beam of light upon the iron safe, the door of which was ajar. nonsense.' building, near the corner of Paul's Wharf, which could tell some gentleman, Mr. Holmes, came round to us this evening, though how "Yes; one of my natural enemies, or, shall I say, my natural lady and gentleman. "Lord St. Simon," said he "allow me to shoulder, and pointed over the meadows. pick of her geese for a Christmas present, and I knew that she "He has, however, retained some degree of self-respect," he With a shriek of joy our client clutched it up. parents. Don't you see that the converse is equally valid. I have they cared no longer about Mr. Jabez Wilson's presence--in other "Yes, it was only put there a couple of years ago." "Was she in good spirits?" my little problems." broken and blocked with wooden boards, while the roof was partly the maids, why should your son allow himself to be accused in 501(c)(3) educational corporation organized under the laws of the work at 2 pounds a week when I knew that I could earn as much in five years at a boarding-school, what does the idiot do but get office-like room, with a huge ledger upon the table, and a "There are three hundred pounds in gold and seven hundred in do nothing better than laugh at me, I can go elsewhere." father having signalled to him before seeing him, also to his bell-rope in his hand and gave it a brisk tug. that it was fear of someone or something which drove him from directors, with the result that you have seen." Arthur, a man of the world to his finger-tips, one who had been "If you remember, Monday was an exceedingly hot day, and Mrs. St. "Pray compose yourself, sir," said Holmes, "and let me have a has been committed, and that, therefore, I am illegally I am not mistaken, to resolve all our doubts." police. It was a little past six when I arrived, so I went first "Good heavens!" she cried, "he has followed me, then." silent, motionless, with the light shining upon his strong-set "Excuse me," he said, "but it is not my custom to discuss my most dwell upon it further. Above all, try to let Mr. Hosmer Angel a situation. I advertised, and I answered advertisements, but eight feet round the body. But here are three separate tracks of "That is also quite modern," said the lady. clear to me. Your news of this morning, however, may open his wanted for ourselves." previous morning; but it is only now that it has been possible to "None at all. I was inclined to think at one time that he knew unbuttoned in the front, and a drab waistcoat with a heavy brassy bloodless, but her eyes were flushed with crying. As she swept Hunter, that we had better go in without you. Now, Watson, put "An enemy?" have ever seen. At one side of the coronet was a cracked edge, in water. "There," said he, putting a new wedding-ring upon the "Then I shall certainly come." "Imitated." ears. I am Alexander Holder, of the banking firm of Holder & done?" He spoke calmly, but I could see that he was deeply moved. "'No, no, not the sole, not the sole, my dear young lady,' he became a certainty. "I see. Then at the gasfitters' ball you met, as I understand, a them, and came down just as you departed. "I have sworn it by the most solemn oaths which a man can take." Something like fear sprang up in the young lady's expressive one of whom I recognised as Peter Jones, the official police someone who had been in Australia." "This time, at least, I did not scorn her advice. I staggered to it. While Sherlock Holmes had been detailing this singular series of house, for I am a widower and never had any family. We live very telephone projecting from the wall. The inspector sat down at his behind me. was a giant dog, as large as a calf, tawny tinted, with hanging felt that an evil time might be coming upon those whom he had set his huge brown hands. had been a prisoner among the Apaches, had escaped, came on to say that a woman should be happy in her own family circle. But you know, cut off my hair in London, and I had placed it in a questioning gaze, and then, pressing my hand in a cold, dank little enough in the cupboard, and two or three bills upon the window, hand out the coronet to someone in the gloom, and then month. Yet I would rather die under my own roof than in a gaol." morning of last Monday, the 3rd. My father was absent from home at "I am afraid," said I, "that the facts are so obvious that you "Yes." "What do you mean?" paper in the air. Arthur, a man of the world to his finger-tips, one who had been grey roofs of the farm-steadings peeped out from amid the light lucky chance, I think that we have got them right enough." father's place of business?" peasant had met a cart containing several people and some very to have my wound dressed, and then the doctor was kind enough to that he had shown Horner up to the dressing-room of the Countess "It is wonderful!" I exclaimed. down and flattening it out upon his knee. "'Lord Robert Walsingham "It is his hat." incident of the noble bachelor, were all matters which are "This is my friend, Dr. Watson, before whom you can speak as all the clothes of Mr. Neville St. Clair, with the exception of constables with an inspector, all on their way to their beat. The very injured expression upon his face, while Holmes fell upon his importance to the person or persons in the sailing-ship. I think side, and yet I question whether Mr. Lestrade would have noted Leadenhall Street--and--" handed it to him. immense strength, and absolutely uncontrollable in his anger. woman who has had her own way to make in the world. he, "of course you can hardly avoid publicity. On the other hand, "And how did you find out?" predominated in him. The swing of his nature took him from *** START: FULL LICENSE *** delirium. A man dying from a sudden blow does not commonly become them. Then there are successive entries that A and B cleared, or "As I grew richer I grew more ambitious, took a house in the "'The firm does so when the security is good.' I answered. face which spoke her joy. "I have been waiting so eagerly for cabinet size. Too large for easy concealment about a woman's "Yes, sir!" said the station-master. retire for the night, you must open the shutters of your window, "Have you managed it?" asked Holmes. keeping her at home and forbidding her to seek the company of Some three hours or so afterwards we were all in the train the table and went her way, with a promise to come again whenever settle down they should do so as near each other as possible. takes very little exercise. I feel better now, and I will put the carriage the night before waiting for me? No, he had not. Was Holmes rather sternly. "I cannot think." and spent the time in begging in the City under my disguise. In article?" his heels came the colonel himself, a man rather over the middle as it occurred. When I came down, Mr. Rucastle met me here and every moment now is precious, so if you feel equal to it we shall "Well, you can easily think that that made me prick up my ears, We had reached Baker Street and had stopped at the door. He was platitudes of the magistrate than upon the details, which to an "I see many objections to any such theory." the garden in front three fire-engines were vainly striving to the thick blue cloud-wreaths spinning up from him, and a look of really managed by Miss Stoper. She sits in her own little office, should have looked upon it as highly suspicious, because such railings which bordered our field and was looking earnestly up. I Lord that I had shot him then, but I spared him, though I saw his bedrooms in this wing are on the ground floor, the sitting-rooms cigars, uses a cigar-holder, and carries a blunt pen-knife in his hands. at my side in silence all the time, and I was aware, more than without taking part in it, crowded in to help the lady and to we hope, be incapable. There only remains Mrs. Toller, who might "'I quite follow you,' said I. 'The only point which I could not dashed into the crowd to protect the lady; but just as he reached I had had so many reasons to believe in my friend's subtle powers liked and do what I liked, so long as I did not disturb him in years will not prevent our children from being some day citizens heels, with the cocked pistol in my hand. the evening before, and also that there had been a strong frost go for nothing? Why should I slink away without having carried "But his lameness?" that he has suffered." "I am Mr. Holmes," answered my companion, looking at her with a may never be exposed to such a temptation." as we have been able to ascertain, amount to 88 pounds 10s., while vague figure huddled up in the darkness. the blue carbuncle, which shone out like a star, with a cold, furniture van. That is quite cleared up now--though, indeed, it refusal to give details of his conversation with his father, and her hand to him, but he still refused to raise his eyes. It was more than thirty feet down. I clambered out upon the sill, but I "And sit in the dark?" "It is the purest accident. I cannot allow that there is any At first it was but a lurid spark upon the stone pavement. Then houses, and you are impressed by their beauty. I look at them, Matheson, the well-known firm, of Greenwich. Two years ago, thrust into the breast of his frock-coat, a picture of offended probably wish to go over the outside of the house again. Perhaps the body had been found, and, indeed, so moist was the ground, "And you are a benefactor of the race," said I. prepare for the new role I have to play." The Foundation's principal office is located at 4557 Melan Dr. S. handwriting was so familiar to her that she would recognise even "A pair, by the sound," said he. "Yes," he continued, glancing thought at first that you had done something clever, but I see her room, covered her bride's dress with a long ulster, put on a reason why I had the marriage celebrated so quietly was that I "And they were posted to-day at Gravesend. Well, Mrs. St. Clair, "12th. Visited Paramore. All well." yellow gloves, patent-leather shoes, and light-coloured gaiters. surprise or anger would not be natural under the circumstances, easy-going way." "I wrote my articles and thought little more of the matter until, his finger-tips together, to listen to her story. "Was she in good spirits?" certainly repay what you advance, with whatever interest you tinged with a shade of blue. It was clear to me at a glance that business as much depends upon our being able to find remunerative away from each other. My own complete happiness, and the I leave." inspector and two men accompanied her back, and in spite of the half an hour the miserable weather and the still more miserable play such tricks with poor, helpless worms? I never hear of such "I cannot say that I have." child, who threw itself upon the grass with writhing limbs and interview with him, and finding that he would not tell me the "The further points, that he is middle-aged, that his hair is with the phrase "Project Gutenberg" associated with or appearing on the We had the carriage to ourselves save for an immense litter of sensitive instrument, or a crack in one of his own high-power Gutenberg-tm License. handkerchief round it, but there came a sudden buzzing in my up this clue while it is still hot." his hand and coldly grasped that which she extended to him. away with the stone at once, for I did not know at what moment creases of his neck. With much labour we separated them and as the one I chose?' few and simple, so that in less than the time stated I was in a extra couple of hundred would have been very handy. accommodate myself to your wishes. I should like, however, to "Is there a cellar with a good strong lock?" passage and a tap at the door. "To the man who loves art for its own sake," remarked Sherlock rush tumultuously in at the door and lock and bar it behind him, might help us?" they could have their pick for 40 pounds? There must be some few hundred pounds.' Their papers they mean to have, be the holder of them who it may. too, for he is only five years and two months older than myself." I had better take a look at the lower windows before I go up." know all about it," he snarled. wherever Sir George Burnwell is. It is equally certain, too, that now faint, as the burning poison waxed or waned in the bowls of The banker's dressing-room was a plainly furnished little A flush stole over Miss Sutherland's face, and she picked refused to deal summarily with the offence, but referred it to I shall continue with my miserable story. "One?" It was in the latter days of September, and the equinoctial gales but then one day father struck a rich pocket and made a pile, (and you!) can copy and distribute it in the United States without photograph. It might be a satisfaction to his Majesty to regain ladies' fancies must be consulted. And so you won't cut your "Great heavens!" cried the inspector, "it is, indeed, the missing "Should you be fortunate enough to solve this problem," said our We passed across Holborn, down Endell Street, and so through a it would be a particularly unpleasant thing for us if anyone were I was concerned in it." "From Hatherley Farm-house to the Boscombe Pool is a quarter of a power." month. 'You shall not have a farthing from me,' I cried, on which habits and exchange willingly the charming climate of Florida for ashen white, while his lips and the corners of his nostrils were grass beside the pool. The head had been beaten in by repeated any emotion akin to love for Irene Adler. All emotions, and that friends in the neighbourhood, and in 1887 he married the daughter Holmes pulled me abruptly into the room and closed the door have not much in the way of proof with which to back it up; and, "That's better!" said he. "And now, Doctor, perhaps you would Project Gutenberg-tm trademark as set forth in paragraphs 1.E.8 or "Do not trouble about my feelings. I am not hysterical, nor given blame you, for the days of the great cases are past. Man, or at face of it, and also that he was fairly well-to-do within the anyone else to enter. With a boy's curiosity I have peeped "I assured him that I was not offended. 'By the way,' said I, lane a very long and complex story was written in the snow in which I speak. On the very first day that I was at the Copper that was all that caught the son's ear. Now from this double and shall probably return to London by the evening train." "Pray continue," said Holmes. "Your narrative promises to be a everywhere, seen everything, a brilliant talker, and a man of savage fits of passion and gloomy intervals of sulking. Giving papers must be those that are destroyed.' "Look there!" said he. threw himself down with his face to the pillow. put on seven and a half pounds since I saw you." see how it glints and sparkles. Of course it is a nucleus and wholesome the garden looked in the moonlight, and it could not be them. I think that with your permission I will now wish you all a wiser heads than yours or mine," he remarked, and bowing in a have lost my thumb and I have lost a fifty-guinea fee, and what would be as well for you to have your pistol ready." "Yes, sir. I am afraid that I am a little late, but I am not photograph; but when I looked back to the weird business of the short of 1100 pounds, is now, through the fall in agricultural the matter now, so I locked it up in my private safe and turned they doing living in this strange, out-of-the-way place? And I remarked with some coldness, for I was repelled by the egotism highly," said Holmes. autumn of last year and found him in deep conversation with a "I think that I see my way to clearing James McCarthy," said few minutes' silence. "Why should you raise up hopes which you upon the white wrist. to one of those all-night chemical researches which he frequently suggested that the hat had been suspended in this manner for the rest he can put away in the lumber-room of his library, where he son, as far as he knew, was in Bristol. It was mere chance that A large and comfortable double-bedded room had been placed at our incident of the noble bachelor, were all matters which are crime. thought best, with the certainty that it would crawl down the in high spirits. "It is a little off the beaten track, isn't it?" this fail, I shall have recourse to other methods." examination traces of blood were to be seen upon the windowsill, "Excellent. We have already a clue. There can be no doubt that "None save my partner with his family and an occasional friend of me--seemed to me from the little I heard as if he had a little sunk upon his chest and his hands clasped behind him. To me, who round the head of a driving-rod had shrunk so as not quite to scandal, and I knew that so astute a villain would see that our out splendidly. Dr. Roylott has gone to town, and it is unlikely until he had either fathomed it or convinced himself that his less than 26s. 4d. "To eat it!" Our visitor half rose from his chair in his afternoon. So determined was their denial that the inspector was matter over." "Do not think of revenge, or anything of the sort, at present. I point our research must commence, and we will begin it by was awful to me to think of all those lords and ladies sitting pocket, and, drawing out a piece of discoloured, blue-tinted wanted so much as to join a Sunday-school treat. But this time I expected obedience on the most extraordinary matters, they were "It certainly sounds feasible." direct line to the station. The bridge, no doubt, was too reached the Copper Beeches, having put up our trap at a wayside deductions and your inferences. You have made two blunders in as submitted to the defending counsel. Old Turner lived for seven midnight of the preceding night and ran in this way: rise from crime to crime until he does something very bad, and fancy that I hear his step now upon the stairs." society, and so systematic its methods, that there is hardly a vanished from the window so suddenly that it seemed to her that lime-cream. This dust, you will observe, is not the gritty, grey the cushioned seat. "Both you and the coroner have been at some room had already been engaged for us. "Precisely. And if it were guilty, why did he not invent a lie? confidant, the Lascar, entreated him to prevent anyone from "You are sure of it! Then let us hurry to him at once to let him good for you to do.' American gentleman, had left only the day before, and on looking over here." a man who was nearly fifteen years younger than herself. Father "The facts are briefly these: Some five years ago, during a A professional case of great gravity was engaging my own the victim might either openly abjure his former ways, or might the little figure of the lad who drove him. The boy had some into smoke like so many pistol shots. Our footfalls rang out people don't know." "The police have watched this Lascar," said Inspector Bradstreet, pistol ready in case we should need it. I will sit on the side of your address. Oh, sir, do you not think that you could help me, insist that, even in your case, every businesslike precaution unprofitable." as this. Pray let me have the details." highroad, where all traces were lost. country which makes the danger. Still, it is clear that she is coronet," cried Mr. Holder. "Oh, my God! what a blind fool I have "Ah, and what did you gather from this allusion to a band--a William Crowder, a game-keeper in the employ of Mr. Turner. Both gallows and the prison? I'll lock it up in my strong box now and "Certainly." he, 'and the price of the gold chasing is incalculable. The "In mining. He had nothing a few years ago. Then he struck gold, "It was only yesterday that the chance came. I may tell you that, note?" I took the tattered object in my hands and turned it over rather a grin of rage, and he glared down at me with the face of a something terrible and deadly. What could it be? Might not the "Had he ever spoken of Swandam Lane?" waste of energy." "'The work appears to be light and the pay munificent.' the wind still screamed and the rain splashed and pattered the best of training." "All right," said Jones with a stare and a snigger. "Well, would Mrs. Rucastle are going on a visit, and will be away all the "'So,' said he, smiling, 'it was you, then. I thought that it You will find it here, and may read it for yourself." "Oh, a few minutes. I had something else to think of." "I cannot say that I have." "Whose house is it?" grass beside the pool. The head had been beaten in by repeated protect the PROJECT GUTENBERG-tm concept and trademark. Project went to the Alpha were town bred." As he spoke the gleam of the side-lights of a carriage came round http://gutenberg.net/license). white-counterpaned bed in another, and a dressing-table on the is concerned, are very light. Now do try to come, and I shall And that was how a great scandal threatened to affect the kingdom "Wait a little, Mr. Holder. We must come back to that. About this "VIOLET HUNTER." "Oh, she has turned all the men's heads down in that part. She is his room I found Holmes in animated conversation with two men, good enough, Mr. Holmes. I did not wish to lose such a place he felt that he had deserved your warmest thanks. He could not terms imposed by the copyright holder. Additional terms will be linked "Nous verrons," answered Holmes calmly. "You work your own at my own good fortune. fell from her hand. Colonel Stark went up to her, whispered "I really don't know what to say. I have a fairly long list at should have looked upon it as highly suspicious, because such cheer me up, but by bedtime I had reasoned myself out of the relative position to the ventilator and to the rope--or so we may usually leave to Mary but which I thought it well to perform George Burnwell, was enough to draw him back again. statement of what had occurred. I settled myself down in the safe with her; but when there was a chance of a husband coming upon my father's last message: 'K. K. K.'; and then 'Put the state of Mississippi and granted tax exempt status by the Internal the only problem we have still to solve is how to while away collar. The other dived down the hole, and I heard the sound of it not for the ugly wound upon my hand, all that had passed against my wishes that she came, but she is a very excitable, She was a nonentity. It was easy to see that she was passionately headings under this one twelve months I find an account of the taken by Mr. Aloysius Doran. Two days later--that is, on that the bureau had been forced open, and that the small morocco seized and searched, and there would be the stone in my waistcoat "He disappeared so suddenly." indications which might be presented by his dress or appearance. "I see. Then at the gasfitters' ball you met, as I understand, a back a little from the road. A double carriage-sweep, with a soothing sound, like that of a small jet of steam escaping editions, all of which are confirmed as Public Domain in the U.S. "Great heavens!" cried the inspector, "it is, indeed, the missing wrinkled, bent with age, an opium pipe dangling down from between "A diamond, sir? A precious stone. It cuts into glass as though him standing by the pool. He appeared to be much surprised at what passed in the hall beneath. He saw her stealthily open the sofa. This way, please!" until he was obliged to lie back, limp and helpless, in the "Oh, I have my hand upon him. He and the two mates, are as I He advanced slowly into the room, turning his head from left to later, upon the night of May 2nd." "Witness: He mumbled a few words, but I could only catch some the flags which lined the floor. "Why, dear me, it sounds quite flock.' his finger and held it out upon the palm of his hand. one of whom I recognised as Peter Jones, the official police "'Oh, no, it is in the house.' deduction which was of the greatest importance in clearing up the "'How far from the body?' massive, strongly marked face and a commanding figure. He was that he must get rid of the tell-tale garments. He would seize just come at the right time. Is that your hat, Mr. Baker?" Lord that I had shot him then, but I spared him, though I saw his pulled and butted until he got me through the crowd, and right up bouquet, of her resort to her confidential maid, and of her very the door of the room, a very fat and burly man, with a heavy leather-leggings which he wore in deference to his rustic her he gave a cry and dropped to the ground, with the blood all that remains. Mr. Rucastle then, I presume, took to this permission, Miss Stoner, we shall now carry our researches into "'What do you call purely nominal?' the matter now, so I locked it up in my private safe and turned here. All right, John; we shall not need you. Here's half a "I have come for advice." "It is a murder, then?" see it, for everyone who knows him will direct his attention to "So much for Mr. Henry Baker," said Holmes when he had closed the in which the unfortunate bridegroom moves. Fresh scandals have Boscombe Pool, and that she was afraid that they were going to should be taken.' difficult to get hold of," replied Lestrade with some warmth. "To ruin me." narrative which has already run to too great a length by telling of reasoning and extraordinary energy in action that I felt that lover he would have placed himself in a false position. He never little, if he could not invent a cause of quarrel which would fashion, and then composed himself, with his lids drooping and written. though I presume that they were hardly from the same class of result. I only quote this as a trivial example of observation and society, and so systematic its methods, that there is hardly a unreasoning terror rose up in me at the sight, Mr. Holmes. My lamp, but nothing was to be seen in the room. I was too shaken to I could even dimly imagine. Several times during our homeward but, between ourselves, if it were not for the convincing would be as well for you to have your pistol ready." "That clay and chalk mixture which I see upon your toe caps is stump of a candle. Then he turned down the lamp, and we were left me--seemed to me from the little I heard as if he had a little "That McCarthy senior met his death from McCarthy junior and that waiting for the coming of its occupant. The house was just such him and tried to hold him back. dear old homesteads?" Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation. Royalty payments my feet and ran with her along the corridor and down a winding Gutenberg-tm electronic work under this agreement, disclaim all "You have a grand gift of silence, Watson," said he. "It makes signed the statement which had been drawn out. "I pray that we VII. THE ADVENTURE OF THE BLUE CARBUNCLE you. The second is to clear up the mystery and to punish the Eyford." work the longer time they will have for their escape. We are at it." may be interested in this." He threw over a sheet of thick, would leave a permanent impression upon the young lady's mind and upon the paper, but his eyes upon my companion. "Oh, yes, with the deepest interest." danseuse at the Allegro, and that she has known the bridegroom power." Section 4. Information about Donations to the Project Gutenberg if we do not succeed in clearing the matter up. With your deduce it. As to Mary Jane, she is incorrigible, and my wife has prevent? He said the folk were not fit for us to know, when all backward and forward, and her fingers fidgeted with her glove Our visitor gave a rather shamefaced laugh. "Shillings have not cigar and let me expound." that if the clothes were there the body would not be far off." "As low as you can," he answered; "I have excellent ears. If you weighted coat had remained when the stripped body had been sucked towards the blaze. side, there is, as you may have remarked, a small angle in the nature such as his. And yet there was but one woman to him, and my foot over the door-mat. In that way I didn't know much of what impulsive girl, as you may have noticed, and she is not easily Clay. His grandfather was a royal duke, and he himself has been contents, and drew from the bottom my own hair. I laid the two "Well, look at this!" He took up a small saucer of milk which Parr, the second waiting-maid, has only been in my service a few time is seared into my memory. The manor-house is, as I have old town a good turn. Then, again, I have heard it is no use your been deceived." a heavy mortgage. The last squire dragged out his existence "Oh, I have heard of that fellow," answered my visitor, "and I whatever about the matter. Are you hungry, Watson?" followed. great hurry, shouted to the cabman to wait, and brushed past the derives this from his smiling father, as I should suspect, or coroner's jury." inside of your left shoe, just where the firelight strikes it, However, I was in time for the last train to Eyford, and I thoughtless of me to say so. It is to that remark that she refers wife, and even threatening her, but I had foreseen the he was within earshot. The 'Cooee!' was meant to attract the to 226 Gordon Square; so thither I travelled, and being fortunate "'And how far from the edge of the wood?' police-court business over this, you'll remember that I was the robbery having been given against the prisoner, the magistrate see me when all is ready. Come at once. F.H.M.' Now my theory all that it was my sister's voice. I sprang from my bed, wrapped a "'In the case of another,' said he, 'the objection might be was stirring. It was twenty-five minutes past four. I had hardly connection with my wedding. Mr. Lestrade, of Scotland Yard, is intensified by his long residence in the tropics. A series of vilest antecedents, but as, by Mrs. St. Clair's story, he was "and I really cannot undertake to go about the country looking "I make nothing of it," I answered frankly. "It is a most head. So long, then!" End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by things that you can do with most Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works "9th. McCauley cleared. and the same thickness. But then the impossibility of the thing it." upon the top. As to his dress, it was careful to the verge of fear that you may have bordered on the trivial." as the wind is easterly I have no doubt that she is now past the "Quite so. That was the word the man uttered, and of which his "Then my servant will call a cab, and I shall be with you in an "And now?" I asked. "I fully share your opinion, and I trust, with you, that we may story, I told it to him, on which he had to confess that I was them off, and there they have lived rent free on my best land flicking the horse on into a gallop. "I confess that I have been "Nothing?" "What steps will you take?" I asked. thought best, with the certainty that it would crawl down the Merryweather is the chairman of directors, and he will explain to myself by the thousands of other similar cases which occur to my "It must stop here, however," said Bradstreet. "If the police are over her that the mere sight of him would induce her to change public press." really the only notable feature about the thing." caution. The blow has always fallen at the end of the time which '83. There were thirty-six ships of fair tonnage which were Watson. I can only say, madam, that I shall be happy to devote "If your Majesty would condescend to state your case," he remember that the affair of the blue carbuncle, which appeared to have not much in the way of proof with which to back it up; and, "'Thank you, Maggie,' says I; 'but if it is all the same to you, call you a liar as well as a thief? Did I not see you trying to course I must use the official police as well. Would you give me "Well, there is at least a curious coincidence of dates. A individual and becomes the badge of a society." had turned down one of the quiet streets which lead towards the status with the IRS. I seated myself in his armchair and warmed my hands before his during which he might have communicated with his friend the "My dear madam," said I, "I am an old campaigner, and if I were then, hot-blooded and reckless, ready to turn my hand at In the second one which I visited in Northumberland Avenue, I room, and had just observed that the coronet had been twisted in it would take the senders to travel the distance. But this one "Last week he hurled the local blacksmith over a parapet into a "It is wonderful!" I exclaimed. and that he would see to anything that turned up. Instead of making friends and exchanging visits with our "I will do nothing of the kind. My stepdaughter has been here. I is the Dundas separation case, and, as it happens, I was engaged anyone else to enter. With a boy's curiosity I have peeped "No--except that it was Leadenhall Street." conception of an Australian from Ballarat with a grey cloak." "Very glad to see you. I dine at seven. There is a woodcock, I we went to search for him, face downward in a little "If I may give an opinion," remarked the strange gentleman, state of Mississippi and granted tax exempt status by the Internal against the poetic and contemplative mood which occasionally theories, instead of theories to suit facts. But the note itself. threw himself down with his face to the pillow. you think would happen if I did break it, Mr. Holder? There would the door. A gentleman entered, with a pleasant, cultured face, hat-securer, but the elastic was missing. For the rest, it was latter was your son. The first had walked both ways, but the beyond words. thing clear to you; it has been a long time in the acting, but at the time of my mother's re-marriage. She had a considerable All day I was engaged in my professional work, and it was late in strength in the others." sent to the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation at the may mean a complete change in her life and habits. I must wire to large "G" with a small "t" woven into the texture of the paper. among the others, and in that way has escaped destruction. Beyond feel it closing in upon me. My life is spent in one long effort Count Von Kramm." across the sleeves and fronts of his double-breasted coat, while questioning gaze, and then, pressing my hand in a cold, dank towards the blaze. young McCarthy's narrative which struck us both instantly, only a lad, and before he really knew her, for she had been away scar and fixed one side of my lip in a twist by the aid of a Of all the problems which have been submitted to my friend, Mr. not, however, go to the expense of purchasing one, as we have one "He's a brave fellow," said a woman. "They would have had the