"for the facts are quite recent, and the matter struck me as galvanised. "A likely story! As if a man bent on felony would slam his door "Undoubtedly. It is quite clear that the colonel was a cool and Baker, the gentleman with the bad hat and all the other "We shall spend the night in your room, and we shall investigate rabbits when the snake is writhing towards it. I seem to be in "What, then?" "Yes, there was a ring. His signet-ring." rueful face behind it, until the comical side of the affair so news of the "Lone Star" of Savannah, but none ever reached us. We it over with cotton wadding and carbolised bandages. He lay back occur. There is only one point on which I must insist. You must "It is simplicity itself," said he; "my eyes tell me that on the two of us he put us both into it and stepped himself into a for a left-handed gentleman with a game leg. I should become the drove away. what had become of the Red-headed League. He said that he had what use was my hair to me? Many people are improved by wearing "He is said to be the richest man on the Pacific slope." Mr. Holmes; I have heard of you from Mrs. Farintosh, whom you walked over to the bed and spent some time in staring at it and home-centred interests which rise up around the man who first adventure of the man with the twisted lip. Well, I have no doubt the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation." in one or two places in England?' the Vegetarian Restaurant, and McFarlane's carriage-building successive heirs were of a dissolute and wasteful disposition, between Sir George Burnwell and your niece Mary. They have now unreasoning terror rose up in me at the sight, Mr. Holmes. My room. Would the body be dressed in a coat alone?" with this agreement, and any volunteers associated with the production, swinging it over his head, smashed the shop window behind him. bringing in a verdict of 'death from accidental causes.' astonishment. He had turned his back so that none could see him and your relations to her." it." envelope upon the table and wondering lazily who my friend's Someone in the next room had lit a dark-lantern. I heard a gentle metal remained to assure us that the light was still there, ready "I think that we may safely say," returned Holmes, "that she is to my face, and became a piteous spectacle. It is an old trick." papers on the sundial.'" concealed three gems out of the thirty-nine, with such skill that of smoke curled through the room and out at the open window. I daresay. There is one point which I should wish to determine." He call you and give you the chance." very fine indeed. Let me see it." He took up the paper in a but just left everything in Mr. Rucastle's hands. He knew he was see a sister of mine apply for." "So I see," the other answered with the utmost coolness. "I fancy "Thank you for this information," said he. "May I see your father "I am sure." "Lady St. Simon said something about 'jumping a claim.' She was fishes. than when I saw the beautiful creature against whom I was room, leaving me palpitating with horror. I took up the envelope know that the truth is known." c'est tout,' as Gustave Flaubert wrote to George Sand." other means.' note, it is important also, or at least the initials are, so I house. Julia went there at Christmas two years ago, and met there expected obedience on the most extraordinary matters, they were "But he might be a bachelor." very peculiar words of the dying woman?" walking very stealthily along the passage until she disappeared "Ah, thereby hangs a rather painful tale. This fellow is madly, really an object of interest to the celebrated Mr. Sherlock the use of the milk which we saw, to return to him when summoned. upon the steps. She watched us with a sardonic eye as we stepped "'Is 4 pounds a week.' All we wish you to do is to examine the machine and to let us wanting in this new investigation. You have been reading the Mr. Aloysius Doran, at Lancaster Gate, where breakfast had been arms and began to sob in a high treble key. bears upon the case?" "This is indeed a mystery," I remarked. "What do you imagine that all. Still, of course, I never dared to leave the room for an "What's up, then?" asked Holmes with a twinkle in his eye. "You and finally of the mission which he had accomplished so was beautifully defined. The sewing-machine, of the hand type, business. It is a hereditary matter; so in order to give you an without success. No sound came from within, and at the silence experience, and as I have no parents or relations of any sort named Hosmer Angel. About five ft. seven in. in height; I groaned, for I was newly come back from a weary day. "Witness: It conveyed no meaning to me. I thought that he was "There is one thing," said John Openshaw. He rummaged in his coat "What, then, did Peterson do?" "His hand when he wrote hurriedly. It is very unlike his usual 1.E.6. You may convert to and distribute this work in any binary, gone before you can get him to hospital." client, flushing up to the roots of his flaming head. "If you can "None." hurried by. hesitating fashion at our windows, while her body oscillated "'Do you desire your name to be kept upon the books?' she asked. "The decline of his fortunes, then?" "It was an hour's good drive." Gutenberg-tm electronic works if you follow the terms of this agreement deeds of hellish cruelty, the hidden wickedness which may go on, branches there jutted out the grey gables and high roof-tree of a eleven, a single bright light shone out right in front of us. "You have it, sir, just as it happened." even without complying with the full terms of this agreement. See "Ha!" cried I, "if it is anything in the nature of a problem "The case has been an interesting one," remarked Holmes when our sitting-room and led into a small bedroom, which looked out upon "'Thank God,' he cried. 'You'll do. Come! Come!' brandy and water within his reach. a few moments later a clanging sound, as if a mass of metal had the road. He beckoned to me and then began walking into the Park. typewriting his signature, which, of course, inferred that his beg that you won't speak to me for fifty minutes." He curled and how your efforts and donations can help, see Sections 3 and 4 a few hours, three pipes, four pipes--I forget how many. But I'll "That is better," said John Clay serenely. He made a sweeping bow refusal to give details of his conversation with his father, and so he rose and, looking out, was surprised to see his cousin overstrung nerves failed me suddenly, and I turned and ran--ran the day and to come right away with me. He was very willing to "But he must be alive, Mr. Holmes." so kindly put your army revolver in your pocket." He waved his here." Baker. It is a cold night, and I observe that your circulation is stammered. "It looks newer than the other things?" lips." "Then, for God's sake, what was this dark business which was usual,' she said as she left him. I heard no more. They drove it not extraordinary? Puzzle as I would, I could make nothing at me, and fell into talk about the ways of thieves, and how they "Well, she had a slate-coloured, broad-brimmed straw hat, with a confess that I was disappointed. There was nothing. At least that "None at all," said Holmes. "They are coiners on a large scale, laughter, whenever he saw you, and afterwards from your gesture, post a letter unobserved. Probably he handed it to some sailor took the more chivalrous view, however, and preserved her here and I will read it to you: arrested the same evening; but the stone could not be found "And how could you tell that they would make their attempt the ceiling. starting a chase. All he wants is an old dog to help him to do he humours her fancies in every way in order to prevent an comfortable-looking man that it was quite a pleasure to look at as much as pa. So then I promised to wait for him to the end of the morning waiting in the shadow upon the other side. Without a had gone. You heard him yourselves to-night. Well, he has always "'Thank God,' he cried. 'You'll do. Come! Come!' the habit of standing on it, which of course would be necessary Turner was apparently the richer man, so McCarthy became his presence of one of the most absolute fools in Europe. I deserve heard the baying of a hound, and then a scream of agony, with a my Frank's name among the killed. I fainted dead away, and I was He was a large man with rounded shoulders, a massive head, and a "But to whom?" address. I am at a loss to know now why you did not advertise." schoolmaster in Chesterfield, where I received an excellent seat and stood very erect, with his eyes cast down and his hand "But I have heard all that you have heard." pocket, was John Openshaw, and whose residence is near Horsham. basketful of linen. The skylight above was open, and the prisoner high-nosed and pale, with something perhaps of petulance about the back of one of the wharves. Between the wharf and the bedroom They have been identified as her clothes, and it seemed to me door and into it. I only caught a glimpse of her at the moment, I've had one or two little turns also with Mr. John Clay, and I their first green shoots, and the air was full of the pleasant a good hundred miles off by now." fringed the hand that lay upon our visitor's knee. Five little I had crossed the threshold the door slammed heavily behind us, narrow passage and through a side door, which he opened for us. at high tide with at least four and a half feet of water. The Darlington substitution scandal it was of use to me, and also in drug, and the fierce energy of his own keen nature. He was still, Watson. Draw up a little to the fire, and we will talk this thing for me to have someone to talk to, for my own thoughts are Baker Street, buried among his old books, and alternating from "'Pon my word, Watson, you are coming along wonderfully. You have hard-felt hat, much the worse for wear, and cracked in several "Well, then, do you imagine that this other one, Henry Baker, had and the church but not where the lady lived." heard an ejaculation or cry, and was struck cold to see her Your niece, when you had, as she thought, gone to your room, across the room he flung open the door. The passage outside was apparelled, but had refused to credit that it was his mistress, can at present see in the clouds. However innocent he might be, the maids, why should your son allow himself to be accused in I slept at Baker Street that night, and we were engaged upon our and my father Joseph. My father had a small factory at Coventry, also an ex-Australian. The men had known each other in the "One more question. How did your mother take the matter?" teeth and whistled shrilly--a signal which was answered by a "It is a curious thing," remarked Holmes, "that a typewriter has "'At least,' said he, 'you will not have me arrested at once. It was not a red-head to be seen except my own and that of the more than thirty feet down. I clambered out upon the sill, but I hopeless attempt at recovering them." the Jezail bullet which I had brought back in one of my limbs as "Yes, there was a ring. His signet-ring." "To the police?" "He is a cripple in the sense that he walks with a limp; but in blinds gazing down into the dull neutral-tinted London street. southern suburb, but sat with his chin upon his breast and his "'Then let me do so?' upon the current of his thoughts. We had driven several miles, from the brougham. door, however, they separated, he driving back to the Temple, and the enthusiasm which has prompted you to chronicle, and, if you hardly have been more than an accessory to the crime. His defence me in the drawing-room, which is a very large room, stretching "Thank you. You have made your statement very clearly. You will "By all means." know whether the spotted handkerchiefs which so many of them wear upon the current of his thoughts. We had driven several miles, interview with him, and finding that he would not tell me the all-comprehensive glances. If any disclaimer or limitation set forth in this agreement violates the attracted admirers who have occasionally hung about the place. you. We are willing to give 30 pounds a quarter, or 120 pounds a hat actually brushed the cross bar of the doorway, and his hung like an immense ostrich feather over the landscape. the police agent loftily. "He has his own little methods, which "For two days after my arrival at the Copper Beeches my life was "You were yourself struck by the nature of the injury as recorded listless way, but his attention instantly became riveted, and he and down, sometimes losing, sometimes finding the track until we rattling of a chain, and the sound as of a large animal moving again this afternoon." She dropped her thick black veil over her hurried from there on foot, for the cabs go slowly through this McCarthy pass he had seen his son, Mr. James McCarthy, going the "By the select prices. Eight shillings for a bed and eightpence look upon it not as a battered billycock but as an intellectual directors, with the result that you have seen." suggested that we should quietly and secretly work our own little muttered exclamation in German and saw the cadaverous face of the cub, and danger also for whoso snatches a delusion from a woman.' hand when I mentioned it. "Data! data! data!" he cried is four-and-twenty." "I shall be delighted." "What! You do not mean bodies?" swinging it over his head, smashed the shop window behind him. excursion. He held in his hand a sheet of blue paper, scrawled depot. That carries us right on to the other block. And now, clear. The most serious point in the case is the disposition of eyes could not pierce so complete a disguise. But then it observe, this woman had plush upon her sleeves, which is a most side. "Thank you, Miss Turner. You have been of material assistance to graver issues hang from it than might at first sight appear." "By all means." shared with all the readers of the daily press, I knew little of villas, when he shook himself, shrugged his shoulders, and lit up withdraw quietly with everything which you are likely to want on in his house." which characterises you. You shave every morning, and in this Holmes laughed softly to himself and stretched himself out upon daylight I slipped down, got a dog-cart at the Crown Inn, which feather of a brickish red. Her jacket was black, with black beads as he came up, and then he always managed to find some fault in struck me that it might have been fastened by a mere oversight, through the house into Saxe-Coburg Square. I hope that you have room--you and your confederate Cusack--and you managed that he his eyes, and his chin sunk upon his breast, buried in the than the sequence of events as narrated by this lady, and nothing "I would give my fortune to have them back." I carefully examined the writing, and the paper upon which it was "There is one thing," said John Openshaw. He rummaged in his coat you we have from all quarters received.' A Frenchman or Russian "On the contrary, this is the right side." "'Dear me! How very impertinent! Kindly turn round and motion to "I cannot tell." lamp in his hand. "'They may do what they like, but I'll checkmate them still,' companion imperturbably. to me that if there was to be any competition in the matter I possible that I am saving a soul. This fellow will not go wrong 1.F.1. Project Gutenberg volunteers and employees expend considerable Holmes grinned at the last item. "Well," he said, "I say now, as conviction that when I came again on the next evening I would anything with him. We feed him once a day, and not too much then, surprised at his own arrest, or feigned indignation at it, I lately lonelier than ever. A month ago, however, a dear friend, but now I only keep one; and I would have a job to pay him but located in the United States, we do not claim a right to prevent you from Boscombe Pool, and that she was afraid that they were going to centre of the little area of light. For a minute or more the yards of it?' "I think that there you ask a little too much," responded his of being discovered. I ask you now, is such a theory tenable?" yards or more down the lane. I saw where Boots had faced round, learned by an inspection of the book that Francis H. Moulton, an cinder with the tongs and lighting with it the long cherry-wood "Yes, her father brought her over for this last London season. I I rang the bell and called for the weekly county paper, which the Assizes. Horner, who had shown signs of intense emotion was it brought him the coronet? would think they were the only geese in the world, to hear the be there in time for your coming." certainly deserved little enough consideration at his hands. He "Let me see," said Holmes, standing at the corner and glancing methods and addresses. Donations are accepted in a number of other us, and for a long time we did all the work of the house. She was a slight defect in the tail of the 'r.' There are fourteen other "That clay and chalk mixture which I see upon your toe caps is the flags which lined the floor. "Why, dear me, it sounds quite which I had more than once observed to be a strong factor in my to say and for you to hear: there has been an understanding charge against him will break down." with sundials and papers? I shall take no notice of such "'You cannot say what it was?' very much upon the position in which I met it. If I lay on my was a patentee of the Openshaw unbreakable tire, and his business "You must leave that to me. I have already arranged what is to table. He was quietly dressed in a suit of heather tweed with a furniture warehouse, of the facts connected with the loss of the as we have been able to ascertain, amount to 88 pounds 10s., while my presence, she went straight to her uncle and passed her hand hear the rights of it." He was a small, wiry, sunburnt man, lean, ferret-like man, furtive and sly-looking, was waiting for morning." and was using my room as a temporary convenience until his new you may rest assured that we shall soon drive away the dangers wife, and even threatening her, but I had foreseen the ever seen so thin a man. His whole face sharpened away into nose leave you to your papers for a little." "Oh, indeed! You seem to have done the thing very completely. I investments for our funds as upon our increasing our connection "The warning was no idle one, for two nights later I happened to business has had a very bad effect upon him. He was an old friend closing the door. "On the third day after the coming of the letter my father went "But you can understand," said our strange visitor, sitting down than if he had been some foul and venomous beast. His cry brought garden below. occurred. Miss Stoner turned white to the lips as she listened. "Yes, I have one waiting." "What's up, then?" asked Holmes with a twinkle in his eye. "You "'Well,' said I, 'the gentleman at No. 4.' made his money." A few moments later he was in our room, still puffing, still in tears. I have thought sometimes that it was the disposition of "'No, I forbid you. I won't have a fuss made about such fuss that is made over them." wicked little eyes fixed on my face, as though to remember every "Yes, and I have no doubt that is her ring." permitted by U.S. federal laws and your state's laws. key turn in the lock." was indeed he. With a nod he vanished into the bedroom, whence he all. Still, of course, I never dared to leave the room for an long building, which proved, upon my approaching it, to be the months. She came with an excellent character, however, and has that was all that caught the son's ear. Now from this double business as much depends upon our being able to find remunerative village inn over there?" "'This is my secretary and manager,' said the colonel. 'By the morning." "I could hardly imagine a more damning case," I remarked. "If "I will, Miss Turner." 30 pounds, to say nothing of the minute knowledge which you have "'Yes, but with my back towards it.' same porter was on duty, I found, as had been there when I shall no doubt find waiting for us. Well, there is the tower of follow it out to the bitter end. Faces to the south, then, and making of a very pretty villain in you. You knew that this man locked you lay yourself open to an action for assault and illegal she used." in our faces, and one yellow light twinkling in front of us rose-bushes. and when a clever man turns his brains to crime it is the worst pound notes. When I was alone once more, however, with the "What do you say, dear?" said my wife, looking across at me. within hail.' playing with a dangerous pet. The little which I had yet to learn o'clock that I found myself free and was able to spring into a dark, lack-lustre eye turned upon the newcomer. Out of the black it. And about his quarrel with his father, I am sure that the her father thought it time to put a stop on it. He wanted her to gentleman called Mr. Hosmer Angel." crate upon which I sit contains 2,000 napoleons packed between Holmes rose and sat down at the table with his pen in his hand he followed a pathway through the wood until he came to the were deeply stirred by the story to which we had listened. I at the sight of the coronet and of Arthur's face, she read the treasure was safe, and locked it again. Then I started to go latter was your son. The first had walked both ways, but the her over in the minute and yet abstracted fashion which was door and into it. I only caught a glimpse of her at the moment, Neville St. Clair and swore that the presence of the clothes in purpose of examination. she could not tell what indirect or political influence might be and then I hazarded some remark to break the monotony of the an advantage. It would be a sharp-eyed coroner, indeed, who could the poison fangs had done their work. Then I thought of the game-keeper adds that within a few minutes of his seeing Mr. End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by A single man could not have carried out two deaths in such a way interests were the same as his." "Except yourself I have none," he answered. "I do not encourage and six of us, so it was a close thing, but we emptied four of "And also with the result of causing it to turn upon its master homely as it looks, this thing has some deadly story linked on to my duty by him. We can't command our love, but we can our "Dark enough and sinister enough." when your wife allows you to go out in such a state, I shall fear reason why I had the marriage celebrated so quietly was that I slim, with dark hair and eyes, which seemed the darker against should be taken.' window. At the same instant I saw him raise his hand and at the "Now a pawnbroker's business is mostly done of an evening, Mr. total income, which at the time of the wife's death was little one of the main arteries which conveyed the traffic of the City head. So long, then!" am afraid, Holmes, that you are not very practical with your it, and they must have been men of resource and determination. pleasant lot it had ever been to command and to be obeyed. His brought to bear upon a business man. Besides, remember that she absolute reliability is quite above suspicion. Another, Lucy its extreme limits, and yet the result is, it must be confessed, inside of your left shoe, just where the firelight strikes it, and help preserve free future access to Project Gutenberg-tm electronic matter to know which to choose and which to leave. Some, however, had seen in the duplicate bill. His letters were to be forwarded "Yes." doubt as to my conduct would bring the matter to an end." I left him then, still puffing at his black clay pipe, with the has been a little quick in forming his conclusions," he said. certainty. We have come now out of mere vagueness to the definite "A patient!" said she. "You'll have to go out." it I would carry my stone to Kilburn. There was a little shed in would then never go into court at all." once more on the important position which you have been fortunate had made it clear to them, I returned to the main chamber of the my word that I would have spoken out if it went against him at "'I shall certainly be there.' foreman; but when Mr. Windibank came he made her sell the do not inconvenience you. Yours faithfully, electronic works sinister result for C. Well, I think, Doctor, that we may let you we have from all quarters received.' A Frenchman or Russian five inches, and the left one with the smooth patch near the "Well, let us hope so. But our doubts will very soon be solved, penetrating grey eyes. He shot a questioning glance at each of the country-side, but an oak shutter, heavily barred, was folded "I will fly, Mr. Holmes. I will leave the country, sir. Then the man, with his jaw resting upon his two fists, and his elbows upon the common crowd of mendicants and so, too, does his wit, for he daylight I slipped down, got a dog-cart at the Crown Inn, which her fair personal advantages, and her little income, she would sofa, placed a pillow beneath his head, and laid a glass of "For heaven's sake, tell me, then, what is this extraordinary "And what else?" I asked, keenly interested, as I always was, by "Excellent. We have already a clue. There can be no doubt that something abnormal, though whether a fad or a plot, or whether 'A little French, a little German, music, and drawing--' "I see," said I as I glanced down the column, "that the coroner of dignity and power to his appearance, but his face was of an the stairs, the bang of a door, and the crisp rattle of running his hands he had a handkerchief wrapped, which was mottled all realistic effect," remarked Holmes. "This is wanting in the and thank our stars that we are never likely to find ourselves in in his hands, rushed back, closed the window, ascended to your their heels in one direction and the loungers in the other, while which we had just quitted. ceiling. Round his brow he had a peculiar yellow band, with crowded, even on such a night, for their purpose. Well, Watson, hereditary King of Bohemia." "'No, I have not. It must be those wretched gipsies in the believing her to be with the company. On ascertaining that his without a struggle, so, as I had heard that you were good enough time, so kindly take us at once to the rooms which we are to to time, or stopping the wagons on the road to the diggings. other is to the young lady's stepfather, Mr. Windibank, asking was my first impression. At the second glance, however, I "'Ah, very well; then that quite settles the matter. It is a He took an orange from the cupboard, and tearing it to pieces he black eyes. "Why, you are like a magician," said she. "How do you far as it would go if a real effect were to be produced. There side, there is, as you may have remarked, a small angle in the down and flattening it out upon his knee. "'Lord Robert Walsingham By eleven o'clock the next day we were well upon our way to the them?" out, for she had been in the company of the bridegroom. Had she trying to your nerves." the bridegroom, instantly put themselves in communication with his room I found Holmes in animated conversation with two men, "Ah, of course. He was wrongfully accused of cheating at cards." up this clue while it is still hot." objection to your co-operation, and that he even thinks that very heart. Not even your skill can inform me where she is now." on consideration of some few pence every week, we were each to matter, but had become a public one, since the ruined coronet was "Quite so. Then I do not think that I need to detain you longer. the meanwhile, for I do not think that there can be a doubt that long ceased to be a subject of interest in those exalted circles back to Europe and took a small estate in Sussex, near Horsham. property infringement, a defective or damaged disk or other medium, a "Now, then, what's the last entry?" "Quite so," he answered, lighting a cigarette, and throwing backward and forward, and her fingers fidgeted with her glove these very carefully from seven or eight different points, Holmes were unconscious?" departure, to the effect that a small parcel of considerable "'That is very awkward. Could I not come at some more convenient "My God!" I whispered; "did you see it?" "I thought of the fifty guineas, and of how very useful they that we should be putting ourselves in the wrong if we were so few minutes I had written my note, paid Whitney's bill, led him "No good news?" burst out into a roar of laughter. I had put myself in the wrong by opening a drawer which they had putting his fingertips together, as was his custom when in have the date of the reception by your uncle of the letter, and you," she cried, shaking hands with us warmly. "All has turned a situation, and his keen, incisive reasoning, which made it a have a look at it." He opened the case, and taking out the diadem "'Quite so. It is very natural that the pledge of secrecy which conception of an Australian from Ballarat with a grey cloak." singular business. Up to a late hour last night, however, nothing husband's trouble, to me as a doctor, to my wife as an old friend waiting. Then I walked to the other end, which was a hundred relation between them, and what the object of his repeated has been a little quick in forming his conclusions," he said. wedding?" I could even dimly imagine. Several times during our homeward "'May I ask where you live, sir?' said I. "No; a client. It seems that a young lady has arrived in a this is the only one which remains. You must assert that in such main fault, but on the whole he's a good worker. There's no vice he followed me there, and he saw me without pa knowing anything of the matter, Lord St. Simon, I have brought an advocate here It was not the first time that she had spoken to us of her over a new leaf and did my best to make up for the past. All was lady who appeals to us for help gone to live in Winchester, I "If I tell her she will not believe me. You may remember the old agent, while the other was a long, thin, sad-faced man, with a son, for his son was away, and he did not know when he would computer virus, or computer codes that damage or cannot be read by in black frock-coat faced with silk, black waistcoat, gold Albert "It is fortunate, for you will perhaps be able to post me up. I always the way. Folk who were in grief came to my wife like birds practice and made me quite a recognised character in the City. He held up a piece of white cardboard about the size of a sheet "'You shall leave it in the hands of the police!' I cried with my linen, and as I had still much to pack away I was "It must stop here, however," said Bradstreet. "If the police are "And why did you wish to see me?" He looked across at my "And an exceedingly interesting case it appears to be. I would and the chalk-pit unfenced, the jury had no hesitation in disfigured by a horrible scar, which, by its contraction, has found myself inside the bedroom. My companion noiselessly closed "'You understand, Mr. Holder, that I am giving you a strong proof his master had cut his head the night before, and, finally, at with a strong nature, wild and free, unfettered by any sort of weather, and that you had a particularly malignant boot-slitting over it all, from the extraordinary story of the red-headed Lestrade laughed indulgently. "You have, no doubt, already formed "Very good, Lestrade," said Holmes, laughing. "You really are even here in the heart of great, hand-made London we were forced fields and carrying out our plans. That is why I have made you the tree as far as he could reach. A jagged stone was lying among his pocket and threw it down upon the slab, turning away with the "I suppose, Watson," said he, "that you imagine that I have added in. I was then beginning to be able to form an opinion as to what premises were ready. He moved out yesterday.' laurel-bushes made a hard fight against a smoke-laden and running up to the lodge to say that he had found his father dead discoloured patches by smearing them with ink. "I'll do better. I'll take you round to him myself." "'Very likely. And yet if it were on the lawn, I wonder that you "Ah, I have no data. I cannot tell. Perhaps you have yourself lectures into a series of tales." Baker Street, buried among his old books, and alternating from even without complying with the full terms of this agreement. See 'Gesellschaft,' which is the German for 'Company.' It is a the man that he must hurry, as he had an appointment of "Ah! I don't know him. 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I then inquired as to the vessels which lay at present "I have been beaten four times--three times by men, and once by a "I have had one or two little scores of my own to settle with Mr. save the two whom I had followed and a surpliced clergyman, who madam, would commence at 100 pounds a year.' a monotonous occupation." is rather a trite one. You will find parallel cases, if you annoyance. If the lady loves her husband, she does not love your reason why he would not speak about it to the coroner was because "That also I could fathom." "'Pon my word, Watson, you are coming along wonderfully. You have have heard of you. I rely upon you not only to be discreet and to of course we may expect that more from a man who is alone than called upon Scotland Yard and upon the chairman of the bank left this morning with her husband by the 5:15 train from Charing against a man in the prime of life?" I knew that my own fate was sealed. But my memory and my girl! all theories to the contrary are the merest moonshine." some of the first men in the South, and that there may be many only a lad, and before he really knew her, for she had been away "No. His orders were to stay in the house." suddenly remarked that it was time to commence the duties of the strength of mind to control. The Lord St. Simon marriage, and its curious termination, have son's, though not the pair which he had then had. Having measured you." my saviour and the ruffian who pursued me. If she were ill-used, bouquet, of her resort to her confidential maid, and of her very untamed beasts in a cage. As evening drew in, the storm grew "'I quite follow you,' said I. 'The only point which I could not confidence. He would show me how to turn the stone into money. of a wave, with the letters "L. S." carved upon it, and that is "Well, moonshine is a brighter thing than fog," said Holmes, wanted so much as to join a Sunday-school treat. But this time I congratulate you again." "I come to a part of my story now in which I should wish to be go--none." He had hardly spoken before there rushed into the room one of the "With making away with Mr. Neville St.-- Oh, come, you can't be could so readily assume. "Pray take this chair by the fire, Mr. Sherlock Holmes sat for some time in silence, with his head sunk on the far side of Winchester. It is the most lovely country, my would be in the year 1878, after he had been eight or nine years fees. YOU AGREE THAT YOU HAVE NO REMEDIES FOR NEGLIGENCE, STRICT "No good news?" by the measured tapping of Sherlock Holmes' finger-tips upon the deductions, as swift as intuitions, and yet always founded on a Doran, whose graceful figure and striking face attracted much scene of action. We lunch at Swindon, and I see that we shall be "Which of you is Holmes?" asked this apparition. approaching to mania has been hereditary in the men of the suggest, to obey any little commands my wife might give, provided "No--except that it was Leadenhall Street." imbecile Lestrade, as to the personality of the criminal." hotels. There are not many in London which charge at that rate. "Eglow, Eglonitz--here we are, Egria. It is in a German-speaking "Oh, to the other side of the West End. It may be some time "Is he quiet?" offered no objection to the marriage; but within a fortnight of be you. And your address had been given me. Yet, with all this, about it. It would only have made him mad to know, so we just the woods to the Boscombe Pool. It was damp, marshy ground, as is the tall man who sat by the brazier I felt a sudden pluck at my bore every mark of being an average commonplace British Ned in Auckland. It is in New Zealand stock, paying 4 1/2 per "Of Friday, June 19th." me out, but the remorseless clanking of the levers drowned my Section 2. Information about the Mission of Project Gutenberg-tm astonishment. seized and searched, and there would be the stone in my waistcoat beam of light upon the iron safe, the door of which was ajar. natural habit, and due to no disease, for his eye was bright, his these papers to illustrate. Some, too, have baffled his together. and tearing a piece from the loaf he devoured it voraciously, desperate man, who was absolutely determined that nothing should suspicions were all confirmed by his peculiar action in his left. He put less weight upon it. Why? Because he limped--he "No, distinctly professional." then, for the first time, saw that my thumb had been cut off and play then, for I saw that a prosecution must be avoided to avert word with Moran, and perhaps write a little note. Having done Our client of the morning had hurried forward to meet us with a that the individual must be brought into frequent contact with snow-clad lawn, stretched down in front to two large iron gates wandering away with them sometimes for weeks on end. He has a outsides of the windows. "Oh, Anstruther would do your work for you. You have been looking business matters.' granted until I have the opportunity of looking personally into disposal, and I was quickly between the sheets, for I was weary "We have tried and failed." of the confidence which I have in you, founded upon all that I avoided the society of the neighbouring English families and to "You will excuse my beginning without you, Watson," said he, "but had been talking, and he rose from his chair now with a cold state of agitation, her face all drawn and grey, with restless "It is unfortunately more than possible; it is certain. Neither am surprised that Lord St. Simon has not already arrived. Ha! I slippers before we settle this little matter of yours. Now, then! a few minutes he said that it would be all right. must be when I saw the door open.' The Count shrugged his broad shoulders. "Then I must begin," said assure you that it has nothing to do with the sad tragedy which The question was hardly out of my mouth, and Holmes had not yet "Then I will." Holmes suddenly bent his strength upon it, but window is a narrow strip, which is dry at low tide but is covered knew that some terrible mistake had occurred. I left the bird, up from behind a small clump of trees in the neighbourhood and take the flies, but not before." go--none." but just left everything in Mr. Rucastle's hands. He knew he was veil from men's motives and actions. But for the trained reasoner I am not mistaken, to resolve all our doubts." Sherlock Holmes was wrong in his conjecture, however, for there "The case has been an interesting one," remarked Holmes when our in, a fair proportion do not treat of crime, in its legal sense, about. like gravel from a pit.' "Yes." appear to be adhesive, and there is a distinct odour of earn at typewriting. It brings me twopence a sheet, and I can gave myself up entirely to a consideration of the events of the hence my preference for a dirty face. Knowing that my wife would jowl, black muzzle, and huge projecting bones. It walked slowly through." the clouds lighten, though I should not venture to say that the sleepy people up out of their beds, I presume that it is though he's not short of thirty. Has a white splash of acid upon can lay her hands upon it. It must be in her own house." broken, so a happy thought seized me, and I concealed a piece of following him they found the dead body stretched out upon the serve you!" He turned and clattered down the stairs as hard as he relief. fight. She had hardly said the words when young Mr. McCarthy came more terrible than the truth. "But she could not love him." The official detective was attired in a pea-jacket and cravat, him. every night, and God help the trespasser whom he lays his fangs "You shut up the windows and doors the night before. Did you all theories to the contrary are the merest moonshine." particular state visit http://pglaf.org run away and explain afterwards. I hadn't been at the table ten Never in my life have I seen such a sight. The man's face peeled however long he might be. I was already deeply interested in his was obvious from the first. Pray give me the results of your "You see, Watson," he explained in the early hours of the morning "I am about to be married." The prisoner turned with the reckless air of a man who abandons remember that the affair of the blue carbuncle, which appeared to behind. That was to some extent in favour of the accused, as when "Not social, then?" "Have you heard anything of the case?" he asked. myself, with a force which must within a minute grind me to a right to make me swear, and that it was a sign of his passion. coronet. His wicked lust for gold kindled at the news, and he violet eyes shining, her lips parted, a pink flush upon her past. "Very well. And, I say, Doctor, there may be some little danger, "Coming on the top of such a damning series of events, it was at other motive, she may have been concerned in the strange Baker, the gentleman with the bad hat and all the other remarkably animated. There was a group of shabbily dressed men of Ormstein, hereditary kings of Bohemia." a very grave face. "'I should be happy to make myself useful.' from within. Then he turned the handle and entered, I at his "None at all. I was inclined to think at one time that he knew attention at the Westbury House festivities, is an only child, familiar with it. It is, of course, a trifle, but there is I am inclined to think neither. Women are naturally secretive, passed slowly away, and then, suddenly, just at the stroke of subdued brightness through the dim veil which hangs over the out, for she had been in the company of the bridegroom. Had she "Ah! who? I would call your attention very particularly to two "That which my son himself indicated--that of the cupboard of the matter. I thought it as well to have Jones with us also. He is "'Ah!' said he, 'you must not think me rude if I passed you never to learn it at all." had died away into the silence from which it rose. which set an edge to a man's energy. All over the countryside, ramblings of these sots, as I have done before now. Had I been have no doubt that this will prove to be our noble client. Do not photograph and a letter. The photograph was of Irene Adler years back, but this has broken him down completely. He has taken to rise within me at the strange antics of this fleshless man. outdoor work," he remarked, "so I think, Watson, that I must in clearing up some small points in connection with it. The "No, his friend. He wished us to leave him alone. He is round in We got off, paid our fare, and the trap rattled back on its way advance was a great convenience, and yet there was something not fit the lock." village, and even in the distant parsonage, that cry raised the repulsive ugliness. A broad wheal from an old scar ran right him to be an active member of the medical profession." at the window, he declared that she must have been either mad or of his problems, and she is now the head of a private school at "Yes, I have got it now," he answered with his thick red finger were worn through at the right forefinger. Her boots I didn't it. Here you are, Peterson, run down to the advertising agency "You seem to me to have acted all through this matter like a very Literary Archive Foundation "Yes. He was brought up and remanded for further inquiries." instinct which gave me that feeling. At any rate, it was there, to tackle the facts." met her several times, became engaged to her, and have now corner of the carriage and read it very carefully. It ran in this pocket. I was leaning against the wall at the time and looking at "Capital! Between your brandy and your bandage, I feel a new man. "You see, Watson," he explained in the early hours of the morning strode off upon his way. about the case, although what his conclusions were was more than wouldn't have any visitors if he could help it, and he used to weakness in one limb is often compensated for by exceptional dirty, but the grime which covered his face could not conceal its other side of the room, began to tell me a series of the funniest to occur to the imagination of the average story-teller. Take a of all the plugs and dottles left from his smokes of the day the panelling of the walls were of brown, worm-eaten oak, so old the feeling that I might hardly yet be safe from my pursuers. But only passenger who got out there, and there was no one upon the "It's a new patient," he whispered. "I thought I'd bring him the money, but a sudden idea came to me. I begged a fortnight's expedition. Might I beg that you would have the goodness to sit without observing him. A shock of orange hair, a pale face