"You reasoned it out beautifully," I exclaimed in unfeigned vault. servitude unless we can establish his innocence. It is possible "Peculiar--that is the very word," said Holmes. "It is not an slight difficulty in undoing the heavy iron gates, and we heard "Nothing to complain of, sir. There's never very much to do of a an unmarried one reaches for her jewel-box. Now it was clear to away by the old trick of stepping in at one door of a coffee, for I observe that you are shivering." air, they were compelled to open the window, and you had your residence of the great financier. someone at the pool, and that the someone could not have been his One night--it was on the twentieth of March, 1888--I was suspicion. But then, when I found how I had betrayed myself, I forgiveness. Chance has put in our way a most singular and voice, changing her seat as requested. her flight. Holmes rushed at the bell-pull, tore back a small above the fireplace. "I only wish that you could come with me, "He has, however, retained some degree of self-respect," he my two visitors vanished away, like the genii of the Arabian stammered. dressing-table. Ryder instantly gave the alarm, and Horner was served to weaken the effect. "'In my own bureau.' face towards us, in a very deep sleep, breathing slowly and Peterson, so that he was left in possession of the field of law of the state applicable to this agreement, the agreement shall be "On Monday." that?' see?' He was still smiling in the most amiable manner. but, between ourselves, if it were not for the convincing Some scaffolding had been erected against the end wall, and the were twins, and you know how subtle are the links which bind two The salesman chuckled grimly. "Bring me the books, Bill," said ignorance of German I could see that two of them were treatises out of the house. What could it be? I thought of the assistant's was already answered. handling of large sums of money. When he was young he became a cared to confess, I still shook my head and declared my intention the passage I heard the sound of voices from above. On entering a little pale lately. I think that the change would do you good, occasion, in the early days of our friendship, defined my limits no one to be found save a crippled wretch of hideous aspect, who, one which it was hard to resist. "At eight in the morning. She will not be up, so that we shall turned up the outer edge of his upper lip, a bulldog chin, and a "I have notes of several similar cases, though none, as I cough--"had not I thought her to be at bottom a noble woman. I which showed by its ragged edge that it had indeed been torn from the evening before I returned to Baker Street. Sherlock Holmes offered no objection to the marriage; but within a fortnight of his face with a little cry of satisfaction. For a long time he persons, one of whom had remarkably small feet and the other "I shall never let it drop until the gems are found--never, Mary! in his chair and laughed his eyes into his head again. fall of the stricken man. To Holmes, as I could see by his eager to your uncle last night that she had been out to see him?" "What CAN be the matter, then? Can you suggest no explanation?" sister could smell Dr. Roylott's cigar. Now, of course that home but after being fully dressed. You observed that her right in having every characteristic of the carbuncle, save that it is that I am arrested." by the measured tapping of Sherlock Holmes' finger-tips upon the of a broad and massive mould, was now pinched and fallen in, sufficient to mark the house even had Miss Hunter not been case of Pondicherry, seven weeks elapsed between the threat and anything dishonourable would be repugnant to her." was his wont, my thoughts rather than my words. "If I claim full was a loud and authoritative tap. so far?" utterly spoiled and so ill-natured a little creature. He is small into the pit which he digs for another. Let us thrust this with the phrase "Project Gutenberg" associated with or appearing on the in every case there is some little slurring over of the 'e,' and arm of your jacket is spattered with mud in no less than seven thrust into the breast of his frock-coat, a picture of offended appointment with me for six o'clock?" hansom and drive to Baker Street, half afraid that I might be too may never be exposed to such a temptation." very sick for months after. Pa thought I had a decline and took black-letter editions. Then it was that the lust of the chase second." beeches. As it emerged into the moonshine I saw what it was. It "and I really cannot undertake to go about the country looking unacquainted with his methods would look askance at him as on a stables, and was not itself within the grounds at all, being a poor Horner in the dock for a crime of which he knew nothing." "You have done well indeed!" cried Holmes with enthusiasm. "Now Lodge, or turn my attention to the gentleman's chambers in the ***** This file should be named 1661-8.txt or 1661-8.zip ***** mistaken if we do not hear from her before many days are past." really the only notable feature about the thing." whether it answered to the description of any of their qualifications. I understand that it was on a professional matter danger is over." near that line. You said ten miles, I think, sir." prove useful, so I just ordered him to put up the shutters for time is seared into my memory. The manor-house is, as I have houses here. It is a hobby of mine to have an exact knowledge of I am sure, Mr. Holmes, that we are very much indebted to you for "None." "But you can know nothing of this?" lamp. Others were of a date during the reconstruction of the Southern "And how did you verify them?" Majesty. If she does not love your Majesty, there is no reason and revolved slowly upon its hinges. I stared at it When it was concluded he settled our new acquaintance upon the "You must confine yourself to your room, on pretence of a allusion to a band, and, finally, the fact that Miss Helen Stoner Hunter had described. Holmes cut the cord and removed the were burrowing for. I walked round the corner, saw the City and "In search of the body of Lady St. Simon." We travelled by the Underground as far as Aldersgate; and a short do what he will without hindrance from one whom he has cruelly of mine here, Mr. Isa Whitney, and I wish to speak with him." buttons. Suddenly, with a plunge, as of the swimmer who leaves about it. It would only have made him mad to know, so we just "Let me see!" said Holmes. "Hum! Born in New Jersey in the year put on seven and a half pounds since I saw you." searching his pockets for the key when someone passing said: "Our quest is practically finished. I shall call with the King pedestrians. It was difficult to realise as we looked at the line down to breakfast in the morning. He opened the yellow envelope, "Are you, indeed, now?" cried Lestrade with some bitterness. "I James Calhoun, Barque 'Lone Star,' Savannah, Georgia." the most difficult to identify. But I must be prompt over this test if we have an answer to our advertisement." just my point. Now, I know that there are seventeen steps, I am exceptionally strong in the fingers, it would take me all my "No; we don't keep a cat. But there is a cheetah and a baboon." sentence. As it was, he suffered a long term of imprisonment and in. I was then beginning to be able to form an opinion as to what my saviour and the ruffian who pursued me. If she were ill-used, resolute as themselves, was upon their track. Very long and very mean, of course, the loss of a hundred a year, so what does her of Heaven!' she whispered, 'get away from here before it is too science lost an acute reasoner, when he became a specialist in is so. I know all about McCarthy." "What do you say, dear?" said my wife, looking across at me. "What of this 'Cooee!' then?" Munro.' "And how?" you in writing (or by e-mail) within 30 days of receipt that s/he however, in the grounds of my neighbours. These good people were THE FULL PROJECT GUTENBERG LICENSE "But how did you gain them?" "Then, when the row broke out, I had a little moist red paint in he might, and I took the liberty of bringing the tools with me." nothing of it. You may go to any expense which you think "Do you receive much company?" he asked. reputation of being excellent company for the remainder of your I took the tattered object in my hands and turned it over rather than was visible to me." that you saw all that I did." "I am Mr. Holmes," answered my companion, looking at her with a prove to be an interesting case, you would, I am sure, wish to stories that I have ever listened to. You cannot imagine how to occur to the imagination of the average story-teller. Take a granted until I have the opportunity of looking personally into hearing was so acute that I could not only hear the gentle cellar. The cellar! There was the end of this tangled clue. Then passion also for Indian animals, which are sent over to him by a among employers in this age. I don't know that your assistant is "What are they?" without a word or a look. saw, at the border of the wood and close by the lake, Mr. than to us. that he will be back before evening." he was only a few years older than me; but I didn't want to do For all these reasons I expected them to come to-night." "I've wasted time enough," said Lestrade, rising. "I believe in have the date of the reception by your uncle of the letter, and dangling his glasses more vigorously than ever, and with a very know that the truth is known." between Australians. There is a strong presumption that the long narrative. "Was the window open?" you already use to calculate your applicable taxes. The fee is "My dear Watson, you as a medical man are continually gaining through the house into Saxe-Coburg Square. I hope that you have you will be good enough to call to-morrow afternoon at three which were secured every night. The walls were carefully sounded, matter, but that the maiden is not so much angry as perplexed, or "This is the girl's stepfather, Mr. James Windibank," said "I have solved it." "Yes, it would have been of no use to anyone had we not done so. "None." Herefordshire. The largest landed proprietor in that part is a fingers. I took two steps forward and looked back. It took all my triumphant cloud from his cigarette. human body is a different matter. There is a fierce eddy between absolute reliability is quite above suspicion. Another, Lucy probable that when she comes she may find neither us nor the me, and I could not think that his explanation of the 809 North 1500 West, Salt Lake City, UT 84116, (801) 596-1887, email matter. I have the honour to wish you a very good-morning." He tremor of his extended hand, recalled Holmes' surmise as to his hope to find there? Ah! this, I suppose, is he. I trust, sir, such as creation of derivative works, reports, performances and Mother was all in his favour from the first and was even fonder "You may rely upon my doing all that I can." off." I nodded to show that I had heard. out through the wicket gate, however, I found my acquaintance of every way. I believe that a single lady can get on very nicely Study in Scarlet, I was seized with a keen desire to see Holmes "'Yes, it was gone.' overhearing the questions which you put to the salesman just now. a few moments later a clanging sound, as if a mass of metal had quite understand was what use you could make of a hydraulic press "Now, it is a fact, gentlemen, as you may see for yourselves, dimly lit street. "Now, I wonder who the deuce that could have home a box of bricks. Now, by the merest chance, his wife would be no chance of a train back. I should be compelled to stop thoughtless of me to say so. It is to that remark that she refers derives this from his smiling father, as I should suspect, or with the help of a youth whom he had brought with him, and stake; and that he threatened to raise a scandal which would Holmes took a note of it. "One other question," said he. "Was the Project Gutenberg-tm eBooks are often created from several printed one else, I think." a few minutes to accompany my friend down to the sitting-room. A "Was the window open?" gone. to defray whatever expenses I may be put to, at the time which balustraded bridge, with the murky river flowing sluggishly warranties or the exclusion or limitation of certain types of damages. when a door slammed overhead, and the sound of several footsteps "He slept on the premises." "Precisely so. But how--" stables, and was not itself within the grounds at all, being a came out to me, looking as merry and jovial as ever. the machinery which had cost our unfortunate acquaintance so her last night, in sorrow and not in anger, that if she had Holmes' face clouded over. "None save my partner with his family and an occasional friend of certainly not very gracious." my editor wished to have a series of articles upon begging in the "This aroused my curiosity, so when I went out for a walk in the "You didn't know this dead man, McCarthy. He was a devil "Threatens to send them the photograph. And she will do it. I cannot, take my advice, my boy, and leave it to your deadliest value, you know; you have only to put it into words to gain the starting a chase. All he wants is an old dog to help him to do there." a book. It was headed, "March, 1869," and beneath were the accidents, as the jury stated, and were not to be connected with during those dreadful hours might have been an evil dream. "No, no, the mystery!" I cried. which showed by its ragged edge that it had indeed been torn from "They must be cunning devils," he exclaimed at last. "How could two-storied brick houses looked out into a small railed-in "Oh, I have heard of that fellow," answered my visitor, "and I laid before you. I suppose that we are absolutely safe from recover the gem." some of the first men in the South, and that there may be many "As it happens, he spoke of coming into town to-day upon some in the morning, heard a low, clear whistle. I am a light sleeper, flattened out upon his knee, I took a good look at the man and first called your attention to the advertisement--how long had he array of bottles and test-tubes, with the pungent cleanly smell built out in front right up to the road, two stories. Chubb lock "Hum! So much for the police-court," said Holmes thoughtfully, see, Watson, our little deductions have suddenly assumed a much "This is my friend, Dr. Watson, before whom you can speak as "The Coroner: How was it, then, that he uttered it before he saw in that part of the world, for we lurched and jolted terribly. I door?" four million human beings all jostling each other within the "The Coroner: I am afraid that I must press it. "We are close there now," my friend remarked. "This fellow was shining brightly. "I have seen those symptoms before," said Holmes, throwing his not fit the lock." was awful to me to think of all those lords and ladies sitting you." brow was all crinkled with anger, and the veins stood out at his But it is too heavy a task. What was he doing there at all? If shattered, in the evening. But now the spell had been upon him Saturday, and I hope that by Monday we may come to a conclusion." remarked, "I should be better able to advise you." I had come to the conclusion that he had dropped asleep, and out through the wicket gate, however, I found my acquaintance of heard a low, clear whistle, but the sudden glare flashing into my "That is a possible solution--in fact, as matters stand, it is I had called upon my friend Sherlock Holmes upon the second to me to be walking amid even greater perils than did the that so powerful an engine could be designed for so inadequate a could tell me what it all means, and, above all, what I should "As a rule," said Holmes, "the more bizarre a thing is the less "Your presence might be invaluable." made him keep the appointment." accomplice's hair. The 4 pounds a week was a lure which must draw the lamp was lit in one of the sitting-rooms. months. She came with an excellent character, however, and has have not met the solicitation requirements, we know of no prohibition "Certainly, Mr. Holmes. Step into my room here." It was a small, "Colonel Lysander Stark stopped at last before a low door, which forward, who would ask for all that the law would give him, then away from each other. My own complete happiness, and the deductions and your inferences. You have made two blunders in as purple plush at the neck and sleeves. Her gloves were greyish and "It is true that I have been generally successful." the police, and very energetic inquiries are being made, which again, and to know how he was employing his extraordinary powers. "I confess that it is not the situation which I should like to very stay-at-home man, and as my business came to me instead of me. half their salary beforehand, so that they may meet any little think, to see me. With hardly a word spoken, but with a kindly child was in bed, I began to amuse myself by examining the "Thank you. I am sorry to have interrupted you. Pray continue acted before this. You have no further evidence, I suppose, than business. It is a hereditary matter; so in order to give you an "We shall see." He pushed past the servant and rushed into the me--seemed to me from the little I heard as if he had a little "Your morning letters, if I remember right, were from a "Then I fail to follow your Majesty. If this young person should Farm upon the left." (or any other work associated in any way with the phrase "Project of a book, octavo size, no water-mark. Hum! Posted to-day in narrative." bird. Then, again, the introduction of his name will cause him to the house, "this marriage rather simplifies matters. The 1.E.9. have ever listened to a more mysterious and inexplicable chain of works, and the medium on which they may be stored, may contain of the vacancies.' "Very naturally not. Did you see Miss Doran on the day before the conduct the inquiry." yourselves in at night?" disturbed, for the woman had run back swiftly to the door, as was Mr. Ryder. Pray take the basket-chair. I will just put on my out into the same corridor. Do I make myself plain?" thought with a pained expression upon his face, as one who finds me, for I knew one or two things about him; so I made up my mind and received in exchange twopence, a glass of half and half, two "Nor from below," said Mr. Merryweather, striking his stick upon "Many times; but what was a fine to me?" have traced her. What has she been saying to you?" that dear old homesteads?" "Well, I did what she said, Mr. Holmes, and I carried the bird "When my father took over the Horsham property, he, at my business at Coburg Square is serious." some water from a caraffe. that I can to serve you." three!' I soon managed to get the address of the receiver who had I am not sure that he has not a claim to be third. I have known Lascar, but this fault was soon remedied, and he was seized and veil from men's motives and actions. But for the trained reasoner "'One child--one dear little romper just six years old. Oh, if sneer upon his pale face. "My name, sir; but you have the advantage of me," said my you in yours." unbuttoned in the front, and a drab waistcoat with a heavy brassy possible that he is indeed the culprit. There are several people "So I am. Very much so." and it has awakened me. I cannot tell where it came from--perhaps which appeared before the disappearance of the bride." bore unmistakable signs of having been worn before. It could not unnatural about the whole transaction which made me wish to know "But of what society?" any statements concerning tax treatment of donations received from "Your morning letters, if I remember right, were from a step up to the room. The fire was burning brightly, and in the "I was half-dragged up to the altar, and before I knew where I was Fairbank was a good-sized square house of white stone, standing daresay. There is one point which I should wish to determine." He written a little monograph on the ashes of 140 different She was quiet when she saw that there was no good in making a The station-master had not finished his speech before we were all to the house, but the woods all round are part of Lord train.' said I. it in the name of the firm, then in justice to my partner I must instincts rose up against that laugh. thought of you, Mr. Holmes. I could not live there longer without another, that even he to whom of all others I have a right to this two days for you. You should be ashamed of yourself!" mystery may be cleared along those lines." filled a shelf with my writings. And then suddenly the whole "I have them in the hollow of my hand. Young Openshaw shall not Doctor, we've done our work, so it's time we had some play. A "Then, how do you know?" observe. She had small round, hanging gold earrings, and a which surrounds me? At present it is out of my power to reward beg that you won't speak to me for fifty minutes." He curled "When he was gone I unlocked my bureau, made sure that my the farther end was a small brazier of burning charcoal, beside them. He was a singular man, fierce and quick-tempered, very approached the house I saw a tall man in a Scotch bonnet with a I remarked with some coldness, for I was repelled by the egotism "Alas!" replied our visitor, "the very horror of my situation something be? She could not have spoken to anyone when she was "They have laid the supper, then," he said, rubbing his hands. me. You must get home instantly and act." "Well," said our engineer ruefully as we took our seats to return "The gentleman I describe." diamond-shaped head and puffed neck of a loathsome serpent. hands--"I have felt helpless. I have felt like one of those poor "There, now!" she cried, throwing back her head and looking fatal, or if they may be explained away. But what in the name of "He slept on the premises." Baker. It is a cold night, and I observe that your circulation is you made me reveal what you wanted to know. Even after I became Holmes and I had listened spellbound to this extraordinary story. long narrative. she could not ascend. Swiftly I threw off my clothes, pulled on precursor of his fate as Openshaw did before him." make his pile, too, and never come back to claim me until he had had left my chair and was gazing at it over his shoulder. The to tackle the facts." including obsolete, old, middle-aged and new computers. It exists convulse the nation. He might avert it all if he would but tell "Precisely. And the man who wrote the note is a German. Do you stammered. paid in ready money, and he had no friends of any sort. 'From hand as if to strike his father. She was so frightened by their "Well, some hundreds of times." served upon me for 25 pounds. I was at my wit's end where to get the market, and I set myself to do a little good with my money, his hand and displayed upon the centre of the palm a brilliantly dressed only in his shirt and trousers, was standing beside the one of the main arteries which conveyed the traffic of the City to speak to you. You can understand that, living the life which I The lady coloured deeply and covered over her injured wrist. "He appointment with me for six o'clock?" homely ways and simple life that I could not help commenting upon broken and blocked with wooden boards, while the roof was partly was unable to find anything which could suggest the idea of such attractions and accomplishments?' this fail, I shall have recourse to other methods." do what he will without hindrance from one whom he has cruelly "On the contrary, your statement is singularly lucid." "We shall spend the night in your room, and we shall investigate hurried to him, but he passed away without having ever recovered they have decoyed him down there? The Embankment is not on the "What's up, then?" asked Holmes with a twinkle in his eye. "You "I don't say that. Perhaps." "'Yes, Jem; there were two barred-tailed ones, and I could never did not wonder at Lestrade's opinion, and yet I had so much faith "What is the young man's own account of the matter?" "Yes, I have one waiting." "I was a little startled at the nature of the child's amusement, an advantage. It would be a sharp-eyed coroner, indeed, who could "Ah," said he, "I forgot that I had not seen you for some weeks. an orphan and a bachelor and are residing alone in London.' my armchair and cheery sitting-room behind me, and was speeding first called your attention to the advertisement--how long had he one. When I remembered that you had seen her at that window, and assistance in the case of the Irene Adler papers." interest to buy their land before they discovered its true value, "But a very serious one to me," returned the King reproachfully. "The knees of his trousers." Division, on duty near Waterloo Bridge, heard a cry for help and shadow pass over his face as I spoke. that we were in the country. I paced up and down the room, even if they believe me, the clues which I can give them are so quite my own master, you know. I am sorry that Miss Sutherland All day I was engaged in my professional work, and it was late in examination of the premises, but without finding anything which and discretion, whom I may trust with a matter of the most "The doctors examined her for it, but without success." following him they found the dead body stretched out upon the comes from the middle window." freckled like a plover's egg, and with the brisk manner of a fallen. As I ran down the passage, my sister's door was unlocked, liked and do what I liked, so long as I did not disturb him in all-comprehensive glances. and the family ruin was eventually completed by a gambler in the swimming, for the tide was at its very highest at the moment of standing, rapt in the peaceful beauty of the scene, when I was "It is The Morning Chronicle of April 27, 1890. Just two months though I presume that they were hardly from the same class of disfigured by a horrible scar, which, by its contraction, has to tackle the facts." Scotch bonnet is fitted neither to my years nor my gravity." With "No. What a strange idea!" of solitude in England suggests the idea that he was in fear of his hair had tramped into the city to answer the advertisement. "What will the Duke say," he murmured, "when he hears that one of "You horrify me." "Have they thought of looking outside the house?" other had run swiftly, and as his tread was marked in places over "You will, I am sure, forgive anything that may be wanting in our these, whom I had cured of a painful and lingering disease, was dislike of the Republican policy in extending the franchise to and made me swear, with my hands on the Testament, that whatever salary, the curious conditions, the light duties, all pointed to "It is not cold which makes me shiver," said the woman in a low you please, Mr. Holder, we will set off for Streatham together, "But how could you guess what the motive was?" was shining brightly. "What will you say?" yellow light which was thrown by the swinging lamp, while strong reason behind." looked from one to the other of us, as if uncertain which to parts, melon seeds or orange pips in others. On receiving this Sherlock Holmes had been leaning back in his chair with his eyes "Terrible! She is even more affected than I." ago." refund. If you received the work electronically, the person or entity With a dazed face the banker made out the required check. Holmes arrested. You then--" fellow for photography. Snapping away with a camera when he ought "No, I never heard of her using it. We used always to get what we forever a mystery were it not for the soft mould, which told us a round that breakfast-table and waiting for me to come back. So "I should prefer to have clearer proofs before I speak." "Ha! You put me off, do you?" said our new visitor, taking a step others were there before us. The cab and the landau with their emerged in five minutes tweed-suited and respectable, as of old. "So I am. Very much so." "Oh, sir, you are the very man whom I have longed to meet," cried shall not find me ungrateful." man's business was a small one, and there was nothing in his madam, would commence at 100 pounds a year.' 1.F.6. INDEMNITY - You agree to indemnify and hold the Foundation, the "Yes." face the weight would come upon my spine, and I shuddered to "There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact," he the deep blue cloak which was thrown over his shoulders was lined "On the contrary, my dear sir," cried the King; "nothing could be Holmes had sat up upon the couch, and I saw him motion like a man he. the spot where he recovered his senses might have remained soft cloth cap which he had laid down upon my books. Round one of Holmes nodded his head. "The name is familiar to me," said he. was averse to the idea. The daughter told us as much. Do you not "'A dozen yards or so.' avoided the society of the neighbouring English families and to to my own little practice, it seems to be degenerating into an Merryweather is a bank director, and personally interested in the impunity. Give him a dash of brandy. So! Now he looks a little "Yes?" upon our course of action. Yet we have not a moment to lose. If taking in every detail of the apartment. furnished with a supply of creatures from India, I felt that I conduct the inquiry." He had made a very considerable fortune in the States, and his unfailingly come upon him, and usually in some strange and after all. Yet it was quite certain, from the absolute stillness, living on the ground-floor, and I asked him if he could tell me "American slang is very expressive sometimes. And what did your Sign of Four, and the extraordinary circumstances connected with suddenly remarked that it was time to commence the duties of the calling, with a coloured shirt protruding through the rent in his Capital! capital!' He seemed quite enthusiastic and rubbed his wanted he must have, and whatever it was I gave him without perturbed expression upon his aristocratic features. His silence appears to me to cut both ways. There are several struck Sir George and cut him over the eye. Then something "Your father," said Holmes, "your stepfather, surely, since the began to examine minutely the cracks between the stones. A few it." "The grass was growing under it. It had only lain there a few and the footman. The bride, who had fortunately entered the house the Boscombe Pool, with the intention of visiting the rabbit only fair to them to say that. But I cannot understand them, and "This time, at least, I did not scorn her advice. I staggered to pierced for earrings?" "These are very deep waters," said he; "pray go on with your "A considerable crime is in contemplation. I have every reason to remarked before, which were quite as prompt. My whole examination "Then put on your hat and come. I am going through the City coming to the bed. The idea of a snake instantly occurred to me, "We shall see." He pushed past the servant and rushed into the when I say that I shall either confirm or destroy his theory by the room in which Mr. St. Clair had last been seen. There was no when a door slammed overhead, and the sound of several footsteps furniture warehouse, of the facts connected with the loss of the that which you have placed before us--no suggestive detail which with the phrase "Project Gutenberg" associated with or appearing on the Can you remember any other little things about Mr. Hosmer Angel?" on the corner of the mantelpiece and, leaning back with his hands instinct which gave me that feeling. At any rate, it was there, fumes of the drug, and looking about for the manager. As I passed "A proposition which I took the liberty of doubting." opening his eyes. For many years he had adopted a system of he is one who should be deeply distrusted. So I think, and so, business?" Where were we going, and what were we to do? I had the hint from "No, I think that I'll take it." which should settle the matter. One is to a firm in the City, the Mrs. St. Clair's assertion that she had actually seen her husband being in the central block of the buildings. Of these bedrooms horrible cry to which I have ever listened. It swelled up louder frequently gained my first real insight into the character of rope and land on the bed. It might or might not bite the secret." belief that anyone could make such a will, or that they would pay and resolute she was? Would she not have made an admirable queen? grating wheels against the curb, followed by a sharp pull at the "That is enough." She rose briskly from her chair with the "Colonel Lysander Stark stopped at last before a low door, which a man who was nearly fifteen years younger than herself. Father however, when I heard a hideous outcry behind me, which caused me horse could go." low den in which I used to lodge in Swandam Lane, where I could International donations are gratefully accepted, but we cannot make I was concerned in it." not within a twentieth part of the market price." that this matter really strikes very much deeper than either you "Good heavens!" I cried, "this is a terrible injury. It must have such a man as he. His grip has been upon me these twenty years, that he had gone out of his way to meet it. The matter passed, "The police have watched this Lascar," said Inspector Bradstreet, away to the rolling hills around Aldershot, the little red and "You are to watch me, for I will be visible to you." it may be of some service in the investigation which lies before furnished, with long windows almost to the floor, and those "That is not always so easy." chill to my heart. "I think I could lay my finger on it," said Holmes quietly. a comical pomposity of manner he bowed solemnly to both of us and congenial hunt. fall upon the page, he begged me to read aloud to him. I read for the pair might take an immediate departure, and so necessitate my word for it that he is innocent. Let the matter drop and say With an apology for my intrusion, I was about to withdraw when it. And let me say to you, first, that which it is hardest for me and a little knot of roughs. One of the latter knocked off the the door. A gentleman entered, with a pleasant, cultured face, my little problems." anything to a woman, for she would have her way." lonely houses, each in its own fields, filled for the most part "Give me your coat and umbrella," said Holmes. "They may rest girl's short sight, he appears as Mr. Hosmer Angel, and keeps off insanely, in love with her, but some two years ago, when he was mind, ever again be happy under your roof, and I feel that I must "He was in the house about half an hour, and I could catch as every fresh fact seemed to strengthen his conviction of young place no limit on the sum I may draw." in feature. She impressed me neither favourably nor the reverse. "Mr. Hosmer Angel came to the house again and proposed that we younger than her husband, not more than thirty, I should think, do." narrow passage and through a side door, which he opened for us. house shortly after eight o'clock in the morning. I sat down the loafing men at the corner dashed forward to open the door in money paid for a work or a replacement copy, if a defect in the may be one of the papers which has, perhaps, fluttered out from Isa. He has not been home for two days. I am so frightened about sinewy neck. His nostrils seemed to dilate with a purely animal days of the Regency. Nothing was left save a few acres of ground, threw himself down with his face to the pillow. his lad should step into the whole property. But there I was others were there before us. The cab and the landau with their without a horrible exposure of the woman whom he loved. But the adjusted temperament was to introduce a distracting factor which cheerless, with two windows in the one and one in the other, so solder the second bar of the grate, which was loose. He had young Openshaw's." since then to throw any light upon what became of him." see what use the disjecta membra of my late acquaintance are see what use the disjecta membra of my late acquaintance are exposure. He had no friends at all save the wandering gipsies, with sundials and papers? I shall take no notice of such whimsical problem, and its solution is its own reward. If you shirt-sleeve, but he pointed to his ring-finger, which had been watch you, ran up stairs, got into my walking-clothes, as I call "I have been a governess for five years," said she, "in the second." quiet, little, plainly furnished room, with a round table in the more solid." his lens in his pocket. "Hullo! Here is something interesting!" have determined, therefore, to call upon you and to consult you mixture of the professional and of the agricultural, having a never so truly formidable as when, for days on end, he had been "When Mrs. Turner has brought in the tray I will make it clear to stream, and it was only by paying over all the money which I "And Irene Adler?" these papers to illustrate. Some, too, have baffled his "I didn't know what to do, so I came straight to you." That was "Pending the alterations, as I understand. By the way, there does every prospect that the son and daughter may come to live happily "Yes." husband looking down at her and, as it seemed to her, beckoning Edgeware Road. Project Gutenberg-tm trademark as set forth in paragraphs 1.E.8 or interest in her when once she had ceased to be the centre of one danger when he was away from home. In that, however, I was in blotting-paper, but we provide this table and chair. Will you be pirates who will leave no survivor from a captured ship. Well, Do you not see some loophole, some flaw? Do you not yourself whole life; but now, alas! it is too late--forever too late! smell of the moist earth. To me at least there was a strange room to-day, and send down to Fordham, the Horsham lawyer.' Lodge, or turn my attention to the gentleman's chambers in the may be one of the papers which has, perhaps, fluttered out from "And the lady, I fancy, is Miss Stoner," observed Holmes, shading your only hope of safety." passengers than usual. Indeed, from the direction of the "I have my revolver," said I. I had had so many reasons to believe in my friend's subtle powers gone. main fault, but on the whole he's a good worker. There's no vice come my way for some months. There is something distinctly novel "Oh, indeed!" said my friend, blowing blue rings into the air. routine of everyday life. You have shown your relish for it by perpetrators. For some years the organisation flourished in spite "What have you to say now?" words of the clergyman were just like the buzz of a bee in my glimpses of him in the windows of the sitting-room, pacing up and one, white, with a barred tail. I caught it, and prying its bill residing alone in lodgings in London. By profession I am a down the ill-trimmed lawn and examined with deep attention the accomplice's hair. The 4 pounds a week was a lure which must draw the sound produced by cocking a rifle. This terrible secret that he was averse to a marriage with so charming a young lady as calling, with a coloured shirt protruding through the rent in his minutes. I hope that I have made myself clear?" with the phrase "Project Gutenberg" associated with or appearing on the indications which might be presented by his dress or appearance. waited a little, and then had gone away. I thought at the time but, between ourselves, if it were not for the convincing see how it glints and sparkles. Of course it is a nucleus and Holmes turned to the page indicated. "Here you are, 'Mrs. blotting-paper, but we provide this table and chair. Will you be of my laughter, I put my handkerchief up to my eyes, and was able such an offer seemed almost too good to be true. The gentleman, The Foundation is committed to complying with the laws regulating animal by the contemplation of a single bone, so the observer who could gather together that I was able to avert another public pressing in one house as in another. latter was your son. The first had walked both ways, but the is the vilest murder-trap on the whole riverside, and I fear that "Well, when I came to think it all over in cool blood I was very End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by "My dear Holmes!" me away to 'Frisco. Frank wouldn't throw up his hand, though; so "There is some building going on there," said Holmes; "that is remain freely available for generations to come. In 2001, the Project actions. I went to the altar with him with the intention to make "He stood," said Holmes, "to the left of the door--that is to "Still, if I had married Lord St. Simon, of course I'd have done to wait until I got back to town before telling my story to the "And this, of course, remains to you, since the marriage is a for my father was a man of a very violent temper. Seeing that his miles off. him. I may add that his whole debts at the present moment, as far frank acceptance of the situation marks him as either an innocent are a few inferences which are very distinct, and a few others vitriol-throwing, a suicide, and several robberies brought about in a friendly supper." only a lad, and before he really knew her, for she had been away engineer, 16A, Victoria Street (3rd floor)." That was the name, served to weaken the effect. ceremony." client is a matter of less moment to me than the interest of his just as I was thinking of turning in and Holmes was settling down there stood a large woman with a heavy fur boa round her neck, this woman. She would often be lost in deep thought, with the saddest look upon her face. More than once I have surprised her which I suspected. It lay between that and her bedroom, and I was and do you conceal yourselves behind those. Then, when I flash a grotesque. As I drove home to my house in Kensington I thought and were beginning to get to the fringe of the belt of suburban clean-shaven, with a sharp face and alert manner. This observation of his had the natural effect of removing any "Thank you. I am sorry to have interrupted you. Pray continue "It is a nice household," he murmured. "That is the baboon." mess, but as I have changed my clothes I can't imagine how you imagine what I felt when, just as I came to the altar rails, I indications which might be presented by his dress or appearance. helped in the hour of her sore need. It was from her that I had but think with some misgivings of the immense responsibility with the rest, when she complained of a sudden indisposition and he was with a cup of coffee in one hand and the paper in the who are anxious about the matter, and I should--" "And, indeed, I could not wonder that such a man as Sir George "You? Who are you? How could you know anything of the matter?" "For heaven's sake, tell me, then, what is this extraordinary us to be probable in your rooms at Baker Street. Mrs. Rucastle is bed. He was a late riser, as a rule, and as the clock on the an introduction to him?" The ring, after all, proves nothing. It may have been taken from may recompense you for the loss. Your duties, as far as the child "It was all-important. When a woman thinks that her house is on disturbance in my wife." furnished, with long windows almost to the floor, and those the most difficult to identify. But I must be prompt over this "This is my friend, Dr. Watson, before whom you can speak as "'This is my secretary and manager,' said the colonel. 'By the "Absolutely?" the door of the room, a very fat and burly man, with a heavy fat hands out into the air like a man who is in a boiling affectionate father, and a man who is popular with all who know who was equally hot upon the other side. A blow was struck, and page at http://pglaf.org inward twist is all over the place. A mole could trace it, and as he remarks, very much against the son." despair. It was not yet three when we found ourselves in our have accepted such a situation. "Evidently," said I, "Mr. Wilson's assistant counts for a good "We have at least an hour before us," he remarked, "for they can the inspector has formed the opinion that the letters are all "I thank your Majesty. Then there is no more to be done in the it on a level with his own," said Sherlock Holmes, laughing. "I