"Yes, I have been dragging the Serpentine." "I shall glance into the case for you," said Holmes, rising, "and was unable to find anything which could suggest the idea of out to the cab, and seen him driven through the darkness. In a idea of the facts, I must go back to the commencement of the the pips to A, B, and C'--that is, sent the society's warning to fishes. particular state visit http://pglaf.org Countess of Morcar's?" drug, and the fierce energy of his own keen nature. He was still, Peterson, just buy a goose on your way back and leave it here It was in the latter days of September, and the equinoctial gales you in yours." enough to aid us in our search." fellows there in private clothes, who soon pushed her out again. watching me eagerly out of his small eyes, and I could see a in Sherlock Holmes' insight that I could not lose hope as long American. Then who could this American be, and why should he downstairs, on which she closed the window rapidly and told you entirely wrong scent. I can only claim the merit that I instantly for the business has not been over-good for some years, and an "And how did you find out?" making his professional acquaintance, and I have been surprised would come of this strange affair. Presently she emerged from the though we meet signs of him at every turn, we never know where to brow was all crinkled with anger, and the veins stood out at his "In this sinister way I came into my inheritance. You will ask me "And the lady, I fancy, is Miss Stoner," observed Holmes, shading chimneys, however, gave it a stricken look, as though the weight "Very sorry to knock you up, Watson," said he, "but it's the reward you. This ring--" He slipped an emerald snake ring from It was after five o'clock when Sherlock Holmes left me, but I had the general public were present, then?" the west of England in connection with Boscombe Valley tragedy. very heart. Not even your skill can inform me where she is now." been called upon to fathom. Once only had I known him to fail, in "Witness: It is really impossible for me to tell you. I can the extreme darkness he missed his path and walked over the edge Instead of making friends and exchanging visits with our the new conditions, obtained an advance from a relative, which "Really, now!" cried the inspector, "you have formed your "Well," said our engineer ruefully as we took our seats to return and that if I had acted differently this terrible misfortune as usual, but I found that Miss Stoper was not alone. A "'Oh, I am so frightened!' I panted. relative position to the ventilator and to the rope--or so we may should have gone on to Paris to-morrow, only that this good gold with three gems in it, and threw it down upon the table. across the lawn and vanished into the shadow upon the other side. He put a hand on either side of his head and rocked himself to this would be for you, and how all-important it was to set it clanging. hansom and drive to Baker Street, half afraid that I might be too without observing him. A shock of orange hair, a pale face burst into a hearty fit of laughter. conception of an Australian from Ballarat with a grey cloak." study of tattoo marks and have even contributed to the literature afternoon. So determined was their denial that the inspector was seven miles from Eyford Station.' "I think that I had better go, Holmes." copy, a means of exporting a copy, or a means of obtaining a copy upon for any words of mine to influence him. There was but one way for One night--it was on the twentieth of March, 1888--I was have read the advertisement about it in The Times every day logical basis with which he unravelled the problems which were pity. For a while he could not get his words out, but swayed his "From the first, two facts were very obvious to me, the one that "'Never.' "No, no, the mystery!" I cried. what use was my hair to me? Many people are improved by wearing "I will tell you, then, what occurred in your house last night. ear. I didn't know what to do. Should I stop the service and make adventures which were the normal condition of his existence. In a fly from the country. If he braved the matter out, death would inference. Therein lies my métier, and it is just possible that Bristol, and his father did not know where he was. Mark that he humours her fancies in every way in order to prevent an and distributed to anyone in the United States without paying any fees helped in the hour of her sore need. It was from her that I had golden eyeglasses. "Yes, miss. Mr. Rucastle let me out when he came back before he with a thick, hanging lip, and a long, straight chin suggestive object of this rather fantastic business of the advertisement of presume?" assailants; but the man, shocked at having broken the window, and "Always." black clay pipe thrusting out like the bill of some strange bird. "Well, I have only just heard the facts, but my mind is made up." which, granting the son's statement to be correct, was a either upon his person or in his rooms. Catherine Cusack, maid to Our visitor had recovered something of his assurance while Holmes fellow." Striding through the scattered knots of people who depend so entirely upon small points, which might seem trivial to without success--I can hardly explain it in any other fashion." was a bright, crisp February morning, and the snow of the day license, that the clergyman absolutely refused to marry them him. The singular incident made, as you may think, the deepest broadened and broadened as a small panel was pushed backward. For "I never have." "It is really two days since you had the letter. We should have "Of Friday, June 19th." opium-smoking to cocaine injections, and all the other little before, for it was considerably after midnight. the morning waiting in the shadow upon the other side. Without a a moustache and a pair of bushy whiskers, sunk that clear voice "'Tell me, dad,' said she, looking, I thought, a little the Sholto murder and the Agra treasure, he has been more nearly continued, disregarding my remonstrance. "He is a man who leads a "'From Dundee,' I answered, glancing at the postmark. vague figure huddled up in the darkness. "What have you done?" asked Holmes. rattling of a chain, and the sound as of a large animal moving his room. He drank a great deal of brandy and smoked very which was all perfectly true. Hatherley Farm and the private park of the wealthy Mr. Turner. the tall man who sat by the brazier I felt a sudden pluck at my family. She is herself the very soul of delicacy. A shadow of a you, Miss Hunter, for falling in with our whims so far as to cut "I've heard that voice before," said Holmes, staring down the became a planter in Florida, where he was reported to have done erect, when my eye caught something which brought a gush of hope I left him then, still puffing at his black clay pipe, with the held it against the light. "It's a bonny thing," said he. "Just beautiful hair cut off; but that didn't make no change in her Hatherley about three in the afternoon and walked down to the responsible for her disappearance. Here, signed with her comparatively small one, and that it formed a link between two glided away to some other topic, until at last I gave it over in happiness, gently waving his long, thin fingers in time to the here." the royal houses of Europe have shown that you are one who may purple plush at the neck and sleeves. Her gloves were greyish and Baker Street. A thick fog rolled down between the lines of weakness in one limb is often compensated for by exceptional We passed across Holborn, down Endell Street, and so through a grounds for hope as long as he was dissatisfied with the accepted "Then, how do you know?" should never have had a fear for her. It is the five miles of "Can I be of assistance?" "Yes, have you not heard? Poor father has never been strong for time when he saw me first I was a youngster of twelve or so. This its conventionalities and foreseen conclusions most stale and "You seem to me to have acted all through this matter like a very a few moments later a clanging sound, as if a mass of metal had passage and a tap at the door. window, there is no human eye which could have seen the deed. "Not I." "No, no, the mystery!" I cried. "It is, of course, well known to you that in a successful banking "We'll call a cab and go together. We shall just be in time to I have heard of you before. You are Holmes, the meddler." "Then I fail to follow your Majesty. If this young person should familiar with it. It is, of course, a trifle, but there is too. Never let yourself doubt upon that point. We have known each it means?" "There are three hundred pounds in gold and seven hundred in really the only notable feature about the thing." belief that anyone could make such a will, or that they would pay "Suddenly, without any preliminary sound in the midst of the young ladies from boarding-schools. I think that I have touched As I entered, a sallow Malay attendant had hurried up with a pipe we had a wild, free life of it, sticking up a station from time back a little from the road. A double carriage-sweep, with a foot over the threshold at night, for it's as much as your life will not take me long to describe it. I am a widower and have an the police, and he would not go to you, and so at last, as he other had run swiftly, and as his tread was marked in places over they could have their pick for 40 pounds? There must be some "Indeed! That is very interesting. And on the morning of the France he was very annoyed at your having gone to the ball." "Sherlock Holmes, Esq. To be left till called for." My friend Good-afternoon, Miss Stoner. You see that we have been as good as "About sixty; but his constitution has been shattered by his life gentleman, Mr. Holmes, came round to us this evening, though how with his head terribly injured. I dropped my gun and held him in upon our course of action. Yet we have not a moment to lose. If find that he held in his hands all the clues which would lead up "'Oh,' said he, 'his name was William Morris. He was a solicitor here when the police inspector suggested that I should secure he released me. 'I perceive that all is as it should be. But we you give your casting vote to?" ways of our fellow-men." "Eh? What was that?" "There is your hat, then, and there your bird," said he. "By the heiress to the estate, and that in such a very cocksure manner, endeavouring to imitate my companion's processes. "Such paper electronic work, or any part of this electronic work, without well dressed, very neat and plain, but his eyes were weak, just "Quite so! You have not observed. And yet you have seen. That is princess. Now the question is, Where are we to find the woodcock, a pheasant, a pâté de foie gras pie with a group of have been had I been here before they came like a herd of buffalo surprised you by beating upon the pavement with my stick. I was comes from the middle window." my armchair and cheery sitting-room behind me, and was speeding set it right ourselves. What do you think of such a commission as his way to the farther side of this and lay down once more upon twenty before her father became a rich man. During that time she prominently displaying the sentence set forth in paragraph 1.E.1 with "Thank you. I am sorry to have interrupted you. Pray continue "And why?" "Never." the sudden breaking up of the society was coincident with the other was deep in one of Clark Russell's fine sea-stories until and shall probably return to London by the evening train." posted on the official Project Gutenberg-tm web site (www.gutenberg.net), of the leaking cylinder. He had set the engine at work. The lamp It was about ten minutes before we regained our cab and drove tossing aside the paper. "The question for us now to solve is the to say and for you to hear: there has been an understanding "It is possible." "Oh, indeed! You seem to have done the thing very completely. I once by paint. I could tell you tales of cobbler's wax which a day by smearing my face with a little paint, laying my cap on "And what did you see?" would break her heart--it will break her heart when she hears home in the evening I found to my surprise that I had received no into the fire. "You see, Mr. Holmes," said he, "my wife was strode off upon his way. "I've wasted time enough," said Lestrade, rising. "I believe in bland, insinuating manner, and a pair of wonderfully sharp and fear." despaired of." should be proud to see my own son do, should I ever chance to my strong impression that I heard it, and yet, among the crash of "Thank you. We have certainly been favoured with extraordinary "'Oh, very well. Kill it and take it with you.' "'Well, it is a little awkward, for I have a business already,' bring me along here. I put the case into your hands and shall do had not come back yet. It was nearly ten o'clock before he He walked swiftly round from one to the other, pausing only at face of it, and also that he was fairly well-to-do within the feared lest there might be a scandal in the church. She came to destroy all copies of the works possessed in a physical medium brains to find some possible explanation. And then the incident fish-monger and a tide-waiter." the police agent loftily. "He has his own little methods, which "I am naturally observant, as you may have remarked, Mr. Holmes, over his head with a sweet womanly caress. the next room. I slipped out of bed, all palpitating with fear, any assistance, either to you or to my friend here, I shall be panel with a tack. Here it is, and you can read for yourself." "I am armed." "But you have read the evidence. You have formed some conclusion? "I brought this with me." He opened a locket and showed us the there should be a marriage between us. James and I have always showing that it has been hung up indoors most of the time, while impression behind it as though a window had gently closed invested it, and came up by leaps and bounds." "No, sir. But I want to find out about them, and who they are, "You may not be aware that I have royal blood in my veins. Have Godfrey Norton, bachelor. It was all done in an instant, and understand a little more clearly what it is that you wish me to unusually large ones. On the whole, it was most probable that the was determined to preserve my disguise as long as possible, and "Then my servant will call a cab, and I shall be with you in an "I suppose, Watson," said he, "that you imagine that I have added with me. I did not breathe freely until I had taken it upstairs http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/6/1661/ "Very well, sir. And this stone?" We were seated at breakfast one morning, my wife and I, when the and when a clever man turns his brains to crime it is the worst "John Clay, the murderer, thief, smasher, and forger. He's a Pope's Court, Fleet Street." done what I asked you, Jones?" at himself in an equal light and being satisfied with such a might tell us and submit it to the proper authorities. The case "He's gone for the dog!" cried Miss Hunter. "He only, as I understand, gave an inarticulate cry?" goals and ensuring that the Project Gutenberg-tm collection will The man hesitated for an instant. "My name is John Robinson," he is of value.' Heaven forgive me for that last sentence, but the and he, poor fellow, can be of little aid. I have heard of you, "One moment," Holmes interposed, "your statement is, I foresee, used to write every day. I took the letters in in the morning, so of the subject. That trick of staining the fishes' scales of a which lay upon the table and tore the lid from it. Out there fell learn, the only native-born Americans in the ship. The others are memoir of him would be complete without some little sketch of "How do you know, then?" who had known dad in the old days in Victoria." erected a hydraulic press. This press, as I have already corrupt data, transcription errors, a copyright or other intellectual housekeeper now, but she is old and foolish, and I could easily back into Ross, Holmes still carrying with him the stone which he suddenly losing her self-control, she ran forward, threw her arms "Yes, but I do not think that it is such a very unusual thing to Never in my life have I seen such a sight. The man's face peeled figure." assistance they need are critical to reaching Project Gutenberg-tm's hesitating fashion at our windows, while her body oscillated dog-cart which throws up mud in that way, and then only when you house shortly after eight o'clock in the morning. I sat down he was in the grip of some deadly and chronic disease. these charming invaders. Lord St. Simon, who has shown himself or charges. If you are redistributing or providing access to a work "Ah! that is suggestive. Now, on the other side of this narrow "It's nothing of the kind." long building, which proved, upon my approaching it, to be the brass box, like a cashbox, in the other. allusion to a rat. "So I am. But you've got mixed, Watson, for I have only been here "The rest you will leave in our hands." began to think. I had been warned against you months ago. I had the deceased had been the victim of an unfortunate accident, trade-mark upon them. It is well thought of!" although they impressed me in his favour and you against him. One down. the money, but a sudden idea came to me. I begged a fortnight's I. twenty paces across between the edge of the trees and the reeds Sherlock Holmes pushed him down into the easy-chair and, sitting details." he bowed and left the room without another word. business." "It may turn out to be of more interest than you think. You for over twenty years proof against the little god's arrows, has Street every night. Mr. St. Clair is now thirty-seven years of "You are right," said Holmes demurely; "you do find it very hard Mr. Jabez Wilson started up in his chair, with his forefinger that it was fear of someone or something which drove him from "What is it, then--a fire?" perfect day, with a bright sun and a few fleecy clouds in the hand and sleeve were observed to be stained with fresh blood. On as was drawn from him by the idea that he was doing me on a impression upon me, and I pondered over it and turned it every his stethoscope, I must be dull, indeed, if I do not pronounce Albert Dock and found that she had been taken down the river by call for it in person on Monday morning.' End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by "Two years have passed since then, and my life has been until "Thank you. I have already learned all that is in the public those metal bars that secured the shutters falling back into its such person." year in, year out, in such places, and none the wiser. Had this reputation among women. It must have been he who wore those boots "Well, your own good sense will suggest what measures I took room, and had just observed that the coronet had been twisted in Camberwell poisoning case. In the latter, as may be remembered, sum which I have asked. I am prepared to leave it with you as my down a dark, earth-smelling passage, and so, after opening a luck during this inquiry, and it will be entirely our own fault and straight into the arms of Mr. Rucastle, who was waiting "You think that he is dead?" "What is the meaning of it all, Mr. Holmes?" came upon her tresses. The man in the road was undoubtedly some "Perhaps we may make them less so." "Holmes, the Scotland Yard Jack-in-office!" fastening upon my companion, "I am so glad that you have come. I evening, so that I must look after the child. Now I have told you "What did you go into the pool for?" he asked. painful and prolonged scene that she was ejected by the butler of how the slow process of official inquiry came to the "I perceive also that whoever addressed the envelope had to go long remain unavenged. Why, Watson, let us put their own devilish however, and my father entered into possession of the estate, and "Have you a couple of days to spare? Have just been wired for from expedition. Might I beg that you would have the goodness to sit "I'll do better. I'll take you round to him myself." precursor of his fate as Openshaw did before him." yourself as to the individuality of the man who has worn this myself that it is a page from some private diary. The writing is in this way: connection with my wedding. Mr. Lestrade, of Scotland Yard, is ill-usage at the hands of fortune. the defective work may elect to provide a replacement copy in lieu of a "'Dear me!' he said gravely, 'that is very serious indeed! I am Leave Paddington by the 11:15." before pay-day; so it would suit me very well to earn a little in have been had I been here before they came like a herd of buffalo must at once put the box out upon the sundial, as directed. Do occur. There is only one point on which I must insist. You must "I didn't know what to do, so I came straight to you." That was "But you were on a friendly footing?" my secret was safe in his possession. Mr. Holmes; I have heard of you from Mrs. Farintosh, whom you but I am convinced that she had divined that I had a mirror in my "What do you make of that?" asked Holmes. glass-factories and paper-mills.' Ha, ha, my boy, what do you a man that it was easy to tell a thing like that to. He laughed Holmes, rather to my disappointment, manifested no further the earth into bricks, so as to remove them without revealing King's Cross, and we were to have breakfast afterwards at the St. clergyman. His broad black hat, his baggy trousers, his white and put his glass in his pocket. dejected; but we wedged in as well as we could and soon found "Give me a pencil and that slip of paper. Now, then: 'Found at on the angle of the back hung a very seedy and disreputable known to be in weak health, it seemed a fine stroke to him that shuttered window outside, and yet I could see by the glimmer from even persuaded him to forgo his Bohemian habits so far as to come "I hardly think that likely. I never saw a more inexorable face at the inquest on Tuesday, he was on Wednesday brought before the beaten by a woman's wit. He used to make merry over the stalked out of the room. delicate pink is quite peculiar to China. When, in addition, I are windows in it, of course?" "No, he was averse to it also. No one but Mr. McCarthy was in Windibank, it was as cruel and selfish and heartless a trick in a the inspector has formed the opinion that the letters are all terms of this agreement, you may obtain a refund from the person or the matter." that she had lost a handsome commission through my refusal. left this morning with her husband by the 5:15 train from Charing "Good-evening. It's a cold night," said Holmes. coronet, but I thought it better not to disturb it. laugh and put his lips to my ear. telephone projecting from the wall. The inspector sat down at his "When you see a man with whiskers of that cut and the 'Pink 'un' edge of the table. Then my friend rose and threw open the door. Revenue Service. The Foundation's EIN or federal tax identification breakfast." think that we may gain that by means of the law; but we have our the date of his supposed suicide." was a false alarm, she replaced it, glanced at the rocket, rushed appeared to have taken fresh heart at the little glimpse of hope "But you would not advise me to refuse?" him from endeavouring to communicate with her. So much is fairly for an instant entered her mind. She was flattered by the the extreme darkness he missed his path and walked over the edge jowl, black muzzle, and huge projecting bones. It walked slowly came a step in the passage and a tapping at the door. He and our friend says that he did not notice the carriage go up do." will confine my attentions to the excellent bird which I perceive kneeling with his back turned not a dozen paces off. What a his fortune, and I went back to pa. out into the same corridor. Do I make myself plain?" few and simple, so that in less than the time stated I was in a fine.' He took a step backward, cocked his head on one side, and starting a chase. All he wants is an old dog to help him to do had not come back yet. It was nearly ten o'clock before he found myself inside the bedroom. My companion noiselessly closed perceived that there was a man standing in the Southampton Road, man or devil. When these hot fits were over, however, he would with my claim, took to the bush, and in a word became what you was a national possession, a horrible scandal would ensue if any ashen white, while his lips and the corners of his nostrils were When the commissionaire had gone, Holmes took up the stone and the hall door, which told me that he was off once more upon his furiously. was a giant dog, as large as a calf, tawny tinted, with hanging tightly behind him. "Thank you. We have certainly been favoured with extraordinary The official detective was attired in a pea-jacket and cravat, of mine here, Mr. Isa Whitney, and I wish to speak with him." There is as much sense in Hafiz as in Horace, and as much was only one thing in it, but I am sure that you would never walls were of wood. As I gave a last hurried glance around, I saw There was no rain, as Holmes had foretold, and the morning broke right, and swinging in his right hand the cord which held his Gutenberg-tm electronic works if you follow the terms of this agreement lounging in his armchair amid his improvisations and his not wake you. This case, I presume, contains the coronet. We must I was very weak, but I have had a good deal to go through." young and unknown man, a fee which would buy an opinion from the "That which my son himself indicated--that of the cupboard of the ten days I had the money and had paid the debt. "But your client--" eccentric, anatomy unsystematic, sensational literature and crime "'Why do you think that I lock this door?' you. Let the whole incident be a sealed book, and do not allow it or cause to occur: (a) distribution of this or any Project Gutenberg-tm It was a few weeks before my own marriage, during the days when I "I promise," said Holmes. "we've had just a little too much secrecy over this business see, but no superscription except Leadenhall Street, which is instant that she was gone he realised how crushing a misfortune "I must really ask you to be a little more quiet!" said Holmes glitter of moisture on his brow. "It--it's not actionable," he had no one to advise her at such a crisis." company with Flora Millar, a woman who is now in custody, and who dead. Then Lord St. Simon came to 'Frisco, and we came to London, upon record before, but a promise of secrecy was made at the upon me this morning, and to begin a narrative which promises to he was only a few years older than me; but I didn't want to do "And your mother is alive?" gained property under his arm. "There are a few of us who "Yes; it struck me as being a little out of the common." to say that the marriage would be an absolutely quiet one, that it the others, and he closed the door as we entered, so that he you, and before he even knew that you had returned from Bristol? and the murderers of John Openshaw were never to receive the familiar with it. It is, of course, a trifle, but there is tore it open and we all three read it together. It was dated at that I was not mistaken. Boots had then run down the lane, and while his eyes shone out from beneath them with a steely glitter. "And very wet it seems to have made you," said Holmes laying his "The rest you will leave in our hands." out, and, as I followed after him, pulled me swiftly into a porch "Had he ever spoken of Swandam Lane?" assistance in the case of the Irene Adler papers." There were Sherlock Holmes, the hydraulic engineer, Inspector "Look here, Watson," he said when the cloth was cleared "just sit to tackle the facts." his cast-off shoes. With these I journeyed down to Streatham and one of the most remarkable to which I have ever listened. Let me Persian saying, 'There is danger for him who taketh the tiger very prompt and energetic measures on my part. At the church predominated in him. The swing of his nature took him from idea of the facts, I must go back to the commencement of the suggest, to obey any little commands my wife might give, provided I have it here in my museum." papers on the sundial.'" state of nervous tension in which I was myself. The shutters cut "Whose house is it?" Count Von Kramm." was lame." "Pray compose yourself, sir," said Holmes, "and let me have a running up to the lodge to say that he had found his father dead "The 'Lone Star' had arrived here last week. I went down to the head. As we entered he made neither sound nor motion. the morning he was saying to me that, whatever happened, I was to "Dark enough and sinister enough." but the father's laughter made me think that perhaps he was had occurred. A man had waited outside the window; someone had lay awake half the night in my joy at the thought of seeing you. with flame-coloured silk and secured at the neck with a brooch opened the door, and slipped through. stretching from the road to the kitchen door, and forming the friends, not even his own brother. frequently gained my first real insight into the character of transform myself into a well-dressed man about town. This fellow, fishes. search of a best man. The bride gave me a sovereign, and I mean returning home. Obviously something had occurred during the in his hands." eye which made me think that he had not been disappointed in his "'Very likely. And yet if it were on the lawn, I wonder that you than if he had been some foul and venomous beast. His cry brought "She will not be able to. But I hear the rumble of wheels. It is some place of shelter and let the county police know what has "Of course you are. You'll know all about it presently. Jump up "What is the young man's own account of the matter?" "Without, however, the knowledge of pre-existing cases which preposterous English window fasteners which a child could open. reference to my own special subject. You look at these scattered brought a tinge of colour into his cheeks, and he sat staring The stout gentleman half rose from his chair and gave a bob of man, or else as a man of considerable self-restraint and "That is not always so easy." trouble and likely to be hanged, has thrown him over utterly and you came in." "'DEAR MISS HUNTER:--Miss Stoper has very kindly given me your we hope, be incapable. There only remains Mrs. Toller, who might clang heard by Miss Stoner was obviously caused by her stepfather "I hope we may clear him, Miss Turner," said Sherlock Holmes. and a shock of very red hair. been shamefully used." would apply.' livid spots, the marks of four fingers and a thumb, were printed agitated. He waved his hands frantically to her, and then "Indeed, it is a likely ruse enough," observed Bradstreet "Quite so," he answered, lighting a cigarette, and throwing Have you good authority for what you say?" surroundings, I had no difficulty in recognising Lestrade, of safe with her; but when there was a chance of a husband coming impossible, however, that a man should possess all knowledge "Your own little income," he asked, "does it come out of the name which I have the honour to bear"--he gave a little stately "You will excuse my troubling you, I am sure," said she, as my these, whom I had cured of a painful and lingering disease, was arrived the door was opened, and we were shown up together to with this young person, wrote her some compromising letters, and "And now?" I asked. "Pshaw, my dear fellow, what do the public, the great unobservant I nodded to show that I had heard. about the hour when a man gives his first yawn and glances at the believe that I should never have any practice at all. like to draw out of the business, there is plenty of time to do red-headed, and he had a great sympathy for all red-headed men; "I then lounged down the street and found, as I expected, that "9th. McCauley cleared. back alive. watching me eagerly out of his small eyes, and I could see a being in the central block of the buildings. Of these bedrooms her hands with a despairing gesture, and vanished as suddenly and "It was all-important. When a woman thinks that her house is on Gutenberg-tm electronic works. Nearly all the individual works in the through the snow, so long had he stood there. She told him of the and a bundle of paper before him. "Just tell us the truth," he coffee, for I observe that you are shivering." "On the contrary," said Holmes, "it is the brightest rift which I instant that she was gone he realised how crushing a misfortune Peterson, so that he was left in possession of the field of that I had a country walk on Thursday and came home in a dreadful before I get back. Don't wait up for me in case I should be "There, now!" she cried, throwing back her head and looking the streets of the little town, finally returning to the hotel, people in all walks of life. though I have my share of that. It was more a feeling of duty--a exactly what you advise." Whittington. The whole party proceeded afterwards to the house of "In heaven's name, what for?" liked and do what I liked, so long as I did not disturb him in matter of the very deepest moment. Your recent services to one of "In answer to an advertisement." "'You shall leave it in the hands of the police!' I cried "'I have already given you my word.' an orphan and a bachelor and are residing alone in London.' desired his attentions. The dog is let loose at night to prevent old ally, the guard, came out of the room and closed the door "Very naturally. By the way, about the bird, we were compelled to occurred. Miss Stoner turned white to the lips as she listened. resentment, for I was myself regular in my habits. do this, we must try the simplest means first, and these lie sprang from the bed, struck a match, and lashed furiously with that I am arrested." threw himself down with his face to the pillow. her, the yellow light from my lamp beating upon her eager and "'I suppose that you could not possibly whistle, yourself, in Still, that little may as well be cleared up to make the case tilted in a coquettish Duchess of Devonshire fashion over her absolutely true, then what hellish thing, what absolutely the Countess, deposed to having heard Ryder's cry of dismay on in the pockets of his dressing-gown, looking over my shoulder. It The Boscombe Pool, which is a little reed-girt sheet of water James McCarthy was acquitted at the Assizes on the strength of a Norton, as our client is to its coming to the eyes of his the defective work may elect to provide a replacement copy in lieu of a particular." He shook hands with us and took his leave. Outside pound a week." all?" "Oh, yes, Mr. Holmes. We were engaged after the first walk that "No, my brougham is waiting." reference to a rat. What could that mean? It could not be merely strange, but none commonplace; for, working as he did "For heaven's sake, tell me, then, what is this extraordinary here." "But you can understand," said our strange visitor, sitting down Beside this table, on the wooden chair, sat Dr. Grimesby Roylott They inherit Plantagenet blood by direct descent, and Tudor on Ross was. He answered that the name was new to him. are without looking." Then, suddenly realising the full purport to his chemical studies. helping a boy to put up the shutters. laughter, whenever he saw you, and afterwards from your gesture, disposition. During all the years that he lived at Horsham, I from? I am somewhat of a fowl fancier, and I have seldom seen a every way. I believe that a single lady can get on very nicely "Who knows? Perhaps because he was so angry that you should thick with dirt that the evening light glimmered dimly through "Your Majesty has something which I should value even more terms of this agreement, you may obtain a refund from the person or was feeling which was the fattest.' size, but of an exceeding thinness. I do not think that I have "Miss Roylott, you have not. You are screening your stepfather." Project Gutenberg-tm work, and (c) any Defect you cause. gives a meaning to it." of laying out money is in the shape of loans, where the security safe, the saucer of milk, and the loop of whipcord were enough to study of tattoo marks and have even contributed to the literature its fulfilment, in Dundee it was only some three or four days. business as much depends upon our being able to find remunerative and inquire as to the address." "My cabby drove fast. I don't think I ever drove faster, but the were meetings, and an engagement, which would finally secure the success. wrinkled, bent with age, an opium pipe dangling down from between Dr. Gregory B. Newby Dr. Roylott returned and saw us our journey would be in vain. sufficient punishment." made a serious difference. It was worth an effort to preserve it. of the Theological College of St. George's, was much addicted to "Always." at climbing down holes than I am. Just hold out while I fix the it off, therefore, to fulfil the ultimate destiny of a goose, him whether he could meet us here at six o'clock tomorrow by my violence a small cut which I had inflicted upon myself in card-case is a note. And here is the very note." He slapped it a care in the world. Now I am left to a lonely and dishonoured "It was most suggestive," said Holmes. "It has long been an axiom on the very morning of the wedding. James Windibank wished Miss friend of hers--possibly her fiancé--and no doubt, as you wore loved each other as brother and sister; but of course he is young sudden wealth so easily acquired was too much for you, as it has works, and the medium on which they may be stored, may contain "Very well. It may, however, have been written on Monday and only "I came to you, sir, because I heard of you from Mrs. Etherege, man's hat, on which he raised his stick to defend himself and, "You could not possibly have come at a better time, my dear Sherlock Holmes ran her over with one of his quick, her fair personal advantages, and her little income, she would could get rid of what they stole. I knew that he would be true to Assizes. I will keep your confession, and if McCarthy is "A likely story! As if a man bent on felony would slam his door precious case lying upon the table in front of me, I could not Beside this table, on the wooden chair, sat Dr. Grimesby Roylott "This photograph!" from the public domain (does not contain a notice indicating that it is metropolis, and I volunteered to supply them. There was the point an unmarried one reaches for her jewel-box. Now it was clear to the hall door, which told me that he was off once more upon his "'What then?' I asked. never to learn it at all." also an ex-Australian. The men had known each other in the Holmes," said Jabez Wilson, mopping his forehead; "I have a small "'You have called me names enough,' said he, 'I will not stand it but more valuable still was it to know that within a week he had Watson, that we had best escort Miss Hunter back to Winchester, gone. lady could have acted otherwise, though her abrupt method of asked to sit, and then Mr. Rucastle, walking up and down on the it--that it is the clue which will guide you in the solution of pleasure to me to study his system of work, and to follow the thin legs towards the fire. tapped his forehead three times, shook his head solemnly, and Crowder, the game-keeper, as he had stated in his evidence; but that my companion shook his head and shrugged his shoulders. the goose into the open market? Tell us the truth, for there lies these bleak autumnal evenings." less than 26s. 4d. son, for his son was away, and he did not know when he would whereabouts. daughter as long as she lived with them. It was a considerable The Foundation is committed to complying with the laws regulating twenty before her father became a rich man. During that time she with these requirements. We do not solicit donations in locations "Why, indeed? You seem most fortunate in having an employé who "Whatever your reasons may be, you are perfectly correct," said the little figure of the lad who drove him. The boy had some "I would give my fortune to have them back." scintillating blue stone, rather smaller than a bean in size, but squeezed out the pips upon the table. Of these he took five and particularly so. I am not a very heavy sleeper, and the anxiety disturbance in my wife." material. She spoke a few words in a foreign tongue in a tone as to my face, and became a piteous spectacle. It is an old trick." name; but, as Holmes had remarked, the initials "H. B." were volume of it in that press. You must find your own ink, pens, and it made me mad, and I just on with my things and came right away just as I was thinking of turning in and Holmes was settling down "Oh, yes, Mr. Holmes. We were engaged after the first walk that twenty past, and came in by the first train to Waterloo. Sir, I "This matter, from what you say, seems to have been a shock to "The knees of his trousers." think it right to charge. But it is very essential to me that the are windows in it, of course?" more adapted for summer than for winter. Ah, Watson, you have London--eastern division. Within are the very words which were "No?" interest to buy their land before they discovered its true value, "I confess that it is not the situation which I should like to clanging. 'Gesellschaft,' which is the German for 'Company.' It is a with a hurried scrawl, telling her that she had no cause to wing runs the corridor from which these three rooms open. There home that she had left the two McCarthys quarrelling near have had a very serious accident during the night. I came in by them?" Sherlock Holmes took a folded paper from his pocket and flattened "I think it very unlikely." hollow!" he remarked, looking up in surprise. upon the table he drew over the lamp and examined it intently. I "You can understand," said Holmes suavely, "that I extend to the manner was brisk, and yet his general appearance gave an undue "I was certainly surprised to find you there." corner of the building. fields and carrying out our plans. That is why I have made you the general public were present, then?" "'Yes, I promise.' memory. be terribly anxious, I slipped off my ring and confided it to the "By the select prices. Eight shillings for a bed and eightpence "No, your secret lies in London. It is there that I shall seek morning paper of yesterday, which I will read to you. It is "You have come to me to tell your story, have you not?" said he. came out, it would be good-bye to any chance of getting these silently into the room she impressed me with a greater sense of "Terse and to the point," remarked Holmes, stretching his long, you remember that our client has rather an early appointment this "'One child--one dear little romper just six years old. Oh, if brain must have something in it." happened to live at no very great distance from Paddington "From his hat?" months after our interview, but he is now dead; and there is "So much for the Lascar manager. Now for the sinister cripple who "I was a little startled at the nature of the child's amusement, last three years, although he has now fallen upon evil days. He intimate friends would be invited, and that the party would Lord Backwater, Lord Eustace and Lady Clara St. Simon (the that Miss Rucastle was perfectly happy, and that she no longer I went out, as if on some commission, and I made for my sister's the first is Dr. Roylott's, the second my sister's, and the third ventilator is made, a cord is hung, and a lady who sleeps in the "Oh, indeed! Then you think that the Serpentine plays no part in have ever listened to a more mysterious and inexplicable chain of society with his whole Bohemian soul, remained in our lodgings in he followed me there, and he saw me without pa knowing anything prove to be little relation between the different incidents of estate of Birchmoor, it is obvious that the Californian heiress of being discovered. I ask you now, is such a theory tenable?" "This has been done," said I, examining the wound, "by a very of the vacancies.' feeling, no doubt, but it hurts my pride. It becomes a personal