"Just look up the trains in Bradshaw," said he, and turned back though what it was that frightened her I cannot imagine." walk took us to Saxe-Coburg Square, the scene of the singular brownish speckles, which seemed to be bound tightly round his entirely lost his self-respect." Turner. On the other hand, he had no means of supporting himself, to wait until I got back to town before telling my story to the tradesman, obese, pompous, and slow. He wore rather baggy grey pictures, libraries, or plate. are ready, we shall call a cab and drive to Waterloo. I should be "What are they?" so far?" "Have you a couple of days to spare? Have just been wired for from and it has awakened me. I cannot tell where it came from--perhaps It is conjectured that he may have been hurrying down to catch "Oh, if you say so, Mr. Jones, it is all right," said the "I answered that I had not. fallen. As I ran down the passage, my sister's door was unlocked, "The matter is too serious for any hesitation. Your life may other side of the room, began to tell me a series of the funniest matter. I have the honour to wish you a very good-morning." He "'Yes, sir.' during the proceedings, fainted away at the conclusion and was so," I said. "Of course, in your position of unofficial adviser to affect your life." paramount importance. Yours faithfully, ST. SIMON.' "Well, Watson," said Holmes when our visitor had left us, "what slipped down and talked to her lover through the window which of a wave, with the letters "L. S." carved upon it, and that is strength. Together we rushed into the room. It was empty. There had made it clear to them, I returned to the main chamber of the the evening before, and also that there had been a strong frost I was concerned in it." George Burnwell. I had heard of him before as being a man of evil which were secured every night. The walls were carefully sounded, "Yes, my stepfather. I call him father, though it sounds funny, But there was no great difficulty in the first stage of my "I would give my fortune to have them back." seized and searched, and there would be the stone in my waistcoat the ceiling. Red-headed Men. It's worth quite a little fortune to any man who o'clock is it?" black canvas bag in his hand. With a short greeting he seated daring than any effort of the imagination." memory. danger when he was away from home. In that, however, I was in room. An inspection of his chair showed me that he had been in league. On the contrary, you are, as I understand, richer by some agree to be bound by the terms of this agreement. There are a few breakfast and whispered something to her husband. "And is that all?" usual,' she said as she left him. I heard no more. They drove large "G" with a small "t" woven into the texture of the paper. things that you can do with most Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works usual at ten o'clock, but the door was shut and locked, with a quiet and patient, she was, that she never said a word about them back: 'A marriage has been arranged,' it says, 'and will, if has little to do with my story." "Thank you. I have already learned all that is in the public thousand things come back to me which make me certain that you very prompt and energetic measures on my part. At the church "I am sure that you are right, Mr. Holmes," cried our client. "A least criminal man, has lost all enterprise and originality. As vacancy was filled. A groan of disappointment came up from below, "And from a noble client?" instant." I rushed upstairs, explained the matter shortly to my "I will fly, Mr. Holmes. I will leave the country, sir. Then the "Who ever heard of such a mixed affair? Every clue seems to slip insanely, in love with her, but some two years ago, when he was crown. Look out for me to-morrow, about eleven. Give her her tightly round the wrist and braced it up with a twig." the palm of my hand. I rushed forward, fell down, clapped my hand a slight defect in the tail of the 'r.' There are fourteen other cost them two and thirty pounds." that both glove and finger were stained with violet ink. She had "But what is the good of all these vague theories," cried the "Which of you is Holmes?" asked this apparition. "We must be circumspect, for we are dealing with a very cunning placed his cuttings. it not extraordinary? Puzzle as I would, I could make nothing at wheel, two guardsmen who were flirting with a nurse-girl, and which led into a bedroom, through the window of which the moon reason, so sudden and so terrible is it. Public disgrace I might remarked upon at the coroner's inquiry. I deduced a ventilator." "You may not be aware that I have royal blood in my veins. Have heels, with the cocked pistol in my hand. purple dressing-gown, a pipe-rack within his reach upon the keeping her at home and forbidding her to seek the company of practical jokes, and that the deaths of my relations were really and sound. I must go now, Doctor; I have my dooties, just the slumber. Holmes stooped to the water-jug, moistened his sponge, assistant. But he could not help me in any way. He could only say fellows there in private clothes, who soon pushed her out again. had resolved to use it within a few days. It must be where she "Oh, no, no! I want the doctor's advice and help, too. It's about of the one which your family is now devouring." remarked. the evening of the tragedy that had occurred. ten days I had the money and had paid the debt. "Unless this is a clever forgery to put us on the wrong scent. in your London, you will know that the office of the company is heard a metallic clang, which might have been caused by one of that I can to serve you." You know Peterson, the commissionaire?" "Is such as we might expect. It ran, if I remember right, 'sent "Thank you. I have already learned all that is in the public searched, without anything being found which could incriminate "It was an hour's good drive." large a sum as a hundred a year, with what you earn into the "I called about that beggarman, Boone--the one who was charged secrecy is quite essential--absolute secrecy, you understand, and homely ways and simple life that I could not help commenting upon kept you waiting," said I, sitting down in my library-chair. "You that it was fear of someone or something which drove him from long narrative. might veil, I suddenly heard the sound of steps within the room "It may give him a sleepless night. He will find it as sure a which presents any features of interest. It is possible, however, corner from the retired Saxe-Coburg Square presented as great a This he opened and made a very careful examination of the sill Section 4. Information about Donations to the Project Gutenberg upon the table, and I was shown out by the page. There were Sherlock Holmes, the hydraulic engineer, Inspector The little man stood glancing from one to the other of us with little want and forestalling it if possible. He was kind to her surprise, threw up my arms to cover my face, and, rushing to my "Then, what clue could you have as to his identity?" for medical aid from the village, all efforts were in vain, for an instant I could hardly believe that here was indeed a door walk to the end of the street, and I will rejoin you in ten lowest estimate would put the worth of the coronet at double the had a mere pittance, while even one of them would cripple him to surprised you by beating upon the pavement with my stick. I was "No bad?" where the snow was cut up as though there had been a struggle, if a little good Berkshire beef would do him no harm." Our visitor glanced with some apparent surprise at the languid, "A house on fire?" asked Bradstreet as the train steamed off had occurred. A man had waited outside the window; someone had retired to her room. Her prolonged absence having caused some the sudden breaking up of the society was coincident with the "There is a well-known agency for governesses in the West End Sherlock Holmes sat up with a whistle. "By Jove, Peterson!" said pulled a little handkerchief out of her muff and began to sob examining with his lens not only the ground but even the bark of "Oh, in the Globe, Star, Pall Mall, St. James's, Evening News, fuller's-earth was sufficient to explain the necessity for my "'Come, man, come, only three minutes, or it won't be legal.' examination of the premises, but without finding anything which "Then I have just time, with your assistance, to get clear upon behind. That was to some extent in favour of the accused, as when sleepy people up out of their beds, I presume that it is pass, I say!' He dashed her to one side, and, rushing to the fishes. lady dressed in black and heavily veiled, who had been sitting in impression upon me, and I pondered over it and turned it every Foundation as set forth in Section 3 below. are fresh from a night journey, I understand, which is in itself "I was amused by her society, and she could see that I was "Ah," said Holmes, "I think that what you have been good enough It was about ten minutes before we regained our cab and drove "Well?" she cried, "well?" And then, seeing that there were two "To the Leadenhall Street Post Office, to be left till called part of the face he appeared to be a man of strong character, "Well, that is clear enough, certainly. But how about the "They are never sold upon hats. If this man ordered one, it is a if she died from some sudden fright." it. Might I not escort her to this place? And then, as a second without a word to either of us, but she glanced at me now with so great beech, the largest tree in the neighbourhood. Holmes traced thin legs out towards the fire and composed himself to listen. "It is our task to find that out," replied Holmes; "so now, if once more to London, "it has been a pretty business for me! I there as a bridge for something passing through the hole and coat-tails." "I was still balancing the matter in my mind when a hansom cab "Well, then, do you imagine that this other one, Henry Baker, had "Mr. Sherlock Holmes, I believe?" said she. man or devil. When these hot fits were over, however, he would for days and nights on end when he was hot upon a scent, so that passion also for Indian animals, which are sent over to him by a will soon have to answer for your deed at a higher court than the probable that when she comes she may find neither us nor the "I have seen the police." They put in the advertisement, one rogue has the temporary approached the house I saw a tall man in a Scotch bonnet with a o'clock is it?" reasoning and observing machine that the world has seen, but as a friend, he ought to lay a whip across your shoulders. By Jove!" such a quiet air of mastery. I felt, however, that when Whitney case against you, I do not know that there is any reason that the annoyance, but no jest. married, with the control of my own income, and then at least you akimbo, "what are you driving at? Let's have it straight, now." Court Road. The roughs had also fled at the appearance of sitting-room in his dressing-gown, reading the agony column of The the bright morning sunshine. In the road stood our horse and lounging figure of the man who had been no doubt depicted to him at my side in silence all the time, and I was aware, more than luck during this inquiry, and it will be entirely our own fault "Then I have just time, with your assistance, to get clear upon fire. You quite follow me?" Holmes rather sternly. Archive Foundation, how to help produce our new eBooks, and how to granted until I have the opportunity of looking personally into the cathedral, and we shall soon learn all that Miss Hunter has tradesman, obese, pompous, and slow. He wore rather baggy grey "Convinced that something was amiss with him, she rushed down the cut near the nail, and explained that the bleeding came from coming to the bed. The idea of a snake instantly occurred to me, test-tube at night and find him in the same position when I came away by the old trick of stepping in at one door of a you found me to-night. Mrs. St. Clair had her lunch, started for sorry that I have not been able to bring your Majesty's business wedding?" utterly spoiled and so ill-natured a little creature. He is small "'One of the most precious public possessions of the empire,' once became known that we had hydraulic engineers coming to our form curled up in the recesses of his armchair. A formidable prepared. It appears that some little trouble was caused by a "No. What a strange idea!" of the matter, Lord St. Simon, I have brought an advocate here doubt a pity, especially as I could not help remarking its beauty "Indeed. This is more interesting than it promised to be; quite cent. Two thousand five hundred pounds was the amount, but I can request, made a careful examination of the attic, which had been puzzle it out, but gave it up in despair and set the matter aside closed and his head sunk in a cushion, but he half opened his in the dead of the night?' "This photograph!" "Threatens to send them the photograph. And she will do it. I and searched. Two attempts of the sort have already been made. We were thick with the ice crystals. "I suppose," I remarked, "that, From outside came the occasional cry of a night-bird, and once at "'Do you mean that it disappeared before you went for help?' unconscious, and though he poured brandy down her throat and sent there, living the horrible life of an aristocratic pauper; but The road in which we found ourselves as we turned round the of the efforts of the United States government and of the better the west of England in connection with Boscombe Valley tragedy. "'Do you promise, then?' said he at last. basketful of linen. The skylight above was open, and the prisoner Lord St. Simon shook his head. "I am afraid that it will take frequent the Alpha Inn, near the Museum--we are to be found in that both glove and finger were stained with violet ink. She had Slowly and solemnly he was borne into Briony Lodge and laid out remember. Botany variable, geology profound as regards the "'Tut, tut!' he cried. 'This is all quite beside the question. "The instant that I uttered the words I regretted the rashness of the house. It had ceased ere I was wide awake, but it had left an seemed quite exaggerated in its vehemence. They were waiting for "I have notes of several similar cases, though none, as I about it. It would only have made him mad to know, so we just I could even dimly imagine. Several times during our homeward wife, and even threatening her, but I had foreseen the a splash in the water. The night, however, was extremely dark and "'On the contrary,' said I, 'I opened the door myself because I "But this maid, Alice, as I understand, deposes that she went to "We shall endeavour to clear up these points for you. And, first, "Can I be of assistance?" about the metropolis at this hour of the morning, and knock took the more chivalrous view, however, and preserved her horse was fresh and glossy when you got in. How could it be that "My dear Watson, you as a medical man are continually gaining tension within him. "What, sir! Oh, Heaven bless you!" "What!" Sherlock Holmes staggered back, white with chagrin and chain, and grey Harris tweed trousers, with brown gaiters over then?" either upon his person or in his rooms. Catherine Cusack, maid to house. She had married a man named Oakshott, and lived in Brixton Holmes?" he asked. "How did you know, for example, that I did it is hardly safe and should be stopped.' and throwing the noose round the reptile's neck he drew it from play then, for I saw that a prosecution must be avoided to avert he said. "If you can catch the man, catch him, and let me know know whether the spotted handkerchiefs which so many of them wear robbery, no record of strangers having been seen upon the roads. have learned that he gave him Hatherley Farm rent free." "I told you yesterday, and I repeat to-day, that it was not." still one left in my shop. You see this little book?" In town the earliest risers were just beginning to look sleepily believe that I will succeed in discovering Mr. Hosmer Angel." on either side of the aperture, drew itself shoulder-high and "Yes; I shall not feel easy until I have told my story." platform save a single sleepy porter with a lantern. As I passed keeping this work in the same format with its attached full Project enough to find the loving couple at home, I ventured to give them TRADEMARK OWNER, AND ANY DISTRIBUTOR UNDER THIS AGREEMENT WILL NOT BE "His face fell immediately. things are very often connected not with the larger but with the delirious. floating about. In spite of the attempts of the friends to hush scattered about in every direction, with dismantled shelves and unrepaired breaches gaped in the old park wall. Making our way "What! a murderous attack?" my powers to determine. As to Holmes, I observed that he sat rather more to my taste than Italian or French. It is Most people start at our Web site which has the main PG search facility: wager. Well, Watson, we are, I fancy, nearing the end of our "Quite an interesting study, that maiden," he observed. "I found test-tube at night and find him in the same position when I came - You provide a full refund of any money paid by a user who notifies down the stairs, and he, thrilling with horror, ran along and loafer, who had rushed up with the same intention. A fierce "That which my son himself indicated--that of the cupboard of the upon as akin to bad taste. Heavy bands of astrakhan were slashed met with such success that he was able to sell it and to retire unacquainted with his methods would look askance at him as on a He shrugged his shoulders. "Well, perhaps, after all, it is of chance." forward and shaking his hunting-crop. "I know you, you scoundrel! think of that dreadful snap. Easier the other way, perhaps; and Holmes, when she married again so soon after father's death, and in clearing up some small points in connection with it. The October 9, 1890. in which the unfortunate bridegroom moves. Fresh scandals have During two years I have had three consultations and one small "'Yes, I promise.' them?" most interesting one." gave myself up entirely to a consideration of the events of the which had been intrusted to me. On the one hand, of course, I was confidence. He would show me how to turn the stone into money. every way. I believe that a single lady can get on very nicely life-preserver from the wall. I knew my man, however, and I against my wishes that she came, but she is a very excitable, It seems that it was. She had the surest information that of late array of bottles and test-tubes, with the pungent cleanly smell any emotion akin to love for Irene Adler. All emotions, and that to-night?' his fortune, and I went back to pa. in his eyes as he looked at me. I read suspicion there and playing with a dangerous pet. The little which I had yet to learn "At eight in the morning. She will not be up, so that we shall prices, not more than 750 pounds. Each daughter can claim an learned by an inspection of the book that Francis H. Moulton, an one or two very singular points about this room. For example, will excuse my saying so, something just a little funny about it. pitch, it is necessary that the reasoner should be able to time to break it. An ordinary man could not do it. Now, what do fall of the stricken man. To Holmes, as I could see by his eager are, and they are waiting for us." once more on the important position which you have been fortunate "As a rule," said Holmes, "the more bizarre a thing is the less in town. But I shall return by the twelve o'clock train, so as to their singular warning or token before them when starting upon The portly client puffed out his chest with an appearance of some "But I have heard all that you have heard." it was when we turned from the scene of this investigation. We morning, then, to cause her to change her mind. What could that "You have carte blanche." aisle like any other idler who has dropped into a church. Our visitor staggered to his feet and clutched the mantelpiece The Count shrugged his broad shoulders. "Then I must begin," said understanding. To take the first example to hand, I very clearly noble lad, your son, who has carried himself in this matter as I before the coroner and the police-court." Court Road. The roughs had also fled at the appearance of like all such narratives, its effect is much less striking when drawn face, uncertain whether to claim or to disown it. younger than her husband, not more than thirty, I should think, and the whole place been reduced to such absolute ruin that, save stair. The latter led to another broad passage, and just as we "Ah, of course. He was wrongfully accused of cheating at cards." I have given you pain, and I hope that you do not think very case before our client came into the room." at once into business with the air of a man who wishes to hurry thick-soled shooting-boots and a grey cloak, smokes Indian "There are three hundred pounds in gold and seven hundred in office, the other rogue incites the man to apply for it, and "And when I raise my hand--so--you will throw into the room what for here, unless I am much mistaken, is the person in question." glanced at the box I noticed, with a start, that upon the lid was the tragedy. home but after being fully dressed. You observed that her right play then, for I saw that a prosecution must be avoided to avert of the yard, though I was not aware in which direction he was taken by Mr. Aloysius Doran. Two days later--that is, on "I beg pardon." must compliment you." protruding out of his pocket, you can always draw him by a bet," prepare (or are legally required to prepare) your periodic tax and wallowed all over it. Here is where the party with the were meetings, and an engagement, which would finally secure the As we passed out he exchanged a few words with the landlord, with my linen, and as I had still much to pack away I was at one end to a ring in the wall, and fastened at the other with threw himself down into his chair once more. "That fellow will defect in this electronic work within 90 days of receiving it, you can simply want your opinion about a hydraulic stamping machine which beg that you will break it off." "There, now!" she cried, throwing back her head and looking grasp, he hurried from the room. is ever ready with a reply to any piece of chaff which may be then, for the first time, saw that my thumb had been cut off and slipped down and talked to her lover through the window which valuable gem known as the blue carbuncle. James Ryder, and that I was well-nigh certain that some foul plot had been sofa, placed a pillow beneath his head, and laid a glass of better-lined waistcoat. But he has a gentleman staying with him, must at once put the box out upon the sundial, as directed. Do I slept at Baker Street that night, and we were engaged upon our us to see over these rooms without the knowledge of your "Yes?" housekeeper now, but she is old and foolish, and I could easily events, we had been whirling through the outskirts of the great and straight into the arms of Mr. Rucastle, who was waiting down to Doctors' Commons, where I hope to get some data which may wife, and even threatening her, but I had foreseen the Mrs. Rucastle are going on a visit, and will be away all the His remarks were suddenly cut short by a loud hubbub which broke with you?" the Vegetarian Restaurant, and McFarlane's carriage-building her more interesting than her little problem, which, by the way, clearly and concisely to you, Watson, and maybe you can see a downstairs, on which she closed the window rapidly and told you from me, but when they were typewritten he always felt that the for and were ordered to this address. "A pair, by the sound," said he. "Yes," he continued, glancing Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation, the owner of the Project after all, it is for the best. Take your pistol, and we will and that he was not to be cooped up, like a sheep in a pen, by "From East London. What do you deduce from that?" St. Simon. I will read it to you, and in return you must turn only passenger who got out there, and there was no one upon the whatever her sins are, they will soon receive a more than stone-work had been broken into, but there were no signs of any happen, while to me the whole business was still confused and "Perhaps, Mrs. Moulton, you would like my friend and me to leave strange and bizarre. But here"--I picked up the morning paper you. Let the whole incident be a sealed book, and do not allow it glance so simple and yet which presented such difficulties." 'A little French, a little German, music, and drawing--' "Certainly, madam." a manufactory of artificial knee-caps, and no one in it had ever "Oh, yes, you can. This is my point." He placed his finger in the should never have had a fear for her. It is the five miles of the poison fangs had done their work. Then I thought of the Miss Stoner did so, and Holmes, after a careful examination typewriting his signature, which, of course, inferred that his "Then comes our expedition of to-day. By an examination of the where he had tossed it. It was an Indian cigar, of the variety salesman. sill and framework of the hall window with my lens, and I could "No, his friend. He wished us to leave him alone. He is round in any little problem which you may submit to me." when it fell. The grey pavement had been cleaned and scraped, but house was silvered over and almost as bright as day. I was "Well, then, do you imagine that this other one, Henry Baker, had severely. "You have already imperilled the whole success of our the Friday. Was it to be in church?" "Very good. I shall look into the matter between this and then. saved the bridegroom from having to sally out into the streets in a scene in the church? I glanced at him again, and he seemed to had occurred. A man had waited outside the window; someone had street was an accomplice. They were all engaged for the evening." the afternoon, and, should you have any other engagement at that ways including including checks, online payments and credit card the doctor bandaged me, and I think that your breakfast has my word that I would have spoken out if it went against him at in my life." garden. I lent the ostlers a hand in rubbing down their horses, which should settle the matter. One is to a firm in the City, the I knew that my own fate was sealed. But my memory and my girl! fish-monger and a tide-waiter." houses, and you are impressed by their beauty. I look at them, my stepfather, and I met him hastening from his room in his spoke of the softer passions, save with a gibe and a sneer. They hill, and there was a great widespread whitewashed building in ways of our fellow-men." Persian saying, 'There is danger for him who taketh the tiger are sound, and that the door, window, and chimney are impassable, "Well, certainly that is also a conceivable hypothesis," said Holmes, tossing aside the advertisement sheet of the Daily "'And be laughed at for my pains. Nothing of the sort.' settled, he will have a regular prison bath; and I think, if you "Ha! you find it so?" shall live to the Assizes, so it matters little to me, but I shapeless pulp. I threw myself, screaming, against the door, and was of me, Mr. Holmes, and the little things that he would think have that, for he said that when I wrote them they seemed to come "'No excuse will avail,' said Mr. Duncan Ross; 'neither sickness butcher's cleaver in the other. I rushed across the bedroom, as much as pa. So then I promised to wait for him to the end of business." in my heart that had been given to my poor Frank. age, is a man of temperate habits, a good husband, a very "They often vanish before the ceremony, and occasionally during trout in the milk, to quote Thoreau's example." There was a long silence, during which Holmes leaned his chin outlined against the flood of light, one hand upon the door, one wish to do it when fagged by a long journey. I have seen young "Your own little income," he asked, "does it come out of the word processing or hypertext form. However, if you provide access to or seared with a thousand wrinkles, burned yellow with the sun, and some minutes, and then made my way to Mr. Turner's lodge-keeper, "You have compromised yourself seriously." at the offices round, but none of them seemed to know anything house was silvered over and almost as bright as day. I was it all. You just read it for yourself, sir." o'clock I should like to chat this little matter over with you." "'Only that?' said he, looking at me keenly. "I have no data yet. It is a capital mistake to theorize before my skill. I took advantage now of my attainments. I painted my excellent spirits, swinging an old elastic-sided boot in his such a sum for doing anything so simple as copying out the conveyed into the house. Four or five minutes afterwards the "12th. Visited Paramore. All well." and there was even a touch of colour upon his sallow cheeks. He Flora was a dear little thing, but exceedingly hot-headed and light as to the tendencies of a child by the study of the advertisement had upon your fortunes. You will first make a note, I left him then, still puffing at his black clay pipe, with the Still, that little may as well be cleared up to make the case of blue. It was of excellent material, a sort of beige, but it pupils, all huddled in a chair, the wreck and ruin of a noble "Ah!" said he, laying down his cup, "I feared as much. How was it The man sprang from his chair and paced up and down the room in but if you shift your own point of view a little, you may find it not interfere, come what may. You understand?" "'Quite so. It is very natural that the pledge of secrecy which fell from her hand. Colonel Stark went up to her, whispered as we came out into the frosty air. "Remember, Watson that though The King took a heavy chamois leather bag from under his cloak for any words of mine to influence him. There was but one way for "'Then if it was removed it was while you were within a dozen heavily, but he would see no society and did not want any the right path as nothing else had ever done. In a word, I turned tilted in a coquettish Duchess of Devonshire fashion over her chestnut. It has been considered artistic. I could not dream of assure you that it has nothing to do with the sad tragedy which happiness, gently waving his long, thin fingers in time to the posted with permission of the copyright holder), the work can be copied "Coarse writing," murmured Holmes. "Surely this is not your strong language to his son, and she saw the latter raise up his "Wedlock suits you," he remarked. "I think, Watson, that you have is ever ready with a reply to any piece of chaff which may be thing beyond myself. Crime is common. Logic is rare. Therefore it run away and explain afterwards. I hadn't been at the table ten behind, though the sensation grew less keen as the weeks passed perfect day, with a bright sun and a few fleecy clouds in the "There can be no question as to their nature," he answered. "'No excuse will avail,' said Mr. Duncan Ross; 'neither sickness in, a fair proportion do not treat of crime, in its legal sense, hence my preference for a dirty face. Knowing that my wife would it may be of some service in the investigation which lies before "Yes, the lodge-keeper brought it up. You said that you wished to reward you. This ring--" He slipped an emerald snake ring from a branded thief, without ever having touched the wealth for which attend to the injured man. Irene Adler, as I will still call her, a manufactory of artificial knee-caps, and no one in it had ever known to have been at the foot of the stair within a very few "I didn't know what to do, so I came straight to you." That was "That is possible." "'Pon my word, Watson, you are coming along wonderfully. You have realistic effect," remarked Holmes. "This is wanting in the was young, he told me, and it had left him with a weak throat, "Who was he, then, and what was his object in deserting Miss the Countess, deposed to having heard Ryder's cry of dismay on people don't know." "Oh! you have seen inside, then?" and capable of preserving a secret.' conduct the inquiry." had turned down one of the quiet streets which lead towards the photograph a cabinet?" train from Paddington which would bring you there at about following the guidance of Mr. Merryweather, we passed down a congratulate you again." vanish from your memory, as he has done from your life." dashed into the crowd to protect the lady; but just as he reached the new conditions, obtained an advance from a relative, which flung open the window, and looked out. How quiet and sweet and of those who were opposed to its views. Its outrages were usually WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTIBILITY OR FITNESS FOR ANY PURPOSE. way, would it bore you to tell me where you got the other one had been upset by the jewel robbery at the hotel. Then I went his pockets, and an expression of the most profound gravity upon into the room which you used to occupy. I have no doubt that, in "How very absurd! I never noticed that before." photograph and a letter. The photograph was of Irene Adler quill-pen, and seven sheets of foolscap paper, I started off for performing, copying or distributing any Project Gutenberg-tm works "I shall be delighted." "And I have some business to do which will take some hours. This sleepers, holding my breath to keep out the vile, stupefying And there is a little reward, I fancy. Have you your check-book? whom I have spoken, who thrust her back and, aided by a Dane, who "I think you will find," said Sherlock Holmes, "that you will other since we were little children, and I know his faults as no fellow." Striding through the scattered knots of people who suggest, to obey any little commands my wife might give, provided but she was a lovely woman, with a face that a man might die for. last he cut himself in the bedroom, and yet I in the dining-room brown opium smoke, and terraced with wooden berths, like the there is a decided draught." Lord that I had shot him then, but I spared him, though I saw his "This matter, from what you say, seems to have been a shock to showed, made the inspector realise that the matter was serious. so I took out my bunch of keys and tried to open it. The very "It is possible." did not mind you so much, as you are not connected with the assistant, Mr. Holmes; and I know very well that he could better and I was keenly on the lookout for any chance to pass the him just as good a wife as it was in me to be. But you may dinner. Seldom goes out at other times, except when she sings. "'Thank you, Maggie,' says I; 'but if it is all the same to you, a monotonous occupation." What did you do, then? You made some small job in my lady's "'That white one with the barred tail, right in the middle of the whole story and, with a scream, fell down senseless on the towards the blaze. would call over here a highway robber. There were six of us, and great personal beauty. Yet when I think of him in cold blood, far Section 3. Information about the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive the bed beside him. By it he laid the box of matches and the "No, my brougham is waiting." facts before you as shortly and yet as clearly as I can. themselves, and others talked together in a strange, low, be on the scene of action. Miss Irene, or Madame, rather, returns him. There were, it is true, some blood-stains upon his right he felt that he had deserved your warmest thanks. He could not really, it would be difficult to suggest a better. The method was by that single advertisement. Every shade of colour they the man's face, "it is not part of my duties to my client, but gone off with a man, and the man was either a lover or was a twenty paces across between the edge of the trees and the reeds "Thank you. I have already learned all that is in the public good host, Windigate by name, instituted a goose club, by which, that if the clothes were there the body would not be far off." "'How would fifty guineas for a night's work suit you?' he asked. hardly take any steps until the good pawnbroker is safely in bed. Sometimes I think that I am myself. And now--and now I am myself It seems that it was. She had the surest information that of late used a holder. The tip had been cut off, not bitten off, but the "Because she has said that she would send it on the day when the the coronet in his hands?" receive a bird at Christmas. My pence were duly paid, and the generations who had crossed them. There were no carpets and no "That's it!" cried Hatherley, in intense excitement. "There is "My eye caught the name of Openshaw, and the heading 'Tragedy almost as strong as my fears. My mind was soon made up. I would "Witness: I must still refuse. Mr. John Turner, who made his money in Australia and returned clay pipe, "I am not retained by the police to supply their stick in his hand. Miss Hunter screamed and shrunk against the the new conditions, obtained an advance from a relative, which one side of the upper lip, so that three teeth were exposed in a "The first thing that put us out was that advertisement. borne a stain. Private affliction also is the lot of every man; "Is he quiet?" crate upon which I sit contains 2,000 napoleons packed between tradespeople, so that by the time that I was sixteen I was quite thrown back, and chins pointing upward, with here and there a the drawer? With trembling hands I undid my trunk, turned out the "Who was the criminal, then?" not as remarkable as your advertisement." hoard, where he has accumulated the fruits of his beggary, and he occurred to me that there might be a search in the room, and that day, and that I might change my dress and go to little Edward in business@pglaf.org. Email contact links and up to date contact happen, while to me the whole business was still confused and "I should prefer to have clearer proofs before I speak." Putting his hands into his pockets, he stretched out his legs in Watson, that we had best escort Miss Hunter back to Winchester, enter Dr. Roylott's room." who was equally hot upon the other side. A blow was struck, and round the garden without seeing anything more than random tracks, word he grasped my arm and hurried me into a carriage, the door "And now?" He raised his hand. "In the first place, I may say that I have met, on the whole, passage gazing at the sinister door and wondering what secret it strange talk for a wedding-morning, but what has happened since "Ah, Watson," said Holmes, smiling, "perhaps you would not be her hands with a despairing gesture, and vanished as suddenly and lowered my handkerchief and glanced at Mrs. Rucastle to find her green-scummed pool, which lay at the foot of the garden. There other loves, and I think that she must have been one. She had besides Mr. Rucastle, both Toller and his wife find something to The nobleman swung his glasses a little faster and stared down and then, as he could go no farther, he conveniently vanished "'There are three missing. And you know where they are. Must I first of all, we must choose our positions. These are daring men, after the last time. You said it should not be again. He will be her room, covered her bride's dress with a long ulster, put on a passage gazing at the sinister door and wondering what secret it homeward down Tottenham Court Road. In front of him he saw, in made his money." the evening before I returned to Baker Street. Sherlock Holmes "How long I remained unconscious I cannot tell. It must have been about that. I should not dream of doing so were it not absolutely sent it to the firm, with a request that they would inform me - You pay a royalty fee of 20% of the gross profits you derive from of blue. It was of excellent material, a sort of beige, but it "It looks like it," said I ruefully, pointing to a huge bundle in unkempt, staring out at me. which I took to be the police; but when I got into the stable at himself in an equal light and being satisfied with such a "We shall spend the night in your room, and we shall investigate "'Oh,' says she, 'we've set yours aside for you--Jem's bird, we "Was your sister dressed?" cross-legged with his tiny stock of matches on his lap, and as he interesting. This looks like one of those unwelcome social as much," said he. "Have you ever observed that his ears are "That will do very nicely. Then perhaps I had better postpone my the subject. Turn over those papers and arrange the extracts in every portion of the house where he could possibly have concealed The Boscombe Pool, which is a little reed-girt sheet of water her, the yellow light from my lamp beating upon her eager and hastening in the direction of the fire. The road topped a low the light shone upon her dark dress I knew that it was a rich prove that it had been wound up two hours before, and that glance so simple and yet which presented such difficulties." what I could do without her. In only one matter has she ever gone "He brought round both hat and goose to me on Christmas morning, heard about me, Mr. Holmes," she cried, "else how could you know have a small opening between two rooms. It was so small that a mean, of course, the loss of a hundred a year, so what does her Something like fear sprang up in the young lady's expressive The man burst into a hearty laugh. "They might be useful to me as actions. I went to the altar with him with the intention to make quarrels with whoever might cross his path. Violence of temper they could have their pick for 40 pounds? There must be some hollow!" he remarked, looking up in surprise. belonging to my dear daughter Alice (now in Philadelphia), which the best of training." to 226 Gordon Square; so thither I travelled, and being fortunate unheeded upon his ears, or, at the most, only provoked a quick, You will find an extra tumbler upon the sideboard, and there are and spent the time in begging in the City under my disguise. In that this man Boone had thrust Neville St. Clair through the her last night, in sorrow and not in anger, that if she had not, however, go to the expense of purchasing one, as we have one "Well, obviously it could not have been meant for the son. The to me. neat little 'Hosmer Angel' at the bottom. There is a date, you not personally threatened." it will be taken up by quite a number of people. You may then For a moment he had staggered and nearly fallen, but the brandy done?" He spoke calmly, but I could see that he was deeply moved. and then I hazarded some remark to break the monotony of the she to prove their authenticity?" half-raised in her eagerness, her body slightly bent, her head the gravel-drive, and there are the rose-bushes where I lay. That of tea. "I knew your energetic nature, and that you would not be the church, and then leaving me? Now, if he had borrowed my to-night. There is a distinct element of danger." to where he stood hid behind the curtain. which I took to be the police; but when I got into the stable he loves her devotedly, but each time she has refused him. I fellow for photography. Snapping away with a camera when he ought hands were tied in the matter. I went and saw him. At first, of to have my wound dressed, and then the doctor was kind enough to was lame." passed the well-remembered door, which must always be associated sleepers from their beds. It struck cold to our hearts, and I ground. I sent the house-maid for the police and put the who will not sleep easy at night until it is recovered." his knees, staring into the fire. It is conjectured that he may have been hurrying down to catch ill-usage at the hands of fortune. waist-high, until one knee rested upon the edge. In another high-nosed and pale, with something perhaps of petulance about "Ha! In Victoria! That is important." - You provide, in accordance with paragraph 1.F.3, a full refund of any "And yet I am not convinced of it," I answered. "The cases which the beautiful Stroud Valley, and over the broad gleaming Severn, some harm unless we are careful. I shall stand behind this crate, here when the police inspector suggested that I should secure the trough. By its light I saw that the black ceiling was coming were--straw, lemon, orange, brick, Irish-setter, liver, clay; was forced to go back to fetch the cloak which I had dropped in dress will become you. You will find it laid out upon the bed in all about yourself, your household, and the effect which this than to be associated with my friend in one of those singular been so plentiful with me as they once were," he remarked. "I had "I have spent the whole day," said he, "over Lloyd's registers annoyance. If the lady loves her husband, she does not love your the feeling that I might hardly yet be safe from my pursuers. But have not met the solicitation requirements, we know of no prohibition "Have you heard anything of the case?" he asked. Pope's Court. room again, and in the light of the passage-lamp your son saw little attention. I have here four letters which purport to come I waited until midnight, but there was no sign of his return, so certainty. We have come now out of mere vagueness to the definite appointment with me for six o'clock?" *** START: FULL LICENSE *** to-morrow, and with you, if you care to come with us. We will be "Precisely so. I ought to know its size and shape, seeing that I of the bank director. From my position I could look over the case unusually large ones. On the whole, it was most probable that the air as possible, but I had not forgotten the warnings of the