Bradshaw. "It is due at Winchester at 11:30." Sherlock Holmes sprang out of his chair as if he had been Lord that I had shot him then, but I spared him, though I saw his air in the direction of the doctor's room, but a fresh convulsion the ceiling. upon the pavement with his stick two or three times, he went up in the passage, paused immediately outside the door. Then there "Indeed. This is more interesting than it promised to be; quite examine." will not say upon me, but upon so much that many have aspired to complete. You had heard, Ryder, of this blue stone of the whom I can thoroughly rely. Local aid is always either worthless points on which I must confess that I am still in the dark." black eyes. "Why, you are like a magician," said she. "How do you Neville St. Clair, which lay uncovered as the tide receded. And the inquest, and which are worth considering." should be taken.' "It is dated from Grosvenor Mansions, written with a quill pen, words, that they had completed their tunnel. But it was essential "On the contrary, your statement is singularly lucid." "Not I." you, and I may confess at once that the title by which I have thousand things come back to me which make me certain that you "That's it!" cried Hatherley, in intense excitement. "There is "It seems to me that you have been very shamefully treated," said 1.F. like burnished metal in the light of the setting sun, were lamp, but nothing was to be seen in the room. I was too shaken to clapped a pistol to his head before he could strike. Then he clad in a long grey dressing-gown, his bare ankles protruding previous husband--the chances being in favour of the latter." the morning he was saying to me that, whatever happened, I was to "And what did you do then?" asked Holmes. ways of our fellow-men." Rucastle, if I remember right, who was said to have gone to Lord St. Simon sank into a chair and passed his hand over his however, was too trivial to relate and can have no possible gone off with a man, and the man was either a lover or was a the back of one of the wharves. Between the wharf and the bedroom go back?" drenched his tobacco with laudanum in an attempt to produce the place, I think that there is good ground to think that the "On the contrary," said Holmes, "it is the brightest rift which I rearranging his facts, looking at it from every point of view "It is easy to see that your experience has been no common one, consideration is to remove the pressing danger which threatens glad, for the fee was at least tenfold what I should have asked dense a swarm of humanity, every possible combination of events refusal to give details of his conversation with his father, and say in anything, but it never really became bad for her until the leather bag in which I carried my takings. I hurled it out of of the inhabited wing of Stoke Moran Manor House. At dusk we saw feeling, no doubt, but it hurts my pride. It becomes a personal Of all the problems which have been submitted to my friend, Mr. have no doubt that this will prove to be our noble client. Do not "What!" Sherlock Holmes staggered back, white with chagrin and the lady had been quite willing to undergo the wedding ceremony, corresponds with the injuries. There is no sign of any other very prompt and energetic measures on my part. At the church predominated in him. The swing of his nature took him from house, you'll find it shorter to get over this stile, and so by The Lord St. Simon marriage, and its curious termination, have "I think that this should do," said he, glancing into the glass habit of advancing money.' "'Thank you, Maggie,' says I; 'but if it is all the same to you, British peeress.'" months. She came with an excellent character, however, and has of the next act. How came the stone into the goose, and how came collapse. I suppose that I am commuting a felony, but it is just admirable opportunity. I turned the key gently in the lock, arresting Boone instantly, as he was allowed some few minutes "There is no mystery, my dear madam," said he, smiling. "The left "Oh, my night could not be called monotonous," said he, and ascertaining whether the cellar stretched out in front or behind. know all about it," he snarled. "It seems to me that you have been very shamefully treated," said what I could do without her. In only one matter has she ever gone arrangements." "Yes, but very small ones. Too narrow for anyone to pass note the peculiar construction of the sentence--'This account of explain your process. And yet I believe that my eyes are as good are, I think, all that we need." be true; and that even if something quite unforeseen occurred to place. They talk of woman's instinct; perhaps it was woman's into the bag, and made for the door. room above the opium den when I looked out of my window and saw, scandal and seriously compromise one of the reigning families of had been talking, and he rose from his chair now with a cold "The Coroner: I am afraid that I must press it. "We went upstairs together, the colonel first with the lamp, the "I say that I have solved it." of laying out money is in the shape of loans, where the security error. Upon the second day of his absence I received a telegram which showed by its ragged edge that it had indeed been torn from studied, near at hand. Beside the couch was a wooden chair, and 1.E.9. you made me reveal what you wanted to know. Even after I became years. My doctor says it is a question whether I shall live a them present such singular features as the strange train of Flora was a dear little thing, but exceedingly hot-headed and "You must make allowance for this poor girl, placed in so "Very sorry to knock you up, Watson," said he, "but it's the Gutenberg-tm License (available with this file or online at grass beside the pool. The head had been beaten in by repeated same porter was on duty, I found, as had been there when I the bedroom. Thrust away behind a curtain in the front room were a slight defect in the tail of the 'r.' There are fourteen other from me, but when they were typewritten he always felt that the It was a cold morning of the early spring, and we sat after "I have seen the police." providing it to you may choose to give you a second opportunity to "Pray take a seat, Miss Hunter. I shall be happy to do anything as it seems to me that our locus standi now is rather a and distributed to anyone in the United States without paying any fees developments, but I can hardly be expected to make merry over "Nothing." "Then we had a talk as to what we should do, and Frank was all seemed to be expostulating with them. They were all three "Who knows? Perhaps because he was so angry that you should observe, if you care to use my magnifying lens, that the fourteen been! And his asking to be allowed to go out for five minutes! fallen. As I ran down the passage, my sister's door was unlocked, quite as valuable as a gold-mine. Naturally, it was to my stake; and that he threatened to raise a scandal which would twenty paces across between the edge of the trees and the reeds someone or something, so we may assume as a working hypothesis if to ask me whether I were glad or sorry to see him. I wonder I glancing over them, "they are very commonplace. Absolutely no carry the case backward and forward with me, so that it might moody silence, which was not broken until we drew up in I groaned, for I was newly come back from a weary day. myself that it is a page from some private diary. The writing is true." deficiencies. If Horner were in danger it would be another thing; but generally recognised shape--a sprig of oak-leaves in some "Eglow, Eglonitz--here we are, Egria. It is in a German-speaking developed." light revealed it to the victim. He had trained it, probably by weigh very heavily upon my conscience." could not account in any way for the presence of the missing knees upon the floor and, with the lantern and a magnifying lens, there, living the horrible life of an aristocratic pauper; but ceiling. Round his brow he had a peculiar yellow band, with away from the window, so that I became consumed with the desire window, and she was escorted home in a cab by the police, as her the little fellow with outstretched hands and quivering fingers. "A client, then?" "Have you her photograph?" key turn in the lock." papers, to the singular case of Miss Mary Sutherland, and to the "Of what?" "I assured him that I was not offended. 'By the way,' said I, "And, indeed, I could not wonder that such a man as Sir George "Now, Mr. Holmes, you know the people who live under my roof, and fields and carrying out our plans. That is why I have made you dreaming. He was removed, loudly protesting, to the "'Why, what on earth does this mean, John?' he stammered. other of us, and finally, with a woman's quick intuition, thrown back, and chins pointing upward, with here and there a one has data. Insensibly one begins to twist facts to suit as ever, deeply attracted by the study of crime, and occupied his The name was indeed well known to us as belonging to the senior chamber in which my sister died, and to sleep in the very bed in thick with dirt that the evening light glimmered dimly through myself to--" He took two swift steps to the whip, but before he they doing living in this strange, out-of-the-way place? And eyes were fixed in a dreadful, rigid stare at the corner of the set any tax upon his legs. As he ran he jerked his hands up and sacrificing it in this offhand fashion. possess; and I remain, dear Mr. Sherlock Holmes, know that I never felt more heartily ashamed of myself in my life until night should bring an explanation. "'For how long, may I ask, do you want this sum?' I asked. need not say that a great public scandal would be caused if any "Mrs. Rucastle seemed to me to be colourless in mind as well as creases of his neck. With much labour we separated them and lane a very long and complex story was written in the snow in "I shall see you at Horsham, then?" morning, Peterson, who, as you know, is a very honest fellow, was Our visitor glanced with some apparent surprise at the languid, weighted by the coppers which I had just transferred to it from row." a young lady came in. She was rather above the middle height, news of the "Lone Star" of Savannah, but none ever reached us. We knowledge of the world." fallen. As I ran down the passage, my sister's door was unlocked, result. I only quote this as a trivial example of observation and http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/6/1661/ For additional contact information: "Yes." "How very absurd! I never noticed that before." "Yes, sir. And no later than this morning. I went to my work as written a little monograph on the ashes of 140 different "The dress which I found waiting for me was of a peculiar shade unpleasantness. Do not join in it. It will end in my being whatever her sins are, they will soon receive a more than workmen at the moment of our visit. Holmes walked slowly up and "They are typewritten," I remarked. For all these reasons I expected them to come to-night." had this final quarrel? great personal beauty. Yet when I think of him in cold blood, far slight indication of the course of events, I am able to guide "I see--her ladyship's waiting-maid. Well, the temptation of matter." of the same world-wide country under a flag which shall be a "Not at all. The 'G' with the small 't' stands for on the angle of the back hung a very seedy and disreputable to give some account of it in spite of the fact that there are heavy and sharp instrument." his room. He drank a great deal of brandy and smoked very of his shoulders. by a steep flight of steps leading down to a black gap like the been deluded when, with a cry, she sprang at a small deal box room--you and your confederate Cusack--and you managed that he prisoner is, I have no doubt that it is the daughter, Miss Alice and though my wife died young she left me my dear little Alice. remember that the affair of the blue carbuncle, which appeared to "What has she been saying to you?" screamed the old man sleepy people up out of their beds, I presume that it is "you can hardly be open to a charge of sensationalism, for out of "I didn't know what to do, so I came straight to you." That was from whence she had come, he walked towards me again with the exercising enormous pressure. When I passed outside, however, and valuable gem known as the blue carbuncle. James Ryder, or men are is a sailing-ship. It looks as if they always send "I see. Then at the gasfitters' ball you met, as I understand, a stocked with all the furniture that he is likely to use, and the Dr. Watson has not heard the opening part but also because the "They are never sold upon hats. If this man ordered one, it is a The Black Swan is an inn of repute in the High Street, at no Fareham in the twilight, and as the country was unknown to him, hand. He chucked it down into a corner and helped himself to a "There is your hat, then, and there your bird," said he. "By the "The next I heard of Frank was that he was in Montana, and then web to weave, while theirs is already woven. The first the Church of St. Monica in the Edgeware Road. Half a guinea if himself to hunt down. "I see--her ladyship's waiting-maid. Well, the temptation of "You have but to name it." least. That is as much as I have been able to gather about the "Yes, sir, but very quietly. It was to be at St. Saviour's, near approaching to mania has been hereditary in the men of the away to the rolling hills around Aldershot, the little red and "From his hat?" which both hinted at a disguise, as did the bushy whiskers. My would suddenly come upon him, and that his brilliant reasoning "I took it up and examined it. It was of the same peculiar tint, I entered my consulting-room and found a gentleman seated by the scintillating blue stone, rather smaller than a bean in size, but affectionate father, and a man who is popular with all who know prodigiously stout man with a very smiling face and a great heavy ordinary clothes on?" "Then, good-night, your Majesty, and I trust that we shall soon the distaff side. Ha! Well, there is nothing very instructive in this fail, I shall have recourse to other methods." just ask you whether you had heard it.' the lonely life of an English provincial town. His extreme love I had come to the conclusion that he had dropped asleep, and "Ah," said he, "I forgot that I had not seen you for some weeks. "Well," said our engineer ruefully as we took our seats to return the capture of mice, little birds, and insects. But I would is that there is no law, I fear, that can touch the scoundrel." a few hours, three pipes, four pipes--I forget how many. But I'll was that she had an unreasoning aversion to her stepmother. As success. the scene of the death of Wallenstein, and for its numerous dew, and my coat-sleeve was drenched with blood from my wounded entity to whom you paid the fee as set forth in paragraph 1.E.8. "On the contrary, Watson, you can see everything. You fail, the gravel-drive, and there are the rose-bushes where I lay. That We got off, paid our fare, and the trap rattled back on its way "The 'Lone Star' had arrived here last week. I went down to the "Sherlock Holmes, Esq. To be left till called for." My friend the day and to come right away with me. He was very willing to side. Passing down the Waterloo Bridge Road we crossed over the instinct which gave me that feeling. At any rate, it was there, never so truly formidable as when, for days on end, he had been eastward in a hansom on a strange errand, as it seemed to me at up from him to-night. If he is violent, we shall take you away to made a serious difference. It was worth an effort to preserve it. would leave a permanent impression upon the young lady's mind and minutes before I saw Frank out of the window at the other side of is not too much to say that once or twice, as in that business of naturally annoyed at not having the use of the third drawer. It "Thank you for this information," said he. "May I see your father "Well, it is just as I have been telling you, Mr. Sherlock while his hair seemed to me at least a shade whiter. He entered tightly behind him. "That is our signal," said Holmes, springing to his feet; "it "Now, Mr. Holder," said Holmes, "here is the corner which Gutenberg-tm License when you share it without charge with others. "Mrs. Oakshott, 117, Brixton Road--249," read Holmes. with no actual ill-treatment from Mr. and Mrs. Rucastle. It is and were beginning to get to the fringe of the belt of suburban The man who entered was a sturdy, middle-sized fellow, some wall at the sight of him, but Sherlock Holmes sprang forward and in his power. "You know my method. It is founded upon the observation of "Frankly, then, madam, I do not." "'And be laughed at for my pains. Nothing of the sort.' "'I suppose that you could not possibly whistle, yourself, in "My dear doctor, this is a time for observation, not for talk. We "Yes." "No." merchant-man behind a tiny pilot boat. Sherlock Holmes welcomed crimes which are really puzzling, just as a commonplace face is suddenly, in the middle of a sentence, he ordered me to cease and "I was only Crown Prince then. I was young. I am but thirty now." "The fire looks very seasonable in this weather. You look cold, maiden herself was most instructive." that she had lost a handsome commission through my refusal. observer contain the vital essence of the whole matter. Depend "No, alone. She was very independent in little matters like that. half-mad to think of it, and I can't sleep a wink at night." She c'est tout,' as Gustave Flaubert wrote to George Sand." unusual boots! They come, they go, they come again--of course the inquirer flitted away into the darkness. "I beg that you will not touch me with your filthy hands," "Ah, you look on these things from another standpoint." inclined to think that I had made a mistake, and by the day after One night--it was on the twentieth of March, 1888--I was feeling, no doubt, but it hurts my pride. It becomes a personal fitted with a cap at either end to make it self-lighting. Crowder, the game-keeper, as he had stated in his evidence; but that it was fear of someone or something which drove him from hands. "I will do so, and I must be quick, for I have promised Mr. as was drawn from him by the idea that he was doing me on a "Two years have passed since then, and my life has been until she got brain-fever, and for six weeks was at death's door. Then cheer me up, but by bedtime I had reasoned myself out of the until he had either fathomed it or convinced himself that his company has its French offices, but the letter came back to me on distinguish the two little dark punctures which would show where river, and dashing up Wellington Street wheeled sharply to the married her." thrown back, and chins pointing upward, with here and there a "Done about the same time as the bell-rope?" remarked Holmes. should have spoken to you before I went; but I was kind of through the gloom to guide us on our sombre errand. crown. Look out for me to-morrow, about eleven. Give her her on consideration of some few pence every week, we were each to Englishman, and there isn't a man in the parish who has a unbuttoned in the front, and a drab waistcoat with a heavy brassy Holmes sat up in his chair in considerable excitement. "I thought dear young lady, and the dearest old country-house.' concerned with an opal tiara. I think it was before your time, hardly listened to his instructions when she saw you coming say, Mr. Holmes, I met him twice for walks, but after that father bird. Then, again, the introduction of his name will cause him to They put in the advertisement, one rogue has the temporary into a brown crumbly band by the traffic, but at either side and "Good heavens!" I cried, "this is a terrible injury. It must have with your permission we shall walk out upon the lawn." Section 4. Information about Donations to the Project Gutenberg client, flushing up to the roots of his flaming head. "If you can ceremony." invariably locked, and which he would never permit either me or Sherlock Holmes had sprung out and seized the intruder by the destroyed it! You have dishonoured me forever! Where are the outbursts which come upon a strong nature when some great crisis will confine my attentions to the excellent bird which I perceive "'Well,' said I, 'you said you'd give me one for Christmas, and I with premature grey, and her expression was weary and haggard. "As a rule," said Holmes, "the more bizarre a thing is the less "Yes; one of my natural enemies, or, shall I say, my natural "'It's only four hours a day, and I should not think of leaving,' whether he is on the verge of a windfall or of a catastrophe. something grey in colour, a coat of some sort, or a plaid perhaps. But it is too heavy a task. What was he doing there at all? If simple cases which are so extremely difficult." him. There is, however, one of these last which was so remarkable "We must sit without light. He would see it through the I rang the bell and called for the weekly county paper, which from her drive at seven. We must be at Briony Lodge to meet her." dressed in,' etc., etc. Ha! That represents the last time that thrown back, and chins pointing upward, with here and there a At first it was but a lurid spark upon the stone pavement. Then "'Never.' bullion might be removed. Saturday would suit them better than "Not a bit, Doctor. Stay where you are. I am lost without my by the light of her match, were sufficient to put me upon an John Swain, of St. Augustine. swear it on a Bible. Oh, don't bring it into court! For Christ's and a large curling red feather in a broad-brimmed hat which was "'You understand, Mr. Holder, that I am giving you a strong proof "Yes; it struck me as being a little out of the common." at home. How shall I ever forget that dreadful vigil? I could not hear a down in her lap and made a little face of disappointment. had seen in the duplicate bill. His letters were to be forwarded "Oh, fresh and glossy." and he was less inclined for any sort of society. Most of his "Who are you, then? What do you want?" he asked in a quavering "Well, it is a possible supposition." was standing in the aperture, the darkness of the hall behind pocket, and, drawing out a piece of discoloured, blue-tinted at once, for I have only half an hour." "Please be at the Black Swan Hotel at Winchester at midday "'To Eyford, in Berkshire. It is a little place near the borders You will excuse me for a few minutes while I satisfy myself as to "Because there are many inquiries which must be made out here. already spoken to me, and inquiry showed it was so. I passed "Then he might have called to you?" "A diamond, sir? A precious stone. It cuts into glass as though persons, one of whom had remarkably small feet and the other attention at the Westbury House festivities, is an only child, "Good-morning, madam," said Holmes cheerily. "My name is Sherlock last extremity to save young McCarthy. I promise you that I shall to the steps which led to the office. There was a double stream "The rest you will leave in our hands." companion rose to greet her, "but I have had a very strange "No bad?" away we drove to some lodgings he had taken in Gordon Square, and who may be more successful." He opened the door and ushered in a you nor your son knew the true character of this man when you our drive, but the high, thin breathing of our new companion, and laid before you. I suppose that we are absolutely safe from light revealed it to the victim. He had trained it, probably by the inner apartment." prints, nothing more. I presume that I may take it as correct--this possibility of something of the sort, and I had two police see a Chinese coin hanging from your watch-chain, the matter during the last few years, and there are many noble families to which surrounds me? At present it is out of my power to reward farthest east of the City. Hitherto his orgies had always been would have done the same with the other garments had not he heard deduced from it. In the first place, we may start with a strong Sherlock Holmes was transformed when he was hot upon such a scent We are only just in time to prevent some subtle and horrible I took the tattered object in my hands and turned it over rather passage, and found ourselves in front of the barricade which Miss We are only just in time to prevent some subtle and horrible days of the Regency. Nothing was left save a few acres of ground, admirably balanced mind. He was, I take it, the most perfect one has data. Insensibly one begins to twist facts to suit "Yes, sir. I am afraid that I am a little late, but I am not the maids, why should your son allow himself to be accused in we have so homely a thing as a goose at one end of this chain, we I placed my revolver, cocked, upon the top of the wooden case doubt a pity, especially as I could not help remarking its beauty deposition it was stated that the posterior third of the left the wagon-driver, who was this very man McCarthy. I wish to the attend to the injured man. Irene Adler, as I will still call her, ten miles from the village. The place we want must be somewhere Holmes rose and sat down at the table with his pen in his hand importance to keep at three. From that appointment he never came it, it is obvious that he has less foresight now than formerly, to Gravesend and learned that she had passed some time ago, and "Perhaps we may make them less so." journey and a shorter walk brought us to Fairbank, the modest "He is said to be the richest man on the Pacific slope." The banker wrung his hands. "I shall never see them again!" he glanced back and saw Frank standing and looking at me out of the "I had a friend once called Maudsley, who went to the bad, and "Yes; and he seemed to think, with me, that something had the hall door, which told me that he was off once more upon his whole thing. However, in the morning I determined to have a look him. insanely, in love with her, but some two years ago, when he was "'There is a drive, then?' There was the case, and of course there was but one way out of and changed my clothes. It was a delicate part which I had to law-abiding country is England, and there's always a policeman almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or passed the well-remembered door, which must always be associated he followed a pathway through the wood until he came to the to-morrow," it said. "Do come! I am at my wit's end. HUNTER." does, in truth, recoil upon the violent, and the schemer falls form curled up in the recesses of his armchair. A formidable to her than what we are in quest of. She would rush to secure it. previous husband--the chances being in favour of the latter." woman, of the servants, even of the child. They were all horrible and searched. Two attempts of the sort have already been made. We though no doubt they were too excited in the chase after you to ancient and cobwebby bottles. Having laid out all these luxuries, for a square of Wilton carpet in the centre. The boards round and country, and eventually married, without anyone having a strength." side. Passing down the Waterloo Bridge Road we crossed over the "What can you not understand?" that?' to have been novel and of interest." "I cannot see that there is anything very funny," cried our London. There is Mortimer's, the tobacconist, the little once became known that we had hydraulic engineers coming to our strength in the others." "You are not very vulnerable from above," Holmes remarked as he "He investigated the case with great care, for Dr. Roylott's To protect the Project Gutenberg-tm mission of promoting the free salesman. "Really! Does it not strike you as a little singular that this nothing so important as trifles. Let us now see the letter. Ha! door, however, they separated, he driving back to the Temple, and door and into it. I only caught a glimpse of her at the moment, "Stolen, then." coffee, for I observe that you are shivering." she slowly sank and died without having recovered her really, it would be difficult to suggest a better. The method was words of the clergyman were just like the buzz of a bee in my away in different directions, and I went off to make my own would suddenly come upon him, and that his brilliant reasoning just my point. Now, I know that there are seventeen steps, in his eyes as he looked at me. I read suspicion there and swiftly forward, seized the poker, and bent it into a curve with possible for me to bring him out and associate him with this and what their object was in playing this prank--if it was a to come to my friend, Mr. Sherlock Holmes, before you go to the do what he will without hindrance from one whom he has cruelly you will be good enough to call to-morrow afternoon at three rushed off among the bushes as hard as I could run, for I ran free in a mining camp and wandered through woods or want of drink, and that a ladder should be ready at the moment wronged. I keep it only to safeguard myself, and to preserve a "My face lengthened at this, Mr. Holmes, for I thought that I was Sherlock Holmes closed his eyes and placed his elbows upon the surprise, threw up my arms to cover my face, and, rushing to my jovial man to whom I was accustomed. His cheeks were red, his Sherlock Holmes was, as I expected, lounging about his "A greater distance to travel." coronet, but I thought it better not to disturb it. Give me your hand! Have you a cab?" The man burst into a hearty laugh. "They might be useful to me as into the room which you used to occupy. I have no doubt that, in anxiety all swept from her face. "I shall go down to Hampshire know. The initials were, of course, of the highest importance, to-morrow." said I; 'I think that I should be better able to advise you as to if it had gone twelve miles over heavy roads?" of yours I should be exceedingly glad to have a little talk with informing him that he was a prisoner, he remarked that he was not "When Dr. Roylott was in India he married my mother, Mrs. Stoner, he, 'and the price of the gold chasing is incalculable. The "And what do you think of it all, Watson?" asked Sherlock Holmes, heavier in-breath of the bulky Jones from the thin, sighing note little rat-faced fellow standing in the centre of the circle of doing it was undoubtedly to be regretted. Having no mother, she round with crates and massive boxes. *** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE ADVENTURES OF SHERLOCK HOLMES *** the moss, and this also he carefully examined and retained. Then is upon the logic rather than upon the crime that you should death of Dr. Grimesby Roylott which tend to make the matter even prints, nothing more. I presume that I may take it as correct--this Lascar confederate that the police are hurrying up the street. "I am all attention, madam." been lifted and conveyed somewhere." her money. When she wouldn't do it, he kept on worrying her until time, I hope that you will postpone it, as this matter is of "It may not come to that," said Holmes. "It is The Morning Chronicle of April 27, 1890. Just two months problem. I rang the bell and was shown up to the chamber which "But how will you look?" pistol ready in case we should need it. I will sit on the side of opened, and a tall, gaunt woman entered the room. did at last hear that somewhere far out in the Atlantic a the driver. of mine that the little things are infinitely the most important. that we just did it right there; and then Frank went off to seek "And the murderer?" INCIDENTAL DAMAGES EVEN IF YOU GIVE NOTICE OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH "I think that this should do," said he, glancing into the glass Bradstreet had spread an ordnance map of the county out upon the a few minutes dressed as a common loafer. With his collar turned bedrooms in this wing are on the ground floor, the sitting-rooms it would be a particularly unpleasant thing for us if anyone were should have spoken to you before I went; but I was kind of case against you, I do not know that there is any reason that the "I believe that he is coming here," said Holmes, rubbing his Watson, founded upon my experience, that the lowest and vilest some paternal advice and to point out to them that it would be "Not at all. The 'G' with the small 't' stands for said Mr. Holder. "Yes, but only for you and me." his wife has ceased to love him." shows, my dear Watson, how dangerous it always is to reason from would fain have said, and she stabbed with her finger into the since I saw you last, but I did not call at the house. It is a "'Entirely.' safe, for the lad could not say a word without compromising his electronic work, or any part of this electronic work, without "And the ring?" I asked, glancing at a remarkable brilliant which was an old woman, whose name is not mentioned, and the other was business at Coburg Square is serious." he continued, flushing up at the sight of the bitter sneer upon considering the formidable letters which were received by himself "Then the page we have seen--" away by the old trick of stepping in at one door of a dwell upon it further. Above all, try to let Mr. Hosmer Angel patting her forearm. "We shall soon set matters right, I have no "And Irene Adler?" cannot waste time over this sort of fantastic talk, Mr. Holmes," into the pit which he digs for another. Let us thrust this overhearing the questions which you put to the salesman just now. and darkened. His brows were drawn into two hard black lines, "Oh, yes, with the deepest interest." "At eight in the morning. She will not be up, so that we shall fact, we may call it conclusive." clear to me. Your news of this morning, however, may open his I had come to the conclusion that he had dropped asleep, and "Oh, if you say so, Mr. Jones, it is all right," said the all I knew, but whether north, south, east, or west I had no preparing for an all-night sitting. He took off his coat and few days I was a dweller once more in my old quarters at Baker and laid it on the table. the date of his supposed suicide." against a man in the prime of life?" even, according to the little girl whose evidence is so all the way to Kilburn. I told my pal what I had done, for he was unpleasantness. Do not join in it. It will end in my being possible to conceive. In his singular character the dual nature "I was aware of it," said Holmes dryly. house for five minutes.' me. used a holder. The tip had been cut off, not bitten off, but the "Very murderous indeed." "Yes." but the two coming together, and in so frightful a form, have to me. Far from hushing the thing up, I have brought a gentleman out, for she had been in the company of the bridegroom. Had she state of agitation, her face all drawn and grey, with restless "'There are three missing. And you know where they are. Must I such as creation of derivative works, reports, performances and thought at first that you had done something clever, but I see avoided the society of the neighbouring English families and to news of the "Lone Star" of Savannah, but none ever reached us. We The police have openly confessed that they can at present make the next room. I slipped out of bed, all palpitating with fear, effort to identify, do copyright research on, transcribe and proofread I placed my revolver, cocked, upon the top of the wooden case particulars of my night's adventure, and I sprang to my feet with the blue carbuncle, which shone out like a star, with a cold, profited by the incident, as far as we could see, was the to a light-house. "'I beg that you will state your business, sir,' said I; 'my time "The Cedars?" and though we shall take them at a disadvantage, they may do us us, and for a long time we did all the work of the house. She was greatest consternation by the strange and painful episodes which "But if he is innocent, who has done it?" digesting their breakfasts at home." battle, and also of the spoils of victory in the shape of this equalled. It was not merely that Holmes changed his costume. His until night should bring an explanation. time when he saw me first I was a youngster of twelve or so. This will be renamed. can lay her hands upon it. It must be in her own house." that it is quite clear that there must be more than one of them. "But what is that compared with the number of your successes?" While Sherlock Holmes had been detailing this singular series of another investigation, in which, also a bird will be the chief the man that he must hurry, as he had an appointment of in our faces, and one yellow light twinkling in front of us "I shall see you at Horsham, then?" "I see--her ladyship's waiting-maid. Well, the temptation of questioning gaze, and then, pressing my hand in a cold, dank "I want to test a little theory of mine," said he, pulling on his a regurgitation of water through one of the side cylinders. An the royal houses of Europe have shown that you are one who may 'You have been recommended to me, Mr. Hatherley, as being a man "And now I will show you what is really a very interesting study, With that he seized my hair in both his hands, and tugged until I a gentleman, Neville St. Clair by name, who appeared to have your friends of last night, though I very much fear that they are distinctly saw his face, which she describes as being terribly very peculiar words of the dying woman?" saucer of milk does not go very far in satisfying its wants, I buttons. Suddenly, with a plunge, as of the swimmer who leaves you give your casting vote to?" "Suddenly, without any preliminary sound in the midst of the 50,000 pounds at once. I could, of course, borrow so trifling a "How is the glass? Twenty-nine, I see. No wind, and not a cloud "It is a little cold for the time of the year," said Holmes. along its gullet and down into its crop. But the creature flapped "Because you have just as good a chance of finding this lady in You will find it here, and may read it for yourself." safe with her; but when there was a chance of a husband coming "'No, I had a feeling something was there.' wedding?" "Then you won't forgive me? You won't shake hands before I go?" "'That you may get away, or perhaps that you may conceal what you forward and his eyes bent upon the red glow of the fire. Then he and though we shall take them at a disadvantage, they may do us galvanised. this matter, which I shall expect the bank to refund, but beyond stalls bore the name of Breckinridge upon it, and the proprietor however, when I heard a hideous outcry behind me, which caused me "Is a tall man, left-handed, limps with the right leg, wears until night should bring an explanation. Lord St. Simon had by no means relaxed his rigid attitude, but "He is a cripple in the sense that he walks with a limp; but in time to break it. An ordinary man could not do it. Now, what do considerable share in clearing the matter up, I feel that no "You forget that I know nothing about it." "Well, Mr. Holmes, when I got back to my lodgings and found "There are three men waiting for him at the door," said Holmes. you remember that our client has rather an early appointment this His name is Francis Prosper." doubt whether any positive crime has been committed. As far as I "I thought that if I told you the circumstances you would and that if I had acted differently this terrible misfortune dense a swarm of humanity, every possible combination of events impression generally of a man of learning and letters who had had them ever since I was a nipper? I tell you, all those birds that is waiting now in the sitting-room. Now, when young ladies wander edge. A girl of fourteen, Patience Moran, who is the daughter of as this. Men who had only known the quiet thinker and logician of "'Then we can hardly get there before midnight. I suppose there warranties or the exclusion or limitation of certain types of damages. cases between the years '82 and '90, I am faced by so many which here and I will read it to you: "'Well, you have to be in the office, or at least in the unless a copyright notice is included. Thus, we do not necessarily question depended whether I should continue my work at Briony I have led a life of martyrdom to atone for it. But that my girl some advice. I was frightened of the house, of the man, of the against the windows. Suddenly, amid all the hubbub of the gale, grinning at my surprise, was none other than Sherlock Holmes. He "What can you not understand?" to England my mother died--she was killed eight years ago in a week to week between cocaine and ambition, the drowsiness of the the panelling of the walls were of brown, worm-eaten oak, so old a wonderful manager and housekeeper, yet as tender and quiet and Inspector Barton, who had charge of the case, made a very careful me, for I knew one or two things about him; so I made up my mind "Then I shall go in it. But I must owe something. Find what I wall." is alive and able to write letters, why should he remain away "Witness: It is really impossible for me to tell you. I can hat, neat brown gaiters, and well-cut pearl-grey trousers. Yet adventure. Upper Swandam Lane is a vile alley lurking behind the 1869, the movement rather suddenly collapsed, although there have have come upon. Who would have believed it? Who would have ever drunkard. I ran to her and threw my arms round her, but at that last Friday, Mr. Holmes, and I have never seen or heard anything reconsidered your decision. My wife is very anxious that you the coroner come to?" returning from some small jollification and was making his way to me as governess. I shall call at half-past ten to-morrow if I Saturday rather complicates matters. I shall want your help in that part of the world, for we lurched and jolted terribly. I the police, and very energetic inquiries are being made, which second." girl's affections from turning towards anyone else. But the "And you are a benefactor of the race," said I. if a little good Berkshire beef would do him no harm." sedentary life, goes out little, is out of training entirely, is the salesman. it over with cotton wadding and carbolised bandages. He lay back garden. I lent the ostlers a hand in rubbing down their horses, Merryweather is the chairman of directors, and he will explain to "Pshaw! They did not know how to look." "Pending the alterations, as I understand. By the way, there does carry the case backward and forward with me, so that it might "My dear fellow, I congratulate you." She was plainly but neatly dressed, with a bright, quick face, vague that it is a question whether justice will be done." The stout gentleman half rose from his chair and gave a bob of would have given it up in despair; but Spaulding would not hear "I suppose that everyone finds his first independent start in "I will, Miss Turner." things. Perhaps I have trained myself to see what others in his power. scraping at this to see exactly what it was when I heard a Saturday, and I hope that by Monday we may come to a conclusion." "I am very much afraid that it is not. But between ourselves, conduct the inquiry." "Missing," it said, "on the morning of the fourteenth, a gentleman Gutenberg-tm electronic works if you follow the terms of this agreement was perfectly simple. You, of course, saw that everyone in the mysterious end." sorry to hear you say that. The fund was, of course, for the All this is amusing, though rather elementary, but I must go back in the neighbourhood of his wardrobe. And pray what did you hope and shone on the white cloth and glimmer of china and metal, for the same feet." He drew out a lens and lay down upon his PLEASE READ THIS BEFORE YOU DISTRIBUTE OR USE THIS WORK during which he might have communicated with his friend the the night.' the hoarse roar of the doctor's voice and saw the fury with which to say and for you to hear: there has been an understanding you found me to-night--and running through the front room she hours." He cut a slice of beef from the joint upon the sideboard, much as smiled, but sat with her hands in her lap, and a sad, John Swain, of St. Augustine. the laws of your country in addition to the terms of this agreement "But I understand that all the other clothes were found in the other, as fresh and trim as possible. where the snow was cut up as though there had been a struggle, "But how about Mr. Hosmer Angel? Did he make no attempt to see 1.E.9. heard a low, clear whistle, but the sudden glare flashing into my threw any light upon the matter. One mistake had been made in not collection are in the public domain in the United States. If an