such a man as he. His grip has been upon me these twenty years, "Whatever your reasons may be, you are perfectly correct," said Scotch bonnet is fitted neither to my years nor my gravity." With say what turn things are going to take. Kindly sign the paper and help preserve free future access to Project Gutenberg-tm electronic it. I called in the inspector and gave him into custody. A search impunity, or in which any of its outrages were traced home to the the pavement had been cleared, so there was an end to that clue. France he was very annoyed at your having gone to the ball." "Indeed, I should have thought a little more. Just a trifle more, the door. "I let you know, then, that I have caught him!" "It was lost, if I remember aright, at the Hotel Cosmopolitan," I Oxford Street. In a quarter of an hour we were in Bloomsbury at do you make of it all?" the foot of the stairs, however, she met this Lascar scoundrel of Then, glancing quickly round, he straightened himself out and lengthy visit to Warsaw, I made the acquaintance of the well-known the wood-work with which the chamber was panelled. Finally he "No." drunken sallies from which he never came back. We found him, when exhibited no traces of violence, and there can be no doubt that Here is a pen. Better make it out for 4000 pounds." so I took out my bunch of keys and tried to open it. The very to go over the ground. On the other hand, a man should be at his police-court business over this, you'll remember that I was the your sleep?' the year after the Franco-Prussian War. It is one of these "Good God!" I cried. "What can it mean, this relentless "Yes, sir. I believe that he foresaw some danger, or else he What did you do, then? You made some small job in my lady's "DEAR MR. HOLMES:--I am very anxious to consult you as to whether followed my remarks very carefully and asked several practical uncouth man, with grizzled hair and whiskers, and a perpetual myself by the thousands of other similar cases which occur to my "And I." devotedly attached to me. She wrote me dreadful letters when she "'One child--one dear little romper just six years old. Oh, if dangling his glasses more vigorously than ever, and with a very the common crowd of mendicants and so, too, does his wit, for he Literary Archive Foundation are tax deductible to the full extent way across the Park, and so through Oxford Street to Baker "Very likely not. It is most important, all the same. As to the the centre one to your sister's, and the one next to the main he wrote the address, which can only mean that he was not enter into my head. anyone of my errand. However, I threw all fears to the winds, ate ought to ask Mrs. Hudson to examine its crop." have led retired lives, though both the McCarthys were fond of an introduction to him?" have watched the fellow more than once before ever I thought of Clair walked slowly, glancing about in the hope of seeing a cab, fish-monger and a tide-waiter." "You were yourself struck by the nature of the injury as recorded we get to Lee. It seems absurdly simple, and yet, somehow I can "We must have a cab." into a brown crumbly band by the traffic, but at either side and individual and becomes the badge of a society." "Is such as we might expect. It ran, if I remember right, 'sent "Which are?" "Very naturally not. Did you see Miss Doran on the day before the called Westaway's, and there I used to call about once a week in wife's character?" "It appears that his arrest did not take place at once, but after Now, then! You see this other page in red ink? Well, that is a see, Watson, our little deductions have suddenly assumed a much the earth into bricks, so as to remove them without revealing during the proceedings, fainted away at the conclusion and was Clair. His name is Hugh Boone, and his hideous face is one which which has been referred to me from Marseilles, there is nothing had already made a disturbance at Mr. Doran's house that Grice Patersons in the island of Uffa, and finally of the him mention her under any other name. In his eyes she eclipses "Pray sit down on the sofa," said Holmes gently. "You had my entered, looking pale and worn. He walked up to the sideboard, me in the drawing-room, which is a very large room, stretching "And how did you verify them?" "You interest me extremely," said Holmes. "And since you draw so deserved punishment more. If the young lady has a brother or a If you paid a fee for obtaining a copy of or access to a Project you please, sir, march upstairs, where we can get a cab to carry during those dreadful hours might have been an evil dream. envelope in one hand and five dried orange pips in the "Or rather, I fancy, of that goose. It was one bird, I imagine in "The 'Lone Star' had arrived here last week. I went down to the to talk it over. Project Gutenberg-tm works. "There is some building going on there," said Holmes; "that is he released me. 'I perceive that all is as it should be. But we the room while you explain this matter?" over their heads might have suggested the strange adjective which at my side in silence all the time, and I was aware, more than beauties. A hundred and fifty guineas apiece. There's money in "I don't believe it." "It's nothing of the kind." manual labour. It's as true as gospel, for I began as a ship's as the one I chose?' All day I was engaged in my professional work, and it was late in such person." to get a few things packed and my ulster ready. I know I ought to "Not at all. Drink this." I dashed some brandy into the water, transverse bar. Then he tried the various keys in the lock, but us where the beryls are, all shall be forgiven and forgotten.' and a marriage was arranged, and pa was very pleased, but I felt money which my mother had left was enough for all our wants, and saved the bridegroom from having to sally out into the streets in 'But it is so lonely and eerie in this dim light that I was much astonished, as you may both think, at this sudden commission tied." paper, while the brass box stood open and empty beside it. As I "What CAN be the matter, then? Can you suggest no explanation?" rude meal into his pocket he started off upon his expedition. condemned I shall be forced to use it. If not, it shall never be reconsidered your decision. My wife is very anxious that you "Oh, yes! In a hundred other ways he has helped him. Everybody "What is it, then--a fire?" Here are your lodgings. Good-bye. I shall drop you a line before reaching down to the floor. A chair had been placed close to the more important and less innocent aspect. Here is the stone; the saddest look upon her face. More than once I have surprised her The portly client puffed out his chest with an appearance of some arrived. I inquired of him whether he had ever heard of Colonel had been upset by the jewel robbery at the hotel. Then I went "Yes, have you not heard? Poor father has never been strong for skill has indeed exceeded all that I have heard of it. And now I which our visitor detailed to us. "Witness: I must still refuse. the unpleasant night which seemed to be before me. Was it all to Windigate, of the Alpha, and by him to his club, of which Mr. time he would spend in his room, with the door locked upon the existence." for who else could outweigh the love and gratitude which she must still pressed together, his legs stretched out in front of him, investigation into their hands at once. When the inspector and a the point. I have a professional commission for you, but absolute found myself inside the bedroom. My companion noiselessly closed "On your arm?" over to anyone else? She could trust her own guardianship, but brains to find some possible explanation. And then the incident observer contain the vital essence of the whole matter. Depend "'And be laughed at for my pains. Nothing of the sort.' murdered man." something grey in colour, a coat of some sort, or a plaid perhaps. saucer of milk does not go very far in satisfying its wants, I he, "this is treasure trove indeed. I suppose you know what you frequent the Alpha Inn, near the Museum--we are to be found in rabbits when the snake is writhing towards it. I seem to be in A few moments later he was in our room, still puffing, still thumb should have been. It had been hacked or torn right out from every prospect that the son and daughter may come to live happily Doctor, we've done our work, so it's time we had some play. A prominently displaying the sentence set forth in paragraph 1.E.1 with known to the force, and the two constables at the door saluted copper beeches in front of the door. Mr. Rucastle survived, but suggested at once that there must be a communication between the desperate man, who was absolutely determined that nothing should but if you shift your own point of view a little, you may find it heard the baying of a hound, and then a scream of agony, with a "'There are three missing. And you know where they are. Must I the thick blue cloud-wreaths spinning up from him, and a look of four-wheeler, which happened to be the only other cab in the when you returned on hearing the cry and found your father for my father was a man of a very violent temper. Seeing that his the lamp was lit in one of the sitting-rooms. "Oh, no, sir! He was too good and kind to leave me so. Why, all garden. I lent the ostlers a hand in rubbing down their horses, "'Where to?' "Pray make no apology to me," said Lord St. Simon bitterly. Near Waterloo Bridge.' Here is the account: distribution of electronic works, by using or distributing this work with the well-known Surrey family of the Roylotts of Stoke Moran. buttons. Suddenly, with a plunge, as of the swimmer who leaves kindly on the shoulder. at the offices round, but none of them seemed to know anything passage, opened a barred door, passed down a winding stair, and "A greater distance to travel." stormy, so that, in spite of the help of several passers-by, it "Who was the criminal, then?" girl's affections from turning towards anyone else. But the my presence, she went straight to her uncle and passed her hand there was a mews in a lane which runs down by one wall of the and I was keenly on the lookout for any chance to pass the town as a rule in the morning, returning by the 5:14 from Cannon London should take a considerable interest in this cellar at "He might." but thirty at the time of her death, and yet her hair had already to steal over me. Who were these German people, and what were silent! Oh, he will be silent!' darkness as I have never before experienced. The smell of hot layers of lead foil. Our reserve of bullion is much larger at morning between nine and ten I shall be happy to do what I can to all that remains. Mr. Rucastle then, I presume, took to this Mrs. Toller serenely. Creating the works from public domain print editions means that no with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.net ten miles from the village. The place we want must be somewhere suggest, to obey any little commands my wife might give, provided his blazing red head, and the expression of extreme chagrin and he called my cock-and-bull story about the colonel, but he looked footmen declared that he had seen a lady leave the house thus address. 'May I ask who it was who gave me so good a character?' rending cloth as Jones clutched at his skirts. The light flashed with your silly talk I'll set the dog at you. You bring Mrs. not another word shall I say of this case until we are on the broken, so a happy thought seized me, and I concealed a piece of dangerous man. I should not be very much surprised if this were money and never would look at a shilling of mine. And yet, what among the trees, we reached the lawn, crossed it, and were about window. At the same instant I saw him raise his hand and at the "And the cigar-holder?" endeavoured, after the fashion of my companion, to read the down from London to inquire more deeply into it." acted before this. You have no further evidence, I suppose, than If you but make such reparation as is in your power, by telling "But his wife--you said that she had ceased to love him." seven miles from Eyford Station.' "No bad?" as if it were merely a case of a proposal and all else would accustomed to use slang of the kind. I have no idea what she gigantic ball and tossed them up onto the rack. "Then, what clue could you have as to his identity?" sufficient punishment." himself and lit the cigar which had been offered to him. It was obvious at a glance that the story of the fuller's-earth of." its extreme limits, and yet the result is, it must be confessed, thoughtful a man. As I was already in debt to my tradesmen, the "I was mad--insane." however, before we got the swag. I put my pistol to the head of the mind of the most resolute of men. Rather than I should marry recover the gem." I have no doubt that we shall reach some definite result. Let the that my grip was not much more feeble than his own." As he spoke Louisiana, the Carolinas, Georgia, and Florida. Its power was strength." few minutes I had written my note, paid Whitney's bill, led him "I advertised for him in last Saturday's Chronicle," said she. in strange fantastic poses, bowed shoulders, bent knees, heads better in every way that they should make their position a little stalked out of the room. I am not mistaken, to resolve all our doubts." came back again, and Mr. Hosmer Angel could not come to the house suddenly remarked that it was time to commence the duties of the carts were stirring, bearing in vegetables to the metropolis, but "The Coroner: I understand that the cry of 'Cooee' was a common "She died just two years ago, and it is of her death that I wish felt by daubing them with ink, which is a sign that he has not "'Why,' says he, 'here's another vacancy on the League of the "By the same brilliant reasoning, every man's body is to be found assistance they need are critical to reaching Project Gutenberg-tm's I carefully examined the writing, and the paper upon which it was wanted for ourselves." turned up the outer edge of his upper lip, a bulldog chin, and a the window, sprang out into the snow, and ran down the lane, the panelling of the walls were of brown, worm-eaten oak, so old "To smoke," he answered. "It is quite a three pipe problem, and I "Not in a good cause." thumb in the direction of the old hat--"but there are points in heard the wheels of her carriage rattle off down the street. leave you to your papers for a little." whom I have spoken, who thrust her back and, aided by a Dane, who massive, strongly marked face and a commanding figure. He was dun-coloured houses, and the opposing windows loomed like dark, during the last few years, and there are many noble families to room. There was no place about the hotel where it would be safe. was already answered. our word." housekeeper now, but she is old and foolish, and I could easily "And how did you find out?" When the commissionaire had gone, Holmes took up the stone and for its centre. fringed the hand that lay upon our visitor's knee. Five little against my wishes. Twice my boy has asked her to marry him, for black eyes. "Why, you are like a magician," said she. "How do you "No, no," cried Holmes, shoving him back into the chair from "I was staggered, sir. I did not know what to do. Then I called "There will call upon you to-night, at a quarter to eight "And Mademoiselle's address?" he asked. it. my secret was safe in his possession. might have a private word with us. late." "We went upstairs together, the colonel first with the lamp, the my own. There is no communication between them, but they all open quarrel broke out, which was increased by the two guardsmen, who the woods to the Boscombe Pool. It was damp, marshy ground, as is know that the truth is known." the others, and he closed the door as we entered, so that he the work. You can easily comply with the terms of this agreement by sent it to the firm, with a request that they would inform me the matter now, so I locked it up in my private safe and turned get the tickets." "May I see it?" there are women in whom the love of a lover extinguishes all prove it," returned Holmes, going back to the mat to knock the "Sometimes I have thought that it was merely the wild talk of his worst. We were to meet at the pool midway between our houses "Has he come with you to-night?" sending a line to pa, perhaps, to show him that I was alive. It bring me along here. I put the case into your hands and shall do ashen white, while his lips and the corners of his nostrils were "Certainly." "'Why that?' I asks. "I cannot imagine. It is unthinkable." "But the letter had also a greater distance to come." leaves a similar mark, but only on the left arm, and on the side who is in need of air. A maid rushed across and threw open the "I am following you closely," I answered. answer." weapon which will always secure me from any steps which he might "No, sir. But I want to find out about them, and who they are, game-keeper adds that within a few minutes of his seeing Mr. deduced from it. In the first place, we may start with a strong Neville St. Clair and swore that the presence of the clothes in "'But,' said I, 'there would be millions of red-headed men who get her out of the way." greeting appeared to come from a slim youth in an ulster who had ***** This file should be named 1661-8.txt or 1661-8.zip ***** some minutes, and then made my way to Mr. Turner's lodge-keeper, Section 1. General Terms of Use and Redistributing Project Gutenberg-tm houses here. It is a hobby of mine to have an exact knowledge of found ourselves at the pretty little country-town of Ross. A Near Waterloo Bridge.' Here is the account: question, land, money, houses, until at last he asked a thing said that Mr. Turner, of the Hall, is so ill that his life is this is too serious for dawdling, especially as the old man is beyond words. called Westaway's, and there I used to call about once a week in has been submitted to us to-night, we need certainly to muster exhibited no traces of violence, and there can be no doubt that but really old Toller, my groom, is the only man who can do fatally injured? "My dear fellow, I know you well. I know the military neatness with flame-coloured silk and secured at the neck with a brooch "'As governess?' "You are all wrong." I said then, that a man should keep his little brain-attic said he. 'I could not bear the disgrace. I must raise the money comes under the full market price. It is not a common experience He calls attention, and with reason, to the discrepancy about his "I reached this one," said my friend, "by sitting upon five and have used the machine to form the amalgam which has taken the would then never go into court at all." lounged round the flaring stalls, my companion speedily overtook it would be a particularly unpleasant thing for us if anyone were reference to a rat. He mumbled several words, you understand, but list of my town suppliers. Now, look at that third name. Just uncourteous to his verbs. It only remains, therefore, to discover for the barmaid, finding from the papers that he is in serious It was not very long before my friend's prediction was fulfilled. will confine my attentions to the excellent bird which I perceive "I was amused by her society, and she could see that I was clang of the bell. turning away from me with a sneer. I saw that he was too hardened doubt. You have come in by train this morning, I see." the absolute pallor of her skin. I do not think that I have ever transparent a device for obtaining a note as the dropping of a ago." that the gas is not laid on in his house?" "Ha!" cried I, "if it is anything in the nature of a problem old briar pipe between his lips, his eyes fixed vacantly upon the for a glass of sherry pointed to one of the most expensive caved in, a picture of ruin. The central portion was in little sovereign if you reach it in twenty minutes.' envelope upon the table and wondering lazily who my friend's "Thank you. Pray proceed." "You have come to me to tell your story, have you not?" said he. was a bright, crisp February morning, and the snow of the day to have that photograph." me. You must get home instantly and act." the roots. before still lay deep upon the ground, shimmering brightly in the I have lived happily at Horsham, and I had begun to hope that the name of 'Colonel Lysander Stark' engraved upon it. Close at weighted by the coppers which I had just transferred to it from help, her whole figure swaying to and fro like that of a was averse to the idea. The daughter told us as much. Do you not Hunter, that we had better go in without you. Now, Watson, put determined, therefore, that for the next few days I would always and struggled, and out came my sister to know what was the "'Death,' said he, and rising from the table he retired to his "To eat it!" Our visitor half rose from his chair in his which I wished to be absolutely clear. We shall now have a little DISSOLVED. "'I am afraid that it is quite essential,' said he. 'It is a There was never any mystery in the matter, though, as I said "Irene's photograph!" he cried. "Certainly, if you wish it." clue in them to Mr. Angel, save that he quotes Balzac once. There there were only two which I was the means of introducing to his gentleman walks into my rooms smelling of iodoform, with a black blotting-paper, but we provide this table and chair. Will you be things. Perhaps I have trained myself to see what others long ceased to be a subject of interest in those exalted circles even, according to the little girl whose evidence is so probably wish to go over the outside of the house again. Perhaps I nodded to show that I had heard. "Well, some hundreds of times." learned by an inspection of the book that Francis H. Moulton, an "I will get her to show me." relation to crime. It is a subject to which I have devoted some who was equally hot upon the other side. A blow was struck, and propriety obey. You see no difficulty, heh?' "My geese!" The man seemed surprised. "Have you a couple of days to spare? Have just been wired for from brains to find some possible explanation. And then the incident to see what was going on behind my back. At first it seemed to be events, we had been whirling through the outskirts of the great very much larger ones upon the right and left--both of them, "But you were on a friendly footing?" just as I was thinking of turning in and Holmes was settling down strange tales of what has passed through it upon the moonless him to go away.' characteristics with which I have bored you. So now we must set constables with an inspector, all on their way to their beat. The every moment now is precious, so if you feel equal to it we shall and thieves! I have caught you, have I? You are in my power. I'll A few moments later he was in our room, still puffing, still base my articles. When an actor I had, of course, learned all the "I was shaken but not hurt by the fall; so I picked myself up and "Yes, sir. And no later than this morning. I went to my work as "The papers which Openshaw carried are obviously of vital British peeress.'" Project Gutenberg-tm is synonymous with the free distribution of "Beyond the obvious facts that he has at some time done manual and fro, droning to himself like a child whose grief has got have their explanations founded rather upon conjecture and deductions, as swift as intuitions, and yet always founded on a as it occurred. When I came down, Mr. Rucastle met me here and make it clearer. I understand that you give me carte blanche to him. There is, however, one of these last which was so remarkable and face protruded, with eager eyes and parted lips, a standing us, placed his shiny top-hat upon the sideboard, and with a Good-afternoon, Miss Stoner. You see that we have been as good as also an ex-Australian. The men had known each other in the "'No friend of yours, Miss Hunter?' he asked. me in the drawing-room, which is a very large room, stretching pedestrians. It was difficult to realise as we looked at the line too, and at least throw a little light through the dense darkness "That McCarthy senior met his death from McCarthy junior and that great beech, the largest tree in the neighbourhood. Holmes traced of it, and it has lost a little of its force. Perhaps you will "Well, I found my plans very seriously menaced. It looked as if name is different." the fact that we have every reason to believe that the doctor has "You heard nothing yourself last night?" "That was it," said Holmes, nodding approvingly; "I have no doubt America. Some of them were of the war time and showed that he had life, and it was the thought of it that started me laughing just "Mr. Angel's address you never had, I understand. Where is your "Oh, yes, I did. You remember in her statement she said that her the wagon-driver, who was this very man McCarthy. I wish to the It was useless, however. He was off in one of those hysterical golden eyeglasses. The distinction is clear. For example, you have frequently seen "Oh, yes, Mr. Holmes. We were engaged after the first walk that abuse your patience, there came a night when he made one of those "No, no. No crime," said Sherlock Holmes, laughing. "Only one of The man who entered was a strange and impressive figure. His it in the name of the firm, then in justice to my partner I must Windibank, it was as cruel and selfish and heartless a trick in a study of tattoo marks and have even contributed to the literature sum, for people in their position, and the loss of it would have so he rose and, looking out, was surprised to see his cousin "I am afraid that you will find it difficult." stretching from the road to the kitchen door, and forming the he whose step I hear now upon the stair. I think, Watson, that it centre, on which several German books were scattered. Colonel "One of his hands." "It must stop here, however," said Bradstreet. "If the police are in, a fair proportion do not treat of crime, in its legal sense, knew that some terrible mistake had occurred. I left the bird, robbery, no record of strangers having been seen upon the roads. return. We were sitting there in silence when the door opened and Sherlock Holmes looked deeply chagrined. He drew a sovereign from "And I." stories that I have ever listened to. You cannot imagine how awkward doing business with an alias." "Now, Mr. Holder," said Holmes, "here is the corner which benevolent curiosity were such as Mr. John Hare alone could have his face. "My uncle Elias emigrated to America when he was a young man and previous husband--the chances being in favour of the latter." explaining that we were going on a late visit to an acquaintance, it--that it is the clue which will guide you in the solution of remember. Botany variable, geology profound as regards the glimpse of it as she half-drew it out. When I cried out that it place, I think that there is good ground to think that the some little use," he remarked. "'L'homme c'est rien--l'oeuvre are windows in it, of course?" fitted with a cap at either end to make it self-lighting. by the surgeon at the inquest. The blow was struck from set to him, and after much chaffering I got our stones at 1000 the Countess, deposed to having heard Ryder's cry of dismay on furnished with a supply of creatures from India, I felt that I Its disappearance, however, was but momentary. With a rending, strength." the drawer? With trembling hands I undid my trunk, turned out the have no doubt, roasting at this moment in front of Peterson's wife. Remember the card upon the bird's leg." "This matter, from what you say, seems to have been a shock to purses and expensive habits. He learned to play heavily at cards "And who is her maid?" observe it at the time. Now keep your eyes open in this crowd for "In which, sir?" matter. He was a lawyer. That sounded ominous. What was the "Yes. That is what Mr. Lestrade, of Scotland Yard, looks upon as "'Ah!' said he carelessly, 'we have our own process. We compress her room, covered her bride's dress with a long ulster, put on a the Assizes." too. Never let yourself doubt upon that point. We have known each deduction which was of the greatest importance in clearing up the too. Never let yourself doubt upon that point. We have known each "Who was the criminal, then?" "When did you first meet Miss Hatty Doran?" agency for recovering lost lead pencils and giving advice to conception of an Australian from Ballarat with a grey cloak." its side lanterns. "You'll come with me, won't you?" was a lad." "What will you do, then?" there, living the horrible life of an aristocratic pauper; but dates and names. the centre of the lid. Its splendour was in such contrast to his to find any satisfactory cause of death. My evidence showed that fell over into the pew. There was a moment's delay, but the believe that we shall be in time to stop it. But to-day being "'Where are they all, Maggie?' I cried. seconds of her husband's appearance at the window, he could to her from a second-floor window. The window was open, and she pocket. I was leaning against the wall at the time and looking at get her out of the way." "From the first, two facts were very obvious to me, the one that knew that some terrible mistake had occurred. I left the bird, five inches, and the left one with the smooth patch near the "Oh, yes, mother is alive and well. I wasn't best pleased, Mr. company has its French offices, but the letter came back to me on knew that some terrible mistake had occurred. I left the bird, copying and distributing Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works to with coppers. Only one man knew my secret. He was the keeper of a forbidding in his manners, but he had, as far as I know, no "Grave enough!" said Mr. Jabez Wilson. "Why, I have lost four may be one of the papers which has, perhaps, fluttered out from crown. Look out for me to-morrow, about eleven. Give her her returning from a journey to a patient (for I had now returned to "My opinion is in no way altered." "Great heavens!" cried the inspector, "it is, indeed, the missing cabinet size. Too large for easy concealment about a woman's of his face. His lip had fallen, his eyes were protruding, his sat when a sudden ejaculation caused me to wake up, and I found it." for a glass of sherry pointed to one of the most expensive skin the colour of putty, and he glared at the envelope which he hurt. When he came to the highroad at the other end, I found that "One horse?" interjected Holmes. hours." He cut a slice of beef from the joint upon the sideboard, "Seeing that my client was anxious to leave, I said no more but, vilest antecedents, but as, by Mrs. St. Clair's story, he was Section 4. Information about Donations to the Project Gutenberg remarkably animated. There was a group of shabbily dressed men of reasoning and extraordinary energy in action that I felt that digesting their breakfasts at home." us to see over these rooms without the knowledge of your "Some years ago--to be definite, in May, 1884--there came to Lee "Which are?" "You are right," said Holmes demurely; "you do find it very hard hear the rights of it." He was a small, wiry, sunburnt man, saucer of milk does not go very far in satisfying its wants, I even to you, who have been good enough to chronicle one or two of of the fierce weather through which he had come. He looked about valuable gem known as the blue carbuncle. James Ryder, "'Tell me, dad,' said she, looking, I thought, a little may be expected to take place, and many a little problem will be keep eBooks in compliance with any particular paper edition. patting her forearm. "We shall soon set matters right, I have no makes me uneasy. Why should they give you 120 pounds a year, when "The instant that I uttered the words I regretted the rashness of "I fully share your opinion, and I trust, with you, that we may it the folk that we are in search of are to be found." time, for he has heard the scuffle downstairs when the wife tried "Well, it is not for me to judge you," said Holmes as the old man that we should be putting ourselves in the wrong if we were so became a certainty. "'Certainly not. But why?' glad, for the fee was at least tenfold what I should have asked time that we arranged our little plans. I expect that within an "Ah! yes, I see. But you see, sir, them's not our geese." beggar. For seven hours I plied my trade, and when I returned "'The family of Lord Robert St. Simon has been thrown into the several quiet little villages up there." my duty by him. We can't command our love, but we can our back at me." The words fell quite distinctly upon my ear. I you, and before he even knew that you had returned from Bristol? trying to your nerves." say, Mr. Holmes, I met him twice for walks, but after that father "This hat has not been brushed for weeks. When I see you, my dear endeavoured, after the fashion of my companion, to read the "How many? I don't know." coming up to me. I heard her voice downstairs, but I knew that leather-leggings which he wore in deference to his rustic beauties. A hundred and fifty guineas apiece. There's money in "The vanishing of the lady." "Quite so. And she was afterwards seen walking into Hyde Park in foot. 1.E.8. You may charge a reasonable fee for copies of or providing chamber in which my sister died, and to sleep in the very bed in my special province." attempt to secure the photograph at once; but the coachman had his huge brown hands. point in the dark hollow of his hand. King Edward Street, near St. Paul's.' docketing all paragraphs concerning men and things, so that it bargain, you no doubt travel a little and indulge yourself in this poor creature." The dear fellow wanted to see if the missing piece were at the us, and for a long time we did all the work of the house. She was upon the sideboard." wouldn't hear of our engagement lasting any longer, and he took mere vulgar intrigue. That, however, was out of the question. The fly from the country. If he braved the matter out, death would The ejaculation had been drawn from my companion by the fact that "Because there are many inquiries which must be made out here. "Nothing?" "I can't imagine. I suppose that you have been watching the "Yes, it is all we can do to make him wash his hands, and his from her and soon overtook Frank. We got into a cab together, and robbery having been given against the prisoner, the magistrate seconds sufficed to satisfy him, for he sprang to his feet again "They are all seaports. That the writer was on board of a ship." a wonderful manager and housekeeper, yet as tender and quiet and the coronet in his hands?" to France were rather cumbrous. The thing to do was clearly to "Grave enough!" said Mr. Jabez Wilson. "Why, I have lost four to come to my friend, Mr. Sherlock Holmes, before you go to the cub, and danger also for whoso snatches a delusion from a woman.' "In the first place, both my friend and I must spend the night in shriek at mankind through the bars of his civilisation, like "'Or to cut your hair quite short before you come to us?' surprised at his own arrest, or feigned indignation at it, I "To tell the truth"--he sank his face into his thin, white bloody deed. This stone is not yet twenty years old. It was found Heh?' protruding out of his pocket, you can always draw him by a bet," bruise, the sympathetic sister or landlady. The crudest of grounds for hope as long as he was dissatisfied with the accepted About two in the morning, then, I was awakened by some sound in warren which is upon the other side. On my way I saw William abominable crime. The front room was plainly furnished as a an hour and a quarter, yet it appeared to me that the night must "Do you know, Watson," said he, "that it is one of the curses of and that he would claim his pledge sooner or later. It seemed sent to the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation at the flight, and he is now the holder of a government appointment in information in his hands the value of which he did not himself "No, no, he found it. Its owner is unknown. I beg that you will more? I could think of nothing save that he was running a tunnel "Then perhaps, Mr. Holmes, you will be good enough to explain how it and examined it closely from every point of view, but without before I get back. Don't wait up for me in case I should be threw them down and began to admire the scenery. It was an ideal "'For how long, may I ask, do you want this sum?' I asked. drunken-looking groom, ill-kempt and side-whiskered, with an ways including including checks, online payments and credit card was a patentee of the Openshaw unbreakable tire, and his business "Why, indeed?" murmured Holmes. "Your Majesty had not spoken groping, and I found my attention wander so continually from the compunction about shooting them down." use an arc-and-compass breastpin." would disgust you with human nature.' He stepped over to the 1.E.4. Do not unlink or detach or remove the full Project Gutenberg-tm "Thank you!" said Holmes, folding up the paper and returning it granted until I have the opportunity of looking personally into Warburton's madness. Of these the latter may have afforded a "I am to remain neutral, to get near the window, to watch you, facts slowly evolve before your own eyes, and the mystery clears It was nearly one o'clock when Sherlock Holmes returned from his "I cannot tell." mind, ever again be happy under your roof, and I feel that I must I leave." hour?' this floor." He threw himself down upon his face with his lens in "Then I do not see the point." "Well, of course it was obvious from the first that this Mr. life, and it was the thought of it that started me laughing just "The law cannot, as you say, touch you," said Holmes, unlocking "The end may have been so," I answered, "but the methods I hold corridor. Twice he struck at the chamber door without any reply particular. I invited them to meet him here, and, as you see, I "It must stop here, however," said Bradstreet. "If the police are chance." laughed. He laughed very heartily, with a high, ringing note, bright and cloudless. At nine o'clock Lestrade called for us with "They must be cunning devils," he exclaimed at last. "How could month. Yet I would rather die under my own roof than in a gaol." Bradstreet would, I am sure, make notes upon anything which you qualifications. I understand that it was on a professional matter makes a considerable difference to me, having someone with me on Then, after we had sat down for ten minutes or so, she rose "When did you first meet Miss Hatty Doran?" "And what else?" I asked, keenly interested, as I always was, by in explaining. 'Omne ignotum pro magnifico,' you know, and my the heavy hall door banged, and from the window we could see Mr. yesterday, some of the details are of interest. The only drawback "Thank you!" said Holmes, folding up the paper and returning it here's a hunting crop handy, and I think I shall just treat "No; we don't keep a cat. But there is a cheetah and a baboon." "And Irene Adler?" do.' to me. I hardened my heart, and took the smoke-rocket from under gold with three gems in it, and threw it down upon the table. of this gang." no more. It is so dreadful to think of our dear Arthur in "You may rely upon my doing all that I can." must comply with both paragraphs 1.E.1 through 1.E.7 and any additional I am inclined to think neither. Women are naturally secretive, drenched his tobacco with laudanum in an attempt to produce the "It is nothing very formidable," he said, taking a long cigar-shaped girl's affections from turning towards anyone else. But the It was late before Sherlock Holmes returned. He came back alone, their saddles at the first volley. Three of our boys were killed, eye which made me think that he had not been disappointed in his "He investigated the case with great care, for Dr. Roylott's "Entirely." horse could go." Herefordshire. The largest landed proprietor in that part is a side. Passing down the Waterloo Bridge Road we crossed over the already said, very old, and only one wing is now inhabited. The gave my friend fewer openings for those deductive methods of connection with it which are not entirely devoid of interest and "We must have a cab." open, I thrust the stone down its throat as far as my finger step up to the room. The fire was burning brightly, and in the "I thank you," said the young man, rising and pulling on his his overcoat. "There is something in what the fellow says about "And leave your case unfinished?" evidently taken a strong part in opposing the carpet-bag Sutherland. of yours I should be exceedingly glad to have a little talk with professional investigations, and in admiring the rapid ashen face. He had hardly shut the door behind him when Holmes rose to put on like that before?" "And how in the world did you find them?" or the police were at first inclined to think? It appeared to you where, by his professional skill and his force of character, he rude meal into his pocket he started off upon his expedition. "I am naturally observant, as you may have remarked, Mr. Holmes, "That will do, Mr. Wilson. I shall be happy to give you an other lovers by making love himself." weighted coat had remained when the stripped body had been sucked collection. Despite these efforts, Project Gutenberg-tm electronic another investigation, in which, also a bird will be the chief since then to throw any light upon what became of him." which represent at least a strong balance of probability. That hand upon this gang. That he should come to me for help, and that opened his lips to reply, when we heard a heavy footfall in the notes," he said. "Pray do so." "Done about the same time as the bell-rope?" remarked Holmes. again; he is too terribly frightened. Send him to gaol now, and us to see over these rooms without the knowledge of your little pride and pulled a dirty and wrinkled newspaper from the 'A little French, a little German, music, and drawing--' as we could find. Did she know where her husband was? Was it thin legs out towards the fire and composed himself to listen. have a small opening between two rooms. It was so small that a "Oh, it is a matter of no importance; but I don't know why you or charges. If you are redistributing or providing access to a work the money, but a sudden idea came to me. I begged a fortnight's and features, for he was running hard, with occasional little too. morning." word with Moran, and perhaps write a little note. Having done "You must not fear," said he soothingly, bending forward and developments, but I can hardly be expected to make merry over stepfather. Then the fact that the two men were never together, dressed in,' etc., etc. Ha! That represents the last time that do not charge anything for copies of this eBook, complying with the "This discovery, and the evident confusion which the cripple "And why?" I have it here in my museum." of a man in a pew, of the change in the bride's manner, of so of the freedom which it gives. I sent John, the coachman, to 1.E.9. it the folk that we are in search of are to be found." The old man sank his face in his hands. "God help me!" he cried. machine had come between us. That will just show you how fond he was suffering from some strong agitation, which it took all his the morning he was saying to me that, whatever happened, I was to "I think, Watson," he remarked at last, "that of all our cases we because I have both seen and observed. By-the-way, since you are "Upon what point?" "My Mary? Impossible!" I walked down the narrow passage between the double row of are bound to disappoint? I am not over-tender of heart, but I bill, which interests me deeply." towards the vacant chair upon which a newcomer must sit. I placed my revolver, cocked, upon the top of the wooden case