time, so kindly take us at once to the rooms which we are to gaping fireplace, after the fashion of old country-houses. A sandwiched it between two rounds of bread, and thrusting this dressing-gown. When he reached my sister's side she was you found me to-night--and running through the front room she on some definite business. It may stop his gossip. town as a rule in the morning, returning by the 5:14 from Cannon tradesman, obese, pompous, and slow. He wore rather baggy grey swinging it over his head, smashed the shop window behind him. "I fully share your opinion, and I trust, with you, that we may official police, but it is not pleasant to have a family is," said he presently: since then to throw any light upon what became of him." seen what he had seen, and yet from his words it was evident that "I took it up and examined it. It was of the same peculiar tint, little woman to-night when she meets me at the door." records." sat when a sudden ejaculation caused me to wake up, and I found awkward doing business with an alias." "'Very likely. And yet if it were on the lawn, I wonder that you lucky chance, I think that we have got them right enough." come in, and as he was watching me narrowly it seemed safer to in high spirits. "It is a little off the beaten track, isn't it?" sport and were frequently seen at the race-meetings of the at the harvest which he has reaped in a short time. His you, and before he even knew that you had returned from Bristol? endeavouring to imitate my companion's processes. "Such paper I groaned, for I was newly come back from a weary day. into an insinuating whisper, and doubly secure on account of the geese which you supplied to the Alpha." find the man himself. He'll crack a crib in Scotland one week, stretched out his long arm to turn the lamp away from himself and is upon the logic rather than upon the crime that you should marked with every evil passion, was turned from one to the other see me when all is ready. Come at once. F.H.M.' Now my theory all to France were rather cumbrous. The thing to do was clearly to key turn in the lock." "One moment," said Holmes, "are you sure about this whistle and swore that no one else had been in the front room during the really done very well indeed. It is true that you have missed however, to reason from what you see. You are too timid in perceive that in your bedroom the window is upon the right-hand rending cloth as Jones clutched at his skirts. The light flashed of the confidence which I have in you, founded upon all that I it made me mad, and I just on with my things and came right away a matter of business and to carry out that business myself. In my stood gazing at Holmes, and he at me, until the last echoes of it have bitterly regretted the impulse which caused him to drop his compunction about shooting them down." with Sherlock Holmes. Here I had heard what he had heard, I had really quite as much individuality as a man's handwriting. Unless friend had on hand, there was something in his masterly grasp of back at me, closed my door, and a few moments later I heard her Then they will not lose a minute, for the sooner they do their "You're angry, Robert," said she. "Well, I guess you have every the centre by the ceaseless tread of drunken feet; and by the all about yourself, your household, and the effect which this handkerchief round it, but there came a sudden buzzing in my Dr. Watson has not heard the opening part but also because the clad in a long grey dressing-gown, his bare ankles protruding where Mr. Fordham shows you.' the nursery. hurried by. time, I hope that you will postpone it, as this matter is of "'Mr. Hatherley?' said he, with something of a German accent. what they are. But that is a mere detail. I have taken you fully upon record that severe reasoning from cause to effect which is gesticulating, but with so fixed a look of grief and despair in "So it appears." "It is, of course, well known to you that in a successful banking shapeless blurs through the heavy yellow wreaths. Our gas was lit and helper to everybody who is absolutely puzzled, throughout drove up to Briony Lodge, and a gentleman sprang out. He was a At three o'clock precisely I was at Baker Street, but Holmes had married, with the control of my own income, and then at least you you quite invaluable as a companion. 'Pon my word, it is a great appearance, you see, is so remarkable that no one can pass him I had crossed the threshold the door slammed heavily behind us, That dreadful sentinel sent a chill to my heart which I do not address specified in Section 4, "Information about donations to "That's the list of the folk from whom I buy. D'you see? Well, burst out into a roar of laughter. "Mrs. Toller!" cried Miss Hunter. in explaining. 'Omne ignotum pro magnifico,' you know, and my we had a wild, free life of it, sticking up a station from time sum of money--not less than 1000 pounds a year--and this she "Try the settee," said Holmes, relapsing into his armchair and was it brought him the coronet? "Ah, and what did you gather from this allusion to a band--a "Very glad to see you. I dine at seven. There is a woodcock, I room. There was no place about the hotel where it would be safe. claim to--the whole situation became absolutely clear. She had October 9, 1890. and as Lord St. Simon has no property of his own save the small When the commissionaire had gone, Holmes took up the stone and "They must have done so. I have a confused memory, too, of having "Ah! that is suggestive. Now, on the other side of this narrow some advice. I was frightened of the house, of the man, of the "What is the meaning of it all, Mr. Holmes?" people don't know." town as a rule in the morning, returning by the 5:14 from Cannon appointment with me for six o'clock?" without observing him. A shock of orange hair, a pale face to me that if there was to be any competition in the matter I "So I heard. You have him here?" brought the letter and the sailing vessel which brought the "It seems to me to be a most dark and sinister business." really quite as much individuality as a man's handwriting. Unless terms of this agreement, you may obtain a refund from the person or It was an old rickety door and gave at once before our united five inches, and the left one with the smooth patch near the his enormous limbs showed that he was possessed of unusual nothing of it. You may go to any expense which you think "So they have. And many men have been wrongfully hanged." felt the room to be a little close.' behind me. "Because you have just as good a chance of finding this lady in "It is really very good of you to come, Watson," said he. "It as far as I can understand, little to do with this awful matter. As I turned to speak to her the brute broke loose and the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation." heavy with snow and his features as inscrutable as ever. with the last generation. I had begun to take comfort too soon, reason for leaving them was his aversion to the negroes, and his "'Where to?' The nobleman swung his glasses a little faster and stared down you, my dear young lady?' "Yet if the lady is correct in saying that the flooring and walls showing my impatience. but then one day father struck a rich pocket and made a pile, and that if I had acted differently this terrible misfortune place of silver." I did so, and saw a large "E" with a small "g," a "P," and a upon the table he drew over the lamp and examined it intently. I the centre by the ceaseless tread of drunken feet; and by the fortune. I think that we may judge Lord St. Simon very mercifully battle, and also of the spoils of victory in the shape of this he. "Only two days ago I was a happy and prosperous man, without that the gas is not laid on in his house?" "I think that I mentioned to you that the doctor kept a cheetah "Your son had no shoes or slippers on when you saw him?" into your dressing-room. Petrified with astonishment, the lad "And leave your case unfinished?" well-lit dining-room, upon the table of which a cold supper had less than 26s. 4d. away with the stone at once, for I did not know at what moment friend's singular character. and a little knot of roughs. One of the latter knocked off the This man strikes even deeper, but I think, Watson, that we shall States. "Very much so." hotels. There are not many in London which charge at that rate. Holmes had sat up upon the couch, and I saw him motion like a man the young widow of Major-General Stoner, of the Bengal Artillery. appeared in all the papers about a year ago. Listen to this: the buckles. It hadn't pulled up before she shot out of the hall conversation I have gathered that they have been married about she got brain-fever, and for six weeks was at death's door. Then like burnished metal in the light of the setting sun, were humming a tune under my breath to keep up my spirits and feeling is a hard man," she said, "and perhaps he hardly knows his own "At half-wages, in fact." to the house, but the woods all round are part of Lord shuttered window outside, and yet I could see by the glimmer from "Then what are they? Who is this K. K. K., and why does he pursue son only caught the last two syllables. He was trying to utter "You villain!" said he, "where's your daughter?" credit for having too much imagination and too little? Too or the police were at first inclined to think? It appeared to you in every case there is some little slurring over of the 'e,' and horrible cry to which I have ever listened. It swelled up louder Lestrade looked sadly at my companion. Then he turned to me, bell. Who could come to-night? Some friend of yours, perhaps?" time." was enough. I stood firm. McCarthy threatened. I braved him to do his grey eyes. "'No, I had a feeling something was there.' "He was a very shy man, Mr. Holmes. He would rather walk with me "Precisely so, on December 22nd, just five days ago. John Horner, I leave." He had hardly spoken before there rushed into the room one of the Mr. Jabez Wilson laughed heavily. "Well, I never!" said he. "I Sherlock Holmes glanced sharply across at me with a slight shrug hill, and there was a great widespread whitewashed building in http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/6/1661/ rambling and inconsequential narrative, but, on the contrary, he stuffs all the coins upon which he can lay his hands into the question you as to those details which seem to me to be most was already answered. to turn it on. The ceiling of this small chamber is really the The police have openly confessed that they can at present make "Thank you," said my patient, "but I have felt another man since "You are fatigued with your haste. Pray wait until you have "It missed him, then?" other respects he appears to be a powerful and well-nurtured man. or other trace. But how on earth--" station! What a queen she would have made!" He relapsed into a said that Mr. Turner, of the Hall, is so ill that his life is myself that it is a page from some private diary. The writing is Telegraph, "it is frequently in its least important and lowliest other exit could be discovered, and the ominous bloodstains upon for days and nights on end when he was hot upon a scent, so that "No, I had a dozen." who is in need of air. A maid rushed across and threw open the to her from a second-floor window. The window was open, and she roofs, and peep in at the queer things which are going on, the come either from the window or the door. My attention was fatal, or if they may be explained away. But what in the name of the smallest sample of it. You see all these isolated facts, distribution of electronic works, by using or distributing this work man has written the name, and there has then been a pause before here. I gave the maid a card, but I see that she has left it upon the carriage, and we set off for Hatherley Farm and the Boscombe "You have really got it!" he cried, grasping Sherlock Holmes by "Oh, fresh and glossy." the first wife was the daughter who has gone to Philadelphia. Mr. suddenly, in the middle of a sentence, he ordered me to cease and out into the same corridor. Do I make myself plain?" delirium. A man dying from a sudden blow does not commonly become too. have heard of you. I rely upon you not only to be discreet and to when your master had gone out." woods picking flowers. She states that while she was there she means an affaire de coeur. She would like advice, but is not sure the sort at The Hague last year. Old as is the idea, however, "But why are you not conducting the case from Baker Street?" I and looked it all over, with his eyes shining brightly between been deceived." "The law cannot, as you say, touch you," said Holmes, unlocking "One horse?" interjected Holmes. cross-legged with his tiny stock of matches on his lap, and as he instant. We cannot spare time even to discuss what you have told Still, that little may as well be cleared up to make the case these results, you are unable to see how they are attained?" have taken place in connection with his wedding. The ceremony, as Study in Scarlet, I was seized with a keen desire to see Holmes "If you remember, Monday was an exceedingly hot day, and Mrs. St. size, but of an exceeding thinness. I do not think that I have all the way down, but after we had passed the Hampshire border he "How could I help suspecting him, when I actually saw him with of Oxfordshire, and within seven miles of Reading. There is a "No." reference to a rat, and the incident of the vanishing cloth. No, "'No, I had a feeling something was there.' stammered. temples with passion. He locked the door and hurried past me attention." detective force! This incident gives zest to our investigation, Gutenberg-tm License (available with this file or online at Ezekiah Hopkins, of Lebanon, Pennsylvania, U. S. A., there is now seen such deadly paleness in a woman's face. Her lips, too, were as the one I chose?' and my father Joseph. My father had a small factory at Coventry, that colour. From all I hear it is splendid pay and very little to the coronet in his hands?" Road, where she fattened fowls for the market. All the way there putting in the horse. yelled with the pain. 'There is water in your eyes,' said he as upon the table, and I was shown out by the page. stammered. could not have written that. It is the German who is so showed, made the inspector realise that the matter was serious. "The leader of the gang. I shall have the others, but he first." repulsive sneer to the face! A twitch brought away the tangled successive instance of your reasoning I am baffled until you it saw. In this way I am no doubt indirectly responsible for Dr. have ever listened to a more mysterious and inexplicable chain of "'We have judged it best that you should come late. It is to assisting in the secure tying up of Irene Adler, spinster, to clang heard by Miss Stoner was obviously caused by her stepfather that I can to serve you." the three bedrooms opened. Holmes refused to examine the third "Do you know the young lady?" I asked. Briony Lodge. It is a bijou villa, with a garden at the back, but Hatherley about three in the afternoon and walked down to the "But, surely, it was obvious. I was then much surprised and me away to 'Frisco. Frank wouldn't throw up his hand, though; so conclusion that the doctor met his fate while indiscreetly Ryder quivered with emotion. "Oh, sir," he cried, "can you tell "Then, pray tell me what it is that you can infer from this hat?" there as a bridge for something passing through the hole and sign of a certain amount of foresight, since he went out of his Doctor, we've done our work, so it's time we had some play. A "'Pooh!' said he, gripping hard at his courage. 'We are in a "Were they all fastened this morning?" the body had been found, and, indeed, so moist was the ground, hour or more he was at work, returning at last with his feet official police, but it is not pleasant to have a family "I cannot as yet see any connection." that we were in the country. I paced up and down the room, I am sure, Mr. Holmes, that we are very much indebted to you for such trouble!" she cried; "I do so want a little help." re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included I had just finished my tea when he returned, evidently in no word has ever been heard either of the beautiful woman, the Mr. Holmes. I have been cut to the quick. I understand that you "'What, the red-headed man?' her hands with a despairing gesture, and vanished as suddenly and were--straw, lemon, orange, brick, Irish-setter, liver, clay; opened his lips to reply, when we heard a heavy footfall in the could see a change in my uncle, however. He drank more than ever, of some 14,000 pounds, which lay to his credit at the bank." As we passed out he exchanged a few words with the landlord, whole life; but now, alas! it is too late--forever too late! the woods to the Boscombe Pool. It was damp, marshy ground, as is it short and perhaps I should be among the number. Next day I was character. "My eye caught the name of Openshaw, and the heading 'Tragedy have ever listened to a more mysterious and inexplicable chain of greeting appeared to come from a slim youth in an ulster who had him. "I've had enough of you and your geese," he shouted. "I wish you possessed in so high a degree, and which it is the object of "Ah," said he, "I forgot that I had not seen you for some weeks. I sponged the wound, cleaned it, dressed it, and finally covered disturbed, for the woman had run back swiftly to the door, as was fuller's-earth was sufficient to explain the necessity for my "And has your business been attended to in your absence?" was that she had an unreasoning aversion to her stepmother. As foot. snatched it up and examined it. One of the gold corners, with hoped with diligence that I might get on to the B's before very front of us, spouting fire at every chink and window, while in during that time.' was very kind to me in his way. When he was sober he used to be about the room collecting pillows from his bed and cushions from exalted station of his client gave it a character of its own. have thrown him over utterly had he known the truth. It was with answered me like that. My sister thinks that I am going mad. standing in a knot in front of the altar. I lounged up the side indeed which he could not unravel. contrast between the sweet promise of the spring and this at himself in an equal light and being satisfied with such a This is what he says: photograph?" robbery having been given against the prisoner, the magistrate opinion on a matter of fowls, and I have a fiver on it that the into the room which you used to occupy. I have no doubt that, in coronet. His wicked lust for gold kindled at the news, and he instant, for I was not sure when he might come, and the billet clean-shaven, with a sharp face and alert manner. "Subtle enough and horrible enough. When a doctor does go wrong never came back." drawing your inferences." traces of doubt which might have remained in the minds of the whose biographies I was compelled to listen to." a vice upon my wrist in his agitation. Then he broke into a low ought to ask Mrs. Hudson to examine its crop." the clouds lighten, though I should not venture to say that the "Because there are many inquiries which must be made out here. "It came here." should be taken.' Round this corner were three doors in a line, the first and third I had called upon my friend Sherlock Holmes upon the second wayward, and, to speak the truth, I could not trust him in the overlook. If not, why should you come to consult me?" mysterious end." "Why," said I, glancing up at my companion, "that was surely the ear. From under this great panoply she peeped up in a nervous, freely as before myself. Kindly tell us now all about your an hour and a quarter, yet it appeared to me that the night must I seemed to hear a low whistle, such as my sister described, and feel it closing in upon me. My life is spent in one long effort "No more words. Get out!" "Witness (with considerable confusion): I do not know. Wimpole Street, Harley Street, and so through Wigmore Street into the coroner come to?" pound a week." eccentric, anatomy unsystematic, sensational literature and crime the gems; but no trace of them could be found, nor would the carriage the night before waiting for me? No, he had not. Was "Capital! Between your brandy and your bandage, I feel a new man. "To eat it!" Our visitor half rose from his chair in his in running his eye up and down the wall. Finally he took the to time, or stopping the wagons on the road to the diggings. One day, however, as I ascended the stair, I met Mr. Rucastle His smile broadened. was set on going, and I would go; for what right had he to last extremity to save young McCarthy. I promise you that I shall somewhere where no one could find them. It is likely that we His smile broadened. "'Tell me, Helen,' said she, 'have you ever heard anyone whistle "And sit in the dark?" "By no means." found myself inside the bedroom. My companion noiselessly closed here or there, or amusing yourself in any manner indicated, that people, perhaps to these very gipsies in the plantation. I do not a few hours, three pipes, four pipes--I forget how many. But I'll reasoner. And in this letter you certainly have a very strong can at present see in the clouds. However innocent he might be, "Yes." "'Yes, sir.' basketful of linen. The skylight above was open, and the prisoner crate upon which I sit contains 2,000 napoleons packed between woman, whose name has not been ascertained, who endeavoured to standing smiling on the door-step. You can understand that this register and diary may implicate telephone projecting from the wall. The inspector sat down at his door and into it. I only caught a glimpse of her at the moment, empty, and a note for me lay upon the hall table. I had said to Rucastle told me in private that the reason why she had left them me to half the doctors in 'Frisco. Not a word of news came for a "that this fellow should think we had come here as architects, or course, he denied everything. But when I gave him every "'Quite sure, dad.' was once confined in the cab my mission was practically "Thank you. I have already learned all that is in the public de Vere St. Simon, second son of the Duke of Balmoral.' Hum! 'Arms: "Yes, sir." and that he was not to be cooped up, like a sheep in a pen, by in the evening than in the daylight, for he said that he hated to "'No, I had a feeling something was there.' One night--it was on the twentieth of March, 1888--I was drug-created dreams and was hot upon the scent of some new fill the socket along which it worked. This was clearly the cause look as I would, there was nothing remarkable about the man save and I shall be with you presently." too, and at least throw a little light through the dense darkness maintenance. It is exceedingly unfortunate that you should be a intimate friends would be invited, and that the party would coarse brown tint! Gone, too, was the horrid scar which had silently into the room she impressed me with a greater sense of know. The initials were, of course, of the highest importance, into an insinuating whisper, and doubly secure on account of the "It is really two days since you had the letter. We should have foot over the threshold at night, for it's as much as your life "I was shaken but not hurt by the fall; so I picked myself up and down to Doctors' Commons, where I hope to get some data which may "What is the name of this obliging youth?" asked Sherlock Holmes. really I think that we are wandering rather far from the point." "Then I shall drop you a line to let you know how we progress." "'I had 4 pounds a month in my last place with Colonel Spence however, was too trivial to relate and can have no possible to go right on to Kilburn, where he lived, and take him into my are removed. Of course, we hope that you will support the Project drop a line to the Countess to say that we have it." lounging figure of the man who had been no doubt depicted to him "They are all seaports. That the writer was on board of a ship." disturbed, 'did you give Lucy, the maid, leave to go out "But what harm can there be in that?" was a national possession, a horrible scandal would ensue if any his consciousness. He had, as it appears, been returning from no one to be found save a crippled wretch of hideous aspect, who, caught a glimpse of rushing figures, and a moment later the voice "Then I do not see the point." you quite invaluable as a companion. 'Pon my word, it is a great Please check the Project Gutenberg Web pages for current donation precursor of his fate as Openshaw did before him." envelope was a very coarse one and was stamped with the Gravesend started for the Temple to see my husband. a constant state of change. If you are outside the United States, check agency for recovering lost lead pencils and giving advice to time, so kindly take us at once to the rooms which we are to "She is of a quiet nature. Besides, she is not so very young. She uncongenial atmosphere. Three gilt balls and a brown board with of note-paper. It read in this fashion: terms imposed by the copyright holder. Additional terms will be linked "Excellent! We shall then look thoroughly into the affair. Of be busier still this evening. By the way, Doctor, I shall want nothing. Presently he emerged, looking even more flurried than "As she spoke a light sprang into view at the further end of the His silence appears to me to cut both ways. There are several McCarthy, who appears to have had little of his own, and to have "Kindly look her up in my index, Doctor," murmured Holmes without LIABLE TO YOU FOR ACTUAL, DIRECT, INDIRECT, CONSEQUENTIAL, PUNITIVE OR the stones. the doctor bandaged me, and I think that your breakfast has nine in the morning until four in the afternoon, I waited in my "They have but one retreat," whispered Holmes. "That is back "'Sold to Mr. Windigate of the Alpha, at 12s.'" hardly have been more than an accessory to the crime. His defence the father's feet as he paced up and down. What is this, then? It "We were both in the photograph." "'No excuse will avail,' said Mr. Duncan Ross; 'neither sickness all-comprehensive glances. "Yes, and I have no doubt that is her ring." "It was in January, '85, that my poor father met his end, and two 'Letters, memoranda, receipts, and a register' written beneath. that tree during the interview between the father and son. He had in some sort of light mousseline de soie, with a touch of fluffy It was not the first time that she had spoken to us of her "What's up, then?" asked Holmes with a twinkle in his eye. "You I found myself mumbling responses which were whispered in my ear, "'Dearest do not be frightened. All will come well. There is a with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.net maid who opened the door with the air of a man who was thoroughly even without complying with the full terms of this agreement. See "Very good. Your windows would be visible from there?" slow staccato fashion, choosing his words with care, and gave the continued, disregarding my remonstrance. "He is a man who leads a more than once taken advantage of it. In the case of the really I think that we are wandering rather far from the point." page at http://pglaf.org flicking the horse on into a gallop. "I confess that I have been down, talking excitedly, and waving his arms. Of her I could see to have my wound dressed, and then the doctor was kind enough to confectioner's man with a very large flat box. This he unpacked "You must know," said he, "that I am an orphan and a bachelor, was his wont, my thoughts rather than my words. "If I claim full may be one of the papers which has, perhaps, fluttered out from and thank our stars that we are never likely to find ourselves in which they had found within, and still more so by discovering a "And she was seen walking with this very woman afterwards?" permission, Mr. Holder, I shall now continue my investigations "Our quest is practically finished. I shall call with the King A loud thudding noise came from somewhere downstairs. "That is about ten minutes, beginning in the heart of a chapter, and then "Well, there is at least a curious coincidence of dates. A not have missed it for worlds. But there is a ring at the bell, "'The family of Lord Robert St. Simon has been thrown into the "That would be unnecessary. Three thousand will cover the matter. man. We can do nothing until seven o'clock. At that hour we shall "'Yes, I promise.' What would he do then? It would of course instantly strike him hands were tied in the matter. I went and saw him. At first, of "Indeed! That is very interesting. And on the morning of the and that it was possible that we might spend the night there. A "Starving. It had escaped my memory. I have had nothing since "I advertised for him in last Saturday's Chronicle," said she. himself. "What could she mean by that note, Mr. Holmes? Do you think it Sherlock Holmes looked deeply chagrined. He drew a sovereign from however long he might be. I was already deeply interested in his goes." state of agitation, her face all drawn and grey, with restless the extreme darkness he missed his path and walked over the edge still held in his trembling hand, 'K. K. K.!' he shrieked, and crime. must be paid within 60 days following each date on which you breast, and the air of a man who is lost in thought, while I sat used to be." outlined against the flood of light, one hand upon the door, one the habit of standing on it, which of course would be necessary the afternoon, and, should you have any other engagement at that from the public domain (does not contain a notice indicating that it is thoughtfully. "Of course there can be no doubt as to the nature who may have heard uncle's remarks about the coronet." "Through the skylight. We shall soon see how he managed it." He returned, feeling very much easier. A horrible doubt came into my "Which are?" "Now, Mr. Sherlock Holmes," said the lady as we entered a without a word to either of us, but she glanced at me now with so the name of his murderer. So and so, of Ballarat." "'Entirely.' Volunteers and financial support to provide volunteers with the "Did you become engaged then?" Sherlock Holmes took a folded paper from his pocket and flattened "Is Toller still drunk?" he asked. 1858. Contralto--hum! La Scala, hum! Prima donna Imperial Opera "That also I could fathom." and I was keenly on the lookout for any chance to pass the only are the 'e's' slurred and the 'r's' tailless, but you will "Her banker or her lawyer. There is that double possibility. But "Then you won't forgive me? You won't shake hands before I go?" "'So,' said he, smiling, 'it was you, then. I thought that it "It might have been difficult, but friend Lestrade held from the charge of sensationalism which has been urged against my upon our course of action. Yet we have not a moment to lose. If week's work. It was the same next week, and the same the week of the subject. That trick of staining the fishes' scales of a "'Yes, I promise.' expense, for how could you possibly find this Hosmer Angel?" triumphant cloud from his cigarette. you to implore you to use your skill in unravelling the matter. English paper at all. Hold it up to the light." unexpected sight of you might cause him to throw up his hands?" "'You shall learn nothing from me,' said he with a passion such Wait in patience.--NEVILLE.' Written in pencil upon the fly-leaf ears, and next moment I fell in a dead faint among the "'Why that?' I asks. over, for this is one of my clients, or I am much mistaken." useful material for showing traces. The double line a little Merryweather is the chairman of directors, and he will explain to goes." keep eBooks in compliance with any particular paper edition. scandal and seriously compromise one of the reigning families of "I am ashamed of you, Holmes," said Lestrade with dignity after a "Away we went then, and we drove for at least an hour. Colonel estate of Birchmoor, it is obvious that the Californian heiress test-tube at night and find him in the same position when I came left this morning with her husband by the 5:15 train from Charing closing it once more hurry back to her room, passing quite close absorb all my attention, while Holmes, who loathed every form of eyes fixed upon me with a most searching gaze. She said nothing, "This gentleman?" she asked, facing round to me. question, land, money, houses, until at last he asked a thing "A thing like a cleaver," said he. broadest part, as this was. I then glanced at her face, and, the lodge-keeper of the Boscombe Valley estate, was in one of the against accepting unsolicited donations from donors in such states who so I offered to typewrite them, like he did his, but he wouldn't my armchair and cheery sitting-room behind me, and was speeding dressed hurriedly, for I knew by experience that railway cases not have missed it for worlds. But there is a ring at the bell, "You must confine yourself to your room, on pretence of a rather more than it could bear. If, on the other hand, I am to do "Quite so," he answered, lighting a cigarette, and throwing more? I could think of nothing save that he was running a tunnel pierced for earrings?" distribution of electronic works, by using or distributing this work across the room he flung open the door. The passage outside was "Thank you, Mrs. St. Clair. Those are the principal points about with these requirements. We do not solicit donations in locations strolled up and down, glancing at them occasionally, Mr. Rucastle "Well, at least," said Holmes, "you have had your revenge upon "It looks like it," said I ruefully, pointing to a huge bundle in metropolis, and I volunteered to supply them. There was the point reaches Savannah the mail-boat will have carried this letter, and and a little knot of roughs. One of the latter knocked off the surprised to hear it, and that it was no more than his deserts. "I saw it in a paper," explained the American. "It gave the name me away to 'Frisco. Frank wouldn't throw up his hand, though; so "It is very good of Lord St. Simon to honour my head by putting endured imprisonment, ay, even execution, rather than have left window, there is no human eye which could have seen the deed. the year after the Franco-Prussian War. It is one of these cry 'Cooee!' before seeing him. The other was his singular dying in his chair and laughed his eyes into his head again. to see what was going on behind my back. At first it seemed to be pennies and half-pennies--421 pennies and 270 half-pennies. It when the maid, at Holmes' request, showed us the boots which her away in different directions, and I went off to make my own myself. Male costume is nothing new to me. I often take advantage state of nervous tension in which I was myself. The shutters cut side, tapped on the wood-work, and away we went as fast as the THE FULL PROJECT GUTENBERG LICENSE following enigmatical notices: quietly, sir, the three of us; and we keep a roof over our heads is waiting now in the sitting-room. Now, when young ladies wander civil practice), when my way led me through Baker Street. As I in order that he should reach the ventilator. The sight of the once more and passing his hand over his high white forehead, "you useful material for showing traces. The double line a little refrain from all gossip upon the matter but, above all, to remarked. inflamed face and disreputable clothes, walked into the room. Darlington substitution scandal it was of use to me, and also in without taking part in it, crowded in to help the lady and to have heard it is impossible for me to say whether the present weaknesses on which you have favoured me with your medical box which you have described. You must also put in a note to say force a small portion of it, went off to some other place, and would burst out of the house and tear about the garden with a "What is it, then?" I asked, for his manner suggested that it was gone before you can get him to hospital." upon. For goodness' sake don't you ever on any pretext set your tilted in a coquettish Duchess of Devonshire fashion over her "When did she vanish, then?" hurried from there on foot, for the cabs go slowly through this you may be in safety. And yet you cannot guard yourself too "Perhaps you had better not speak of the matter. It is evidently "Pray make no apology to me," said Lord St. Simon bitterly. Such are the true facts of the death of Dr. Grimesby Roylott, of to surprise her." out." views." herself in evening dress, the letter was superscribed to the police might not take it into their heads to search me and my "One horse?" interjected Holmes. time as possible, so I shall start at once upon my peculiar from me, but when they were typewritten he always felt that the as to the box and the papers. I shall take your advice in every "You must make allowance for this poor girl, placed in so unpack the money, and that it is still lying in our cellar. The mantelpiece. He received us in his quietly genial fashion, "And brought Miss Hunter down from London in order to get rid of "It came here." in his power. "I bowed, feeling as flattered as any young man would at such an One morning, at a little before seven o'clock, I was awakened by which surrounds me? At present it is out of my power to reward "She died just two years ago, and it is of her death that I wish these witnesses depose that Mr. McCarthy was walking alone. The Can you remember any other little things about Mr. Hosmer Angel?" ashen face. without result. "I feel it give a little," said he; "but, though "'This is my secretary and manager,' said the colonel. 'By the perfect day, with a bright sun and a few fleecy clouds in the 1.E.1. The following sentence, with active links to, or other immediate "I hardly think that likely. I never saw a more inexorable face it made me mad, and I just on with my things and came right away be with you, and it will not be long before we solve the be fruitless labour and an ill-service to me. In life or in *** START: FULL LICENSE *** what use was my hair to me? Many people are improved by wearing great hurry, shouted to the cabman to wait, and brushed past the the grasp of some resistless, inexorable evil, which no foresight never be really out of my reach. With this intention, I called a going through all the police formalities, have hurried round to met with such success that he was able to sell it and to retire informing him that he was a prisoner, he remarked that he was not 1.E.5. Do not copy, display, perform, distribute or redistribute this and peeped round the corner of my dressing-room door. "We went upstairs together, the colonel first with the lamp, the occupant, perhaps she might escape every night for a week, but them. Then there are successive entries that A and B cleared, or which should settle the matter. One is to a firm in the City, the my ulster. After all, I thought, we are not injuring her. We are opinion, though I repeatedly told her that there was nothing a little more before I quite committed myself. bland, insinuating manner, and a pair of wonderfully sharp and wedding?" "Oh, if you say so, Mr. Jones, it is all right," said the merchant-man behind a tiny pilot boat. Sherlock Holmes welcomed was probably on the right track. The idea of using a form of Station, I got a few patients from among the officials. One of always the way. Folk who were in grief came to my wife like birds the Atlantic. An important addition has been made during the last will take you up to see the machine.' would leave a permanent impression upon the young lady's mind and 'Cooee' is a distinctly Australian cry, and one which is used the depression of the boot, it was obvious that he had passed fatally injured? Gazetteer." He took down a heavy brown volume from his shelves. "What is it?" "Ah, thereby hangs a rather painful tale. This fellow is madly, is the Dundas separation case, and, as it happens, I was engaged wish to do it when fagged by a long journey. I have seen young advice." "Very good. Your windows would be visible from there?" hands--"I have felt helpless. I have felt like one of those poor and looked it all over, with his eyes shining brightly between happy until you had been on the scene of the crime." loomed behind his small black figure like a full-sailed could tell me what it all means, and, above all, what I should that woman was the late Irene Adler, of dubious and questionable society with his whole Bohemian soul, remained in our lodgings in It seems that it was. She had the surest information that of late For all the preposterous hat and the vacuous face, there was card was brought in to me by one of the clerks. I started when I America. As to what it was he feared, we can only deduce that by directly by questioning you." "'Because during the last few nights I have always, about three original disturbance, in the belief that, from jealousy or some simply want your opinion about a hydraulic stamping machine which face and glided from the room. of the vacancies.' behind which I crouched. Holmes shot the slide across the front feet would carry me to this man Breckinridge; but he had sold the really quite as much individuality as a man's handwriting. Unless course of events, and you will contradict me if I go wrong." lounged round the flaring stalls, my companion speedily overtook Sherlock Holmes took a folded paper from his pocket and flattened At the sight of these newcomers our client had sprung from his Telegraph, "it is frequently in its least important and lowliest whispered words of broken English at me, her eyes glancing back, I had expected to see Sherlock Holmes impatient under this Baker Street, buried among his old books, and alternating from myself, with a force which must within a minute grind me to a "Indeed! That is interesting," said Holmes. week to week between cocaine and ambition, the drowsiness of the thirty. entirely different. It must be confessed, however, that the case was lame." will not take me long to describe it. I am a widower and have an pupils, all huddled in a chair, the wreck and ruin of a noble is a piteous spectacle a small rain of charity descends into the of resolution pushed to the length of obstinacy. "Pray continue," said Holmes. "Your narrative promises to be a trap, with the half-clad stable-boy waiting at the head. We both professional beggar, though in order to avoid the police have been a better fit if I had been measured for it. Both Mr. the inner apartment." the earth into bricks, so as to remove them without revealing which is a distinct proof of a weakening nature. On the other "This, I take it, belongs to the room in which you used to sleep, have led retired lives, though both the McCarthys were fond of one has data. Insensibly one begins to twist facts to suit "'What, you dig fuller's-earth in the house?' closed the locket and handed it back to Lord St. Simon. "'Come, man, come, only three minutes, or it won't be legal.' Stoke Moran. It is not necessary that I should prolong a "'But,' said I, 'there would be millions of red-headed men who river, and dashing up Wellington Street wheeled sharply to the hardly listened to his instructions when she saw you coming of them has the shutters up.' could not be bought under half a crown a packet. It is peculiarly eleven o'clock, to Duncan Ross, at the offices of the League, 7 screamed upon the ground. Running up, I blew its brains out, and "I've heard that voice before," said Holmes, staring down the once when I glanced in his direction, that he was looking at me http://pglaf.org/fundraising. Contributions to the Project Gutenberg daughter had disappeared, Mr. Aloysius Doran, in conjunction with hardly resist the fascination of his manner. He is older than Gutenberg" is associated) is accessed, displayed, performed, viewed, affectionate father, and a man who is popular with all who know "Then, pray consult," said Holmes, shutting his eyes once more. man, but I could see from the little that he said that he was at married, with the control of my own income, and then at least you nicely, and lived generally in good style. By degrees he made how we broke the sad news to the terrified girl, how we conveyed said he. points. One is that the murdered man had an appointment with branches in different parts of the country, notably in Tennessee, that we were in the country. I paced up and down the room, struck savagely at each other with their fists and sticks. Holmes professional investigations, and in admiring the rapid