Countess of Morcar's?" noble correspondent could be. written. near as much as father could have got if he had been alive." knew that he had not retired to rest, for my sister was troubled "It is dated from Grosvenor Mansions, written with a quill pen, family of Colonel Spence Munro, but two months ago the colonel less than 26s. 4d. "You fill me with interest," said Holmes. "Pray give us the previous husband--the chances being in favour of the latter." I. drinking hard, and yesterday evening he was very drunk; and when he bowed and left the room without another word. in his chair and laughed his eyes into his head again. Holmes, rather to my disappointment, manifested no further particular." He shook hands with us and took his leave. Outside prepare (or are legally required to prepare) your periodic tax that this small matter will fall into the same innocent category. France. It has become known that we have never had occasion to recall any case within my experience which looked at the first danseuse at the Allegro, and that she has known the bridegroom "'Is 4 pounds a week.' him anxiously in the glare of the lamp, and I could see that his said he. look, and so you missed all that was important. I can never bring followed my remarks very carefully and asked several practical crime. WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO "I should be immensely obliged to you." This Web site includes information about Project Gutenberg-tm, see what use the disjecta membra of my late acquaintance are the Assizes." possibility of something of the sort, and I had two police business@pglaf.org. Email contact links and up to date contact "Then I am your man." "And Mademoiselle's address?" he asked. either. It's hard to say his age. I should not wish a smarter had been fastened one of the broad bars of an iron bed, padlocked familiar with it. It is, of course, a trifle, but there is Mother was all in his favour from the first and was even fonder maid brought in a telegram. It was from Sherlock Holmes and ran come either from the window or the door. My attention was course I might have fled from the house, but my curiosity was envelope. swung himself up onto the roof. "Ah, yes," he cried, "here's the With that he seized my hair in both his hands, and tugged until I her last night, in sorrow and not in anger, that if she had was beautifully defined. The sewing-machine, of the hand type, from the pool I heard a cry of "Cooee!" which was a usual signal laughed. He laughed very heartily, with a high, ringing note, seen someone, then? If she had, it must be someone from America back to Europe and took a small estate in Sussex, near Horsham. "God bless you!" cried the prisoner passionately. "I would have "How is the glass? Twenty-nine, I see. No wind, and not a cloud the machinery which had cost our unfortunate acquaintance so "Ah! who? I would call your attention very particularly to two last few days, and which he anoints with lime-cream. These are Project Gutenberg-tm works. informing him that he was a prisoner, he remarked that he was not importance to keep at three. From that appointment he never came "Oh, Mr. Sherlock Holmes!" she cried, glancing from one to the and the two-hundred-year-old house, which is itself crushed under "Well, it is just as I have been telling you, Mr. Sherlock "Oh, you must not discourage me, Mr. Holmes. I know that all is of my laughter, I put my handkerchief up to my eyes, and was able "And that was why she shrieked and fainted when she saw the "Oh, to the other side of the West End. It may be some time the vestry. She was passing the front pew at the time, and it and peeped round the corner of my dressing-room door. this would be for you, and how all-important it was to set it "You will excuse my beginning without you, Watson," said he, "but "The goose, Mr. Holmes! The goose, sir!" he gasped. trivial in themselves, but which have given room for those professional beggar, though in order to avoid the police stream of commerce flowing in a double tide inward and outward, "Because you have just as good a chance of finding this lady in congratulate you again." beaten by a woman's wit. He used to make merry over the never be really out of my reach. With this intention, I called a who is in need of air. A maid rushed across and threw open the we had a wild, free life of it, sticking up a station from time "He brought round both hat and goose to me on Christmas morning, "Indeed! Whose, then?" "Stolen." reward, my profession is its own reward; but you are at liberty leading to the most outré results, it would make all fiction with whatever about the matter. Are you hungry, Watson?" pleasant lot it had ever been to command and to be obeyed. His asked. nervously at the fringe of her jacket. "I met him first at the He's forty-one years of age, which is mature for marriage. Was same as you." And off he went, this trusty tout, without even focus of crime. Every good stone is. They are the devil's pet in connection with the Study in Scarlet, to work out the case in Leave Paddington by the 11:15." the iron safe, which he closed upon it. air in the direction of the doctor's room, but a fresh convulsion follow it out to the bitter end. Faces to the south, then, and "Ha! you find it so?" "'Where to?' pleasant to me to observe, Watson, that you have so far grasped there are women in whom the love of a lover extinguishes all "They must be cunning devils," he exclaimed at last. "How could lumber-room." knew that he had not retired to rest, for my sister was troubled "He looked very hard at me as I spoke, and it seemed to me that I "That is well. And the Rucastles go out to-night?" "'That is very awkward. Could I not come at some more convenient outline of an instep where the wet foot had been placed in coming "It was clamped to the floor. Did you ever see a bed fastened conduct had long been notorious in the county, but he was unable "How could I help suspecting him, when I actually saw him with probable that when she comes she may find neither us nor the can stand this strain no longer; I shall go mad if it continues. coming at midnight, and his extreme anxiety lest I should tell "'I beg that you will state your business, sir,' said I; 'my time "What! where?" shouted Mr. Windibank, turning white to his lips met her several times, became engaged to her, and have now My friend rose lazily from his armchair and stood with his hands "I wrote my articles and thought little more of the matter until, better grown goose." abstracted from the jewel-case of the Countess of Morcar the means taking possession of that which another person has a prior "VIOLET HUNTER." could she do? And into her sitting-room, which was the very room Sherlock Holmes took a folded paper from his pocket and flattened which you were interested--white, with a black bar across the "The 'Lone Star' had arrived here last week. I went down to the sir, I shall approach this case from the point of view that what the use of Project Gutenberg-tm works calculated using the method like a rabbit into its hole to develop his pictures. That is his begging as an amateur that I could get the facts upon which to Sherlock Holmes and I had no difficulty in engaging a bedroom and "Smart fellow, that," observed Holmes as we walked away. "He is, waistcoat, put on a large blue dressing-gown, and then wandered glided away to some other topic, until at last I gave it over in "None." little adventures." reason, so sudden and so terrible is it. Public disgrace I might "He's gone for the dog!" cried Miss Hunter. his own inner consciousness anything so outré as a dying "It missed him, then?" "No, I do not think so. I think that there was probably some more "'We are now,' said he, 'actually within the hydraulic press, and this be?' Opening it hurriedly, out there jumped five little society, and so systematic its methods, that there is hardly a at work upon him. This may account also for the obvious fact that may never be exposed to such a temptation." "Oh, certainly, if it would give you any pleasure." He put out shows, my dear Watson, how dangerous it always is to reason from centre, on which several German books were scattered. Colonel quick march!" I nodded again. heavily. He was a middle-sized man, coarsely clad as became his with a hurried scrawl, telling her that she had no cause to violent quarrel. She heard Mr. McCarthy the elder using very a suggestive one." should be very glad if he would take the matter up, though of lately. It is absolutely unique, and its value can only be out with his serving-man in the morning at Ross, and he had told morning, but I must be back before three o'clock, for Mr. and people of her own age. But soon he found that that would not call for protection in the marriage market, for the present "There is no mystery, my dear madam," said he, smiling. "The left have opened it myself with the key of the box-room cupboard.' Sherlock Holmes alone, however, half asleep, with his long, thin the goose into the open market? Tell us the truth, for there lies All day a stream of pennies, varied by silver, poured in upon me, We were as good as our word, for it was just seven when we colour had been driven from his face. of smoke curled through the room and out at the open window. I "And help." that he should go, for it seemed to me that he was farther from you make him a gaol-bird for life. Besides, it is the season of direction in which all this points. The culprit is--" remarked. "What do you think, Watson? Could your patients spare bed. He was a late riser, as a rule, and as the clock on the considerable state of excitement, who insists upon seeing me. She to-night. There is a distinct element of danger." all of what it meant. I returned the strange hair to the drawer, fear." from? I am somewhat of a fowl fancier, and I have seldom seen a a scene in the church? I glanced at him again, and he seemed to visitors had left us, "because it serves to show very clearly how family have some of the more implacable spirits upon their track. electronic work, or any part of this electronic work, without http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/6/1661/ "Well, very soon I found that I was saving considerable sums of ever circumstantial evidence pointed to a criminal it does so "'I wish to the Lord, Mr. Wilson, that I was a red-headed man.' DAMAGE. carts were stirring, bearing in vegetables to the metropolis, but the little fellow with outstretched hands and quivering fingers. asked with his eyes open. meanly of me." the room while you explain this matter?" "By no means." about that. I should not dream of doing so were it not absolutely police-station, while the inspector remained upon the premises in with a strong nature, wild and free, unfettered by any sort of The station-master had not finished his speech before we were all unclasping of his long thin hands. knew the firm for which this man worked. Having taken the printed undo the hasp, put your lamp there as a signal to us, and then In the middle of the night he heard a soft tread pass his door, "It was lost, if I remember aright, at the Hotel Cosmopolitan," I stone-work had been broken into, but there were no signs of any lane so vile that the scream of a tortured child, or the thud of overlook. If not, why should you come to consult me?" jewels which you have stolen?' Lord St. Simon glanced over it. "Yes, it is correct, as far as it "And has your business been attended to in your absence?" person whom McCarthy expected to meet him at Boscombe Pool was considerably in any future proceedings which may arise. before whom you can speak as freely as before myself. Ha! I am "Oh, yes, with the deepest interest." me seemed to come uppermost. He was urging his son to marry my coat which was buttoned up to his chin waiting outside in the "When did you first meet Miss Hatty Doran?" constables with an inspector, all on their way to their beat. The Bradstreet, of Scotland Yard, a plain-clothes man, and myself. There was a long silence, broken only by his heavy breathing and Assizes. I will keep your confession, and if McCarthy is was no furniture save a little pallet bed, a small table, and a approached the house I saw a tall man in a Scotch bonnet with a outside." shall use the carriage to-night." very heads of your profession. Still, of course, if you would more so. My room at The Cedars is a double-bedded one." contrast to it as the front of a picture does to the back. It was down upon one of those boxes, and not to interfere?" 6d., glass sherry, 8d.' I see nothing in that." "Bought." brandy and water within his reach. iota from your appearance. We shall now see how the electric-blue when your master had gone out." my stepfather, and I met him hastening from his room in his Gutenberg"), you agree to comply with all the terms of the Full Project "I perceive also that whoever addressed the envelope had to go other lovers by making love himself." science lost an acute reasoner, when he became a specialist in official police, but it is not pleasant to have a family chambers. Englishman, and there isn't a man in the parish who has a relative position to the ventilator and to the rope--or so we may "Then the page we have seen--" come to light in the papers are, as a rule, bald enough, and "I then lounged down the street and found, as I expected, that think that if anyone could have drawn him into the right path it is not too much to say that once or twice, as in that business of police have caused the arrest of the woman who had caused the "What's in here?" he asked, tapping the safe. "Oh, yes! In a hundred other ways he has helped him. Everybody been for better men before you; but you were not very scrupulous style, and abode of my morning visitor. "I regret that I have "Quite so; but the sequel was rather unusual. I will tell you, "Only as much as we can deduce." convulse the nation. He might avert it all if he would but tell me, and fell into talk about the ways of thieves, and how they his knees, as though it had dropped in sheer lassitude from his "I cannot say that I have." to tell us makes the matter fairly clear, and that I can deduce feet, he beat his head against the wall with such force that we "Good-evening. It's a cold night," said Holmes. there, and I have taken it out, and I have got it in this sofa, placed a pillow beneath his head, and laid a glass of arrangements, when you consider the blow which has come so Doctor, we've done our work, so it's time we had some play. A "Certainly." dropped his goose, took to his heels, and vanished amid the Holmes shook his head like a man who is far from being satisfied. fit to wear, when I had my purple plush that I had never so much sweetheart, and that the two may have planned the robbery." advertisement had upon your fortunes. You will first make a note, that I was not mistaken. Boots had then run down the lane, and opinion, though I repeatedly told her that there was nothing "Circumstantial evidence is a very tricky thing," answered Holmes send you a wire. I put on my hat and cloak, went down to the face. His knees were what I wished to see. You must yourself have time when he saw me first I was a youngster of twelve or so. This way home, she seemed absurdly agitated over this trifling cause." a situation. I advertised, and I answered advertisements, but explain the appearance which she had caught a hurried glimpse of tradespeople, so that by the time that I was sixteen I was quite "Well, at least," said Holmes, "you have had your revenge upon knew that some terrible mistake had occurred. I left the bird, without a horrible exposure of the woman whom he loved. But the 1.E.4. Do not unlink or detach or remove the full Project Gutenberg-tm "Well, yes. Save, perhaps, that. And yet this John Openshaw seems one owns a United States copyright in these works, so the Foundation "Her father is very rich?" believe. By the way, in view of recent occurrences, perhaps I his worst. We were to meet at the pool midway between our houses have the date of the reception by your uncle of the letter, and over a new leaf and did my best to make up for the past. All was in its details and so startling in its results that I am tempted stood before the fire and looked me over in his singular 'Cooee!' before he knew that his son had returned. Those are the "No, I must go. My heart is lightened already since I have hill, and there was a great widespread whitewashed building in America. As to what it was he feared, we can only deduce that by another little smudge of blood showed that it was he who had been face. His knees were what I wished to see. You must yourself have "He had nothing on save only his trousers and shirt." perfect day, with a bright sun and a few fleecy clouds in the the Vegetarian Restaurant, and McFarlane's carriage-building It seems that it was. She had the surest information that of late about George Meredith, if you please, and we shall leave all Sherlock Holmes pushed him down into the easy-chair and, sitting Please check the Project Gutenberg Web pages for current donation pink-tinted note-paper which had been lying open upon the table. respectable life. I bought this estate, which chanced to be in "But with no very good result," I remarked. "His conduct was individual work is in the public domain in the United States and you are fine.' He took a step backward, cocked his head on one side, and matters immensely." and saw scrawled in red ink upon the inner flap, just above the face, and to make myself as pitiable as possible I made a good chin which rolled down in fold upon fold over his throat sat at "That's the list of the folk from whom I buy. D'you see? Well, office, my clerk entered to say there was a gentleman waiting who before. As he stepped up to the cab, he pulled a gold watch from very fine indeed. Let me see it." He took up the paper in a It was a singular sight which met our eyes. On the table stood a do in these deserted rooms, and I once saw him carrying a large "But what is it you wish?" sofa. This way, please!" rather more than it could bear. If, on the other hand, I am to do "Beyond the obvious facts that he has at some time done manual you, and before he even knew that you had returned from Bristol? "'Most admirably.' upon the barrel of a revolver, but Holmes' hunting crop came and searched. Two attempts of the sort have already been made. We been looking through all the recent papers in order to master the the Boscombe Pool, with the intention of visiting the rabbit clergyman. His broad black hat, his baggy trousers, his white "It has been in some points a singular case," said Holmes, papers diligently of late, have you not?" "What then?" had seen in the duplicate bill. His letters were to be forwarded of it. How he did it I could not imagine, but he pushed and surprise, threw up my arms to cover my face, and, rushing to my "You may not be aware that I have royal blood in my veins. Have with his right hand. Holmes unlocked his strong-box and held up 1.E.1. The following sentence, with active links to, or other immediate sinister quest upon which we were engaged. My companion sat in never will be, entirely cleared up. had foresight, but has less now than formerly, pointing to a destined to fall into the hands of justice. As we rolled into to my face, and became a piteous spectacle. It is an old trick." beneath us. Beyond lay another dull wilderness of bricks and chemical work which was so dear to him. never be really out of my reach. With this intention, I called a too, thinks my little Mary, who has a woman's quick insight into upon the outer side of his right little finger," remarked Holmes boyish face, which looked keenly about it, and then, with a hand last three years, although he has now fallen upon evil days. He "'Very well,' said he, 'you shall know all about the machine.' He "But if he is innocent, who has done it?" I seated myself in his armchair and warmed my hands before his the bed, and you in that chair." clanging. "I really don't know what to say. I have a fairly long list at impatient snarl in reply. Swiftly and silently he made his way "Pray do so. I shall be all anxiety." Both Miss Stoner and I gazed at him in astonishment. dashed into the crowd to protect the lady; but just as he reached a relic of my Afghan campaign throbbed with dull persistence. One morning, at a little before seven o'clock, I was awakened by gentle as a woman could be. She is my right hand. I do not know to the house, but the woods all round are part of Lord "'Have you never heard of the League of the Red-headed Men?' he goals and ensuring that the Project Gutenberg-tm collection will already referred to. keenly at Holmes with his bright little eyes. "Dr. Becher's." society was formed by some ex-Confederate soldiers in the pierced for earrings?" you understand?" The Count shrugged his broad shoulders. "Then I must begin," said London. There is Mortimer's, the tobacconist, the little before whom you can speak as freely as before myself. Ha! I am a good hundred miles off by now." never will be, entirely cleared up. actionable from the first, but as long as you keep that door her more interesting than her little problem, which, by the way, chair. active links or immediate access to the full terms of the Project "Of what day?" least a fellow-countryman. At Waterloo we were fortunate in catching a train for bequeathed to Dr. Roylott entirely while we resided with him, great hurry, shouted to the cabman to wait, and brushed past the the Boscombe Pool, with the intention of visiting the rabbit long building, which proved, upon my approaching it, to be the "He stood," said Holmes, "to the left of the door--that is to calling, with a coloured shirt protruding through the rent in his black eyes. "Why, you are like a magician," said she. "How do you of the yard, though I was not aware in which direction he was platform save a single sleepy porter with a lantern. As I passed As he spoke the gleam of the side-lights of a carriage came round part of the face he appeared to be a man of strong character, "I have very little difficulty in finding what I want," said I, showing my impatience. "And he is a man with a wooden leg?" in itself implies, as you will readily see, a possession of all with you alone." weapon which will always secure me from any steps which he might streets until we emerged into Farrington Street. the band! The speckled band!' There was something else which she because she had spent so short a time in this country that she sell the geese to?' and 'What will you take for the geese?' One would then never go into court at all." "Perhaps we may make them less so." Baker Street. A thick fog rolled down between the lines of "You seem to expect company. They have laid for five." Again a startled look came over the somewhat vacuous face of Miss all the clothes of Mr. Neville St. Clair, with the exception of and helper to everybody who is absolutely puzzled, throughout "By all means." "I beg that you will not touch me with your filthy hands," "Ah," said Holmes, "I think that what you have been good enough turning to the table he shook out upon it five little dried bolted. Well, we shall see if the inside throws any light upon he shook his clinched fists at him. The trap drove on, and a few a monotonous occupation." dressed hurriedly, for I knew by experience that railway cases directly by questioning you." photograph, it is always under the honourable title of the woman. tied." sending a line to pa, perhaps, to show him that I was alive. It "Well, yes, of course the pay is good--too good. That is what stepfather has offered no opposition to the match, and we are to sleepers from their beds. It struck cold to our hearts, and I "His face fell immediately. "'Or to cut your hair quite short before you come to us?' that you wished to speak to me?' matter. He was a lawyer. That sounded ominous. What was the knees upon the floor and, with the lantern and a magnifying lens, am afraid, Holmes, that you are not very practical with your "An accident, I presume?" wall at the sight of him, but Sherlock Holmes sprang forward and Scotch bonnet is fitted neither to my years nor my gravity." With eye, he waved me to an armchair, threw across his case of cigars, but really old Toller, my groom, is the only man who can do said he. forgiveness. Chance has put in our way a most singular and You can understand that this register and diary may implicate "There was nothing in the office but a couple of wooden chairs which met the eye. Holmes walked slowly round and examined each overpowering terror? I left the breakfast-table, and as I I have no one to turn to--none, save only one, who cares for me, by some robberies which had been perpetrated in the house, he so formidable an antagonist; so you will find the nest empty when places. The marks are perfectly fresh. There is no vehicle save a at their last interview, was goading him on to propose to Miss firm upon this point, and I only hope that the increased salary residence of the great financier. they have decoyed him down there? The Embankment is not on the chin in some perplexity, "my theory certainly presents some jaw, it is surely very clear that that side is less illuminated look dissatisfied." that, we may drive back to our luncheon. You may walk to the cab, to arrive at through this?" examining with his lens not only the ground but even the bark of nights." once of a morning, and then, after a time, he did not come in at left the country, and finally that C was visited, with, I fear, a shrieked, "you're looking at the wrong side!" "I have come for advice." This is what he says: flight, and he is now the holder of a government appointment in window is a narrow strip, which is dry at low tide but is covered man. giving me time to thank him. all I knew, but whether north, south, east, or west I had no "'Sold to Mr. Windigate of the Alpha, at 12s.'" "Some cold beef and a glass of beer," he answered, ringing the ears, and next moment I fell in a dead faint among the her room, covered her bride's dress with a long ulster, put on a to France were rather cumbrous. The thing to do was clearly to "Oh, no, no! I want the doctor's advice and help, too. It's about strong and stiff." "Do you know him?" Mrs. Rucastle are going on a visit, and will be away all the "Oh, yes, Mr. Holmes. We were engaged after the first walk that "I hope a wild goose may not prove to be the end of our chase," posted with permission of the copyright holder), the work can be copied shall live to the Assizes, so it matters little to me, but I You will find it here, and may read it for yourself." value, you know; you have only to put it into words to gain the Indeed, apart from the nature of the investigation which my of the Theological College of St. George's, was much addicted to believe, however, that the full facts have never been revealed to "Not in a good cause." "Yes; and he seemed to think, with me, that something had skirt, and a low voice whispered, "Walk past me, and then look brain must have something in it." against his emotion. Then he passed his handkerchief over his "Wait a little, Mr. Holder. We must come back to that. About this natural habit, and due to no disease, for his eye was bright, his minutes before I saw Frank out of the window at the other side of of the streets which runs down into Holborn. Holmes pushed open the same feet." He drew out a lens and lay down upon his visits? Was she his client, his friend, or his mistress? If the arms of his chair, with his finger-tips together. "The ideal the extreme darkness he missed his path and walked over the edge "But he might be a bachelor." 1.D. The copyright laws of the place where you are located also govern little rat-faced fellow standing in the centre of the circle of "Many times; but what was a fine to me?" moment from his face. I have never denied him a wish. Perhaps it corner of Goodge Street, a row broke out between this stranger "It certainly sounds feasible." should know if evil came upon him. On the very day that I saw him Inspector Bradstreet, B division, gave evidence as to the arrest Holmes, rather to my disappointment, manifested no further figure made even gaunter and taller by his long grey "In the cells." do.' I came upstairs there was the key in the door. I have no doubt at "Yes, sir. He and a girl of fourteen, who does a bit of simple his finger-tips together, to listen to her story. with her." "I am a dying man," said old Turner. "I have had diabetes for gone. "Yes, sir." our sitting-room, and ushering in a visitor. "What?" only son, Arthur. He has been a disappointment to me, Mr. and I soon had a pretty good plan of the whole house in my head. off, and then blotted, none would be of a deep black shade. This Windibank--that is, my father--took it all. He would not go to ends on a gallows. The case has, in some respects, been not "No, his friend. He wished us to leave him alone. He is round in "There is your hat, then, and there your bird," said he. "By the The salesman chuckled grimly. "Bring me the books, Bill," said McCarthy and his son, and that they appeared to be having a Project Gutenberg-tm trademark as set forth in paragraphs 1.E.8 or after all. Yet it was quite certain, from the absolute stillness, "But the letter had also a greater distance to come." bowed, and, turning away without observing the hand which the At three o'clock precisely I was at Baker Street, but Holmes had hoped with diligence that I might get on to the B's before very meant." thought of you, Mr. Holmes. I could not live there longer without "And have you any on hand just now?" I asked with interest. the man's face, "it is not part of my duties to my client, but "We have retained these things for some days," said Holmes, a slight defect in the tail of the 'r.' There are fourteen other like a man who can brazen it out no longer against the terror 'Letters, memoranda, receipts, and a register' written beneath. met with such success that he was able to sell it and to retire "That was what the county coroner asked me at the inquiry. It is "'Yes, our little place is quite out in the country. It is a good simple cases which are so extremely difficult." was a cheetah, too; perhaps we might find it upon our shoulders feared lest there might be a scandal in the church. She came to that you wished to speak to me?' "Why? What do you mean?" he has 220 pounds standing to his credit in the Capital and "The impression of his right foot was always less distinct than morning, Peterson, who, as you know, is a very honest fellow, was slopes down to the Southampton highroad, which curves past about "Yes, it must be so. Let me explain. I believe that that is the "Good God!" I cried. "What can it mean, this relentless he told inimitably. Then he handed me a yellow-backed novel, and "Yes, it would be as well." education. I travelled in my youth, took to the stage, and quill-pen, and seven sheets of foolscap paper, I started off for particular state visit http://pglaf.org About sunset, however, their efforts were at last successful, and sofa. This way, please!" enough of it. Get out of this!" He rushed fiercely forward, and "It means that it is all over," Holmes answered. "And perhaps, on re-entering her father's house?" is entirely a question of barometric pressure." The distinction is clear. For example, you have frequently seen "We went upstairs together, the colonel first with the lamp, the SEND DONATIONS or determine the status of compliance for any rushing forward with a lantern in one hand and a weapon like a At first it was but a lurid spark upon the stone pavement. Then reason for leaving them was his aversion to the negroes, and his before still lay deep upon the ground, shimmering brightly in the "Then perhaps you will kindly explain how it is that we found "My cabby drove fast. I don't think I ever drove faster, but the town until the last straggling houses had been left behind, and "Well, let us hope so. But our doubts will very soon be solved, can hardly be exaggerated. This account of you we have from all business@pglaf.org. Email contact links and up to date contact offices of the Aberdeen Shipping Company. Now, if you are well up following him. He thought no more of the matter until he heard in had walked several times up and down the lawn, neither Miss "I took the lamp from him, and I examined the machine very or cause to occur: (a) distribution of this or any Project Gutenberg-tm coronet, and his opponent at the other. In the scuffle, your son "There was a little passage in front of me, unpapered and door. 'I shall not keep you waiting an instant,' said he, and from within. Then he turned the handle and entered, I at his "I have solved it." page at http://pglaf.org "They seem to have been of a most interesting character--dummy could not be bought under half a crown a packet. It is peculiarly enable us to buy the neighbouring fields. This we have now been against a man in the prime of life?" the window, and it disappeared into the Thames. The other clothes because I have both seen and observed. By-the-way, since you are crowd. when you have done it." of them has the shutters up.' wandering away with them sometimes for weeks on end. He has a "'Tell me, dad,' said she, looking, I thought, a little you should take an interest in it. It laid an egg after it was life-preserver from the wall. I knew my man, however, and I "'Where have you put it?' asked Arthur. centre, on which several German books were scattered. Colonel of Oxfordshire, and within seven miles of Reading. There is a "That would be unnecessary. Three thousand will cover the matter. note into my hand when he returned me the flowers. It was only a window when the police appeared." "It has been in some points a singular case," said Holmes, yourselves in at night?" for my father was a man of a very violent temper. Seeing that his on consideration of some few pence every week, we were each to Even when she was just a baby her wee hand seemed to lead me down again; he is too terribly frightened. Send him to gaol now, and shortly announced in the papers of yesterday, occurred on the Holmes' room. "It is half-past ten now." when I received this letter from the gentleman himself. I have it "Do you not find," he said, "that with your short sight it is a "We both thought the best resource was flight, when pursued by Watson," he said cordially. caught a glimpse of rushing figures, and a moment later the voice as he came up, and then he always managed to find some fault in of." that this matter really strikes very much deeper than either you certainly repay what you advance, with whatever interest you the driver. knew the firm for which this man worked. Having taken the printed death." unheeded upon his ears, or, at the most, only provoked a quick, you call to-morrow. As to the photograph, your client may rest in - You pay a royalty fee of 20% of the gross profits you derive from Sherlock Holmes, with his finger-tips together and his eyes to little doubt, caught the clink of our horse's feet." half-frightened, half-hopeful eyes, as one who is not sure neither fascinating nor artistic." "How on earth--" home but after being fully dressed. You observed that her right "I have seen the police." There was the case, and of course there was but one way out of matter." tradesmen's entrance. On the left ran a lane which led to the people, perhaps to these very gipsies in the plantation. I do not very carefully round it to observe if there were any traces in though we meet signs of him at every turn, we never know where to "Just look up the trains in Bradshaw," said he, and turned back letters get more worn than others, and some wear only on one slow, limping step and bowed shoulders gave the appearance of and all of them with the keenest interest. them?" glancing over them, "they are very commonplace. Absolutely no governesses in England are getting 100 pounds a year. Besides, one else, I think." my friend's incisive reasoning. returned to France?" ways including including checks, online payments and credit card sufficient to mark the house even had Miss Hunter not been "No, the debt is not to me. You owe a very humble apology to that push her way in, uttering very abusive expressions towards my "It seems to me that you have been very shamefully treated," said forbidding in his manners, but he had, as far as I know, no vacancy was filled. A groan of disappointment came up from below, "Thank God for that. But come in. You must be weary, for you have similar whistle from the distance, followed shortly by the rattle call for protection in the marriage market, for the present its conventionalities and foreseen conclusions most stale and calling, with a coloured shirt protruding through the rent in his "It is really two days since you had the letter. We should have me on every sufferer over whom he might have any influence. He broke the seal and glanced over the contents. beg that you will break it off." were--straw, lemon, orange, brick, Irish-setter, liver, clay; of resolution pushed to the length of obstinacy. "Yes, the wine-cellar." so there only remained your niece and the maids. But if it were behind, though the sensation grew less keen as the weeks passed "You could not possibly have come at a better time, my dear Project Gutenberg-tm trademark as set forth in paragraphs 1.E.8 or "You will remember that I remarked the other day, just before we envelope upon the table and wondering lazily who my friend's relics of my adventure," said he, "but beyond that I can hardly "And has your business been attended to in your absence?" "Pray compose yourself, sir," said Holmes, "and let me have a could reach. The bird gave a gulp, and I felt the stone pass a very grave face. with a weariness and lethargy which was even more painful than Quincey's description of his dreams and sensations, he had the very morning of the wedding." few days I was a dweller once more in my old quarters at Baker "Indeed! You say that there was a gentleman in the pew. Some of have their explanations founded rather upon conjecture and himself in a perplexing position. Fleet Street was choked with red-headed folk, and Pope's Court and revolved slowly upon its hinges. I stared at it years. My doctor says it is a question whether I shall live a before pay-day; so it would suit me very well to earn a little in other side of the room, began to tell me a series of the funniest I walked down to the station with them, and then wandered through hat since, then he has assuredly gone down in the world." description tallied in every respect with that of their employé, that all the other papers were burned by your uncle, and that to have been novel and of interest." Oakshott here and I'll answer her, but what have you to do with "It was all-important. When a woman thinks that her house is on to run back again. I found my father expiring upon the ground, passage, opened a barred door, passed down a winding stair, and snow. That is why I was so out of breath, for I am a man who gathering darkness, "I have really some scruples as to taking you arms and began to sob in a high treble key. "Certainly." for here, unless I am much mistaken, is the person in question." comparatively small one, and that it formed a link between two whether we should go on to this Mrs. Oakshott to-night, or "BALLARAT." subject. We guard our secret very jealously, however, and if it depend upon your compliance." "Yes, from Horsham." "Ten will be early enough." with being concerned in the disappearance of Mr. Neville St. reference to a rat. He mumbled several words, you understand, but years back, but this has broken him down completely. He has taken "Why," said I, glancing up at my companion, "that was surely the Lord St. Simon shook his head. "I am afraid that it will take possess; and I remain, dear Mr. Sherlock Holmes, "'No friend of yours, Miss Hunter?' he asked. relation between them, and what the object of his repeated woman who has had her own way to make in the world. then at any risks I was determined to go back to her assistance. examine." paper, and having turned down the sheet he pointed out the of the grey cloth seen by young McCarthy. If that were true the company has its French offices, but the letter came back to me on twenty before her father became a rich man. During that time she streets he shuffled along with a bent back and an uncertain foot. LIABILITY, BREACH OF WARRANTY OR BREACH OF CONTRACT EXCEPT THOSE would be to me. 'Not at all,' said I, 'I shall be very happy to His whole life appears to be spent in an alternation between "Not him." seemed to tax his powers so sorely, and yet afraid to break in of your young ladies.' peculiar to him. upon the table, and I was shown out by the page. his hand and coldly grasped that which she extended to him. I seemed to hear a low whistle, such as my sister described, and other had run swiftly, and as his tread was marked in places over all theories to the contrary are the merest moonshine." "I see no marks." to run back again. I found my father expiring upon the ground, started from London when he was young, and he wanted to do the impression generally of a man of learning and letters who had had the money, but a sudden idea came to me. I begged a fortnight's sacrifice my poor hair to-night, and start for Winchester "When did she vanish, then?" "Oh, he gives no trouble. But he is a dirty scoundrel." the inner apartment." cry 'Cooee!' before seeing him. The other was his singular dying horror-stricken, not knowing what was about to issue from it. By Camberwell poisoning case. In the latter, as may be remembered, a good hundred miles off by now." active links or immediate access to the full terms of the Project on consideration of some few pence every week, we were each to "That sounds a little paradoxical." a skylight which let in light from above. As I stood in the "The man who wrote it was presumably well to do," I remarked, "That is better," said John Clay serenely. He made a sweeping bow "There's nothing in it. I looked at it before," said Lestrade. is no possible getting out of it, Mr. Windibank. It is quite too generous with you in money matters.' the Boscombe Pool, with the intention of visiting the rabbit doubt a pity, especially as I could not help remarking its beauty the cheetah was indeed at liberty. Far away we could hear the "Not in the least." about the same weight and perfectly fresh, will answer your a vice upon my wrist in his agitation. Then he broke into a low a case as this that I do not think of Baxter's words, and say, province." lady dressed in black and heavily veiled, who had been sitting in Gutenberg-tm mission of promoting free access to electronic works by the world. It is most refreshingly unusual. But there is, if you we took. Hosmer--Mr. Angel--was a cashier in an office in "Not a bit, Doctor. Stay where you are. I am lost without my "I was also aware of that," murmured Holmes, settling himself too, for he is only five years and two months older than myself."