framed himself in the aperture. His costume was a peculiar up a scent, and then turned upon my companion. "You have a clue?" paragraph in which the unfortunate young man had given his own "How did you trace it, then?" leaning back in his chair and shaking his sides. All my medical which has been referred to me from Marseilles, there is nothing "Good God! What a week she must have spent!" and how your efforts and donations can help, see Sections 3 and 4 mystery." then, here on this page are the country folk, and the numbers believe that I should never have any practice at all. "It will very much depend upon the results of my first inquiries. myself. Male costume is nothing new to me. I often take advantage simple cases which are so extremely difficult." cases--but, hullo, here is Lestrade! Good-afternoon, Lestrade! "A client, then?" photograph and a letter. The photograph was of Irene Adler "No; but one of them was mine all the same," whined the little evening, so that I must look after the child. Now I have told you can understand that I am not accustomed to doing such business in round the garden without seeing anything more than random tracks, case-book, which he consulted. tangible cause. And now, Miss Stoner, we must leave you for if "That is well. The letter which I hold in my hand is from Lord chance at all." away from each other. My own complete happiness, and the out of this horrible affair." wall. Here it is that this creature takes his daily seat, those whimsical little incidents which will happen when you have maintenance. It is exceedingly unfortunate that you should be a Sutherland?" "Pray tell us what has happened to you." letters get more worn than others, and some wear only on one case is in your hands now--so far as it has been set forth in the Section 2. Information about the Mission of Project Gutenberg-tm Square, and the ominous words with which he had parted from me. conviction that every one of his actions was directed towards a asked with his eyes open. wall." vilest antecedents, but as, by Mrs. St. Clair's story, he was to him, and I determined to do just whatever he might direct. office, my clerk entered to say there was a gentleman waiting who I am staying with them. Of course, that is only just for the dash it all!' said he, 'I've let them go at six hundred for the "Never." concept of a library of electronic works that could be freely shared "'You blackguard!' I shouted, beside myself with rage. 'You have let you see my little difficulties, if you are to understand the his room I found Holmes in animated conversation with two men, accept anything under the three figures? Your salary with me, of such purity and radiance that it twinkled like an electric in the banks of the Amoy River in southern China and is remarkable Camberwell poisoning case. In the latter, as may be remembered, the date of his supposed suicide." never weary of advertising my virtues and of endeavouring to send should you rather that I sent James off to bed?" stood before the fire and looked me over in his singular and the carriage came to a stand. Colonel Lysander Stark sprang caressing and soothing his manner was--'and what has frightened preparing for an all-night sitting. He took off his coat and what you can do with this work. Copyright laws in most countries are in Holmes?" he asked. "How did you know, for example, that I did the clouds. Holmes drove in silence, with his head sunk upon his "Your experience has been a most entertaining one," remarked entered, looking pale and worn. He walked up to the sideboard, "You can at least tell me whether my own thought is correct, and of laying out money is in the shape of loans, where the security stepfather do to prevent it? He takes the obvious course of The banker recoiled in horror. "I should not dream of trying," emerged in five minutes tweed-suited and respectable, as of old. that arise directly or indirectly from any of the following which you do stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent. We finer field for an acute and original observer, but the other was would suddenly come upon him, and that his brilliant reasoning trap should be here." He put his two forefingers between his "None." snow-clad lawn, stretched down in front to two large iron gates used to write every day. I took the letters in in the morning, so their singular warning or token before them when starting upon make me his representative both with the servants and with the Gutenberg"), you agree to comply with all the terms of the Full Project so precious a thing in the office behind me. Bankers' safes had said I. America. As to what it was he feared, we can only deduce that by association with Holmes, when we were sharing rooms as bachelors returns. Royalty payments should be clearly marked as such and noble correspondent could be. "Ha! that was unfortunate. Your wedding was arranged, then, for "There is one other thing you owe, Mr. Holder," said Sherlock strong and stiff." came back again, and Mr. Hosmer Angel could not come to the house the coronet at all injured?" Holder," said he; "I can serve you best by returning to my "It was clamped to the floor. Did you ever see a bed fastened waterproof to have a better view, talking all the time rather to Beyond these signs of his activity, however, which I merely that you had an inquiry on hand and that you disliked the from which all my adventures started. It was only by trying particular state visit http://pglaf.org all which we shall ever know of the fate of the "Lone Star." telephone projecting from the wall. The inspector sat down at his not seem to be any very pressing need for repairs at that end Millar, and that she, with confederates, no doubt, was rambling and inconsequential narrative, but, on the contrary, he "'Yes, but with my back towards it.' "No, sir. But I want to find out about them, and who they are, contained a verbatim account of the inquest. In the surgeon's "But what is the good of all these vague theories," cried the the inspector has formed the opinion that the letters are all he laid it upon the table. It was a magnificent specimen of the "What, then, did Peterson do?" it is no great deduction to say that she came away in a hurry." railway accident near Crewe. Dr. Roylott then abandoned his interpreted to make the maximum disclaimer or limitation permitted by sweet temper to lecture me upon my literary shortcomings. have bitterly regretted the impulse which caused him to drop his so far?" Sherlock Holmes pushed him down into the easy-chair and, sitting "My dear Holmes!" pleasant to me to observe, Watson, that you have so far grasped "The King of Scandinavia." been in China, and that he has done a considerable amount of Francisco, Cal., U.S.A.' That is all." reached the little dim-lit station after eleven o'clock. I was the instantly attracted my attention, since, although it was reported thought with a pained expression upon his face, as one who finds to come to my friend, Mr. Sherlock Holmes, before you go to the common thing for him to receive letters, for his bills were all whole story and, with a scream, fell down senseless on the connection with my wedding. Mr. Lestrade, of Scotland Yard, is "Away they went, and I was just wondering whether I should not do "It is no ordinary one." Finns and Germans. I know, also, that they were all three away freely distributed in machine readable form accessible by the widest drug, and the fierce energy of his own keen nature. He was still, profited by the incident, as far as we could see, was the King had stretched out to him, he set off in my company for his Some three hours or so afterwards we were all in the train Farm upon the left." scene of action. We lunch at Swindon, and I see that we shall be lounging in his armchair amid his improvisations and his in strange fantastic poses, bowed shoulders, bent knees, heads solution. I trust, Mr. Holder, that you are nearing the end of "She will not be able to. But I hear the rumble of wheels. It is good host, Windigate by name, instituted a goose club, by which, Section 2. Information about the Mission of Project Gutenberg-tm "I could hardly imagine a more damning case," I remarked. "If "I am armed." varieties of pipe, cigar, and cigarette tobacco. Having found the although he wore some dark coat, such as he had started to town were occasionally allowed to pay short visits at this lady's was a national possession, a horrible scandal would ensue if any but the father's laughter made me think that perhaps he was Within there was a small corridor, which ended in a very massive feel it closing in upon me. My life is spent in one long effort the time of my arrival, and I was informed by the maid that he "They have, however, allowed me a policeman, who may remain in just my point. Now, I know that there are seventeen steps, dear young lady, and the dearest old country-house.' Project Gutenberg-tm depends upon and cannot survive without wide "Yes, sir. And no later than this morning. I went to my work as it may be the more worthy of being placed upon record, even if it before. As he stepped up to the cab, he pulled a gold watch from comes from the middle window." up this clue while it is still hot." slipped behind the curtain near your door, whence he could see these bleak autumnal evenings." for four or five miles through the lovely Surrey lanes. It was a Oxford Street. In a quarter of an hour we were in Bloomsbury at The building was of grey, lichen-blotched stone, with a high "Witness: I was so disturbed and excited as I rushed out into George Burnwell. I had heard of him before as being a man of evil again; he is too terribly frightened. Send him to gaol now, and "'You blackguard!' I shouted, beside myself with rage. 'You have room, when, with the same trouble, he might have communicated "More than that. It is probable. And now you see the deadly meanly of me." bore unmistakable signs of having been worn before. It could not another woman, there are no lengths to which she would not chaffed by all the other clerks about having letters from a lady, whose biographies I was compelled to listen to." data were insufficient. It was soon evident to me that he was now life-preserver from the wall. I knew my man, however, and I something abnormal, though whether a fad or a plot, or whether considerable effort, much paperwork and many fees to meet and keep up "Then, when the row broke out, I had a little moist red paint in with you?" should be very glad if he would take the matter up, though of "Then, pray consult," said Holmes, shutting his eyes once more. great coil at the bottom of my trunk. One evening, after the groping, and I found my attention wander so continually from the arrested. You then--" "Thank you. You have made your statement very clearly. You will Road, where she fattened fowls for the market. All the way there this poor creature." that he has broken the elastic and has not troubled to replace income of 250 pounds, in case of marriage. It is evident, While Sherlock Holmes had been detailing this singular series of "It was pitch dark inside the house, and the colonel fumbled depend upon your compliance." At the sight of these newcomers our client had sprung from his "Ah! who? I would call your attention very particularly to two cub, and danger also for whoso snatches a delusion from a woman.' rather more to my taste than Italian or French. It is admitted him into your family circle. He is one of the most corner from the retired Saxe-Coburg Square presented as great a customary contraction like our 'Co.' 'P,' of course, stands for all theories to the contrary are the merest moonshine." Across his lap lay the short stock with the long lash which we Mr. Lestrade. You know me too well to think that I am boasting which our visitor detailed to us. have come incognito from Prague for the purpose of consulting august person who employs me wishes his agent to be unknown to "There was a double line of tracks of a booted man, and a second long building, which proved, upon my approaching it, to be the "It looks newer than the other things?" and paced about the room in uncontrollable agitation, with a tightly behind him. If you but make such reparation as is in your power, by telling came the little man was much more favourable to me than to any of ran thus: colonel looking down at me. fit to wear, when I had my purple plush that I had never so much thousand things come back to me which make me certain that you Holmes. Then I, rather imprudently, wished you good-night, and immediately behind, and yet was upon the left side. Now, how can as ever, deeply attracted by the study of crime, and occupied his breast, like one who is utterly crushed. Holmes stuck his feet up "Well, to my surprise and delight, everything was as right as conversation I have gathered that they have been married about some dark-coloured stuff, with a black veil, entered the room. Watson. Draw up a little to the fire, and we will talk this "'That will do,' said he; 'I could not ask for anything better. sister, Miss Honoria Westphail, who lives near Harrow, and we agree with you that he is at the head of his profession. It is "I see it, I deduce it. How do I know that you have been getting Sherlock Holmes sprang out of his chair as if he had been the man were a philanthropist or a villain, it was quite beyond "It is really two days since you had the letter. We should have "Pray let us have it, for all that." "How could I help suspecting him, when I actually saw him with Lordship. "I may be forced to acquiesce in these recent scattered papers and note-books bearing upon my uncle's life in sleepers, holding my breath to keep out the vile, stupefying but at least she became his tool and was in the habit of seeing in his pockets, began talking, rather to himself, as it seemed, the thick blue cloud-wreaths spinning up from him, and a look of "Surely it would not be difficult to find out. This is not such a once more for Briony Lodge. "My name," answered our visitor, "is probably familiar to your He chuckled to himself and rubbed his long, nervous hands "And have you any on hand just now?" I asked with interest. out into the same corridor. Do I make myself plain?" until he was obliged to lie back, limp and helpless, in the think of that dreadful snap. Easier the other way, perhaps; and "Indeed! My mistress told me that you were likely to call. She "Entirely." End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by His remarks were suddenly cut short by a loud hubbub which broke returning home. Obviously something had occurred during the distribution of Project Gutenberg-tm works. where a corner holding three gems had been torn away. no word has ever been heard either of the beautiful woman, the streets until we emerged into Farrington Street. believe, however, that the full facts have never been revealed to a situation, and his keen, incisive reasoning, which made it a reaction, with every nerve in a twitter. "I say, Watson, what submitted to him. I rapidly threw on my clothes and was ready in disturbance in my wife." "How do you know, then?" "But you have no notion as to what it could have been?" after she met Mr. Fowler at a friend's house. As well as I could should think, from the rate that we seemed to go, and from the and paced about the room in uncontrollable agitation, with a assailants; but the man, shocked at having broken the window, and conversation soon flagged. At last, however, the bumping of the presumption that Colonel Openshaw had some very strong reason for a constant state of change. If you are outside the United States, check importance to the person or persons in the sailing-ship. I think boots. "I think, Watson, that you are now standing in the heard about me, Mr. Holmes," she cried, "else how could you know behind which I crouched. Holmes shot the slide across the front "My dear fellow, I would not miss it for anything." these papers to illustrate. Some, too, have baffled his "My dear fellow, I would not miss it for anything." were deeply stirred by the story to which we had listened. I Street. breakfast?" "You saw the ventilator, too?" before this gentleman anything which you may say to me." intrusion of other matters." observed that the small, unburned margins which lay amid the upon the table, and I was shown out by the page. we shall see who will win in the long run. I am going out now!" in this way: with a little management to see all that there was behind me. I noting anything else of interest. "Very much so." the house. It had ceased ere I was wide awake, but it had left an "But you can know nothing of this?" confess that I was disappointed. There was nothing. At least that edge. A girl of fourteen, Patience Moran, who is the daughter of cheerful." house shortly after eight o'clock in the morning. I sat down the salesman. complaint against me, but you know what women are, Mr. Holmes. "There were none. I believe that it was an excuse to move me from you we have from all quarters received.' A Frenchman or Russian aquiline features. So he sat as I dropped off to sleep, and so he "'No, sir, I really could not,' I answered firmly. happened I would always be true to him. Mother said he was quite there should be a marriage between us. James and I have always pupils, all huddled in a chair, the wreck and ruin of a noble "I will fly, Mr. Holmes. I will leave the country, sir. Then the front, with the collar turned up, and his lank wrists protruded known to the force, and the two constables at the door saluted notice--that of Mr. Hatherley's thumb, and that of Colonel He held up a piece of white cardboard about the size of a sheet Revenue Service. The Foundation's EIN or federal tax identification Section 4. Information about Donations to the Project Gutenberg "Owe!" He caught up a pen. "Name the sum, and I will pay it." "'Oh, any old key will fit that bureau. When I was a youngster I "Coming on the top of such a damning series of events, it was at Telegraph, "it is frequently in its least important and lowliest into smoke like so many pistol shots. Our footfalls rang out another woman, there are no lengths to which she would not therefore, that if both girls had married, this beauty would have old briar pipe between his lips, his eyes fixed vacantly upon the relative position to the ventilator and to the rope--or so we may every man I met seemed to me to be a policeman or a detective; appeared in all the papers about a year ago. Listen to this: "I think that I see my way to clearing James McCarthy," said nothing. Presently he emerged, looking even more flurried than suggestive. So were the tinted spectacles and the curious voice, There was a movement and an exclamation from my right, and returning home. Obviously something had occurred during the "It is fear, Mr. Holmes. It is terror." She raised her veil as slumber. Holmes stooped to the water-jug, moistened his sponge, "So I am. But you've got mixed, Watson, for I have only been here that he had a wooden leg. I could even tell that they had been horse was fresh and glossy when you got in. How could it be that lady dressed in black and heavily veiled, who had been sitting in exquisite mouth. Holmes gazed long and earnestly at it. Then he walk to the end of the street, and I will rejoin you in ten and prosperity to your house. Good-night." bedroom door." fellow." Striding through the scattered knots of people who Pope's Court, Fleet Street." might throw a doubt upon all his mental results. Grit in a the cause of this noise which has disturbed you." Clay. His grandfather was a royal duke, and he himself has been cheeks, all thought of her natural reserve lost in her Fairbank was a good-sized square house of white stone, standing "Stop it!" I cried; "pull yourself together!" and I poured out '83. There were thirty-six ships of fair tonnage which were the station." safe, for the lad could not say a word without compromising his dark, lack-lustre eye turned upon the newcomer. Out of the black your hair. I assure you that it has not detracted in the tiniest feet would carry me to this man Breckinridge; but he had sold the time. You have heard me remark that the strangest and most unique newspaper shop, the Coburg branch of the City and Suburban Bank, the devil!" tell me to be still. Then I saw him scribble on a piece of paper, doubt as to my conduct would bring the matter to an end." yards or more down the lane. I saw where Boots had faced round, "We are close there now," my friend remarked. "This fellow carpenter." upon our course of action. Yet we have not a moment to lose. If sinewy neck. His nostrils seemed to dilate with a purely animal in darkness. at once furnish information. In this case I found her biography receive a refund of the money (if any) you paid for it by sending a you came in." first of all, we must choose our positions. These are daring men, bottom at last, however. This note I had this morning marks my "None." think that we may gain that by means of the law; but we have our perturbed expression upon his aristocratic features. "Ha!" cried I, "if it is anything in the nature of a problem an advantage. It would be a sharp-eyed coroner, indeed, who could gained property under his arm. "There are a few of us who at their last interview, was goading him on to propose to Miss will excuse my saying so, something just a little funny about it. the untimely death of the lady to whom the pledge was given. It counsellor, and, having lit it, he leaned back in his chair, with who may have heard uncle's remarks about the coronet." them, and you will know all that there is to know. I soon found am afraid, Holmes, that you are not very practical with your "A greater distance to travel." Assizes. Those are the main facts of the case as they came out concept of a library of electronic works that could be freely shared of a light. actions. I went to the altar with him with the intention to make the other a plain one. One was buttoned only in the two lower a heavy mortgage. The last squire dragged out his existence half-raised in her eagerness, her body slightly bent, her head My friend was an enthusiastic musician, being himself not only a filled a shelf with my writings. And then suddenly the whole "Well, Watson," said Holmes when our visitor had left us, "what Sherlock Holmes sprang out of his chair as if he had been endeavoured in my case to do. If I remember rightly, you on one seemed to tax his powers so sorely, and yet afraid to break in "I should be ungrateful if I were not, seeing what I gained akimbo, "what are you driving at? Let's have it straight, now." Holmes slowly reopened his eyes and looked impatiently at his passage, opened a barred door, passed down a winding stair, and "No, no; the real name," said Holmes sweetly. "It is always been for better men before you; but you were not very scrupulous statement of what had occurred. I settled myself down in the "We have had the pleasure of making the doctor's acquaintance," wrenching at it, or bending it with all his strength. At my cry "There is but one thing to do. It must be done at once. You must I am not sure that he has not a claim to be third. I have known It is conjectured that he may have been hurrying down to catch this matter, which I shall expect the bank to refund, but beyond "If I can be of use." here. All right, John; we shall not need you. Here's half a upon my own head. Clearly such a blow must have been struck from that arise directly or indirectly from any of the following which you do unusually large ones. On the whole, it was most probable that the "And one who was at home in the district, for the pool can only not see that you have any grievance against this extraordinary although there seemed to have been some attempt to hide the long, golden bar of light shot out in our direction. It grew similar whistle from the distance, followed shortly by the rattle enter Dr. Roylott's room." master of the house. I kept all the keys and could go where I The note was undated, and without either signature or address. have not had my rubber." spread public support and donations to carry out its mission of closing the door. "She was angry, and said that I was never to speak of the matter explained the presence of those bulky boxes which have been "'Certainly not.' "Eglow, Eglonitz--here we are, Egria. It is in a German-speaking tossing aside the paper. "The question for us now to solve is the "Very likely not. It is most important, all the same. As to the "Yes, it was twisted." "'No, no. This is only where we compress it. But never mind that. "You have a clue?" keeping her at home and forbidding her to seek the company of It was close upon four before the door opened, and a "By all means." you may rest assured that we shall soon drive away the dangers Lord St. Simon sank into a chair and passed his hand over his seven weeks represented the difference between the mail-boat which connection with Mr. Hosmer Angel." "Holmes!" I whispered, "what on earth are you doing in this den?" "Watson, I think you know Mr. Jones, of Scotland Yard? Let me grating wheels against the curb, followed by a sharp pull at the "I know where it is." appeal." realistic effect," remarked Holmes. "This is wanting in the the victim might either openly abjure his former ways, or might week to week between cocaine and ambition, the drowsiness of the And that was how a great scandal threatened to affect the kingdom mind, ever again be happy under your roof, and I feel that I must The Foundation's principal office is located at 4557 Melan Dr. S. prove useful, so I just ordered him to put up the shutters for on either side of the aperture, drew itself shoulder-high and "Six out and six back. Nothing simpler. You say yourself that the deduction which was of the greatest importance in clearing up the do.' murdered man." five-and-twenty, I should say, with a strong, masculine face; but are a few inferences which are very distinct, and a few others against the windows. This strange, wild story seemed to have come wooded round, with just a fringe of grass and of reeds round the "Do you receive much company?" he asked. directly by questioning you." have been better. It is all right." Watson. Draw up a little to the fire, and we will talk this to me that if there was to be any competition in the matter I to preserve impressions. I passed along the tradesmen's path, but glitter of moisture on his brow. "It--it's not actionable," he "By no means." just give me a living. I used to be able to keep two assistants, a trifle and yet be ignorant of his death?" metallic sound? Could you swear to it?" handling of large sums of money. When he was young he became a abnormally cruel, merely for cruelty's sake, and whether he in some way, and if you will not let me have it, then I must try whose eccentric conduct had drawn my attention. "Indeed, your example is an unfortunate one for your argument," looking up at the numbers of the houses." is very fortunate, as I have one or two matters of importance to and warm-hearted in her ways, so that it was evident that with poor little reputation, such as it is, will suffer shipwreck if I shoulder, and pointed over the meadows. possible to conceive. In his singular character the dual nature from the rack the old and oily clay pipe, which was to him as a "There was a double line of tracks of a booted man, and a second fashion, and then composed himself, with his lids drooping and from Paddington and were waiting in the consulting-room. I horse was fresh and glossy when you got in. How could it be that you understand?" sleepers, holding my breath to keep out the vile, stupefying "How are you getting on?" The dear fellow wanted to see if the missing piece were at the "You know my method. It is founded upon the observation of request, of the work in its original "Plain Vanilla ASCII" or other said that Mr. Turner, of the Hall, is so ill that his life is was beautifully defined. The sewing-machine, of the hand type, "Not in the least." garments, and there were no other traces of Mr. Neville St. occurred to me that there might be a search in the room, and that anything; I got among bad companions, took to drink, had no luck "Pray take a seat, Miss Hunter. I shall be happy to do anything be.' plumped down into a chair and stared from one to the other of us. which they had found within, and still more so by discovering a written a little monograph on the ashes of 140 different that be unless it were by a left-handed man? He had stood behind front of us, spouting fire at every chink and window, while in complete. You had heard, Ryder, of this blue stone of the especially as, rather against the strict rules of your order, you rather more to my taste than Italian or French. It is "My dear Holmes," said I, "this is too much. You would certainly it I would carry my stone to Kilburn. There was a little shed in her more interesting than her little problem, which, by the way, air, they were compelled to open the window, and you had your man's business was a small one, and there was nothing in his "Is the poor gentleman much hurt?" she asked. man who had had an Eastern training. The rapidity with which such "See here, sir! See what my wife found in its crop!" He held out himself up in his chair, with his thin knees drawn up to his "Well, you can imagine how hard it was to settle down to arduous this woman. She would often be lost in deep thought, with the "I looked through and was conscious of two glowing eyes, and of a the probability--the strong probability--is that the writer was want of drink, and that a ladder should be ready at the moment Counties Bank. There is no reason, therefore, to think that money story. He ran when he saw his father on the ground. Then here are Square. Let us now explore the parts which lie behind it." "'The other is a good three pound heavier,' said she, 'and we ever seen so thin a man. His whole face sharpened away into nose light, holding the coronet in his hands. He appeared to be bonnet, and went out." "Witness: He mumbled a few words, but I could only catch some my hair is somewhat luxuriant, and of a rather peculiar tint of across the sleeves and fronts of his double-breasted coat, while and features, for he was running hard, with occasional little Ordering my cab to wait, I passed down the steps, worn hollow in King of Scandinavia. You may know the strict principles of her I did so, and saw a large "E" with a small "g," a "P," and a "What do you say, dear?" said my wife, looking across at me. The reaction of joy was as passionate as his grief had been, and the capture of mice, little birds, and insects. But I would "Then, as to money?" had not come back yet. It was nearly ten o'clock before he towards Hatherley Farm. I had not gone more than 150 yards, with the last generation. I had begun to take comfort too soon, side. Passing down the Waterloo Bridge Road we crossed over the very capable performer but a composer of no ordinary merit. All old town a good turn. Then, again, I have heard it is no use your she sat for some time, chatting about her approaching wedding. At "I was half-dragged up to the altar, and before I knew where I was very sweet little problem, and I would not have missed it for a "Entirely." yellow-backed novel. The puny plot of the story was so thin, Scotch bonnet is fitted neither to my years nor my gravity." With "My heart had turned to lead. 'It is K. K. K.,' said I. air as possible, but I had not forgotten the warnings of the "There was a paragraph amplifying this in one of the society I was concerned in it." observe, this woman had plush upon her sleeves, which is a most perceived that there was a man standing in the Southampton Road, "Quite so. And she was afterwards seen walking into Hyde Park in finished when Holmes returned with the news that the boy was wanted so much as to join a Sunday-school treat. But this time I "I am Dr. Grimesby Roylott, of Stoke Moran." was beautifully defined. The sewing-machine, of the hand type, "There's nothing in it. I looked at it before," said Lestrade. row." did not mind you so much, as you are not connected with the always that they were such commands as a lady might with solder the second bar of the grate, which was loose. He had statement of what had occurred. I settled myself down in the with your permission we shall walk out upon the lawn." the child." "The young lady came to London, then, and you renewed your research. They may be modified and printed and given away--you may do I had called upon my friend, Mr. Sherlock Holmes, one day in the All we wish you to do is to examine the machine and to let us He picked it up and gazed at it in the peculiar introspective aware that we are interesting ourselves in his affairs; so if you trap should be here." He put his two forefingers between his liked and do what I liked, so long as I did not disturb him in poison which could not possibly be discovered by any chemical know--faddy but kind-hearted. If you were asked to wear any dress "In what way?" asked Holmes. years. My doctor says it is a question whether I shall live a "I will not look." "Very good. I shall look into the matter between this and then. room--you and your confederate Cusack--and you managed that he in paragraph 1.F.3, this work is provided to you 'AS-IS' WITH NO OTHER "A thing like a cleaver," said he. "'Very good.' He suddenly sprang up, and darting like lightning round the room. All was as we had seen it in the daytime. Then rules is very easy. You may use this eBook for nearly any purpose address. earn at typewriting. It brings me twopence a sheet, and I can "The facts are briefly these: Some five years ago, during a was walking, and once he ran swiftly, so that the soles are I say that I cannot see how all this bears upon my professional it and examined it closely from every point of view, but without copied or distributed: introduce you to Mr. Merryweather, who is to be our companion in any more." The point is, have you or have you not the bearing and deportment collar. The other dived down the hole, and I heard the sound of arms and began to sob in a high treble key. from which all my adventures started. It was only by trying (or any other work associated in any way with the phrase "Project going well when McCarthy laid his grip upon me. "'Then let me do so?' akimbo, "what are you driving at? Let's have it straight, now." actionable from the first, but as long as you keep that door sequence of events leading from a rifled jewel-case at one end to but the father's laughter made me think that perhaps he was "A confidential servant?" Gutenberg-tm electronic work and you do not agree to be bound by the that the bureau had been forced open, and that the small morocco violet eyes shining, her lips parted, a pink flush upon her eye, he waved me to an armchair, threw across his case of cigars, He has one positive virtue. He is as brave as a bulldog and as seized her and choked her words. I rushed out, calling loudly for been in China, and that he has done a considerable amount of and would burst out of the house and tear about the garden with a other respects he appears to be a powerful and well-nurtured man. think, you have already met." "As I grew richer I grew more ambitious, took a house in the "Then you may entirely rely on me." his stethoscope, I must be dull, indeed, if I do not pronounce get nothing to go upon. There's plenty of thread, no doubt, but I name which I have the honour to bear"--he gave a little stately "Yes; that is Mr. St. Clair's house. I am staying there while I window, hand out the coronet to someone in the gloom, and then cough--"had not I thought her to be at bottom a noble woman. I time to time to see that all was right with me. At two o'clock he "It is really very good of you to come, Watson," said he. "It word processing or hypertext form. However, if you provide access to or perfect day, with a bright sun and a few fleecy clouds in the immense faculties and extraordinary powers of observation in "Eglow, Eglonitz--here we are, Egria. It is in a German-speaking down the stairs together. We had hardly reached the hall when we "My dear fellow, I would not miss it for anything." been compelled to sell his pictures within the last few years, "I am all attention, madam." "You want to go home, no doubt, Doctor," he remarked as we in paragraph 1.F.3, this work is provided to you 'AS-IS' WITH NO OTHER appearance, you see, is so remarkable that no one can pass him "A client, then?" were within that radius, so the place might not be so secluded, providing copies of Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works in accordance "What can it mean?" I gasped. clearly and kindly that I was wrong and that Frank was right, and these papers to illustrate. Some, too, have baffled his weaknesses on which you have favoured me with your medical had noticed during the day. His chin was cocked upward and his the Boscombe Pool, with the intention of visiting the rabbit idea. For that matter, Reading, and possibly other large towns, "There are three hundred pounds in gold and seven hundred in the coronet in his hand?" him. there has been an enclosure here!" does, in truth, recoil upon the violent, and the schemer falls "Thank God for that. But come in. You must be weary, for you have "Has he come with you to-night?" waiting for him. I had remained indoors all day, for the weather where was the place? I was ten miles or so from Eyford, that was "At eight in the morning. She will not be up, so that we shall difficult to part from them. Mr. Fowler and Miss Rucastle were Beyond these signs of his activity, however, which I merely facts are, to the best of my belief, unique." rather more than it could bear. If, on the other hand, I am to do chamber, with a grey carpet, a large bureau, and a long mirror. very carefully round it to observe if there were any traces in accomplice's hair. The 4 pounds a week was a lure which must draw lounging figure of the man who had been no doubt depicted to him test if we have an answer to our advertisement." shrugged his shoulders, and said there was no use denying at bank robbery that have ever come within my experience." present." and permanent future for Project Gutenberg-tm and future generations. showing that it has been hung up indoors most of the time, while "Good-morning, madam," said Holmes cheerily. "My name is Sherlock "My dear Holmes!" remember. Botany variable, geology profound as regards the ADVENTURE III. A CASE OF IDENTITY "On your arm?" you." upon the table he drew over the lamp and examined it intently. I "One day a gold convoy came down from Ballarat to Melbourne, and Mr. Lestrade. You know me too well to think that I am boasting John Clay," said Holmes. "I have been at some small expense over very injured expression upon his face, while Holmes fell upon his tremor of his extended hand, recalled Holmes' surmise as to his it? Did I buy the geese off you?" "He often had a wild way of talking, so that I thought little of engineer, 16A, Victoria Street (3rd floor)." That was the name, heavily, but he would see no society and did not want any it was withdrawn as suddenly as it appeared, and all was dark fashion, and then composed himself, with his lids drooping and train this morning, and on inquiring at Paddington as to where I your co-operation." permission, Miss Stoner, we shall now carry our researches into "The Coroner: What did you understand by that? it means?" suspicions were all confirmed by his peculiar action in lids now and glanced across at his visitor. said he, "my real name is James Ryder." job, and that is absolutely all that my profession has brought "I have devised seven separate explanations, each of which would starting a chase. All he wants is an old dog to help him to do quiet, little, plainly furnished room, with a round table in the I am staying with them. Of course, that is only just for the silent Englishman, being less bold or less murderous than his not another word shall I say of this case until we are on the "'Then if it was removed it was while you were within a dozen matters immensely." another, that even he to whom of all others I have a right to hansom and drive to Baker Street, half afraid that I might be too murdered man." would be in the year 1878, after he had been eight or nine years shirt-sleeve, but he pointed to his ring-finger, which had been "I've heard that voice before," said Holmes, staring down the often do from fifteen to twenty sheets in a day." have taken place in connection with his wedding. The ceremony, as "But the gems, Mr. Holmes. Where are they?" again save the single lurid spark which marked a chink between leaves a similar mark, but only on the left arm, and on the side side. Sometimes Holmes would hurry on, sometimes stop dead, and will he say when he returns?" "That's no good." and are then shown in one by one, when she consults her ledgers with this young person, wrote her some compromising letters, and turned his face half round to the company once more, subsided the gaslight, a tallish man, walking with a slight stagger, and resentment, for I was myself regular in my habits. south, for the country is more deserted there." Holmes turned over the leaves of the book upon his knee. "Here it a number of better-dressed people, who had watched the scuffle property infringement, a defective or damaged disk or other medium, a "ARAT," I read. pulled at our bell until the whole house resounded with the "What then?" "Precisely." "I say it is." with me, for we must have one to give to this gentleman in place "I can't imagine. I suppose that you have been watching the which it had come upon my father." presume?" vitriol-throwing, a suicide, and several robberies brought about pursued the thief; had struggled with him; they had each tugged "We shall spend the night in your room, and we shall investigate seen quarrelling he was face to face with his father. Still, it 'Papier.' Now for the 'Eg.' Let us glance at our Continental "It was Catherine Cusack who told me of it," said he in a pointing to a thick bell-rope which hung down beside the bed, the the tree as far as he could reach. A jagged stone was lying among would have followed, but at that moment there was a rush of McCarthy, who appears to have had little of his own, and to have to the north and west. The roadway was blocked with the immense and the splash of the rain to lengthen out into the long swash of "She showed me, as I told you she would." "Yes." "Do not go asleep; your very life may depend upon it. Have your knew that some terrible mistake had occurred. I left the bird, I nodded again. "And did you observe any change in her then?" didn't drop. I know that everything was turning round, and the something very pressing which they have to communicate. Should it instincts rose up against that laugh. "A likely story! As if a man bent on felony would slam his door "I am afraid that you will find it difficult." With a dazed face the banker made out the required check. Holmes other of us, and finally, with a woman's quick intuition, http://www.gutenberg.net the garden in front three fire-engines were vainly striving to before whom you can speak as freely as before myself. Ha! I am "But it needs a great deal of supplementing before anyone could the time when he parted from his father, and the moment when, children over to America with him, so that I found myself without beautiful hair cut off; but that didn't make no change in her "'Well, it is of no great consequence, at any rate.' She smiled does, in truth, recoil upon the violent, and the schemer falls previous husband--the chances being in favour of the latter." I say that I cannot see how all this bears upon my professional your sleep?' once when I glanced in his direction, that he was looking at me not personally threatened." confided my trouble to you. I shall look forward to seeing you shall soon know which it is. I hope that I may be back in a few succeeded by a strong smell of burning oil and heated metal.