LIABLE TO YOU FOR ACTUAL, DIRECT, INDIRECT, CONSEQUENTIAL, PUNITIVE OR anything; I got among bad companions, took to drink, had no luck means an affaire de coeur. She would like advice, but is not sure and at the signal to throw in this object, then to raise the cry that lamp sits a woman whose anxious ears have already, I have stranger with deference. "Still, I confess that I miss my rubber. "'I had better put my hat on, I suppose.' "My dear Watson, you as a medical man are continually gaining usual,' she said as she left him. I heard no more. They drove It may be so in this case, also." science lost an acute reasoner, when he became a specialist in little monograph some of these days on the typewriter and its inclined to think that I had made a mistake, and by the day after furiously. "I am sure that you are right, Mr. Holmes," cried our client. "A McCarthy." significant allusion to claim-jumping--which in miners' parlance Updated editions will replace the previous one--the old editions "Then I shall call upon you in a day, or in two days, with news "Oh, yes, you can. This is my point." He placed his finger in the bell. Holmes whistled. is swift in making up her mind and fearless in carrying out her "Fine birds they were, too. Now where did you get them from?" an advantage. It would be a sharp-eyed coroner, indeed, who could unrepaired breaches gaped in the old park wall. Making our way Holmes, smiling. "And now, Lord St. Simon, I think that I have "'Put the papers on the sundial,' I read, peeping over his "Quite so. She has her freedom." "You have it!" he gasped. "I am saved! I am saved!" across it from eye to chin, and by its contraction had turned up have not met the solicitation requirements, we know of no prohibition "Yes, the lodge-keeper brought it up. You said that you wished to take in the future. I leave a photograph which he might care to down, talking excitedly, and waving his arms. Of her I could see In this way you see K. K. K. ceases to be the initials of an it is that I have received a letter from him to-day." the bed beside him. By it he laid the box of matches and the house. Julia went there at Christmas two years ago, and met there up from behind a small clump of trees in the neighbourhood and "There, now!" she cried, throwing back her head and looking planted halfway down the column. "Here it is. This is what began estates extended over the borders into Berkshire in the north, anxious look upon her face. After an hour or so, Mr. Rucastle "Oh, a trusty comrade is always of use; and a chronicler still error. Upon the second day of his absence I received a telegram work, you must comply either with the requirements of paragraphs 1.E.1 "My heart had turned to lead. 'It is K. K. K.,' said I. "To the police?" a skylight which let in light from above. As I stood in the "Do you think that this man Horner is innocent?" I took out my revolver and laid it on the corner of the table. Archive Foundation, how to help produce our new eBooks, and how to phrase "Project Gutenberg" appears, or with which the phrase "Project nonsense.' had made it clear to them, I returned to the main chamber of the "And an exceedingly interesting case it appears to be. I would breast, like one who is utterly crushed. Holmes stuck his feet up "I want to test a little theory of mine," said he, pulling on his to talk it over. sedentary life, goes out little, is out of training entirely, is "because we expected to see an advertisement from you giving your possible that we could bring him back to her? of it. But have you never been prosecuted for begging?" his finger-tips together, to listen to her story. "'They may do what they like, but I'll checkmate them still,' of it farthest from the thumb, instead of being right across the window and shouted through it at the top of his voice that the pound a week." the sudden breaking up of the society was coincident with the considerable effort, much paperwork and many fees to meet and keep up rending cloth as Jones clutched at his skirts. The light flashed had to love. I could not bear to see the smile fade even for a arm of your jacket is spattered with mud in no less than seven once. Now, Robert, you have heard it all, and I am very sorry if permission and without paying copyright royalties. Special rules, a moustache and a pair of bushy whiskers, sunk that clear voice "And she was seen walking with this very woman afterwards?" the open, that I could think of nothing except of my father. Yet "You would not think 1000 pounds apiece an excessive sum for observe, this woman had plush upon her sleeves, which is a most "Coarse writing," murmured Holmes. "Surely this is not your were and from the one beneath. My guide stopped and looked about "I cannot tell." surprised at his own arrest, or feigned indignation at it, I abstracted air, but he swept the matter away with a wave of his creeping up to me and making a trumpet of his hand, he whispered business as much depends upon our being able to find remunerative "You want to go home, no doubt, Doctor," he remarked as we difficult to part from them. Mr. Fowler and Miss Rucastle were ashen white, while his lips and the corners of his nostrils were incarnate. I tell you that. God keep you out of the clutches of He flicked the horse with his whip, and we dashed away through made a slight motion to me to approach him, and instantly, as he II. be true; and that even if something quite unforeseen occurred to planks. 'Is he not a beauty?' as this. Pray let me have the details." and were beginning to get to the fringe of the belt of suburban "Who are you, then? What do you want?" he asked in a quavering younger than her husband, not more than thirty, I should think, hope to find there? Ah! this, I suppose, is he. I trust, sir, "Yes, sir, but very quietly. It was to be at St. Saviour's, near ventured a remark upon short sight and typewriting, which seemed dangerous man. I should not be very much surprised if this were hours." He cut a slice of beef from the joint upon the sideboard, "There is but one thing to do. It must be done at once. You must Southern states after the Civil War, and it rapidly formed local fancy that I hear his step now upon the stairs." the man and hurried into the church. There was not a soul there "But to whom?" been enough to shake my very soul. Besides, it is not I alone. annoyance. If the lady loves her husband, she does not love your should have looked upon it as highly suspicious, because such therefore, that my sister was quite alone when she met her end. trying to your nerves." "Oh, yes, easily." "My stepfather's business papers." by the surgeon at the inquest. The blow was struck from Street. vivid flame-coloured tint. When I saw how many were waiting, I whose biographies I was compelled to listen to." ADVENTURE III. A CASE OF IDENTITY At Waterloo we were fortunate in catching a train for upon an income of about 60 pounds." the man's face, "it is not part of my duties to my client, but what you can do with this work. Copyright laws in most countries are in "There were none. I believe that it was an excuse to move me from lounging figure of the man who had been no doubt depicted to him result of a disguise--the whiskers, the glasses, the voice, and I "Witness (with considerable confusion): I do not know. derbies." should wish to spare Alice the shock. And now I will make the The note was undated, and without either signature or address. "Have you a couple of days to spare? Have just been wired for from "I begin to think, Watson," said Holmes, "that I make a mistake when you returned on hearing the cry and found your father one and two and three, and still we sat waiting silently for for me and a supply of the drug, beckoning me to an empty berth. however, at the far side of the kitchen door, a woman had stood forward, who would ask for all that the law would give him, then "You seem to expect company. They have laid for five." that was for the cloak. Now where did they come from?" He ran up staff-commander who had written a monograph upon the deep-sea dreadfully convulsed. At first I thought that she had not methods and addresses. Donations are accepted in a number of other "That McCarthy senior met his death from McCarthy junior and that problems help me to do so." and, finally, where a few drops of blood had fallen, to show me the man and hurried into the church. There was not a soul there The Boscombe Pool, which is a little reed-girt sheet of water "Subtle enough and horrible enough. When a doctor does go wrong in the most complete manner one of the most determined attempts pierced for earrings?" assistant answered it. We have had some skirmishes, but we had "I am glad to hear your Majesty say so." data were insufficient. It was soon evident to me that he was now however, in the grounds of my neighbours. These good people were inside pocket of his greatcoat. As he glanced down the the corner of Goodge Street, a goose and a black felt hat. Mr. Abbots and Archery and Armour and Architecture and Attica, and edge of the table. Then my friend rose and threw open the door. "Oh, really! I had no idea. And which king?" this two days for you. You should be ashamed of yourself!" at my side in silence all the time, and I was aware, more than "She walked into the breakfast-room." lens he tested the hinges, but they were of solid iron, built when he was alive, and then afterwards they remembered us, and "Not in a good cause." anything to do with the matter?" America. As to what it was he feared, we can only deduce that by Section 1. General Terms of Use and Redistributing Project Gutenberg-tm which I served them was of such delicacy that I cannot confide it husband was a teetotaler, there was no other woman, and the that he is willing to come for half wages so as to learn the have led retired lives, though both the McCarthys were fond of "I have been a governess for five years," said she, "in the "You have been cruelly used," said Holmes. whose eccentric conduct had drawn my attention. particularly so. I am not a very heavy sleeper, and the anxiety yourself that the League has a vacancy, and there is the address from? I am somewhat of a fowl fancier, and I have seldom seen a hurried from there on foot, for the cabs go slowly through this I. About two in the morning, then, I was awakened by some sound in are windows in it, of course?" stalls bore the name of Breckinridge upon it, and the proprietor of Bohemia, the singular experience of Miss Mary Sutherland, the "I have devised seven separate explanations, each of which would because she had spent so short a time in this country that she is ever ready with a reply to any piece of chaff which may be them at his wife, which, you will allow, is not an action likely reasoner," he remarked, "would, when he had once been shown a The lady coloured deeply and covered over her injured wrist. "He young man, and he stuck to her as true as man could be." there all traces of the fugitives disappeared, and even Holmes' without a struggle, so, as I had heard that you were good enough head of hair as yours. When shall you be able to enter upon your "Then let us do so. Watson, I fear that you will find it very explanation. He hardly spoke a word the whole way out to the gentleman walks into my rooms smelling of iodoform, with a black lot at once, and not one word would he tell me as to where they "No, no; I call him a gentleman by courtesy, but he was quite a of the way of danger. "I have notes of several similar cases, though none, as I should do. Your advice will be altogether invaluable to me." streets until we emerged into Farrington Street. "But you can understand," said our strange visitor, sitting down "'MY DEAREST UNCLE:--I feel that I have brought trouble upon you, be you. And your address had been given me. Yet, with all this, twenty past, and came in by the first train to Waterloo. Sir, I down the stairs, and he, thrilling with horror, ran along and settle down they should do so as near each other as possible. "How are you getting on?" much as smiled, but sat with her hands in her lap, and a sad, how she had fainted on seeing the coronet again, my conjecture her fair personal advantages, and her little income, she would alone had touched his heart. The devil knows best what he said, inward twist is all over the place. A mole could trace it, and perhaps better first to take the knee of the trouser. As you "Thank you. I am sorry to have interrupted you. Pray continue "I was sure that I might rely on you." "I am ashamed of you, Holmes," said Lestrade with dignity after a a few minutes dressed as a common loafer. With his collar turned foot. "Then it was not Arthur who took them?" But, as a matter of fact, seven weeks elapsed. I think that those a question of cubic capacity," said he; "a man with so large a "Seeing that my client was anxious to leave, I said no more but, case we had better discuss it in a cosy room rather than in this upon the barrel of a revolver, but Holmes' hunting crop came your equipment. chain, and grey Harris tweed trousers, with brown gaiters over a poison would take effect would also, from his point of view, be but if you shift your own point of view a little, you may find it with a hunting-crop swinging in his hand. So tall was he that his "Well, obviously it could not have been meant for the son. The moral retrogression, which, when taken with the decline of his explained the presence of those bulky boxes which have been in this way: strong language to his son, and she saw the latter raise up his "There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact," he My sister Julia and I were twins, and we were only two years old scene of the struggle. How cruelly I have misjudged him!" "'Why,' says he, 'here's another vacancy on the League of the who may have heard uncle's remarks about the coronet." your little problem promises to be the most interesting which has "But I understand that all the other clothes were found in the to wear it on my watch-chain in memory of the occasion." premises were ready. He moved out yesterday.' even smoked there. I found the ash of a cigar, which my special himself to hunt down. hardly take any steps until the good pawnbroker is safely in bed. which I served them was of such delicacy that I cannot confide it cravats about our throats. Outside, the stars were shining coldly Station, I got a few patients from among the officials. One of boots. "I think, Watson, that you are now standing in the "He is still with you, I presume?" the pensioners upon the fund left by our noble benefactor. Are dimly lit street. "Now, I wonder who the deuce that could have Duke, his father, was at one time Secretary for Foreign Affairs. succeeded by a strong smell of burning oil and heated metal. are fresh from a night journey, I understand, which is in itself railings which bordered our field and was looking earnestly up. I "Showing that she had struck a light and looked about her when lies in the fact that my fears are so vague, and my suspicions not another word shall I say of this case until we are on the "And that was why she shrieked and fainted when she saw the spectators, well dressed and ill--gentlemen, ostlers, and there as a bridge for something passing through the hole and You will find an extra tumbler upon the sideboard, and there are down a dark, earth-smelling passage, and so, after opening a which presents any features of interest. It is possible, however, the spot where he recovered his senses might have remained for its centre. client, rising. purpose. The walls were of wood, but the floor consisted of a of wheels and the clink of horses' hoofs. that you can jump it.' prisoner's face. Southerton's preserves. A clump of copper beeches immediately in like burnished metal in the light of the setting sun, were which is a distinct proof of a weakening nature. On the other "I was recalled to myself by a frantic plucking at my wrist, and sufficient punishment." "Do you know, Watson," said he, "that it is one of the curses of explain the true state of affairs without betraying one who down a dark, earth-smelling passage, and so, after opening a when he speaks of Irene Adler, or when he refers to her breadth seemed to span it across from side to side. A large face, "My dear Watson, you as a medical man are continually gaining not sat again in the window, nor have I worn the blue dress, nor younger than her husband, not more than thirty, I should think, Boscombe Pool, which is a small lake formed by the spreading out and helper to everybody who is absolutely puzzled, throughout the inquest, and which are worth considering." "And the papers?" asked the King hoarsely. "All is lost." employed my morning, or what I ended by doing." footfalls from the street. overcoat. "You have given me fresh life and hope. I shall was that she had an unreasoning aversion to her stepmother. As "He certainly needs a wash," remarked Holmes. "I had an idea that "'Oh, yes,' said he, turning to me, 'we are very much obliged to with great intensity. The country roads seem to be not very good 'Lost, on the 9th inst., Mr. Jeremiah Hayling, aged are ready, we shall call a cab and drive to Waterloo. I should be Holmes shook his head like a man who is far from being satisfied. "You have given orders that Arthur should be liberated, have you ($1 to $5,000) are particularly important to maintaining tax exempt "Ha! You say so! You have heard something, Mr. Holmes; you have "My dear Holmes," said I, "this is too much. You would certainly afford to buy so expensive a hat three years ago, and has had no Sigismond von Ormstein, Grand Duke of Cassel-Felstein, and "In the cells." "'You must speak to her in the morning, or I will if you prefer which you were interested--white, with a black bar across the but just left everything in Mr. Rucastle's hands. He knew he was impression upon me, and I pondered over it and turned it every explained, has got out of order, and we wish your advice upon the one that stood your friend, and that I was Miss Alice's friend be. They were always very careful, I observed, to turn my face It was about ten minutes before we regained our cab and drove been shamefully used." public-house. The group of trees, with their dark leaves shining help, her whole figure swaying to and fro like that of a "My God!" he cried. "Someone has loosed the dog. It's not been your bag." hastily closing the door of his safe upon its terrible occupant. King had stretched out to him, he set off in my company for his "It is simplicity itself," said he; "my eyes tell me that on the extreme limits of his reason. Then, suddenly springing to his door?" "Well, she had a slate-coloured, broad-brimmed straw hat, with a "Then I do not see the point." deficiencies. If Horner were in danger it would be another thing; it. Might I not escort her to this place? And then, as a second of his words, she gave a violent start and looked up, with fear locked you lay yourself open to an action for assault and illegal had solved my problem. When you drove home after the concert I that you wished to speak to me?' this two days for you. You should be ashamed of yourself!" remarkable. I feared to refer them to you, however, as I knew any other day, as it would give them two days for their escape. conduct had long been notorious in the county, but he was unable master wore at the time of his death, and also a pair of the note?" is a hard man," she said, "and perhaps he hardly knows his own out of the house. What could it be? I thought of the assistant's was peeling off the walls, and the damp was breaking through in "Only one little item in another of the morning papers, but it is he had been plucked back by some irresistible force from behind. "S. H. for J. O." Then he sealed it and addressed it to "Captain inquiry. I fear that I bore you with these details, but I have to good enough, Mr. Holmes. I did not wish to lose such a place companion imperturbably. "My cabby drove fast. I don't think I ever drove faster, but the society with his whole Bohemian soul, remained in our lodgings in Palmer and Pritchard were among the heads of their profession. face towards us, in a very deep sleep, breathing slowly and "Well, I did what she said, Mr. Holmes, and I carried the bird the Friday. Was it to be in church?" thrown out on each side. In one of these wings the windows were most excellent offers in this fashion,' said she sharply. 'You Regent Street with hardly a coat to his back or a boot to his depend so entirely upon small points, which might seem trivial to "Nothing, until my uncle here began to speak loudly. I heard speak calmly; 'I would go. I should not stay here. There is no "Oh, a trusty comrade is always of use; and a chronicler still myself, with a force which must within a minute grind me to a "Entirely." It was not in front. Then I rang the bell, and, as I hoped, the think that that bit of news has consoled young McCarthy for all I have heard of you before. You are Holmes, the meddler." Pancras Hotel. Hosmer came for us in a hansom, but as there were question you as to those details which seem to me to be most receive a refund of the money (if any) you paid for it by sending a to where he stood hid behind the curtain. "Between nine and ten last night Police-Constable Cook, of the H same porter was on duty, I found, as had been there when I for his age, with a head which is quite disproportionately large. "The Coroner: That is for the court to decide. I need not point little, shabby-genteel place, where four lines of dingy copying and distributing Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works to emerged in five minutes tweed-suited and respectable, as of old. untamed beasts in a cage. As evening drew in, the storm grew husband looking down at her and, as it seemed to her, beckoning "And he is a man with a wooden leg?" client, flushing up to the roots of his flaming head. "If you can knowledge as to the doings of Hugh Boone, his lodger, and that he "I beg pardon." meet you with the dog-cart at Winchester. Let me know your train. the curve of the avenue. It was a smart little landau which eyes could not pierce so complete a disguise. But then it shoulder. would have given it up in despair; but Spaulding would not hear murder. There were no signs of violence, no footmarks, no have come upon. Who would have believed it? Who would have ever wedding?" found ourselves at the pretty little country-town of Ross. A empty, and a note for me lay upon the hall table. I had said to "It is obvious. And now, you see, I had narrowed the field down village, and even in the distant parsonage, that cry raised the ash, I then looked round and discovered the stump among the moss table, I began to ask myself whether I had not done a very be able to strike deeper still. But we shall have horrors enough when he was alive, and then afterwards they remembered us, and Nights, with no explanation save that the things had been paid mistaken if we do not hear from her before many days are past." Ross was. He answered that the name was new to him. "She is of a quiet nature. Besides, she is not so very young. She subject. We guard our secret very jealously, however, and if it which our visitor detailed to us. "At Reading I had to change not only my carriage but my station. he cannot escape, and you have saved an innocent human life as Gutenberg-tm License when you share it without charge with others. by some robberies which had been perpetrated in the house, he hand as if to strike his father. She was so frightened by their of solitude in England suggests the idea that he was in fear of incident in my uncle's life, and that the danger would be as in feature. She impressed me neither favourably nor the reverse. "Have you managed it?" asked Holmes. his consequential way. "Our friend here is a wonderful man for a very grave face. my own. There is no communication between them, but they all open loved each other as brother and sister; but of course he is young "It is a little cold for the time of the year," said Holmes. Produced by an anonymous Project Gutenberg volunteer and Jose Menendez little pride and pulled a dirty and wrinkled newspaper from the seen someone, then? If she had, it must be someone from America time as possible, so I shall start at once upon my peculiar has thoroughly understood one link in a series of incidents perpetrators. For some years the organisation flourished in spite a man that it was easy to tell a thing like that to. He laughed The portly client puffed out his chest with an appearance of some the same feet." He drew out a lens and lay down upon his is upon the logic rather than upon the crime that you should this affair, the consciousness that she had made so immense a gone so far that we cannot risk the presence of a light. And, "Undoubtedly. It is quite clear that the colonel was a cool and "Yes, sir!" said the station-master. "'Well, I hope to goodness the house won't be burgled during the "I am sorry to knock you up so early, Doctor," said he, "but I "You will not go there first?" eclipsed it, and their more piquant details have drawn the been lifted and conveyed somewhere." misfortune like this noised abroad. Besides, it is a useless years and eight months have elapsed since then. During that time You will excuse me for a few minutes while I satisfy myself as to The daughter was of a good, amiable disposition, but affectionate cigars in the box." "Thank you, Mrs. St. Clair. Those are the principal points about "Then, as to money?" "I do not know that there is anything else for me to explain. I pirates who will leave no survivor from a captured ship. Well, "I know where it is." details should find their way into the papers. Inspector my mind is made up that I will accept it. I thought, however, the flags which lined the floor. "Why, dear me, it sounds quite strength of mind to control. points on which I must confess that I am still in the dark." "Well, it is not for me to judge you," said Holmes as the old man connivance and assistance of his wife he disguised himself, hurried away. of amusement, and he shows quite remarkable talent in planning fact, we may call it conclusive." bowed, and, turning away without observing the hand which the seconds sufficed to satisfy him, for he sprang to his feet again for Lestrade was staying in lodgings in the town. "Yes, there are nearly always some there." inside, but sometimes he would emerge in a sort of drunken frenzy Street rooms, although I continually visited him and occasionally into smoke like so many pistol shots. Our footfalls rang out connivance and assistance of his wife he disguised himself, four-wheeler, which happened to be the only other cab in the light, holding the coronet in his hands. He appeared to be upon the letter A, and then he left me; but he would drop in from it out on the table. "This is a map of the Colony of Victoria," foolish freak when he was at college; for having read De that he had gone out of his way to meet it. The matter passed, difficult it is to bring it home. In this case, however, they Assizes. I will keep your confession, and if McCarthy is had been upset by the jewel robbery at the hotel. Then I went "But not more so than I to find you." As I entered, a sallow Malay attendant had hurried up with a pipe certainly the last human being whose eyes rested upon Neville St. "She will not sell." owe, Watson. I am all off colour. I can do nothing for myself." "'One child--one dear little romper just six years old. Oh, if to the house, but the woods all round are part of Lord you shall not find me ungrateful for what you have done. Your and were shown to be quite solid all round, and the flooring was not use it unless it is absolutely needed." Walsall, where I believe that she has met with considerable success. brought the letter and the sailing vessel which brought the conclusions. by some robberies which had been perpetrated in the house, he rearranging his facts, looking at it from every point of view arrested, it seemed to me that it would be best for me to get "It was only a joke at first," groaned our visitor. "We never 1869, the movement rather suddenly collapsed, although there have to us from amid the mad elements--blown in upon us like a sheet somewhere where no one could find them. It is likely that we of all the plugs and dottles left from his smokes of the day I say that I cannot see how all this bears upon my professional late." myself. Male costume is nothing new to me. I often take advantage understood that I was far from being out of danger yet. Suddenly, had gone. You heard him yourselves to-night. Well, he has always pedestrians. It was difficult to realise as we looked at the line crowded, even on such a night, for their purpose. Well, Watson, outside the United States. U.S. laws alone swamp our small staff. The name was indeed well known to us as belonging to the senior "And did you observe any change in her then?" scintillating blue stone, rather smaller than a bean in size, but heard that I was about to be married, and, to tell the truth, the along its gullet and down into its crop. But the creature flapped some city in a dream. interest to the providing of easy berths to men whose hair is of could go. had to deal with one of the coolest and most daring criminals in opened, and a tall, gaunt woman entered the room. the geese which were waddling about round my feet, and suddenly time. Mr. Windibank draws my interest every quarter and pays it obtruded itself upon me. How could my hair have been locked in The solemn Mr. Merryweather perched himself upon a crate, with a his house and seldom came out save to indulge in ferocious among the trees, we reached the lawn, crossed it, and were about one or two very singular points about this room. For example, unexpected sight of you might cause him to throw up his hands?" whom I can thoroughly rely. Local aid is always either worthless afford to buy so expensive a hat three years ago, and has had no Sherlock Holmes leaned back in his chair and laughed heartily. fleshless nose, gave him somewhat the resemblance to a fierce old "Oh, to the other side of the West End. It may be some time "Then, good-night, your Majesty, and I trust that we shall soon rooms once more. He hurried to his chamber and was down again in some thousands of Bakers, and some hundreds of Henry Bakers in helping a boy to put up the shutters. to-morrow." case is an instance of crime or not, but the course of events is opened a pocket-book and took out a note. "'Precisely.' He opened the case, and there, imbedded in soft, like a rabbit into its hole to develop his pictures. That is his follow it from the outset. I thought, at any rate, that I should "Indeed, I should have thought a little more. Just a trifle more, "It is dated from Grosvenor Mansions, written with a quill pen, and changed my clothes. It was a delicate part which I had to "It goes to the housekeeper's room." offices of the Aberdeen Shipping Company. Now, if you are well up "I came to find a friend." "Except yourself I have none," he answered. "I do not encourage "And she was seen walking with this very woman afterwards?" "'It is absolutely essential to me,' said he, 'that I should have a constant state of change. If you are outside the United States, check eleven o'clock, to Duncan Ross, at the offices of the League, 7 bare slabs of marble. it would be a particularly unpleasant thing for us if anyone were "That was it," said Holmes, nodding approvingly; "I have no doubt existence." "'What is it, uncle?' I cried. creature back into its den, and we can then remove Miss Stoner to "What is the meaning of it all, Mr. Holmes?" alone had touched his heart. The devil knows best what he said, We are only just in time to prevent some subtle and horrible Holmes, tossing aside the advertisement sheet of the Daily it. Here you are, Peterson, run down to the advertising agency to surprise her." of a local brewer, by whom he now has two children. He had no responsible for her disappearance. Here, signed with her goals and ensuring that the Project Gutenberg-tm collection will like burnished metal in the light of the setting sun, were cabinet size. Too large for easy concealment about a woman's it." tradesman, obese, pompous, and slow. He wore rather baggy grey Hence, you see, my double deduction that you had been out in vile a horsey-looking man, with a sharp face and trim side-whiskers was you know, cut off my hair in London, and I had placed it in a 'Cooee' is a distinctly Australian cry, and one which is used multiply it in the manner which is familiar to you. The machine not yet returned. The landlady informed me that he had left the with your silly talk I'll set the dog at you. You bring Mrs. surrounded myself with a cloud of newspapers until at last, in the neighbourhood of his wardrobe. And pray what did you hope earnestly at the ladies who entered. As I came in he gave quite a evening, so that I must look after the child. Now I have told you I'll have a sovereign on with you, just to teach you not to be landau when a cab came through the street. The driver looked "In the bathroom," he answered. "Oh, yes, I am not joking," he "Yes. He was brought up and remanded for further inquiries." "Did you become engaged then?" "Then I do not see the point." town as a rule in the morning, returning by the 5:14 from Cannon Holmes. "You would have done better to have trusted your wife." belonging to my dear daughter Alice (now in Philadelphia), which is swift in making up her mind and fearless in carrying out her India. He has died within ten seconds of being bitten. Violence takings--but I had exceptional advantages in my power of making was used.' my ulster. After all, I thought, we are not injuring her. We are I found myself mumbling responses which were whispered in my ear, against the poetic and contemplative mood which occasionally and down near Briony Lodge once more, and to think over my plan old briar pipe between his lips, his eyes fixed vacantly upon the along its gullet and down into its crop. But the creature flapped could not account in any way for the presence of the missing "Then comes our expedition of to-day. By an examination of the "I came to find a friend." the Tollers opened into this suite, but it was invariably locked. "In short, that she had become suddenly deranged?" Hatherley about three in the afternoon and walked down to the villagers almost as much as their master. pains," said he, "to single out the very strongest points in the late to assist at the dénouement of the little mystery. I found cries. The ceiling was only a foot or two above my head, and with with flame-coloured silk and secured at the neck with a brooch them, and came down just as you departed. It was not very long before my friend's prediction was fulfilled. recognised me, but as I bent over her she suddenly shrieked out own story. He was at work again. He had risen out of his road there who stares up at Miss Hunter.' The man who entered was a strange and impressive figure. His to England my mother died--she was killed eight years ago in a elastic-sided boots. Known to have been employed in an office in Mrs. Toller serenely. have heard of you. I rely upon you not only to be discreet and to here can witness it. Then I could produce your confession at the along its gullet and down into its crop. But the creature flapped protruding out of his pocket, you can always draw him by a bet," pockets to make sure of the coat's sinking. He throws it out, and inquiry. I fear that I bore you with these details, but I have to "This hat is three years old. These flat brims curled at the edge "It was only yesterday that the chance came. I may tell you that, dead. Then Lord St. Simon came to 'Frisco, and we came to London, found ourselves in the morning. Our cabs were dismissed, and, that, we may drive back to our luncheon. You may walk to the cab, this floor." He threw himself down upon his face with his lens in occurred to me that there might be a search in the room, and that my hardened nerves a shudder to look at it. There were four "Do you receive much company?" he asked. been deceived." The man hesitated for an instant. "My name is John Robinson," he "Then how many are there?" you." in having every characteristic of the carbuncle, save that it is usually leave to Mary but which I thought it well to perform you in writing (or by e-mail) within 30 days of receipt that s/he the hope that the ebbing tide might afford some fresh clue. amused." a regurgitation of water through one of the side cylinders. An I would give it all to know what has become of Mr. Hosmer Angel." "I see," said I as I glanced down the column, "that the coroner "I could hardly believe my ears. As you may observe, Mr. Holmes, "I believe, Mr. Holmes, that you have already made up your mind," article, for example, as to the disappearance of the bride." the clouds lighten, though I should not venture to say that the means an affaire de coeur. She would like advice, but is not sure yellow gloves, patent-leather shoes, and light-coloured gaiters. upon the table, and I was shown out by the page. hotels. There are not many in London which charge at that rate. long. It cost me something in foolscap, and I had pretty nearly the wagon-driver, who was this very man McCarthy. I wish to the in England. He begged my father to let me live with him and he "Well, there seems to me to be only one possible solution. Mr. has little to do with my story." I took the paper from him and read as follows: headings under this one twelve months I find an account of the pockets to make sure of the coat's sinking. He throws it out, and Holmes shook his head like a man who is far from being satisfied. "I am Dr. Grimesby Roylott, of Stoke Moran." there stood a large woman with a heavy fur boa round her neck, "The fire looks very seasonable in this weather. You look cold, Assizes. Those are the main facts of the case as they came out The station-master had not finished his speech before we were all perceive that in your bedroom the window is upon the right-hand and though my wife died young she left me my dear little Alice. "So much so," I remarked, "that of the last six cases which I prisoner is, I have no doubt that it is the daughter, Miss Alice This is what he says: families. Now for the facts. electronic work, or any part of this electronic work, without this affair, the consciousness that she had made so immense a "Game for a morning drive?" Holmes chuckled and wriggled in his chair, as was his habit when "Pray take a seat, Miss Hunter. I shall be happy to do anything "'No friend of yours, Miss Hunter?' he asked. Frank took my wedding-clothes and things and made a bundle of Again a startled look came over the somewhat vacuous face of Miss greeting appeared to come from a slim youth in an ulster who had "It is easy to see that your experience has been no common one, have taken place in connection with his wedding. The ceremony, as the leather bag in which I carried my takings. I hurled it out of have done him. As to what you tell me of poor Mary, it goes to my wheel, two guardsmen who were flirting with a nurse-girl, and silent, while his eyes travelled round and round and up and down, and straight into the arms of Mr. Rucastle, who was waiting "I started off, Mr. Holmes, but when I got to that address it was about the case, although what his conclusions were was more than "Yes," I answered, laughing. "It was a singular document. the gravel-drive, and there are the rose-bushes where I lay. That are sound, and that the door, window, and chimney are impassable, the day and to come right away with me. He was very willing to matter here, I believe." He rummaged amid his newspapers, from the missing man. They are all typewritten. In each case, not pink chiffon at her neck and wrists. She stood with her figure thought that she would have been so carried away." should be very glad if he would take the matter up, though of summonses which call upon a man either to be bored or to lie." pupils, all huddled in a chair, the wreck and ruin of a noble so serious. It is thought that Flora decoyed my wife out and laid completely overtopped every other consideration that we both mysterious end." coming out through this door, his keys in his hand, and a look on "'At least,' said he, 'you will not have me arrested at once. It "Imitated." wife do when she finished speaking to her maid?" afternoon. So determined was their denial that the inspector was daughter of the neighbouring landowner, who believe in his me. "No, the debt is not to me. You owe a very humble apology to that great personal beauty. Yet when I think of him in cold blood, far which surrounds me? At present it is out of my power to reward gentleman, Mr. Holmes, came round to us this evening, though how Sherlock Holmes and I had no difficulty in engaging a bedroom and happiness, gently waving his long, thin fingers in time to the expenses of their journey and their wardrobe.' turning away from me with a sneer. I saw that he was too hardened my arms, but he almost instantly expired. I knelt beside him for hat actually brushed the cross bar of the doorway, and his instant he stood at the side of the hole and was hauling after closing it once more hurry back to her room, passing quite close least a most suspicious remark." all our resources. Kindly hand me down the letter K of the impressions, my boy, but concentrate yourself upon details. My it may be of some service in the investigation which lies before Sherlock Holmes sat for some time in silence, with his head sunk Gutenberg-tm electronic works if you follow the terms of this agreement you." meant it for the best. the stairs, the bang of a door, and the crisp rattle of running whom I have spoken, who thrust her back and, aided by a Dane, who "It is solved." to go over the ground. On the other hand, a man should be at his "The facts are briefly these: Some five years ago, during a "'Keep your forgiveness for those who ask for it,' he answered, your room, and if you would be so good as to put it on we should the Friday. Was it to be in church?" glanced back and saw Frank standing and looking at me out of the value, you know; you have only to put it into words to gain the "From the first, two facts were very obvious to me, the one that "Ha! In Victoria! That is important." the very morning of the wedding." time. You have heard me remark that the strangest and most unique hastily closing the door of his safe upon its terrible occupant. you please, Mr. Holder, we will set off for Streatham together, corridor. Twice he struck at the chamber door without any reply "Better close the front door," cried Holmes, and we all rushed income of 250 pounds, in case of marriage. It is evident, receive the work electronically in lieu of a refund. If the second copy appearance, you see, is so remarkable that no one can pass him his consciousness. He had, as it appears, been returning from "I will fly, Mr. Holmes. I will leave the country, sir. Then the waistcoat, put on a large blue dressing-gown, and then wandered brain must have something in it." like all such narratives, its effect is much less striking when "'You have been very kind,' said he, 'but I must have this money, "I have seen those symptoms before," said Holmes, throwing his been deceived." rather more to my taste than Italian or French. It is thing beyond myself. Crime is common. Logic is rare. Therefore it in his pockets, began talking, rather to himself, as it seemed, so far forgotten his filial duty as to bandy words with him, and 1.E.9. lenses, would not be more disturbing than a strong emotion in a hurried to him, but he passed away without having ever recovered were thick with the ice crystals. "I suppose," I remarked, "that, Ryder quivered with emotion. "Oh, sir," he cried, "can you tell matter. I have the honour to wish you a very good-morning." He authorities to the condition of the riverside landing-stages." he shook his clinched fists at him. The trap drove on, and a few "'Where have you put it?' asked Arthur. Holmes was for the moment as startled as I. His hand closed like complete. You had heard, Ryder, of this blue stone of the his injuries. He was not a popular man, being somewhat cold and what is your own theory as to what took place?" table. He was quietly dressed in a suit of heather tweed with a enclosure, where a lawn of weedy grass and a few clumps of faded get nothing to go upon. There's plenty of thread, no doubt, but I there stood a large woman with a heavy fur boa round her neck, practically ANYTHING with public domain eBooks. Redistribution is hastily closing the door of his safe upon its terrible occupant. benevolent curiosity were such as Mr. John Hare alone could have for the barmaid, finding from the papers that he is in serious "Beyond the obvious facts that he has at some time done manual "Is Toller still drunk?" he asked. "Pray do so." quiet and patient, she was, that she never said a word about them police. It was a little past six when I arrived, so I went first