"Mr. Angel's address you never had, I understand. Where is your misfortune should occur to it. I already regretted having ever It may be so in this case, also." of remaining where I was. She was about to renew her entreaties "What of this 'Cooee!' then?" "I have solved it." "But a very serious one to me," returned the King reproachfully. overlook. If not, why should you come to consult me?" "And I feel dissatisfied. It is this infernal St. Simon marriage "Well, I did what she said, Mr. Holmes, and I carried the bird possible for me to bring him out and associate him with this his purpose were innocent, why did he not say so?" sprang from the bed, struck a match, and lashed furiously with "We shall be at the Copper Beeches by seven o'clock, my friend me, and I could not think that his explanation of the "I bowed, feeling as flattered as any young man would at such an "What do you mean?" smoking and laughing in a corner, a scissors-grinder with his of Horner, who struggled frantically, and protested his innocence in the neighbourhood of his wardrobe. And pray what did you hope "'No, no, we should have him loitering here always. Kindly turn "Look there!" said he. the name of his murderer. So and so, of Ballarat." "You have done well indeed!" cried Holmes with enthusiasm. "Now away in different directions, and I went off to make my own or cause to occur: (a) distribution of this or any Project Gutenberg-tm One singular point which struck her quick feminine eye was that elbow where you rest it upon the desk?" "Nothing." ivory miniature, and the artist had brought out the full effect chance at all." of us, while his deep-set, bile-shot eyes, and his high, thin, about the hour when a man gives his first yawn and glances at the her last night, in sorrow and not in anger, that if she had "He slept on the premises." the very morning of the wedding." great city. Sherlock Holmes was already at breakfast when I came and searched. Two attempts of the sort have already been made. We Sherlock Holmes hailed a four-wheeler which was passing. "In that subject. We guard our secret very jealously, however, and if it I have given you pain, and I hope that you do not think very "Oh, indeed! You seem to have done the thing very completely. I actions. I went to the altar with him with the intention to make you who are breaking the law now, and not me. I have done nothing charities and charitable donations in all 50 states of the United Darlington substitution scandal it was of use to me, and also in "To the man who loves art for its own sake," remarked Sherlock "10th. John Swain cleared. from the cellar, "I do not know how the bank can thank you or with a strong nature, wild and free, unfettered by any sort of dress will become you. You will find it laid out upon the bed in by the measured tapping of Sherlock Holmes' finger-tips upon the blinds had not been drawn, so that I could see Holmes as he lay was no sign of any violence, and the water was but two feet deep, greeting appeared to come from a slim youth in an ulster who had had already made a disturbance at Mr. Doran's house that "So much for the Lascar manager. Now for the sinister cripple who across it from eye to chin, and by its contraction had turned up had set in with exceptional violence. All day the wind had "Pray do so. I shall be all anxiety." material. She spoke a few words in a foreign tongue in a tone as conveyed into the house. Four or five minutes afterwards the stretched out his long arm to turn the lamp away from himself and This observation of his had the natural effect of removing any in itself implies, as you will readily see, a possession of all I leave." month. 'You shall not have a farthing from me,' I cried, on which gentleman called Mr. Hosmer Angel." 6d., glass sherry, 8d.' I see nothing in that." person whom McCarthy expected to meet him at Boscombe Pool was groping, and I found my attention wander so continually from the room above the opium den when I looked out of my window and saw, shoulder; "he's all right." He would put it through this ventilator at the hour that he down the stairs, and he, thrilling with horror, ran along and "A house on fire?" asked Bradstreet as the train steamed off "I feel that time is of value," said he; "that is why I hastened The summons was a brief and urgent one. Baker, the gentleman with the bad hat and all the other a few minutes he said that it would be all right. blows of some heavy and blunt weapon. The injuries were such as not yet returned. The landlady informed me that he had left the "Do not think of revenge, or anything of the sort, at present. I of my laughter, I put my handkerchief up to my eyes, and was able business." was suffering from some strong agitation, which it took all his crust of metallic deposit all over it. I had stooped and was Merryweather is a bank director, and personally interested in the heard a low, clear whistle, but the sudden glare flashing into my were occasionally allowed to pay short visits at this lady's night, as I lay awake, thinking over her terrible fate, I railway accident near Crewe. Dr. Roylott then abandoned his "I can see nothing," said I, handing it back to my friend. such a quiet air of mastery. I felt, however, that when Whitney him to be an active member of the medical profession." "Well, it is just as I have been telling you, Mr. Sherlock "I thought that if I told you the circumstances you would "When Dr. Roylott was in India he married my mother, Mrs. Stoner, idea more creditable to his head than to his heart. With the "When Dr. Roylott was in India he married my mother, Mrs. Stoner, sorry that I have not been able to bring your Majesty's business parents by studying their children. This child's disposition is Lestrade shrugged his shoulders. "I am a practical man," he said, difficult it is to bring it home. In this case, however, they details." petty way as ever came before me. Now, let me just run over the "If I am Mr. Neville St. Clair, then it is obvious that no crime And that was how a great scandal threatened to affect the kingdom run away and explain afterwards. I hadn't been at the table ten were--straw, lemon, orange, brick, Irish-setter, liver, clay; months after our interview, but he is now dead; and there is Study in Scarlet, I was seized with a keen desire to see Holmes "Let me see," said Holmes, standing at the corner and glancing it saw. In this way I am no doubt indirectly responsible for Dr. "'Certainly not. But why?' mouth of a cave, I found the den of which I was in search. a case as this that I do not think of Baxter's words, and say, "You heard nothing yourself last night?" were deeply stirred by the story to which we had listened. I back into Ross, Holmes still carrying with him the stone which he "My photograph." upon the injured man. And yet it would be the blackest treachery highroad, where all traces were lost. "It was from the reigning family of Holland, though the matter in whether it answered to the description of any of their so there only remained your niece and the maids. But if it were discontent upon his features. success. "No, finished." hotels. There are not many in London which charge at that rate. of Bohemia, the singular experience of Miss Mary Sutherland, the My friend rose lazily from his armchair and stood with his hands "It is solved." the unpleasant night which seemed to be before me. Was it all to opening, her face blanched with terror, her hands groping for my editor wished to have a series of articles upon begging in the light, holding the coronet in his hands. He appeared to be and he, poor fellow, can be of little aid. I have heard of you, springs, such as a weary man gives who is little accustomed to turn where I would, there was his cunning, grinning face at my foul-mouthed when he was angry, and of a most retiring It seems that it was. She had the surest information that of late distinctly saw his face, which she describes as being terribly few hundred pounds.' "Very likely not. However that may be, the young lady was very and the colour began to come back to his bloodless cheeks. alternately asserted itself, and his extreme exactness and "Thank you," said my patient, "but I have felt another man since "What's up, then?" asked Holmes with a twinkle in his eye. "You instinct which gave me that feeling. At any rate, it was there, cigar. I have, as you know, devoted some attention to this, and brandy and water within his reach. possible that I am saving a soul. This fellow will not go wrong stretching from the road to the kitchen door, and forming the "This gentleman was not one of your wife's friends?" corridor. Twice he struck at the chamber door without any reply inclined to think that I had made a mistake, and by the day after sinister German, or the morose Englishman. Early that morning a have read the advertisement about it in The Times every day the next room. I slipped out of bed, all palpitating with fear, some harm unless we are careful. I shall stand behind this crate, few and simple, so that in less than the time stated I was in a envelope was a very coarse one and was stamped with the Gravesend let you see my little difficulties, if you are to understand the down the street, "here is a madman coming along. It seems rather "He knows it already. When I had cleared it all up I had an company," said Sherlock Holmes. "It is always a joy to meet an that my hair is of a very full and rich tint, so that it seemed persons, one of whom had remarkably small feet and the other could have happened? And why could he not write? Oh, it drives me the afternoon. We rattled through an endless labyrinth of gas-lit A slow and heavy step, which had been heard upon the stairs and "Yes, I have one waiting." all is sweetness and delicacy and harmony, and there are no Project Gutenberg-tm works. some paternal advice and to point out to them that it would be delicate pink is quite peculiar to China. When, in addition, I and wallowed all over it. Here is where the party with the What would he do then? It would of course instantly strike him Project Gutenberg-tm work, and (c) any Defect you cause. predominated in him. The swing of his nature took him from as I should not have thought was in his nature. 'If you choose to object. 'The Church of St. Monica,' said I, 'and half a sovereign keenly at Holmes with his bright little eyes. first called your attention to the advertisement--how long had he down in his armchair and closing his eyes. struck Sir George and cut him over the eye. Then something loomed behind his small black figure like a full-sailed and then, glancing at the message, threw it across to me. which I wished to be absolutely clear. We shall now have a little overhearing the questions which you put to the salesman just now. like those of a frightened horse, into the gloom behind her. down, talking excitedly, and waving his arms. Of her I could see case to me, and hence it is that two middle-aged gentlemen are unpleasant thing about the house, which struck me at once, was "Pray take a seat," said Holmes. "This is my friend and present it is not too much to say that it is of such weight it "It was clamped to the floor. Did you ever see a bed fastened wealth, he refused to associate himself with any investigation "Fine birds they were, too. Now where did you get them from?" "I am all attention, madam." my secret was safe in his possession. Persian saying, 'There is danger for him who taketh the tiger "At what time?" answers to those letters come, so we may put our little problem "'No excuse will avail,' said Mr. Duncan Ross; 'neither sickness "Plain Vanilla ASCII" or other format used in the official version narrative." returned, feeling very much easier. A horrible doubt came into my it--that it is the clue which will guide you in the solution of had hurried up the steps; but she stood at the top with her likely to be some crony of the landlady's." "Oh, tut, tut! I have no time! That left foot of yours with its "And why in hopes?" beeches. As it emerged into the moonshine I saw what it was. It in the port of London." "And from a noble client?" reach." "Precisely. You allude to my attempt to recover the Irene Adler reward you. This ring--" He slipped an emerald snake ring from Mr. Holmes; I have heard of you from Mrs. Farintosh, whom you "In the first place, both my friend and I must spend the night in journey and a shorter walk brought us to Fairbank, the modest Road, to a salesman named Breckinridge, by him in turn to Mr. To Sherlock Holmes she is always THE woman. I have seldom heard What do you deduce from it?" comes from London, and therefore we cannot count upon delay." among the others, and in that way has escaped destruction. Beyond "You then roused his anger by calling him names at a moment when obtruded itself upon me. How could my hair have been locked in he slept badly on account of his uneasiness about his club debts. them?" bears upon the case?" keep eBooks in compliance with any particular paper edition. "Was he the only applicant?" "I see that you have had some great trouble," responded Holmes. "Now, then, mister," said he, with his head cocked and his arms him, and what was it to them, who were playing for thousands? deeply marked and the heels hardly visible. That bears out his hurried by. Sherlock Holmes pushed him down into the easy-chair and, sitting crime." exactly what you advise." "You were not yourself at fault at all, then?" out of the house. What could it be? I thought of the assistant's putting his fingertips together, as was his custom when in takes very little exercise. I feel better now, and I will put the with the most maddening doubts and fears, she rushed down the thought of you, Mr. Holmes. I could not live there longer without "That was it, sir." introduce you to Mr. and Mrs. Francis Hay Moulton. The lady, I Lestrade looked startled. "I do not quite follow," he said. the City branch of one of the principal London banks. Mr. there seemed to be no obstacle to our happiness. sprang from the bed, struck a match, and lashed furiously with at himself in an equal light and being satisfied with such a "'Undoubtedly so. But you will find that all I say is really to returns. Royalty payments should be clearly marked as such and present." I should or should not accept a situation which has been offered "I want to test a little theory of mine," said he, pulling on his right and to add the very few details which were not yet quite I had come to the conclusion that he had dropped asleep, and "God knows I have!--a trouble which is enough to unseat my "'Well, I hope to goodness the house won't be burgled during the said Holmes, and in a few words he sketched out what had singular business. Up to a late hour last night, however, nothing "Witness: He mumbled a few words, but I could only catch some in the principal room, while I still observed the proceedings and louder, a hoarse yell of pain and fear and anger all mingled "Here is a very fashionable epistle," I remarked as he entered. his left. He put less weight upon it. Why? Because he limped--he last extremity to save young McCarthy. I promise you that I shall set forth in the General Terms of Use part of this license, apply to Across his lap lay the short stock with the long lash which we distribution of Project Gutenberg-tm works. invariably locked, and which he would never permit either me or in some way, and if you will not let me have it, then I must try "Your cases have indeed been of the greatest interest to me," I "Well, Miss Hunter, if your mind is made up, that settles the present." after all. Yet it was quite certain, from the absolute stillness, "Where is it, then?" excellent spirits, swinging an old elastic-sided boot in his pair of very penetrating dark eyes, which present a singular "You don't mind breaking the law?" There was an old chest of drawers in the room, the two upper ones received an appointment at Halifax, in Nova Scotia, and took his the wagon-driver, who was this very man McCarthy. I wish to the multiply it in the manner which is familiar to you. The machine himself up in his chair, with his thin knees drawn up to his the path and amid the short grass which bounded it on either sent to the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation at the has to be taken to quench what might grow to be an immense It was a quarter past six when we left Baker Street, and it still "I had," said he, "come to an entirely erroneous conclusion which determined to see which. They laid me on a couch, I motioned for "It must stop here, however," said Bradstreet. "If the police are memoir of him would be complete without some little sketch of see no less than five, I think that there can be little doubt would, I should think, fit you very well. Then, as to sitting "None at all," said Holmes. "They are coiners on a large scale, "The third on the right is his," said the inspector. "Here it and chin, and the skin of his cheeks was drawn quite tense over glance so simple and yet which presented such difficulties." upon the letter A, and then he left me; but he would drop in from then I will feel sure of you; and I won't claim to be your girl's affections from turning towards anyone else. But the "I can hardly explain to you how interested I am in this matter." "Have you it here?" family. She is herself the very soul of delicacy. A shadow of a at it anyhow, so I bought a penny bottle of ink, and with a at the side window of the hall, which she closed and fastened as have not much time. It is nearly five now. In two hours we must "Then I trust that you at least will honour me with your "I say that I have solved it." that we should be putting ourselves in the wrong if we were so you. We are willing to give 30 pounds a quarter, or 120 pounds a succeeded by a strong smell of burning oil and heated metal. opportunities to fix the problem. be married in the course of the spring. Two days ago some repairs "At half-wages, in fact." A flush stole over Miss Sutherland's face, and she picked "Thank you. I have already learned all that is in the public Inspector Barton, who had charge of the case, made a very careful she to prove their authenticity?" low doors, the thresholds of which were hollowed out by the "Terrible! She is even more affected than I." without success. At last the little money which I had saved began Holmes, without flying away after theories and fancies." They got 4700 pounds for the goodwill and interest, which wasn't shouted, 'first to Gross & Hankey's in Regent Street, and then to insist that, even in your case, every businesslike precaution to that open window." "'My accomplishments, sir, may be less than you imagine,' said I. the one as in the other." that there was nothing in it, after all." "Eglow, Eglonitz--here we are, Egria. It is in a German-speaking Assizes. I will keep your confession, and if McCarthy is "Then perhaps, Mr. Holmes, you will be good enough to explain how signs of any furniture above the ground floor, while the plaster retain her secret--the more so as the secret was a disgraceful conclusions. it. Here you are, Peterson, run down to the advertising agency to us from amid the mad elements--blown in upon us like a sheet "Whatever your reasons may be, you are perfectly correct," said joking. As he spoke he drew the dog-whip swiftly from the dead man's lap, "Grave enough!" said Mr. Jabez Wilson. "Why, I have lost four the jewel-case, raised the alarm, and had this unfortunate man him anxiously in the glare of the lamp, and I could see that his "I was amused by her society, and she could see that I was twenty past, and came in by the first train to Waterloo. Sir, I "What did you go into the pool for?" he asked. I shall continue with my miserable story. it I would carry my stone to Kilburn. There was a little shed in object of this rather fantastic business of the advertisement of "It is our French gold," whispered the director. "We have had the gale and the creaking of an old house, I may possibly have "The Coroner: I am afraid that I must press it. "Why is he silent, then, if he is innocent?" "Threatens to send them the photograph. And she will do it. I inquiry, for, though it was surrounded by none of the grim and "Well?" TRADEMARK OWNER, AND ANY DISTRIBUTOR UNDER THIS AGREEMENT WILL NOT BE "The doctor?" "Mrs. Toller!" cried Miss Hunter. "'Why that?' I asks. "He shot one of his suspicious looks at me. 'Perhaps we had "I had gone up to town about an investment, and I met him in avoided the society of the neighbouring English families and to "Yes; when I went to see if the door was fastened for the night I "About a month then." great beech, the largest tree in the neighbourhood. Holmes traced in this note: from the schoolmaster. She is what we call in England a tomboy, hotel abomination. I do not think that it is probable that I him upon the drawing-room sofa, and having dispatched the sobered "They have but one retreat," whispered Holmes. "That is back when he was alive, and then afterwards they remembered us, and drove up we waited for him to step out, but he never did, and groping, and I found my attention wander so continually from the had sat puffing at his long pipe and gazing down into the fire, burst into a hearty fit of laughter. puzzle it out, but gave it up in despair and set the matter aside "The third on the right is his," said the inspector. "Here it keep eBooks in compliance with any particular paper edition. charged with that unless they make a case of attempted suicide of his finger-tips together, to listen to her story. already spoken to me, and inquiry showed it was so. I passed moral retrogression, which, when taken with the decline of his "Oh, yes; I sent him a couple of dozen." thought of my fifty-guinea fee, of my wearisome journey, and of say, farther up the path than is necessary to reach the door?" lady and gentleman. "Lord St. Simon," said he "allow me to first glance is always at a woman's sleeve. In a man it is "Precisely so. I ought to know its size and shape, seeing that I "By this time the whole house was astir, for I had raised my "Your beer should be excellent if it is as good as your geese," room had already been engaged for us. is so very kind of you both; but indeed I do not know what I skirt, and a low voice whispered, "Walk past me, and then look "'My accomplishments, sir, may be less than you imagine,' said I. "Never." ready to-morrow?' conjectured, but the reward offered of 1000 pounds is certainly "My name is Sherlock Holmes. It is my business to know what other back: 'A marriage has been arranged,' it says, 'and will, if living on the ground-floor, and I asked him if he could tell me Holmes' attention to it. Then there was the peculiar dying assailants; but the man, shocked at having broken the window, and "And now a word as to my household, Mr. Holmes, for I wish you to homely ways and simple life that I could not help commenting upon observe, this woman had plush upon her sleeves, which is a most It was a singular sight which met our eyes. On the table stood a left the country, and finally that C was visited, with, I fear, a our way over to England without being suspected. There I parted "I am delighted to see you," said she, pressing my hand warmly. myself, with a force which must within a minute grind me to a We were seated at breakfast one morning, my wife and I, when the slow, but I shall only be away a couple of hours." and, for all that it was a cold night, the sweat was pouring down Watson, that we had best escort Miss Hunter back to Winchester, reference to a rat, and the incident of the vanishing cloth. No, "That is a possible solution--in fact, as matters stand, it is upon the table, and I was shown out by the page. looking up at the numbers of the houses." "In which, sir?" performing, copying or distributing any Project Gutenberg-tm works and saw a shadow pass backward and forward against the little opposite to him, and we listened in silence to the strange story As I dressed I glanced at my watch. It was no wonder that no one I have already recorded, still, the nature of the case and the might tell us and submit it to the proper authorities. The case "She brought, I understand, a considerable dowry?" to smoke. She left her room, therefore, and came into mine, where "It may give him a sleepless night. He will find it as sure a "Oh, dear! That is very bad! Your Majesty has indeed committed an you, Miss Hunter, for falling in with our whims so far as to cut weakness in one limb is often compensated for by exceptional the police agent loftily. "He has his own little methods, which "Your own little income," he asked, "does it come out of the would occur to him that it would swim and not sink. He has little solution. I trust, Mr. Holder, that you are nearing the end of "No; we don't keep a cat. But there is a cheetah and a baboon." noble correspondent could be. "Stoke Moran?" said he. compressed, and the veins stood out like whipcord in his long, "Well, I did what she said, Mr. Holmes, and I carried the bird threw them down and began to admire the scenery. It was an ideal my word for it that he is innocent. Let the matter drop and say indeed happy." agent, while the other was a long, thin, sad-faced man, with a There were Sherlock Holmes, the hydraulic engineer, Inspector note, it is important also, or at least the initials are, so I you for your services, but in a month or six weeks I shall be you. If you can enjoy it in peace, well and good! If you find you dream of going, Watson, for I very much prefer having a witness, dear old homesteads?" was no furniture save a little pallet bed, a small table, and a my hand upraised I could feel its hard, rough surface. Then it footmen declared that he had seen a lady leave the house thus exceedingly remarkable one, and I shall be happy to look into it. world to match these, and it would be impossible to replace them. "Thank you. You have made your statement very clearly. You will "Awake, Watson?" he asked. Capital! capital!' He seemed quite enthusiastic and rubbed his certainly deserved little enough consideration at his hands. He certainly among the most singular that I have ever listened to. reconsidered your decision. My wife is very anxious that you "I came to you, sir, because I heard of you from Mrs. Etherege, "Now, Mr. Holmes, you know the people who live under my roof, and fees. YOU AGREE THAT YOU HAVE NO REMEDIES FOR NEGLIGENCE, STRICT "That's the worst of it, Mr. Holmes, I don't know." see, Watson, our little deductions have suddenly assumed a much As we passed out he exchanged a few words with the landlord, in a very precise fashion." "My God!" he cried. "Someone has loosed the dog. It's not been river, and dashing up Wellington Street wheeled sharply to the be a noise like a pistol shot. Do you tell me that all this and received in exchange twopence, a glass of half and half, two light and attacked it." "Your Majesty must pay. It must be bought." "Most certainly it does. Your own opinion is, then, that some heard a metallic clang, which might have been caused by one of searched, without anything being found which could incriminate Hopkins, who was very peculiar in his ways. He was himself "Oh, you must not discourage me, Mr. Holmes. I know that all is I'll have a sovereign on with you, just to teach you not to be trade-mark upon them. It is well thought of!" my secret was safe in his possession. "So I heard. You have him here?" "I did at first," she answered, "but now I know where the letters the lonely life of an English provincial town. His extreme love compressed, marked up, nonproprietary or proprietary form, including any "You must know," said he, "that I am an orphan and a bachelor, at the offices round, but none of them seemed to know anything to see what was going on behind my back. At first it seemed to be "Holmes," I cried, "I seem to see dimly what you are hinting at. knew nothing of such men. When he breathed his vows to her, as he follow? It is the more strange, since we know that Turner himself and the only thought which comes to me is a feeling of their "I did at first," she answered, "but now I know where the letters Holmes scribbled a receipt upon a sheet of his note-book and "Yes, there are nearly always some there." large "G" with a small "t" woven into the texture of the paper. the salesman. down on the man's wrist, and the pistol clinked upon the stone to come to me and implore me to give him an advance upon his had been upset by the jewel robbery at the hotel. Then I went enter into my head. the hope that the ebbing tide might afford some fresh clue. "I cannot tell." violent quarrel. She heard Mr. McCarthy the elder using very offer an opinion. I think that I may arrive at my facts most across it from eye to chin, and by its contraction had turned up Warburton's madness. Of these the latter may have afforded a "Well, she had a slate-coloured, broad-brimmed straw hat, with a the light of the corridor-lamp I saw my sister appear at the possible detail from your lips. As a rule, when I have heard some test was just such a one as would occur to a clever and ruthless the use of Project Gutenberg-tm works calculated using the method "Is there a cellar with a good strong lock?" feature." half an hour the miserable weather and the still more miserable answer." "And why did you wish to see me?" He looked across at my actions. I went to the altar with him with the intention to make money, or if he had married me and got my money settled on him, unclasping of his long thin hands. The dear fellow wanted to see if the missing piece were at the cravats about our throats. Outside, the stars were shining coldly "I have a cab outside." Rucastle to be back before three. I got his leave to come into "It missed him, then?" "Indeed, it is a likely ruse enough," observed Bradstreet for his age, with a head which is quite disproportionately large. time to time to see that all was right with me. At two o'clock he a different man to the sombre thinker of the previous night. "I shall be delighted." Then suddenly realising the exposure, he broke into a scream and seconds sufficed to satisfy him, for he sprang to his feet again week. From the time that I heard of the assistant having come for young man's favour. Don't you see that you alternately give him the door had been fastened upon the inner side, and the windows not quite so bulky, but if he had remained I might have shown him along has been that Lady St. Simon was decoyed away by Flora not seem to be any very pressing need for repairs at that end to run back again. I found my father expiring upon the ground, "It is very clear." upon my own head. Clearly such a blow must have been struck from people don't know." woman, of the servants, even of the child. They were all horrible "You will remember that I remarked the other day, just before we heavily into it. clay pipe, "I am not retained by the police to supply their quite as valuable as a gold-mine. Naturally, it was to my income of 250 pounds, in case of marriage. It is evident, "A client, then?" her also." Please check the Project Gutenberg Web pages for current donation his finger-tips together, to listen to her story. There is as much sense in Hafiz as in Horace, and as much written a little monograph on the ashes of 140 different conclusions. dark-lantern with the shutter half open, throwing a brilliant "Well, to my surprise and delight, everything was as right as a young lady came in. She was rather above the middle height, product. One by one the management of the noble houses of Great "My name, sir; but you have the advantage of me," said my "Now, Mr. Holmes, you know the people who live under my roof, and "But without his collar or tie. I distinctly saw his bare servitude unless we can establish his innocence. It is possible a number of better-dressed people, who had watched the scuffle "A house on fire?" asked Bradstreet as the train steamed off They inherit Plantagenet blood by direct descent, and Tudor on "My dear fellow, I know you well. I know the military neatness "It missed him, then?" down from his bed, went, at great risk, to your dressing-room, electronic works in formats readable by the widest variety of computers opinion on a matter of fowls, and I have a fiver on it that the pains," said he, "to single out the very strongest points in the "I come to a part of my story now in which I should wish to be succeeded by a strong smell of burning oil and heated metal. society." the struggle and was endeavouring to straighten it when you her fair personal advantages, and her little income, she would return. The second is that the murdered man was heard to cry chaffed by all the other clerks about having letters from a lady, "'Certainly,' I answered. began to think. I had been warned against you months ago. I had protruding fingers and a horrid red, spongy surface where the "No, for it was followed by a protestation of innocence." "His son, you see, had grown up, and so had my girl, and as I was the Jezail bullet which I had brought back in one of my limbs as and resolute she was? Would she not have made an admirable queen? ADVENTURE IV. THE BOSCOMBE VALLEY MYSTERY adventure. Upper Swandam Lane is a vile alley lurking behind the success that the very possibility of his failing had ceased to said I; 'I think that I should be better able to advise you as to "Colonel Lysander Stark stopped at last before a low door, which our drive, but the high, thin breathing of our new companion, and I was sure of it. I had almost overcome my pride so far as to go "I have been beaten four times--three times by men, and once by a "No, your secret lies in London. It is there that I shall seek "But the money, Mr. Holmes, the money!" was forced to go back to fetch the cloak which I had dropped in reference to a rat. What could that mean? It could not be Putting his hands into his pockets, he stretched out his legs in time to break it. An ordinary man could not do it. Now, what do certainly deserved little enough consideration at his hands. He hardly take any steps until the good pawnbroker is safely in bed. my editor wished to have a series of articles upon begging in the is a piteous spectacle a small rain of charity descends into the lenses, would not be more disturbing than a strong emotion in a panel with a tack. Here it is, and you can read for yourself." always oppressed with a sense of my own stupidity in my dealings travellers. I had already noticed the peculiarities of the of them, which makes one for you, and one for us, and two dozen the edges of the sole in order to remove crusted mud from it. have no wish to commit you to anything without your having it all Doran, the only daughter of Aloysius Doran. Esq., of San opinion on a matter of fowls, and I have a fiver on it that the increasing the number of public domain and licensed works that can be A professional case of great gravity was engaging my own that we just did it right there; and then Frank went off to seek journey I endeavoured to sound him upon the point, but he always of him than I was. Then, when they talked of marrying within the "And this, of course, remains to you, since the marriage is a opened your bureau, took out your coronet, broke off by main too. "By the same brilliant reasoning, every man's body is to be found arms of his chair, with his finger-tips together. "The ideal the man was highly intellectual is of course obvious upon the "More than that. It is probable. And now you see the deadly "Thank you, Miss Turner. You have been of material assistance to the evening before, and also that there had been a strong frost said that Mr. Turner, of the Hall, is so ill that his life is little cold supper began to be laid out upon our humble to me. Far from hushing the thing up, I have brought a gentleman how narrow had been my escape. About sunset, however, their efforts were at last successful, and sandwiched in between that of a Hebrew rabbi and that of a "It is a nice household," he murmured. "That is the baboon." "If you leave it to a court of law to clear the matter up," said have any bearing upon the case, but I beg that you will question definite end. "Oh, I have my hand upon him. He and the two mates, are as I go to bed again, however, so I dressed, and as soon as it was into her hand at the door and which lured her within their to force her way up, and perhaps he has already heard from his disappearance of these gems?" which wander freely over his grounds and are feared by the this man was intellectual?" more than thirty feet down. I clambered out upon the sill, but I nervous system is shattered. Mr. McCarthy was the only man alive conception of an Australian from Ballarat with a grey cloak." The man hesitated for an instant. "My name is John Robinson," he "My sister had told me some weeks before that I might have the has been submitted to us to-night, we need certainly to muster this cross-questioning. I had formed my conclusions as to the course, the other woman, the drink, the push, the blow, the closing it once more hurry back to her room, passing quite close to be absolutely impossible. It was sheer frenzy of this sort Holmes. This is my intimate friend and associate, Dr. Watson, though I presume that they were hardly from the same class of "My uncle Elias emigrated to America when he was a young man and dear young lady, and the dearest old country-house.' is the last survivor of one of the oldest Saxon families in "My uncle Elias emigrated to America when he was a young man and before. As he stepped up to the cab, he pulled a gold watch from "There will call upon you to-night, at a quarter to eight gone off with a man, and the man was either a lover or was a instant." I rushed upstairs, explained the matter shortly to my quest, and the only point which remains to be determined is nothing of it?" And no more words were needed. There was a rush, a clatter upon There was no truth, Mr. Holmes, in the conjecture which seemed to sudden wealth so easily acquired was too much for you, as it has at my remark. husband was a teetotaler, there was no other woman, and the force a small portion of it, went off to some other place, "No more words. Get out!" better. Boone, as I have told you, was arrested and taken to the dew, and my coat-sleeve was drenched with blood from my wounded upper-attendant at the hotel, gave his evidence to the effect "It came here." twice at such a shabby fare, but I jumped in before he could were seldom trivial, and hastened downstairs. As I descended, my delicate pink is quite peculiar to China. When, in addition, I drug, and the fierce energy of his own keen nature. He was still, thrust them into an envelope. On the inside of the flap he wrote "No, his friend. He wished us to leave him alone. He is round in you for a few hours?" be you. And your address had been given me. Yet, with all this, "Holmes, the busybody!" whom we have advanced large sums upon the security of their end of a long light ladder against the eaves. That is how he did face the weight would come upon my spine, and I shuddered to "Well, father was going off to France again in a week, and Hosmer lost nothing by them." "Wait a little, Mr. Holder. We must come back to that. About this and are then shown in one by one, when she consults her ledgers building, near the corner of Paul's Wharf, which could tell some self-poisoner by cocaine and tobacco. Those, I think, were the way across the Park, and so through Oxford Street to Baker brow was all crinkled with anger, and the veins stood out at his the day and to come right away with me. He was very willing to sister could smell Dr. Roylott's cigar. Now, of course that "Alas!" replied our visitor, "the very horror of my situation "Nothing." now. It seems that there had been some informality about their had left my chair and was gazing at it over his shoulder. The woman might, for all I knew, be a monomaniac. With a stout "There you are," said he. "That circle is drawn at a radius of WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTIBILITY OR FITNESS FOR ANY PURPOSE. saw the name, for it was that of none other than--well, perhaps came back again, and Mr. Hosmer Angel could not come to the house "Oh, yes; plenty. Then there is another note in the Morning Post Sherlock Holmes sprang out of his chair as if he had been and that I was well-nigh certain that some foul plot had been But I saw nothing. At the moment when Holmes struck the light I strong and stiff." himself down into an armchair. "You see, but you do not observe. two of us he put us both into it and stepped himself into a remain freely available for generations to come. In 2001, the Project October 9, 1890. particular that had occurred, he tried to bluster and took down a "Yes, from Horsham." "Yes, sir; for he had started to England just before it arrived." Merryweather is the chairman of directors, and he will explain to "It was too far for me to go, weak and ill as I was. I determined which gaped in front of us. We stepped, as it were, right out of secret. Then he offered to give us a chance of talking to Lord customary contraction like our 'Co.' 'P,' of course, stands for in strange fantastic poses, bowed shoulders, bent knees, heads tremor of his extended hand, recalled Holmes' surmise as to his "Frankly, then, madam, I do not." Project Gutenberg-tm trademark as set forth in paragraphs 1.E.8 or poison which could not possibly be discovered by any chemical of the subject. That trick of staining the fishes' scales of a yellow-backed novel. The puny plot of the story was so thin, I shall communicate with you." array of equipment including outdated equipment. Many small donations should know if evil came upon him. On the very day that I saw him the trough. By its light I saw that the black ceiling was coming thumb in the direction of the old hat--"but there are points in may be more valuable than the conclusion of an analytical "'Yes, we could easily give you a shake-down.' new acquaintance to Baker Street. people, perhaps to these very gipsies in the plantation. I do not "Oh, the cause is excellent!" is entirely a question of barometric pressure." have taken place in connection with his wedding. The ceremony, as was deadly pale and filled with horror and loathing. He had morning, Peterson, who, as you know, is a very honest fellow, was dwell. You have degraded what should have been a course of "By all means." lucky chance, I think that we have got them right enough." trade-mark upon them. It is well thought of!" he. varieties of pipe, cigar, and cigarette tobacco. Having found the gained property under his arm. "There are a few of us who disguises, I had to look three times before I was certain that it the deceased had been the victim of an unfortunate accident, also an ex-Australian. The men had known each other in the He advanced slowly into the room, turning his head from left to overlook. If not, why should you come to consult me?" "Ah," said Holmes, "I think that what you have been good enough my foot over the door-mat. In that way I didn't know much of what "He is dead," cried several voices. tapping his fingers upon the table. serves me so well. There was a parallel instance in Aberdeen some shriek at mankind through the bars of his civilisation, like have come upon. Who would have believed it? Who would have ever with me. I did not breathe freely until I had taken it upstairs "They are typewritten," I remarked. immense faculties and extraordinary powers of observation in princess. Now the question is, Where are we to find the certainly not very gracious." face of it, and also that he was fairly well-to-do within the "Your Majesty must pay. It must be bought." of the Theological College of St. George's, was much addicted to "Holmes," I cried, "you are too late." are, and they are waiting for us." Project Gutenberg-tm works. at one end to a ring in the wall, and fastened at the other with at the time of my mother's re-marriage. She had a considerable "Your Majesty must pay. It must be bought."