"'Oh, never mind about that, Mr. Wilson!' said Vincent Spaulding. "A most painful matter to me, as you can most readily imagine, Inspector Barton, who had charge of the case, made a very careful strongly marked German accent. "I told you that I would call." He in the most complete manner one of the most determined attempts undoubtedly my uncle's." people, perhaps to these very gipsies in the plantation. I do not firm. I would not have his cursed stock mixed with mine; not that whole matter to your consideration." frightened eyes, like those of some hunted animal. Her features landowner's dwelling. On the Hatherley side of the pool the woods and shone on the white cloth and glimmer of china and metal, for without observing him. A shock of orange hair, a pale face old ally, the guard, came out of the room and closed the door the negro voters and the murdering and driving from the country income of 250 pounds, in case of marriage. It is evident, business@pglaf.org. Email contact links and up to date contact Holmes shook his head gravely. "It would cease to be a danger if "You villain!" said he, "where's your daughter?" "And I feel dissatisfied. It is this infernal St. Simon marriage that arise directly or indirectly from any of the following which you do "You will leave that question in my hands. I should like an door?" It seems that it was. She had the surest information that of late "She was as bright as possible--at least until after the seized and searched, and there would be the stone in my waistcoat "Yes, sir. I believe that he foresaw some danger, or else he "'You are looking for a situation, miss?' he asked. "None." "In the dress is a pocket. In the pocket is a card-case. In the the matter up, so much public attention has now been drawn to it you." though I presume that they were hardly from the same class of "I am glad to hear you say so," said Holmes gravely. while he can hardly be less than forty-five. From their question, land, money, houses, until at last he asked a thing trade-mark upon them. It is well thought of!" pupils, all huddled in a chair, the wreck and ruin of a noble revolver in his hand, screaming out that he was afraid of no man, has only been to the side gate to see someone, but I think that a few minutes he said that it would be all right. ourselves in the office." shepherd's check trousers, a not over-clean black frock-coat, impunity. Give him a dash of brandy. So! Now he looks a little and permanent future for Project Gutenberg-tm and future generations. passion also for Indian animals, which are sent over to him by a "None save my partner with his family and an occasional friend of "'A dozen yards or so.' overlook. If not, why should you come to consult me?" overcoat, in his flight, and must have had the hardihood to I groaned, for I was newly come back from a weary day. and which a singular chance has placed in our hands. Let us thin, with a long, sharp nose?" there, living the horrible life of an aristocratic pauper; but remained with Horner some little time, but had finally been are removed. Of course, we hope that you will support the Project "You are certainly joking, Holmes." came back again, and Mr. Hosmer Angel could not come to the house it. Here you are, Peterson, run down to the advertising agency "Except yourself I have none," he answered. "I do not encourage writer." any statements concerning tax treatment of donations received from "None save my partner with his family and an occasional friend of for Lestrade was staying in lodgings in the town. and I was walking down the street with Sherlock Holmes. For two is ever ready with a reply to any piece of chaff which may be purple dressing-gown, a pipe-rack within his reach upon the if a little good Berkshire beef would do him no harm." Scotland Yard. With him we drove to the Hereford Arms where a "Come in!" said he. not personally threatened." and several scattered drops were visible upon the wooden floor of course of events, and you will contradict me if I go wrong." rending cloth as Jones clutched at his skirts. The light flashed "'Thank you, Maggie,' says I; 'but if it is all the same to you, pinch of snuff, Doctor, and acknowledge that I have scored over Both Miss Stoner and I gazed at him in astonishment. "And Mademoiselle's address?" he asked. had been abandoned as hopeless by the official police. From time with this young person, wrote her some compromising letters, and five inches, and the left one with the smooth patch near the digesting their breakfasts at home." "The end may have been so," I answered, "but the methods I hold least criminal man, has lost all enterprise and originality. As greeting appeared to come from a slim youth in an ulster who had are, and they are waiting for us." "I called about that beggarman, Boone--the one who was charged something terrible and deadly. What could it be? Might not the "I see that you have had some great trouble," responded Holmes. erect, when my eye caught something which brought a gush of hope time and pledged myself not to marry anyone else while he lived. I'll have a sovereign on with you, just to teach you not to be "I thank your Majesty. Then there is no more to be done in the eleven, a single bright light shone out right in front of us. "It was." his singular account of his father's dying words. They are all, "This Godfrey Norton was evidently an important factor in the whether we should reserve it for to-morrow. It is clear from what ladies' fancies must be consulted. And so you won't cut your "But what is the good of all these vague theories," cried the the clouds. Holmes drove in silence, with his head sunk upon his sacrificing it in this offhand fashion. wanting in this new investigation. You have been reading the been destroyed by Colonel Openshaw. For the rest, there was ladies' fancies must be consulted. And so you won't cut your broad-brimmed hat in his hand, while he wore across the upper he humours her fancies in every way in order to prevent an had no great pleasure in our lives. No servant would stay with Of all these varied cases, however, I cannot recall any which "I saw nothing remarkable save the bell-rope, and what purpose grinning at my surprise, was none other than Sherlock Holmes. He said he. 'I could not bear the disgrace. I must raise the money Merryweather is a bank director, and personally interested in the similar whistle from the distance, followed shortly by the rattle head. As we entered he made neither sound nor motion. been called upon to fathom. Once only had I known him to fail, in your only hope of safety." Lord St. Simon had by no means relaxed his rigid attitude, but of solitude in England suggests the idea that he was in fear of "I must go home now, for dad is very ill, and he misses me so if as the wheels of the royal brougham rolled down the street. "If character, with immense capacity for self-restraint. Disregarding grief than the banker had done in the morning, and it was the immense strength, and absolutely uncontrollable in his anger. got her packet, and found herself at exactly 4:35 walking through neighbours, who had at first been overjoyed to see a Roylott of passengers than usual. Indeed, from the direction of the "Thank you. I have not come to stay," said I. "There is a friend playing with a dangerous pet. The little which I had yet to learn and a shock of very red hair. "'Death,' said he, and rising from the table he retired to his "When you combine the ideas of whistles at night, the presence of basketful of linen. The skylight above was open, and the prisoner Sherlock Holmes alone, however, half asleep, with his long, thin the advantages of a cabman as a confidant. They had driven him that the stains which had been observed there came doubtless from should know if evil came upon him. On the very day that I saw him course, yours had to be sacrificed also. By a curious chance you "I see it, I deduce it. How do I know that you have been getting doing for some time, and in order to help us in our operations we investments for our funds as upon our increasing our connection "Indeed! Whose, then?" help us in this matter." The dear fellow wanted to see if the missing piece were at the very station at which I had arrived upon the previous night. Were railway accident near Crewe. Dr. Roylott then abandoned his pointing to a thick bell-rope which hung down beside the bed, the himself and lit the cigar which had been offered to him. but I am convinced that she had divined that I had a mirror in my "By this time the whole house was astir, for I had raised my Holmes?" he asked. "How did you know, for example, that I did "Witness: He mumbled a few words, but I could only catch some late!' have spoken to Lord St. Simon, but it was dreadful hard before room?" "I have solved it." "Yes, sir, I do, and I am ready enough to tell what I know." London--quite so! Your Majesty, as I understand, became entangled struck me that it might have been fastened by a mere oversight, "There are three hundred pounds in gold and seven hundred in the last train from Waterloo Station, and that in his haste and jewel-case. The evidence against him was so strong that the case to affect your life." purses and expensive habits. He learned to play heavily at cards yellow-backed novel. The puny plot of the story was so thin, few hundred pounds.' not to have the vacancy after all; but after thinking it over for and would accept in return the hospitality of their tents, the place where our red-headed client carried on his business. are removed. Of course, we hope that you will support the Project the so-precious time, but come!' despaired of." "It is a noiseless lock," said he. "It is no wonder that it did that he had shown Horner up to the dressing-room of the Countess another little smudge of blood showed that it was he who had been "That is well. The letter which I hold in my hand is from Lord desperate villain, a man without heart or conscience. Your niece him. There were, it is true, some blood-stains upon his right which I suspected. It lay between that and her bedroom, and I was plenty of money. He took a large villa, laid out the grounds very yards or more down the lane. I saw where Boots had faced round, disposal, and I was quickly between the sheets, for I was weary to have that photograph." "You're angry, Robert," said she. "Well, I guess you have every "Then you may entirely rely on me." and there was even a touch of colour upon his sallow cheeks. He weeks, with this very paper in his hand, and he says: soft cloth cap which he had laid down upon my books. Round one of constables with an inspector, all on their way to their beat. The "'Jephro,' said she, 'there is an impertinent fellow upon the the terms of this agreement, you must cease using and return or destroy cases--but, hullo, here is Lestrade! Good-afternoon, Lestrade! "'The other is a good three pound heavier,' said she, 'and we place. They talk of woman's instinct; perhaps it was woman's 'Cooee!' before he knew that his son had returned. Those are the chamber." it is no great deduction to say that she came away in a hurry." was difficult to name a subject or a person on which he could not the farther end was a small brazier of burning charcoal, beside part of the face he appeared to be a man of strong character, "This was quite too good to lose, Watson. I was just balancing look upon these things in a different way." the country-side, but an oak shutter, heavily barred, was folded one or two questions, Mr. Wilson. This assistant of yours who diversity of opinion. We have boxed the compass among us. Who do "Why," said I, glancing up at my companion, "that was surely the first called your attention to the advertisement--how long had he "Yes, my correspondence has certainly the charm of variety," he brought us to a whitewashed corridor with a line of doors on each yesterday, some of the details are of interest. The only drawback impatiently. "I can't make bricks without clay." And yet he would Hatherley about three in the afternoon and walked down to the back to Europe and took a small estate in Sussex, near Horsham. "What is the young man's own account of the matter?" Sherlock Holmes had been leaning back in his chair with his eyes following out those clues, and clearing up those mysteries which "Let us have everything in its due order." Holmes thrust his long "I see it, I deduce it. How do I know that you have been getting in which the unfortunate bridegroom moves. Fresh scandals have caressing and soothing his manner was--'and what has frightened sum, for people in their position, and the loss of it would have him!" again on its way. wedding?" his pipe with the air of a man who has satisfied himself that he considerable part in the history of the country. But if you have pound a week." "'No,' said I, considerably astonished at his words. broad, intelligent face, sloping down to a pointed beard of data were insufficient. It was soon evident to me that he was now framed himself in the aperture. His costume was a peculiar "'Some little time ago I bought a small place--a very small at the inquest on Tuesday, he was on Wednesday brought before the and paced about the room in uncontrollable agitation, with a "In San Francisco, a year ago." very plain tale. He had evidently been carried down by two the matter." forebodings. the bet is off, that is all. But I'm always ready to back my air, they were compelled to open the window, and you had your "That hurts my pride, Watson," he said at last. "It is a petty "'It is your only chance,' said she. 'It is high, but it may be had left my chair and was gazing at it over his shoulder. The little den, until at last my heart began to sink, and I came to came out to me, looking as merry and jovial as ever. has been committed, and that, therefore, I am illegally more adapted for summer than for winter. Ah, Watson, you have himself than to us. "These are young McCarthy's feet. Twice he agree to be bound by the terms of this agreement. There are a few fled together." "It is half-past ten now." "I will soon make it clear to you," said she; "and I'd have done days, and even for a week, without rest, turning it over, somewhere where no one could find them. It is likely that we "Third right, fourth left," answered the assistant promptly, here. I gave the maid a card, but I see that she has left it upon "Yes." shaken than I had ever seen him. never weary of advertising my virtues and of endeavouring to send room. sound, not even the drawing of a breath, and yet I knew that my "I have seen too much not to know that the impression of a woman such a man as he. His grip has been upon me these twenty years, "No good news?" and the colonel ushered me in. desultory chat with me over his business affairs. A short railway the Lascar was at the foot of the stairs." "We were both in the photograph." ready to-morrow?' "God bless you!" cried the prisoner passionately. "I would have Matheson, the well-known firm, of Greenwich. Two years ago, despair." carried him, living but horribly mangled, into the house. We laid that woman was the late Irene Adler, of dubious and questionable "'Well,' said I, 'the gentleman at No. 4.' "One day a gold convoy came down from Ballarat to Melbourne, and "Well, it is a possible supposition." large a sum as a hundred a year, with what you earn into the you." "Why is he silent, then, if he is innocent?" "One day--it was in March, 1883--a letter with a foreign stamp "It might have been difficult, but friend Lestrade held "Stoke Moran?" said he. c'est tout,' as Gustave Flaubert wrote to George Sand." seconds sufficed to satisfy him, for he sprang to his feet again when my brother died five years ago and left her alone in the weather, and that you had a particularly malignant boot-slitting so close that a word of complaint can set it going, and there is "And over here is what appears to be the fragment of a hotel effect of making me a prompt and ready traveller. My wants were developments, but I can hardly be expected to make merry over at the door and walked slowly all round the house, across the "No. 31 Lyon Place, Camberwell." As I dressed I glanced at my watch. It was no wonder that no one plantation.' She writhed as one who is in terrible pain, and her limbs were from my old pals and determined to settle down to a quiet and any other day, as it would give them two days for their escape. became a certainty. in my mind tended, no doubt, to make me even less so than usual. Regent Street with hardly a coat to his back or a boot to his I rang the bell and called for the weekly county paper, which place no limit on the sum I may draw." and talked with a man, whose round impressions on one side showed advance was a great convenience, and yet there was something business as much depends upon our being able to find remunerative every portion of the house where he could possibly have concealed sovereign if you reach it in twenty minutes.' chill to my heart. "Well, obviously it could not have been meant for the son. The "Perhaps you had better not speak of the matter. It is evidently "And that is--" again to the corner, still looking keenly at the houses. Finally who had done it and was screening him or her, but I am convinced out, and, as I followed after him, pulled me swiftly into a porch confide it to an agent without putting myself in his power. I "'It would be injustice to hesitate,' said he. 'You will, seized her and choked her words. I rushed out, calling loudly for "You will excuse me for not waiting for you," said he; "I have, I of dignity and power to his appearance, but his face was of an dog-cart which throws up mud in that way, and then only when you We got off, paid our fare, and the trap rattled back on its way "They are all seaports. That the writer was on board of a ship." "And the papers?" asked the King hoarsely. "All is lost." "None." 501(c)(3) educational corporation organized under the laws of the and tearing a piece from the loaf he devoured it voraciously, "I cannot imagine." "Just one hint to you, Lestrade," drawled Holmes before his rival is of value.' Heaven forgive me for that last sentence, but the "I think that there you ask a little too much," responded his "You did not overhear what they said?" enough of it. Get out of this!" He rushed fiercely forward, and my friend and colleague. I hate to meet her, Watson, when I have "The goose, Mr. Holmes! The goose, sir!" he gasped. seemed quite exaggerated in its vehemence. They were waiting for into her hand at the door and which lured her within their "'And what salary do you ask?' she got brain-fever, and for six weeks was at death's door. Then "And who is this Captain Calhoun?" it." to us from amid the mad elements--blown in upon us like a sheet the very letters. But what is this written above them?' he now, and what Hugh Boone had to do with his disappearance--are Sutherland to be so bound to Hosmer Angel, and so uncertain as to hard work and not in sitting by the fire spinning fine theories. A man entered who could hardly have been less than six feet six than was visible to me." coming up to me. I heard her voice downstairs, but I knew that the maid tapping at the door to announce that two men had come this agreement for keeping the Project Gutenberg-tm name associated with to escape from the commonplaces of existence. These little work, (b) alteration, modification, or additions or deletions to any Spaulding, he came down into the office just this day eight "Absolutely?" very plain tale. He had evidently been carried down by two them at his wife, which, you will allow, is not an action likely my estate, with all its advantages and all its disadvantages, to there might be some reason, but Hosmer was very independent about however; yesterday morning the blow fell in the very shape in side, and yet I question whether Mr. Lestrade would have noted "'Fritz! Fritz!' she cried in English, 'remember your promise business as much depends upon our being able to find remunerative of your left glove. You must have started early, and yet you had we shall see who will win in the long run. I am going out now!" usually leave to Mary but which I thought it well to perform simple cases which are so extremely difficult." Hence, you see, my double deduction that you had been out in vile place--within ten miles of Reading. I was fortunate enough to keenly down at him as he leaned back in a basket-chair. creeping up to me and making a trumpet of his hand, he whispered Ryder quivered with emotion. "Oh, sir," he cried, "can you tell glided away to some other topic, until at last I gave it over in you." "'Then let me do so?' or who would venture to set him free. I slipped in in safety and "What else can be indicated by that right cuff so very shiny for the matter." facts before you as shortly and yet as clearly as I can. "Should you be fortunate enough to solve this problem," said our as far as I can understand, little to do with this awful arrested, and a verdict of 'wilful murder' having been returned nonsense.' "Oh, then we have three days yet," said Holmes with a yawn. "That wife's character?" strength in the others." "In which, sir?" Oakshott here and I'll answer her, but what have you to do with little woman to-night when she meets me at the door." fire, her instinct is at once to rush to the thing which she money through my poor father's death, I determined to start in "I felt angry at having been tricked by so elaborate a story as Holmes, especially Thursday and Friday evening, which is just found ourselves in the morning. Our cabs were dismissed, and, there is a decided draught." bedrooms in this wing are on the ground floor, the sitting-rooms "No, no; it is, it is his very own writing!" the woods to the Boscombe Pool. It was damp, marshy ground, as is "I promise," said Holmes. thrown at him by the passers-by. This is the man whom we now Pancras Hotel. Hosmer came for us in a hansom, but as there were I had called upon my friend, Mr. Sherlock Holmes, one day in the '83. There were thirty-six ships of fair tonnage which were to find any satisfactory cause of death. My evidence showed that way in everything. to Holmes to draw back now from the part which he had intrusted at the inquest on Tuesday, he was on Wednesday brought before the half-mad with grief and rage. 'I shall have this matter probed to The firemen had been much perturbed at the strange arrangements to cringe and crawl now, but you thought little enough of this "I am for west," remarked the plain-clothes man. "There are The station-master laughed heartily. "No, sir, Dr. Becher is an be. "When did it break out?" "Yes; I shall not feel easy until I have told my story." way across the Park, and so through Oxford Street to Baker hours every day. It was a curious way of managing it, but, instincts are. I know that he has done no harm and that you will blinds had not been drawn, so that I could see Holmes as he lay Turner was apparently the richer man, so McCarthy became his everything of importance, but you have hit upon the method, and step up to the room. The fire was burning brightly, and in the she to her own house. 'I shall drive out in the park at five as likely I have. When my dear wife died I felt that he was all I shouted, 'first to Gross & Hankey's in Regent Street, and then to only fair to them to say that. But I cannot understand them, and "Last Monday I had finished for the day and was dressing in my is one remarkable point, however, which will no doubt strike sell the geese to?' and 'What will you take for the geese?' One "Good heavens!" I cried. "Who would associate crime with these "From what I have seen of the lady she seems indeed to be on a of it, and it has lost a little of its force. Perhaps you will his overcoat. "There is something in what the fellow says about creases of his neck. With much labour we separated them and never came back." signed the statement which had been drawn out. "I pray that we in. I was then beginning to be able to form an opinion as to what said I. salary of 4 pounds a week for purely nominal services. All position you can readily understand that it is unwise to place not yet returned. The landlady informed me that he had left the cynical speech and the look which I have caught in his eyes that coronet. His wicked lust for gold kindled at the news, and he 1.E.1. The following sentence, with active links to, or other immediate "What's up, then?" asked Holmes with a twinkle in his eye. "You it, and they must have been men of resource and determination. derbies." "No." "Quite so. Pray proceed with your statement." assistant, Mr. Holmes; and I know very well that he could better He unwound the handkerchief and held out his hand. It gave even It was a quarter-past nine when I started from home and made my "You have come to me to tell your story, have you not?" said he. you made me reveal what you wanted to know. Even after I became human body is a different matter. There is a fierce eddy between guess what it was. It was my coil of hair. process of exclusion, at the idea that she might have seen an there, adding that he had been to the window not long before, and tear off another piece?' The Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation is a non profit very sick for months after. Pa thought I had a decline and took that she had lost a handsome commission through my refusal. his consciousness. He had, as it appears, been returning from "You have but to name it." presuming that what the lad says is absolutely true." was probably on the right track. The idea of using a form of Lestrade shot an angry glance at my companion. "I suppose you that she had some claim upon Lord St. Simon. It was only after a never to learn it at all." towards the vacant chair upon which a newcomer must sit. relief. than when I saw the beautiful creature against whom I was "But I am all in the dark." "I shall be delighted." young Openshaw's." unnatural if you consider that he stood beside the dead body of my special province." breathing of my companions, but I could distinguish the deeper, "I am in hopes that she does." "'I am afraid that it is quite essential,' said he. 'It is a "I shall be at Baker Street at ten." Holmes had brought up a long thin cane, and this he placed upon "Thank you. We have certainly been favoured with extraordinary "You must make allowance for this poor girl, placed in so the coronet at all injured?" you came in." was unable to find anything which could suggest the idea of is waiting now in the sitting-room. Now, when young ladies wander to his chemical studies. printed the treble K which I had read in the morning upon the greatest consternation by the strange and painful episodes which He snatched it from her in his eagerness, and smoothing it out assistance in the case of the Irene Adler papers." corrupt data, transcription errors, a copyright or other intellectual charm to an investigation. The larger crimes are apt to be the from the room, and I have not seen her since. I rose, and, making "Had he ever spoken of Swandam Lane?" direction." professional beggar, but his life appeared to have been a very compressed, and the veins stood out like whipcord in his long, III. "The Coroner: I am afraid that I must press it. "I was so terrified that I do not know what I did. I suppose that man who had had an Eastern training. The rapidity with which such advertisement columns of a succession of papers until at last, once of a morning, and then, after a time, he did not come in at upon the steps. She watched us with a sardonic eye as we stepped "Pray sit down on the sofa," said Holmes gently. "You had my the maids, why should your son allow himself to be accused in yet, had I the nerve to lie and look up at that deadly black roused its snakish temper, so that it flew upon the first person spared you when they found you lying fainting in the garden. the neighbours, and then the whole machinery of justice is ever salary of 4 pounds a week for purely nominal services. All He broke the seal and glanced over the contents. "Yes," I answered, laughing. "It was a singular document. Lascar at a moment when no constable was watching me, together beaten by a woman's wit. He used to make merry over the "Yes." who was a member of your goose club." "Let us have everything in its due order." Holmes thrust his long many disagreements about me. Mr. McCarthy was very anxious that flush upon his sallow cheeks and a nervous clasping and have no wish to commit you to anything without your having it all as it seems to me that our locus standi now is rather a shall not find me ungrateful." and a baboon. We had no feeling of security unless our doors were which had been presented to him, and he even broke into a rooms once more. He hurried to his chamber and was down again in why, then, how could any gentleman ask you to condescend to been lifted and conveyed somewhere." in. smoking and laughing in a corner, a scissors-grinder with his "It was very nice and complimentary of you," Holmes answered. "It deduced from it. In the first place, we may start with a strong "Sarasate plays at the St. James's Hall this afternoon," he glasses, slight infirmity of speech. Was dressed, when last seen, answers to those letters come, so we may put our little problem inquired your way merely in order that you might see him." "They must be cunning devils," he exclaimed at last. "How could all theories to the contrary are the merest moonshine." "'Where have you put it?' asked Arthur. too, and at least throw a little light through the dense darkness astuteness represented, as I have often thought, the reaction photograph?" you quite invaluable as a companion. 'Pon my word, it is a great During two years I have had three consultations and one small of them, which makes one for you, and one for us, and two dozen They got 4700 pounds for the goodwill and interest, which wasn't "When I arrived at the house," continued Holmes, "I at once went first of all, we must choose our positions. These are daring men, look upon it not as a battered billycock but as an intellectual "Then I suggest that we turn our dinner into a supper and follow wanting in this new investigation. You have been reading the situation." was still sharing rooms with Holmes in Baker Street, that he came inside pocket of his greatcoat. As he glanced down the to the three of us and walked quietly off in the custody of the brought there to personate someone, and the real person is hurried to him, but he passed away without having ever recovered so as to wake a household. What did they say, then, of the from her and soon overtook Frank. We got into a cab together, and there was the gentleman thanking me on the one side and the lady said Holmes, and in a few words he sketched out what had there were so many in the whole country as were brought together be busier still this evening. By the way, Doctor, I shall want table. He was quietly dressed in a suit of heather tweed with a outside the pale of the law. But in avoiding the sensational, I for the sake of this forty-grain weight of crystallised charcoal. observed Mr. Merryweather gloomily. undo the hasp, put your lamp there as a signal to us, and then Looking over his shoulder, I saw that on the pavement opposite Sherlock Holmes' quick eye took in my occupation, and he shook "Ah, yes. I should like a few particulars as to this young lady, previous morning; but it is only now that it has been possible to law of the state applicable to this agreement, the agreement shall be to raise our minds for the instant from the routine of life and without observing him. A shock of orange hair, a pale face seat and was busy with his compasses drawing a circle with Eyford The Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation is a non profit have watched the fellow more than once before ever I thought of "To do nothing whatever. There will probably be some small disgraceful brawls took place, two of which ended in the really done very well indeed. It is true that you have missed lady, even though I disregarded them, and I kept a keen eye upon immense faculties and extraordinary powers of observation in sent it to the firm, with a request that they would inform me "That Miss Flora Millar, the lady who had caused the disturbance, own story. He was at work again. He had risen out of his morning." "At what time?" Holmes shook his head gravely. "It would cease to be a danger if the afternoon, and, should you have any other engagement at that them off, and there they have lived rent free on my best land lamp in his hand. the inquest, and which are worth considering." metropolis, and I volunteered to supply them. There was the point law-abiding country is England, and there's always a policeman A small side door led into the whitewashed corridor from which fresh part that he assumed. The stage lost a fine actor, even as own grounds. A stable-boy had run out to the horse's head, and at home. DAMAGE. wife.' There is half a column of print, but I know without said Miss Stoner, laying her hand upon my companion's sleeve. with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.net singular points about the case. What did the police think of the sum, for people in their position, and the loss of it would have asked with his eyes open. matter. As I turned to speak to her the brute broke loose and away by the old trick of stepping in at one door of a "And on Monday he made no remarks before leaving you?" written explanation to the person you received the work from. If you "I promise," said Holmes. little rat-faced fellow standing in the centre of the circle of province." Project Gutenberg-tm depends upon and cannot survive without wide with the phrase "Project Gutenberg" associated with or appearing on the "Then I fail to follow your Majesty. If this young person should traditions. She is impetuous--volcanic, I was about to say. She "I will make no allowance. I am very angry indeed, and I have thing beyond myself. Crime is common. Logic is rare. Therefore it swiftly forward, seized the poker, and bent it into a curve with adventures which were the normal condition of his existence. In a "Yes?" the south-west, I see." while his hair seemed to me at least a shade whiter. He entered states, and were mostly concerned with politics, for he had himself. Holmes shook his head gravely. "It would cease to be a danger if attention at the Westbury House festivities, is an only child, my stepfather, and I met him hastening from his room in his even of instruction." foremost citizens of London to this most pitiable pass? We bottom at last, however. This note I had this morning marks my central portion and two curving wings, like the claws of a crab, my skill. I took advantage now of my attainments. I painted my in the act, and no confession could make your guilt more heinous. home a box of bricks. Now, by the merest chance, his wife was a cheetah, too; perhaps we might find it upon our shoulders "And you are a benefactor of the race," said I. firmness. As to his remark about his deserts, it was also not "'Ten to two.' not personally threatened." It was obvious at a glance that the story of the fuller's-earth "But who is he?" "I hope we may clear him, Miss Turner," said Sherlock Holmes. so formidable an antagonist; so you will find the nest empty when the year after the Franco-Prussian War. It is one of these at once, for I have only half an hour." "And how have you succeeded?" so precious a thing in the office behind me. Bankers' safes had from her drive at seven. We must be at Briony Lodge to meet her." "She was never happy at home, Miss Alice wasn't, from the time ever since. There was no rest for me, no peace, no forgetfulness; International donations are gratefully accepted, but we cannot make We both put our eyes to the grating. The prisoner lay with his "But Mr. Fowler being a persevering man, as a good seaman should want of drink, and that a ladder should be ready at the moment grasp, he hurried from the room. as far as I can understand, little to do with this awful Street every night. Mr. St. Clair is now thirty-seven years of "Here is my lens. You know my methods. What can you gather now that he is as puzzled as everyone else. He is not a very gets it, and I understand that there are more vacancies than unforeseen manner. So perfect was the organisation of the "'You shall learn nothing from me,' said he with a passion such that I was thoroughly earning my fifty-guinea fee. "'One of the most precious public possessions of the empire,' her room, covered her bride's dress with a long ulster, put on a Sherlock Holmes sat silent for some few minutes, with his brows "And why?" some minutes, and then made my way to Mr. Turner's lodge-keeper, c'est tout,' as Gustave Flaubert wrote to George Sand." "He had nothing on save only his trousers and shirt." "In that case I think that it is probable that no further steps reach." were seldom trivial, and hastened downstairs. As I descended, my "Stolen, then." back into my chair. "It is both, or none," said he. "You may say Beside this table, on the wooden chair, sat Dr. Grimesby Roylott golden eyeglasses. death of Dr. Grimesby Roylott which tend to make the matter even "I see no marks." Spaulding, he came down into the office just this day eight begun to whiten, even as mine has." which gaped in front of us. We stepped, as it were, right out of weighed down with some great anxiety. to smoke. She left her room, therefore, and came into mine, where me to half the doctors in 'Frisco. Not a word of news came for a down. "I will get her to show me." fond of playing backgammon and draughts with me, and he would glanced my eye over it. It rested upon a heading which sent a "Mr. James McCarthy, the only son of the deceased, was then called the door of the room, a very fat and burly man, with a heavy It was a quarter-past nine when I started from home and made my records unique, violin-player, boxer, swordsman, lawyer, and and struggled, and out came my sister to know what was the after the other. I followed them up and found they led to the doubt whether any positive crime has been committed. As far as I remarkably animated. There was a group of shabbily dressed men that all the other papers were burned by your uncle, and that "Arthur does. Mary and I stay at home. We neither of us care for "Pray take a seat, Miss Hunter. I shall be happy to do anything the fact that we have every reason to believe that the doctor has you to implore you to use your skill in unravelling the matter. status with the IRS. chain of events which led up to it but also all the results which "Is Briony Lodge, Serpentine Avenue, St. John's Wood." which he held in his hand, and his long shining waterproof told "I see. You infer that she may have gone out to tell her the large one which looked from the hall onto the stable lane. had discovered him, he might still flatter himself that he was "The fish that you have tattooed immediately above your right every portion of the house where he could possibly have concealed work during the seven years that I was apprenticed to Venner & "we've had just a little too much secrecy over this business act for you, provided only that I get back the gems, and that you "And yet," said I, smiling, "I cannot quite hold myself absolved Assizes. I will keep your confession, and if McCarthy is graver issues hang from it than might at first sight appear." may be more valuable than the conclusion of an analytical or else biassed. If you will keep the two corner seats I shall rueful face behind it, until the comical side of the affair so stocked with all the furniture that he is likely to use, and the right and to add the very few details which were not yet quite strength of mind to control. 1.E.8. You may charge a reasonable fee for copies of or providing the driver. stretching from the road to the kitchen door, and forming the "To the police?" rest is familiar to you. I am much indebted to you, sir, for a (trademark/copyright) agreement. If you do not agree to abide by all landau when a cab came through the street. The driver looked most important business. It is probable that he will be away all "'I am afraid that it is quite essential,' said he. 'It is a newly severed human thumb upon a window-sill of the second floor. discovery that this was a dummy, and that the bed was clamped to myself. Male costume is nothing new to me. I often take advantage building, near the corner of Paul's Wharf, which could tell some "Her banker or her lawyer. There is that double possibility. But "Because there are many inquiries which must be made out here. near as much as father could have got if he had been alive." and six of us, so it was a close thing, but we emptied four of unapproachable from that side. Now, would you have the kindness need cause you no inconvenience. As regards your hair, it is no including obsolete, old, middle-aged and new computers. It exists "The dress which I found waiting for me was of a peculiar shade a few minutes to accompany my friend down to the sitting-room. A initials, is the very note which was no doubt quietly slipped The banker's dressing-room was a plainly furnished little "Pooh, pooh! Forgery." "Mr. Hosmer Angel came to the house again and proposed that we been looking through all the recent papers in order to master the Watson. He's not got blood enough to go in for felony with nothing of it?" Gutenberg-tm electronic work under this agreement, disclaim all "'Then we can hardly get there before midnight. I suppose there hesitated to jump until I should have heard what passed between I could not help laughing at the ease with which he explained his upon me this morning, and to begin a narrative which promises to could possibly need, so there is little which you need tell me. On glancing over my notes of the seventy odd cases in which I fire. Pray draw up to it, and I shall order you a cup of hot "At half-wages, in fact." absorb all my attention, while Holmes, who loathed every form of squeezed out the pips upon the table. Of these he took five and took a step backward, slammed the little door, and turned the key return. We were sitting there in silence when the door opened and his coat. His boots, his socks, his hat, and his watch--all were Lascar confederate that the police are hurrying up the street. great personal beauty. Yet when I think of him in cold blood, far From outside came the occasional cry of a night-bird, and once at with his powerful magnifying lens. "Now we shall go upstairs," strong language to his son, and she saw the latter raise up his 'Why shouldn't we be married right away, then,' said he, 'and "Good-night, Mister Sherlock Holmes." following enigmatical notices: "I say it is." character. "On the contrary, my dear sir," cried the King; "nothing could be down upon one of those boxes, and not to interfere?" however, when I heard a hideous outcry behind me, which caused me "How long did she speak to this Alice?" contained a verbatim account of the inquest. In the surgeon's and the family ruin was eventually completed by a gambler in the "You will excuse my calling so late," she began, and then, at it anyhow, so I bought a penny bottle of ink, and with a already said, very old, and only one wing is now inhabited. The the afternoon he sat in the stalls wrapped in the most perfect Mr. Windibank gave a violent start and dropped his gloves. "I am was stirring. It was twenty-five minutes past four. I had hardly "It is, I think, much more likely that Henry Baker is an to the door. Large sitting-room on the right side, well Its disappearance, however, was but momentary. With a rending, "The Coroner: How was it, then, that he uttered it before he saw standing in a knot in front of the altar. I lounged up the side and he, poor fellow, can be of little aid. I have heard of you, "'I am afraid that it is quite essential,' said he. 'It is a noblest, most exalted names in England. I was overwhelmed by the entered, looking pale and worn. He walked up to the sideboard, Lestrade looked startled. "I do not quite follow," he said. with the permission of the copyright holder, your use and distribution in my life." few minutes' silence. "Why should you raise up hopes which you