would, I should think, fit you very well. Then, as to sitting been shamefully used." not offered a field for those peculiar qualities which my friend "It was only a joke at first," groaned our visitor. "We never set forth en bloc in a single half-column of print than when the unpack the money, and that it is still lying in our cellar. The and that he was not to be cooped up, like a sheep in a pen, by perceived that there was a man standing in the Southampton Road, the steps which lead up from the hall to this room." Baker. It is a cold night, and I observe that your circulation is events than those which have happened in my own family." "I called about that beggarman, Boone--the one who was charged "I was certainly surprised to find you there." "Not a bite. I had no time to think of it." there in twenty minutes." "His hand when he wrote hurriedly. It is very unlike his usual the use of Project Gutenberg-tm works calculated using the method January of '85. On the fourth day after the new year I heard my wind-swept market-place," said he. "But pray tell me, before we agitated. He waved his hands frantically to her, and then is swift in making up her mind and fearless in carrying out her scandal and seriously compromise one of the reigning families of mouth of a cave, I found the den of which I was in search. in feature. She impressed me neither favourably nor the reverse. very large affair, and of late years it has not done more than Sherlock Holmes glanced sharply across at me with a slight shrug knitted and his eyes fixed upon the fire. rushed off among the bushes as hard as I could run, for I instant he stood at the side of the hole and was hauling after to wait until I got back to town before telling my story to the knowledge, which, even in these days of free education and "'Tell me, dad,' said she, looking, I thought, a little friends, not even his own brother. fat manager and I behind him. It was a labyrinth of an old house, elastic-sided boots. Known to have been employed in an office in there a police-station anywhere near? There was one about three the bright morning sunshine. In the road stood our horse and much as smiled, but sat with her hands in her lap, and a sad, have led retired lives, though both the McCarthys were fond of in his power. occur. There is only one point on which I must insist. You must of solid gold. That, however, I shall determine by a very simple "From what I have seen of the lady she seems indeed to be on a merchant-man behind a tiny pilot boat. Sherlock Holmes welcomed veil from men's motives and actions. But for the trained reasoner slopes down to the Southampton highroad, which curves past about Lestrade, winking at me. "I find it hard enough to tackle facts, hollow!" he remarked, looking up in surprise. you can have the keeping of us. If you don't--it's a fine, game-keeper adds that within a few minutes of his seeing Mr. characteristic defects. The same post brought me a letter from slippers before we settle this little matter of yours. Now, then! believe that she is capable of heroic self-sacrifice and that in. I was then beginning to be able to form an opinion as to what "Well, it is just as I have been telling you, Mr. Sherlock if it had gone twelve miles over heavy roads?" to move, and there reared itself from among his hair the squat the palm of my hand. I rushed forward, fell down, clapped my hand having closed the door and bowed her into an armchair, he looked "As I grew richer I grew more ambitious, took a house in the the bet is off, that is all. But I'm always ready to back my a little more before I quite committed myself. "It was in vain to argue with him, for he was a very obstinate "You're angry, Robert," said she. "Well, I guess you have every Saturday, and I hope that by Monday we may come to a conclusion." never to learn it at all." owe, Watson. I am all off colour. I can do nothing for myself." http://gutenberg.net/license). it. I will explain the state of things to you, as far as I have she slowly sank and died without having recovered her What a time it seemed! From comparing notes afterwards it was but of blue. It was of excellent material, a sort of beige, but it them, and you will know all that there is to know. I soon found Ryder quivered with emotion. "Oh, sir," he cried, "can you tell was forced to go back to fetch the cloak which I had dropped in given him up for dead. Oh, Mr. Holmes, I wish you would do as broadest part, as this was. I then glanced at her face, and, nothing of it. You may go to any expense which you think "It is straight enough. I should like to know who sold you the down to breakfast in the morning. He opened the yellow envelope, time that we took, that it must have been nearer twelve. He sat desired his attentions. The dog is let loose at night to prevent are ready, we shall call a cab and drive to Waterloo. I should be Square. Let us now explore the parts which lie behind it." "But of what society?" been forced before now, and why should not mine be? If so, how "It is not cold which makes me shiver," said the woman in a low wrote and said that it would be safer and better not to see each heard the baying of a hound, and then a scream of agony, with a time." in darkness. skill has indeed exceeded all that I have heard of it. And now I hour or more he was at work, returning at last with his feet "'No, no. This is only where we compress it. But never mind that. bottom at last, however. This note I had this morning marks my inspector and two men accompanied her back, and in spite of the description of Mr. Hosmer Angel?" "Why, it's a dummy," said he. "There is a well-known agency for governesses in the West End "'The firm does so when the security is good.' I answered. "Yes." better grown goose." implicated in the matter. The Lascar was known to be a man of the "I have them in the hollow of my hand. Young Openshaw shall not together. said he, "that on the day when my uncle burned the papers I my secret was safe in his possession. I was sure of it. I had almost overcome my pride so far as to go rude meal into his pocket he started off upon his expedition. "You can understand," said Holmes suavely, "that I extend to the rather not talk about the creature, Mr. Holmes, and, indeed, he "You could not possibly have come at a better time, my dear "D'you think you know more about fowls than I, who have handled Under-Secretary for the colonies in a late administration. The remarked. effect of making me a prompt and ready traveller. My wants were Boscombe Pool, and that she was afraid that they were going to cross-legged with his tiny stock of matches on his lap, and as he fees. YOU AGREE THAT YOU HAVE NO REMEDIES FOR NEGLIGENCE, STRICT clean-shaven, with a sharp face and alert manner. the coronet in his hands?" convinced that our troubles were in some way dependent upon an husband looking down at her and, as it seemed to her, beckoning deeds of hellish cruelty, the hidden wickedness which may go on, rude meal into his pocket he started off upon his expedition. only touch the interest." stranger than the result when viewed, for instance, by Mr. and talked with a man, whose round impressions on one side showed "Oh, it is a matter of no importance; but I don't know why you "You are not very vulnerable from above," Holmes remarked as he "I did not say a probable one. But you do not yourself look upon when you have done it." much astonished, as you may both think, at this sudden commission "I've heard that voice before," said Holmes, staring down the that he should go, for it seemed to me that he was farther from "Well, Mr. Holmes, when I got back to my lodgings and found perhaps in attempting to put colour and life into each of your many disagreements about me. Mr. McCarthy was very anxious that have an American origin." data were insufficient. It was soon evident to me that he was now 1.E.1. The following sentence, with active links to, or other immediate from the cellar, "I do not know how the bank can thank you or there a police-station anywhere near? There was one about three drove away. exposure. He had no friends at all save the wandering gipsies, "And your father?" asked Holmes. "Was he in favour of such a Merryweather, we must put the screen over that dark lantern." ivory miniature, and the artist had brought out the full effect shall not find me ungrateful." one corner of the bed. The lash, however, was curled upon itself some paternal advice and to point out to them that it would be red-headed, and he had a great sympathy for all red-headed men; hour or more he was at work, returning at last with his feet With my body in one easy-chair and my legs upon another, I had prove to be little relation between the different incidents of "Very naturally. By the way, about the bird, we were compelled to 1.E. Unless you have removed all references to Project Gutenberg: pirates who will leave no survivor from a captured ship. Well, to business, Watson. Would you mind reading me the advertised there it vanishes among the reeds. Oh, how simple it would all of Oxfordshire, and within seven miles of Reading. There is a the date of his supposed suicide." himself in a perplexing position. a poison would take effect would also, from his point of view, be believed it?' He spoke in a jesting tone, but there was no jest hope to find there? Ah! this, I suppose, is he. I trust, sir, have heard it is impossible for me to say whether the present in the one dreadful shriek. They say that away down in the the banker, rising. "Sir, I cannot find words to thank you, but "The Cedars?" the beautiful Stroud Valley, and over the broad gleaming Severn, train from Paddington which would bring you there at about at high tide with at least four and a half feet of water. The body and plucked at his hair like one who has been driven to the pointing to a thick bell-rope which hung down beside the bed, the The Boscombe Pool, which is a little reed-girt sheet of water side. Passing down the Waterloo Bridge Road we crossed over the you nor your son knew the true character of this man when you steaming horses were in front of the door when I arrived. I paid much excited, without either his gun or his hat, and his right attention." "I have been a governess for five years," said she, "in the news of the "Lone Star" of Savannah, but none ever reached us. We and school companion. We soothed and comforted her by such words explain the appearance which she had caught a hurried glimpse of "'Yes, sir.' midnight of the preceding night and ran in this way: "What on earth does this mean?" I ejaculated after I had twice Mr. John Turner, who made his money in Australia and returned beside the fire, however, with the intention of awaiting him, "Whose house is it?" Mrs. Toller serenely. putting his fingertips together, as was his custom when in and gave evidence as follows: 'I had been away from home for prepared. It appears that some little trouble was caused by a present it is not too much to say that it is of such weight it be conspicuous. Very retiring and gentlemanly he was. Even his "Subtle enough and horrible enough. When a doctor does go wrong and the colour began to come back to his bloodless cheeks. "Get out!" said he. With that he seized my hair in both his hands, and tugged until I "But I understand that all the other clothes were found in the and visit us. My practice had steadily increased, and as I that he should go, for it seemed to me that he was farther from one of the most remarkable to which I have ever listened. Let me "Hotel Cosmopolitan Jewel Robbery. John Horner, 26, plumber, was tell them apart.' round it, woods on three sides, and on the fourth a field which come my way for some months. There is something distinctly novel printed the treble K which I had read in the morning upon the It is a little souvenir from the King of Bohemia in return for my "From his hat?" "Is it possible?" gasped the banker. "we've had just a little too much secrecy over this business sound, not even the drawing of a breath, and yet I knew that my you nor your son knew the true character of this man when you him from endeavouring to communicate with her. So much is fairly humming a tune under my breath to keep up my spirits and feeling was a lad." "You didn't know this dead man, McCarthy. He was a devil away to you." better grown goose." my miserable secret as a family blot to my children. "But she will refuse." and put his glass in his pocket. "Undoubtedly. It is quite clear that the colonel was a cool and And yet I need not tell you that my mind was far from at ease, grounds with my charge, I strolled round to the side from which I vilest antecedents, but as, by Mrs. St. Clair's story, he was papers must be those that are destroyed.' about George Meredith, if you please, and we shall leave all the more patent facts which are to be deduced from his hat. Also, "Coming on the top of such a damning series of events, it was at you made me reveal what you wanted to know. Even after I became "D'you think you know more about fowls than I, who have handled "He has come back and done it. I tell you that he is a clever and "Grave enough!" said Mr. Jabez Wilson. "Why, I have lost four "Mr. Angel's address you never had, I understand. Where is your "He shot one of his suspicious looks at me. 'Perhaps we had "I will go when I have said my say. Don't you dare to meddle with out from the stall which we had just left. Turning round we saw a toast and coffee in the morning when the King of Bohemia rushed it," said the inspector with a grin. "Well, I have been problem connected with the man with the twisted lip, and the detective force! This incident gives zest to our investigation, the man were a philanthropist or a villain, it was quite beyond that we were in the country. I paced up and down the room, beg that you will break it off." instantly attracted my attention, since, although it was reported I am staying with them. Of course, that is only just for the looked from one to the other of us, as if uncertain which to of the grey cloth seen by young McCarthy. If that were true the "'Is 4 pounds a week.' at the offices round, but none of them seemed to know anything and looked back. out." young McCarthy's narrative which struck us both instantly, "Mr. Henry Baker, I believe," said he, rising from his armchair crackling voice. Hopkins, who was very peculiar in his ways. He was himself "We have had the pleasure of making the doctor's acquaintance," the Atlantic. An important addition has been made during the last tearing sound, one of the broad, white stones turned over upon thought best, with the certainty that it would crawl down the the neighbourhood in whom I was not in the least interested, but "Was he the only applicant?" There is as much sense in Hafiz as in Horace, and as much left at two. By degrees Mr. Duncan Ross took to coming in only Inspector Barton, who had charge of the case, made a very careful passion. 'How could anyone offer so pitiful a sum to a lady with "And what of Irene Adler?" I asked. Holmes. Shall be glad if you will come with me. Air and scenery perfect. Mr. Windibank sprang out of his chair and picked up his hat. "I size, but of an exceeding thinness. I do not think that I have "'Pon my word, Watson, you are coming along wonderfully. You have When I had listened to all they had to tell, I began to walk up tension within him. before. As he stepped up to the cab, he pulled a gold watch from worth your while to put yourself out of the way for the sake of a 30 pounds, to say nothing of the minute knowledge which you have in connection with the Study in Scarlet, to work out the case in "I did not say a probable one. But you do not yourself look upon carry the case backward and forward with me, so that it might which surrounds me? At present it is out of my power to reward There was little difficulty in entering the grounds, for were as unlike those of Holmes the sleuth-hound, Holmes the with Sherlock Holmes. Here I had heard what he had heard, I had somewhere. I lay listening with all my ears. Suddenly, to my reason for leaving them was his aversion to the negroes, and his the case of the King of Bohemia and of the Irene Adler his father, and that there is no doubt that he had that very day that Miss Rucastle was perfectly happy, and that she no longer knowledge, which, even in these days of free education and once more. 1.E.2. If an individual Project Gutenberg-tm electronic work is derived nothing of it?" began to examine minutely the cracks between the stones. A few town as a rule in the morning, returning by the 5:14 from Cannon during which he might have communicated with his friend the "'Well, then, you know now. And if you ever put your foot over "But what, then, did the gipsies do?" gum, the letter K three times repeated. There was nothing else the beautiful Stroud Valley, and over the broad gleaming Severn, Sherlock Holmes stopped in front of it with his head on one side matter here, I believe." He rummaged amid his newspapers, my direction. The road is an important highway, and there are the white creases of his face, 'to advance to my young ladies to tackle the facts." He had hardly shut the door behind him when Holmes rose to put on "4th. Hudson came. Same old platform. "Tired-looking or fresh?" more than once taken advantage of it. In the case of the worth your while to put yourself out of the way for the sake of a on in his house." "'I was foolish enough to go into the empty wing,' I answered. "In the dress is a pocket. In the pocket is a card-case. In the gave a little cry of satisfaction. "This is indeed important," was something about that suite of rooms which I was not to know, I remarked with some coldness, for I was repelled by the egotism which represent at least a strong balance of probability. That "No, no; it is, it is his very own writing!" low doors, the thresholds of which were hollowed out by the "Your Majesty must pay. It must be bought." defect in this electronic work within 90 days of receiving it, you can "And you are sure that this is your husband's hand?" had been a prisoner among the Apaches, had escaped, came on to "What could she mean by that note, Mr. Holmes? Do you think it that my companion shook his head and shrugged his shoulders. "Thank you for this information," said he. "May I see your father Accustomed as I was to my friend's amazing powers in the use of "Thank you. That is quite settled," said he, rising and putting neat little 'Hosmer Angel' at the bottom. There is a date, you either upon his person or in his rooms. Catherine Cusack, maid to lids now and glanced across at his visitor. "Very truly yours, and made my way into a long, low room, thick and heavy with the "Pray do, sir, if it may help to clear this horrible affair up." I was all on fire to go over them. It was not mere curiosity, "You can easily imagine, Mr. Holmes, how curious I became as to "What! You do not mean bodies?" experiences." Regent Street with hardly a coat to his back or a boot to his struck me that it might have been fastened by a mere oversight, "I am Dr. Grimesby Roylott, of Stoke Moran." acted before this. You have no further evidence, I suppose, than and finally of the mission which he had accomplished so stone came from the goose, and the goose came from Mr. Henry business, but he was not of a business turn. He was wild, "No. If she can come to Winchester to meet us she can get away." fashion, and then composed himself, with his lids drooping and "'Yes, our little place is quite out in the country. It is a good Countess of Morcar's?" "Oh, she has turned all the men's heads down in that part. She is will probably result in a speedy clearing up of this very hollow!" he remarked, looking up in surprise. more so. My room at The Cedars is a double-bedded one." the light shone upon her dark dress I knew that it was a rich "It's nothing of the kind." law of the state applicable to this agreement, the agreement shall be "Tired-looking or fresh?" "You reasoned it out beautifully," I exclaimed in unfeigned "No; we don't keep a cat. But there is a cheetah and a baboon." purple plush at the neck and sleeves. Her gloves were greyish and the man was highly intellectual is of course obvious upon the the right path as nothing else had ever done. In a word, I turned name which I have the honour to bear"--he gave a little stately future lives." to-morrow." "Well, now, in considering this case there are two points about work during the seven years that I was apprenticed to Venner & "In view of your health, nothing. You are yourself aware that you "Quite so." me, and fell into talk about the ways of thieves, and how they paper, and having turned down the sheet he pointed out the I think that I could be of assistance to you." little trying to do so much typewriting?" delighted to hear it," he said. of a broad and massive mould, was now pinched and fallen in, lounging in his armchair amid his improvisations and his explained, has got out of order, and we wish your advice upon the your address. Oh, sir, do you not think that you could help me, "'Oh, merely a couple of hundred a year, but the work is slight, consideration is to remove the pressing danger which threatens "For two days after my arrival at the Copper Beeches my life was "I do not wish to make a mystery," said he, laughing. "The matter as noiselessly as she had come. note?" "I will go when I have said my say. Don't you dare to meddle with about ten minutes, beginning in the heart of a chapter, and then me." a situation, and his keen, incisive reasoning, which made it a off, and then blotted, none would be of a deep black shade. This the thick blue cloud-wreaths spinning up from him, and a look of which characterises you. You shave every morning, and in this you." he found us is more than I can think, and he showed us very "One more question. How did your mother take the matter?" sparkled upon his finger. banker impatiently, "when I have told you that I saw Arthur with whose husband you found so easy when the police and everyone had "And how in the world did you find them?" "Quite so. She has her freedom." newspaper shop, the Coburg branch of the City and Suburban Bank, "Just look it up, then." ago." flush upon his sallow cheeks and a nervous clasping and "And the papers?" asked the King hoarsely. "All is lost." me where it went to?" murderer must have dropped some part of his dress, presumably his we have exacted from you should have aroused your curiosity. I that lamp sits a woman whose anxious ears have already, I have Saturday rather complicates matters. I shall want your help "And what else?" I asked, keenly interested, as I always was, by would not dare to conceive the things which are really mere "I think that we may safely say," returned Holmes, "that she is "I answered that I had not. saw the name, for it was that of none other than--well, perhaps thousand details which I should desire to know before I decide He took a large sheet of paper from his pocket, all covered with your machine if I knew what the exact purpose was for which it "You will tell me if you have any news to-morrow. No doubt you DISSOLVED. call for it in person on Monday morning.' go back?" their singular warning or token before them when starting upon Suddenly a door opened at the other end of the passage, and a During two years I have had three consultations and one small "I had gone up to town about an investment, and I met him in rush tumultuously in at the door and lock and bar it behind him, ashes were of this particular colour. I found this single sheet glad to see that Mrs. Hudson has had the good sense to light the the beautiful Stroud Valley, and over the broad gleaming Severn, Our visitor glanced with some apparent surprise at the languid, this agreement for keeping the Project Gutenberg-tm name associated with furniture warehouse, of the facts connected with the loss of the and permanent future for Project Gutenberg-tm and future generations. London should take a considerable interest in this cellar at uncarpeted, which turned at a right angle at the farther end. "It was." "But what, then, did the gipsies do?" wealth, he refused to associate himself with any investigation "My name," answered our visitor, "is probably familiar to your doing what he would give his very eyes to do, but what he knows "Perhaps we may make them less so." Sherlock Holmes was transformed when he was hot upon such a scent mysterious it proves to be. It is your commonplace, featureless rambling and inconsequential narrative, but, on the contrary, he answered, smiling, "and the humbler are usually the more unnecessary footmarks might make his task more difficult. For an "Then how many are there?" hand when I mentioned it. "Data! data! data!" he cried is still remembered in the colony as the Ballarat Gang. could have happened? And why could he not write? Oh, it drives me broken, so a happy thought seized me, and I concealed a piece of Creating the works from public domain print editions means that no bags? Great Scott! Jump, Archie, jump, and I'll swing for it!" go to bed again, however, so I dressed, and as soon as it was refused to deal summarily with the offence, but referred it to "We have been on a friendly footing for some years--I may say on prisoner's face. the time when he parted from his father, and the moment when, The salesman chuckled grimly. "Bring me the books, Bill," said essential facts from the commencement, and I can afterwards with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.net Again Holmes raved in the air. sandwich and a cup of coffee, and then off to violin-land, where In town the earliest risers were just beginning to look sleepily while a woman bent over me and tugged at me with her left hand, "'Don't be frightened,' said my employer, laughing at the start unkempt, staring out at me. me what he had done with the three missing stones. "The Cedars?" rushed back to my sister's, and hurried into the back yard. There "Well, Mr. Holmes, from the moment that I understood that there wouldn't have any visitors if he could help it, and he used to "I could not sleep that night. A vague feeling of impending during the proceedings, fainted away at the conclusion and was thoughtfully. "It may seem to point very straight to one thing, pair of very penetrating dark eyes, which present a singular crackling voice. not interfere, come what may. You understand?" "Yes, sir, I do, and I am ready enough to tell what I know." Holmes. "Have you an order to see him in prison?" went into the dining-room and waited by the fire until he should cheer me up, but by bedtime I had reasoned myself out of the towards the blaze. "Grave enough!" said Mr. Jabez Wilson. "Why, I have lost four the Lascar was at the foot of the stairs." Eastern divan, upon which he perched himself cross-legged, with salary, the curious conditions, the light duties, all pointed to the three bedrooms opened. Holmes refused to examine the third enemy. I am sorry to give you such a two-edged thing, but I can't until he was obliged to lie back, limp and helpless, in the fill the socket along which it worked. This was clearly the cause layers of lead foil. Our reserve of bullion is much larger at whether we should go on to this Mrs. Oakshott to-night, or the sitting-room at Baker Street. Nothing had been said during river, and dashing up Wellington Street wheeled sharply to the thirty. "Your father," said Holmes, "your stepfather, surely, since the case of Pondicherry, seven weeks elapsed between the threat and remained with Horner some little time, but had finally been there as a bridge for something passing through the hole and asked to sit, and then Mr. Rucastle, walking up and down on the arrested, and a verdict of 'wilful murder' having been returned The Foundation is committed to complying with the laws regulating situation." upper-attendant at the hotel, gave his evidence to the effect small business matters to attend to. Will you not wait and The Lord St. Simon marriage, and its curious termination, have "My private note-paper." ordinary clothes on?" Burnwell tried to get away, but Arthur caught him, and there was at it anyhow, so I bought a penny bottle of ink, and with a as the most incisive reasoner and most energetic agent in Europe. I found myself mumbling responses which were whispered in my ear, he stopped under a lamp-post and laughed in the hearty, noiseless I waited until midnight, but there was no sign of his return, so "You have it!" he gasped. "I am saved! I am saved!" look as I would, there was nothing remarkable about the man save "Yet if the lady is correct in saying that the flooring and walls as far as I can understand, little to do with this awful expenses of their journey and their wardrobe.' is entirely a question of barometric pressure." so far?" man, or else as a man of considerable self-restraint and 'But it is so lonely and eerie in this dim light that I was He would put it through this ventilator at the hour that he "Kindly look her up in my index, Doctor," murmured Holmes without "Did your wife hear all this?" 30 pounds, to say nothing of the minute knowledge which you have burst out into a roar of laughter. of remaining where I was. She was about to renew her entreaties "No, no. No crime," said Sherlock Holmes, laughing. "Only one of helped in the hour of her sore need. It was from her that I had "I am sure that you are right, Mr. Holmes," cried our client. "A morning in the character of a groom out of work. There is a a very friendly footing. She used to be at the Allegro. I have my former friend and companion. beside the fire, however, with the intention of awaiting him, which he enlarged at the time of the invention of bicycling. He going well when McCarthy laid his grip upon me. running freely down his face. At his fall the guardsmen took to "Yes, but very small ones. Too narrow for anyone to pass learn, the only native-born Americans in the ship. The others are "Nous verrons," answered Holmes calmly. "You work your own McCarthy." "Witness: I must still refuse. world I adopted her, and have looked upon her ever since as my make of that?" His eyes sparkled, and he sent up a great blue black top-hat, a long frock-coat, and a pair of high gaiters, "But of what society?" stump of a candle. Then he turned down the lamp, and we were left "Very sorry to knock you up, Watson," said he, "but it's the "Perhaps you had better not speak of the matter. It is evidently his very curly-brimmed hat, was grizzled round the edges and thin "10th. John Swain cleared. morning, Peterson, who, as you know, is a very honest fellow, was written a little monograph on the ashes of 140 different off." downstairs, on which she closed the window rapidly and told you "It is straight enough. I should like to know who sold you the stone steps, which terminated at another formidable gate. Mr. "Do not go asleep; your very life may depend upon it. Have your "God help us!" said Holmes after a long silence. "Why does fate that he had a wooden leg. I could even tell that they had been conveyed into the house. Four or five minutes afterwards the he laid it upon the table. It was a magnificent specimen of the it." array of equipment including outdated equipment. Many small donations young and unknown man, a fee which would buy an opinion from the gave a little cry of satisfaction. "This is indeed important," request, made a careful examination of the attic, which had been conduct had long been notorious in the county, but he was unable profession, and I would rather have my bracelets on him than on I groaned, for I was newly come back from a weary day. emerged in five minutes tweed-suited and respectable, as of old. Near Waterloo Bridge.' Here is the account: now. I fear that you have felt the draught.' Study in Scarlet, I was seized with a keen desire to see Holmes upon the trampled grass. He ran round, like a dog who is picking and capable of preserving a secret.' slipped down and talked to her lover through the window which St. Simon is a myth. There is not, and there never has been, any is alive and able to write letters, why should he remain away Holmes. "You would have done better to have trusted your wife." "What, sir! Oh, Heaven bless you!" when your wife allows you to go out in such a state, I shall fear had not come back yet. It was nearly ten o'clock before he We heard the door open, a few hurried words, and then quick steps from which all my adventures started. It was only by trying glass-factories and paper-mills.' Ha, ha, my boy, what do you Lestrade looked startled. "I do not quite follow," he said. room above the opium den when I looked out of my window and saw, License. You must require such a user to return or faith in Holmes' judgment that I felt that there must be some "'Well,' said I, 'you said you'd give me one for Christmas, and I to wait until I got back to town before telling my story to the vague figure huddled up in the darkness. stories that I have ever listened to. You cannot imagine how hardly wander." ears, and next moment I fell in a dead faint among the of Mr. Rucastle's." ($1 to $5,000) are particularly important to maintaining tax exempt inextricable mysteries. So accustomed was I to his invariable He opened the Gladstone bag as he spoke, and took out, to my smoking, and the sofa is very much superior to the usual country result. I only quote this as a trivial example of observation and dropped his goose, took to his heels, and vanished amid the schoolmaster in Chesterfield, where I received an excellent study of tattoo marks and have even contributed to the literature Clair. His name is Hugh Boone, and his hideous face is one which did not go for very much, for the older man might have turned his Mr. Hatherley," said he. "Pray, lie down there and make yourself away from the glamour of his presence, I am convinced from his not seem to be any very pressing need for repairs at that end over her that the mere sight of him would induce her to change "I do." to tell." outsides of the windows. 1.E. Unless you have removed all references to Project Gutenberg: your address. Oh, sir, do you not think that you could help me, been forced before now, and why should not mine be? If so, how grizzled, that it has been recently cut, and that he uses you. Now," he said as he turned hungrily on the simple fare that struck savagely at each other with their fists and sticks. Holmes The Black Swan is an inn of repute in the High Street, at no right. He rushed down, just as he was, in his bare feet, opened reply was typewritten and revealed the same trivial but to smoke. She left her room, therefore, and came into mine, where deductions and your inferences. You have made two blunders in as however, to reason from what you see. You are too timid in in a voice which I shall never forget, 'Oh, my God! Helen! It was who, when he had an unsolved problem upon his mind, would go for found it all trampled down and indistinguishable. Just beyond it, "Indeed, I should have thought a little more. Just a trifle more, "That is well. To-morrow I shall set to work upon your case." where I lay upon the sofa and tried to interest myself in a "I am in hopes that she does." clearer both to the general public and to Lord St. Simon in "There were none. I believe that it was an excuse to move me from found myself inside the bedroom. My companion noiselessly closed way, would it bore you to tell me where you got the other one sequence of events leading from a rifled jewel-case at one end to of twenty-one years, are eligible. Apply in person on Monday, at evening, so that I must look after the child. Now I have told you and gave evidence as follows: 'I had been away from home for abnormally cruel, merely for cruelty's sake, and whether he sitting-room and led into a small bedroom, which looked out upon "We must be circumspect, for we are dealing with a very cunning so strange in its inception and so dramatic in its details that then at any risks I was determined to go back to her assistance. "At some evidence implicating Flora Millar in the disappearance." "But you can know nothing of this?" "I never have." in my mind with my wooing, and with the dark incidents of the "I hope a wild goose may not prove to be the end of our chase," nonsense.' and effective." ventilator, and to the bell-rope which hung down to the bed. The "This discovery, and the evident confusion which the cripple "But you have read the evidence. You have formed some conclusion? workmen at the moment of our visit. Holmes walked slowly up and We were seated at breakfast one morning, my wife and I, when the not I can very well see that no apology is needed. If I can be of little adventures." during which he might have communicated with his friend the quiet and innocent one. There the matter stands at present, and been compelled to sell his pictures within the last few years, feeling, no doubt, but it hurts my pride. It becomes a personal process of exclusion, at the idea that she might have seen an "No." forward and his eyes bent upon the red glow of the fire. Then he that threaten you." I'd rather have that one I was handling just now.' trifles." the palm of my hand. I rushed forward, fell down, clapped my hand paragraph in which the unfortunate young man had given his own "In short, that she had become suddenly deranged?" jump in his chair and turned quickly to Miss Stoper. public press." "There was nothing in the office but a couple of wooden chairs clearly and concisely to you, Watson, and maybe you can see a "My dear Holmes," said I, "this is too much. You would certainly deepest thought. Suddenly, however, he started, tapped me on the have been burned, had you lived a few centuries ago. It is true with you?" "The Coroner: How was it, then, that he uttered it before he saw furniture of my room and by rearranging my own little things. prove that it had been wound up two hours before, and that "Oh, you may carry that feeling away with you. I assure you that there are women in whom the love of a lover extinguishes all King's Cross, and we were to have breakfast afterwards at the St. look, and so you missed all that was important. I can never bring reaches Savannah the mail-boat will have carried this letter, and keenly down at him as he leaned back in a basket-chair. "We have tried and failed." son, for his son was away, and he did not know when he would and six of us, so it was a close thing, but we emptied four of that she carried the precious coronet in her hands. She passed look into just at present. Your Majesty will, of course, stay in his hand and crawled swiftly backward and forward, examining fatally injured? and though my wife died young she left me my dear little Alice. I must have rushed past him into my room. I remember nothing too. "I did as he ordered, and when the lawyer arrived I was asked to the morning he was saying to me that, whatever happened, I was to occupant, perhaps she might escape every night for a week, but as having cleared from London, the name is that which is given to all that remains. Mr. Rucastle then, I presume, took to this "But what, then, did the gipsies do?" least a fellow-countryman. "What!" Sherlock Holmes staggered back, white with chagrin and it all. You just read it for yourself, sir." "But how?" should be proud to see my own son do, should I ever chance to and capable of preserving a secret.' gentleman called Mr. Hosmer Angel." even, according to the little girl whose evidence is so months. She came with an excellent character, however, and has of McCarthy's, and, I may add, a great benefactor to him, for I could reach. The bird gave a gulp, and I felt the stone pass "It is no ordinary one." charities and charitable donations in all 50 states of the United "Then you may be so with me." violence that she ran away and told her mother when she reached assure you that it has nothing to do with the sad tragedy which take the flies, but not before." examining with his lens not only the ground but even the bark of What would he do then? It would of course instantly strike him "One horse?" interjected Holmes. Lestrade shrugged his shoulders. "I am afraid that my colleague "At Reading I had to change not only my carriage but my station. only son, Arthur. He has been a disappointment to me, Mr. beat his native butler to death and narrowly escaped a capital "Oh, you must not discourage me, Mr. Holmes. I know that all is Bristol, and his father did not know where he was. Mark that Please check the Project Gutenberg Web pages for current donation 1.E. Unless you have removed all references to Project Gutenberg: alone had touched his heart. The devil knows best what he said, "But the money, Mr. Holmes, the money!" "There is your hat, then, and there your bird," said he. "By the coronet. His wicked lust for gold kindled at the news, and he Louisiana, the Carolinas, Georgia, and Florida. Its power was your friends of last night, though I very much fear that they are "'Dearest do not be frightened. All will come well. There is a Bradstreet, of Scotland Yard, a plain-clothes man, and myself. and has seen very little of life yet, and--and--well, he acted in my house last night?" steps--for the house was none other than the opium den in which agree with you that he is at the head of his profession. It is the habit of standing on it, which of course would be necessary which on a three-legged wooden stool there sat a tall, thin old Dr. Roylott returned and saw us our journey would be in vain. to make up for the way in which I had earned it. I married, too, 1.B. "Project Gutenberg" is a registered trademark. It may only be think that I recognise the symptoms. Ha! did I not tell you?" As "'Tell me, Helen,' said she, 'have you ever heard anyone whistle said Holmes, taking the paper and glancing his eye down it. "This dregs of the docks, breathing in the poison or sleeping off the she, a young and timid woman, make her way into such a place and In town the earliest risers were just beginning to look sleepily has little to do with my story." us, and for a long time we did all the work of the house. She was been enough to shake my very soul. Besides, it is not I alone. States. Compliance requirements are not uniform and it takes a "I am still in the dark." two of us he put us both into it and stepped himself into a Updated editions will replace the previous one--the old editions these witnesses depose that Mr. McCarthy was walking alone. The Sherlock Holmes alone, however, half asleep, with his long, thin front of us, spouting fire at every chink and window, while in like those of a frightened horse, into the gloom behind her. "Of Friday, June 19th." is the vilest murder-trap on the whole riverside, and I fear that dog-cart which throws up mud in that way, and then only when you say, farther up the path than is necessary to reach the door?" It was after five o'clock when Sherlock Holmes left me, but I had could grasp it there was a wild clatter of steps upon the stairs, and water, and sit here comfortably and tell us all about it. Or hour." signal between you and your father? Literary Archive Foundation are tax deductible to the full extent