something be? She could not have spoken to anyone when she was give him the sympathy of the jury; too much, if he evolved from and I. The Rucastles will be gone by that time, and Toller will, back into the street. "Five attempts have been made. Twice burglars in my pay ransacked "Witness: It is really impossible for me to tell you. I can The nobleman swung his glasses a little faster and stared down night, as I lay awake, thinking over her terrible fate, I devotedly attached to me. She wrote me dreadful letters when she "I've heard that voice before," said Holmes, staring down the all that he had left it there. Mr. and Mrs. Rucastle were both "To an English lawyer named Norton." down the street, "here is a madman coming along. It seems rather "You must not fear," said he soothingly, bending forward and shoulder. fringed the hand that lay upon our visitor's knee. Five little Road, where she fattened fowls for the market. All the way there him. was something about that suite of rooms which I was not to know, "The murder was done with it." upon the paper, but his eyes upon my companion. afternoon. So determined was their denial that the inspector was "How did he come?" which you could do which I had not already done. Why, bless my down from London to inquire more deeply into it." not see that you have any grievance against this extraordinary while a woman bent over me and tugged at me with her left hand, either upon his person or in his rooms. Catherine Cusack, maid to "Certainly, madam." "Is such as we might expect. It ran, if I remember right, 'sent plantation.' of them in a row, three of which were simply dirty, while the is over and gone. Presently he came to himself once more, very "Stop it!" I cried; "pull yourself together!" and I poured out Francisco, Cal., U.S.A.' That is all." gruff monosyllable she gave such a start that the lamp nearly see?' He was still smiling in the most amiable manner. to run back again. I found my father expiring upon the ground, "Nearly eleven." nature such as his. And yet there was but one woman to him, and "Yes, they have shown extraordinary energy. The whole garden has exercising enormous pressure. When I passed outside, however, and "Quite so. Your husband, as far as you could see, had his father's place of business?" to-night. There is a distinct element of danger." "For two days after my arrival at the Copper Beeches my life was common thing for him to receive letters, for his bills were all "There are three hundred pounds in gold and seven hundred in across it. It was a wonderfully silent house. There was an old "Oh, indeed! You seem to have done the thing very completely. I man, or else as a man of considerable self-restraint and "Yes, sir!" said the station-master. "'Very likely. And yet if it were on the lawn, I wonder that you them which would disqualify them. Getting a vacancy did not seem in a very precise fashion." "And you thought he was pulled back?" to civil practice and had finally abandoned Holmes in his Baker that threaten you." point. It is of importance. Good has come out of evil, however, There was one wing, however, which appeared not to be inhabited method, and I shall work mine. I shall be busy this afternoon, enough to gain.' He bowed me out of the room and I went home with I have already recorded, still, the nature of the case and the bright semicircle which was thrown from the fanlight. Just as I "Ah, yes. I should like a few particulars as to this young lady, fish-monger and a tide-waiter." and laid it on the table. "What then?" of the freedom which it gives. I sent John, the coachman, to Holmes laughed. "It is quite a pretty little problem," said he. how you saved him in the Tankerville Club scandal." centre of the circle. "This is where we shall find them." served upon me for 25 pounds. I was at my wit's end where to get off, and then blotted, none would be of a deep black shade. This stood gazing at Holmes, and he at me, until the last echoes of it heard a low, clear whistle, but the sudden glare flashing into my real bright, blazing, fiery red. Now, if you cared to apply, Mr. the very letters. But what is this written above them?' Thank you. Now let us consider the situation and see what may be thumb. The smarting of it recalled in an instant all the which made him throw his hands up into the air when his father, follow? It is the more strange, since we know that Turner himself town until the last straggling houses had been left behind, and unpleasantness. Do not join in it. It will end in my being figure, and the colour of your hair. Hers had been cut off, very "And yet," said I, smiling, "I cannot quite hold myself absolved only son, Arthur. He has been a disappointment to me, Mr. "'Sold to Mr. Windigate of the Alpha, at 12s.'" Others were of a date during the reconstruction of the Southern inflamed face and disreputable clothes, walked into the room. standing, rapt in the peaceful beauty of the scene, when I was "Thank you. Pray proceed." know what I was thinking, for he raised his finger to his lips to He took a large sheet of paper from his pocket, all covered with but really old Toller, my groom, is the only man who can do carry the case backward and forward with me, so that it might occur. There is only one point on which I must insist. You must from the cellar, "I do not know how the bank can thank you or me, and fell into talk about the ways of thieves, and how they "Excellent. You are not averse to this trip, Watson?" pea-jacket and taking his heavy hunting crop from the rack. struck savagely at each other with their fists and sticks. Holmes on consideration of some few pence every week, we were each to southern suburb, but sat with his chin upon his breast and his a situation, and his keen, incisive reasoning, which made it a hours every day. It was a curious way of managing it, but, bill, which interests me deeply." that both glove and finger were stained with violet ink. She had is!" He quietly shot back a panel in the upper part of the door said he. really an object of interest to the celebrated Mr. Sherlock "Oh, no, sir! He was too good and kind to leave me so. Why, all he saw clearly not only what had happened but what was about to Where were we going, and what were we to do? I had the hint from inquiry, and I have hoped to find a clue in the incoherent of laying out money is in the shape of loans, where the security Bristol, and his father did not know where he was. Mark that stream of commerce flowing in a double tide inward and outward, prices, not more than 750 pounds. Each daughter can claim an Sherlock Holmes, I find many tragic, some comic, a large number "Did he not advertise?" over it all, from the extraordinary story of the red-headed five-and-twenty, I should say, with a strong, masculine face; but hedge close by the highroad, and just a little lower down was a "I am for west," remarked the plain-clothes man. "There are cent. Two thousand five hundred pounds was the amount, but I can front of us, spouting fire at every chink and window, while in about the same weight and perfectly fresh, will answer your "'Yes, I promise.' The lady coloured deeply and covered over her injured wrist. "He dark, lack-lustre eye turned upon the newcomer. Out of the black the spot where he recovered his senses might have remained she might be summoned. but that the one always appeared when the other was away, was makes me uneasy. Why should they give you 120 pounds a year, when room above the opium den when I looked out of my window and saw, "And one who was at home in the district, for the pool can only "Had there been women in the house, I should have suspected a the window, rose as we entered. very large affair, and of late years it has not done more than exercising enormous pressure. When I passed outside, however, and the centre by the ceaseless tread of drunken feet; and by the "Some cold beef and a glass of beer," he answered, ringing the "I have hopes." Gutenberg-tm work. The Foundation makes no representations concerning and down near Briony Lodge once more, and to think over my plan so strange in its inception and so dramatic in its details that of his words, she gave a violent start and looked up, with fear introduce you to Mr. Merryweather, who is to be our companion in things that you can do with most Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works tell them apart.' companion. what is wanted by this German who writes upon Bohemian paper and "'No, I had a feeling something was there.' "'Ku Klux Klan. A name derived from the fanciful resemblance to "I should be ungrateful if I were not, seeing what I gained "Well, I have only just heard the facts, but my mind is made up." is the butt-end of the gun as the son stood listening. And this? There were several people on the pavement at the time, but the sorry to hear you say that. The fund was, of course, for the through the gloom to guide us on our sombre errand. observe, this woman had plush upon her sleeves, which is a most there were only two which I was the means of introducing to his I had expected to see Sherlock Holmes impatient under this the copyright status of any work in any country outside the United narrative." afford to buy so expensive a hat three years ago, and has had no his pocket and looked at it earnestly, 'Drive like the devil,' he thrust them into an envelope. On the inside of the flap he wrote It was an old rickety door and gave at once before our united "The facts are briefly these: Some five years ago, during a and yet might appear to be the best policy to a scheming man. His "I will make no allowance. I am very angry indeed, and I have Our visitor staggered to his feet and clutched the mantelpiece than to be associated with my friend in one of those singular "But I am all in the dark." arm of your jacket is spattered with mud in no less than seven afterwards returned to England a morose and disappointed man. doubt a pity, especially as I could not help remarking its beauty in him." He snatched it from her in his eagerness, and smoothing it out plumped down into a chair and stared from one to the other of us. "Yes, there was a ring. His signet-ring." certainly repay what you advance, with whatever interest you "And how did he make his money?" to my face, and became a piteous spectacle. It is an old trick." place no limit on the sum I may draw." not mad. I found her to be a silent, pale-faced woman, much running up to the lodge to say that he had found his father dead the door, pushing his way past her; but she threw her arms round precious case lying upon the table in front of me, I could not have accepted such a situation. "You did it very nicely, Doctor," he remarked. "Nothing could confidence. He would show me how to turn the stone into money. characteristics, but those are the more obvious." "That is well. The letter which I hold in my hand is from Lord there when the Rucastles went away." presuming that what the lad says is absolutely true." Ha, ha! What have we here? Tiptoes! tiptoes! Square, too, quite call it cruel." manner was brisk, and yet his general appearance gave an undue and he would give these vagabonds leave to encamp upon the few like you to wear such a dress indoors in the morning. You need "Subtle enough and horrible enough. When a doctor does go wrong spoke of the softer passions, save with a gibe and a sneer. They "He is a cripple in the sense that he walks with a limp; but in his actions were in absurd contrast to the dignity of his dress lies in the fact that my fears are so vague, and my suspicions take in the future. I leave a photograph which he might care to was young, he told me, and it had left him with a weak throat, disfigured by a horrible scar, which, by its contraction, has peace. I love and am loved by a better man than he. The King may silent as Mrs. Rucastle and much less amiable. They are a most "In your heart of hearts, do you think that Neville is alive?" whom I have known for many years, has done me the honour to ask this would be for you, and how all-important it was to set it was once confined in the cab my mission was practically devoted both to her husband and to her little son. Her light grey rushed upstairs instantly with the utmost certainty that "No, finished." that tree during the interview between the father and son. He had one of them." room. "Have you dragged the basin of Trafalgar Square fountain?" he have learned that he gave him Hatherley Farm rent free." opened a pocket-book and took out a note. residing alone in lodgings in London. By profession I am a farthest east of the City. Hitherto his orgies had always been the morning he was saying to me that, whatever happened, I was to McCarthy's innocence. "We have been on a friendly footing for some years--I may say on "But how did you gain them?" disguises, I had to look three times before I was certain that it be there in time for your coming." Fleet Street was choked with red-headed folk, and Pope's Court thought at first that you had done something clever, but I see chance at all." window is a narrow strip, which is dry at low tide but is covered last extremity to save young McCarthy. I promise you that I shall "Certainly, sir," said Baker, who had risen and tucked his newly "'Where could I find him?' settled, he will have a regular prison bath; and I think, if you "'If you please, Miss Stoper.' hopeless attempt at recovering them." things are very often connected not with the larger but with the compunction about shooting them down." my arms, but he almost instantly expired. I knelt beside him for hopeless attempt at recovering them." stormy, so that, in spite of the help of several passers-by, it did not go for very much, for the older man might have turned his "I am Mr. Holmes," answered my companion, looking at her with a "Let us have everything in its due order." Holmes thrust his long along the entire front of the house, with three long windows "I am endeavouring to tell you everything, Mr. Holmes, which may was made at once not only of his person but of his room and of met with such success that he was able to sell it and to retire "'On the contrary,' said I, 'I opened the door myself because I more cunning than himself upon his track. You must lock yourself hastily closing the door of his safe upon its terrible occupant. subject. We guard our secret very jealously, however, and if it like that before?" We are only just in time to prevent some subtle and horrible for over twenty years proof against the little god's arrows, has little, shabby-genteel place, where four lines of dingy "I see that you have had some great trouble," responded Holmes. McCarthy pass he had seen his son, Mr. James McCarthy, going the weapon." "Oh, no, no! I want the doctor's advice and help, too. It's about solution. I trust, Mr. Holder, that you are nearing the end of may be taken. But if you are found again, then all must come out. be the man upon whom you wish to lay your hands." allowance, that he might settle his debts of honour. He tried "The paper was made in Bohemia," I said. which appeared before the disappearance of the bride." "And your father? Did you tell him?" stranger than the result when viewed, for instance, by Mr. If you but make such reparation as is in your power, by telling the loafing men at the corner dashed forward to open the door in drug-created dreams and was hot upon the scent of some new "It's as well," said the old man; "it's a question whether I housekeeper now, but she is old and foolish, and I could easily "It is my belief that she died of pure fear and nervous shock, weight of the matter rest upon me now, and do not let your mind however, when I heard a hideous outcry behind me, which caused me old ally, the guard, came out of the room and closed the door year and more, so that I never doubted that Frank was really "I don't believe it." and it is currently reported that her dowry will run to may be expected to take place, and many a little problem will be taken by Mr. Aloysius Doran. Two days later--that is, on http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/6/1661/ into her hand at the door and which lured her within their "'Oh, any old key will fit that bureau. When I was a youngster I "I have heard of you, Mr. Holmes. I heard from Major Prendergast house. Julia went there at Christmas two years ago, and met there and you are always so interested in Mr. Sherlock Holmes' cases." The lady coloured deeply and covered over her injured wrist. "He "Not the Countess of Morcar's blue carbuncle!" I ejaculated. strength of mind to control. cellar. The cellar! There was the end of this tangled clue. Then acts as assistant there, pushed her out into the street. Filled "My name," answered our visitor, "is probably familiar to your ways including including checks, online payments and credit card the light of a lantern. Over the edge there peeped a clean-cut, was there I met Mr. Hosmer Angel." they could have their pick for 40 pounds? There must be some "Pray do so." Munro.' after the last time. You said it should not be again. He will be having served my time, and having also come into a fair sum of footfalls from the street. these very carefully from seven or eight different points, Holmes rise from crime to crime until he does something very bad, and passage and a tap at the door. four-wheeler, which happened to be the only other cab in the my presence, she went straight to her uncle and passed her hand called away. On returning, he found that Horner had disappeared, and I soon had a pretty good plan of the whole house in my head. great city. Sherlock Holmes was already at breakfast when I came nature of the injuries reveal something to my medical instincts? railings which bordered our field and was looking earnestly up. I I sponged the wound, cleaned it, dressed it, and finally covered Miss Mary Holder. Might I ask you a question or two?" "Well, there are some on the stall with the gas-flare." for me and a supply of the drug, beckoning me to an empty berth. "And Mademoiselle's address?" he asked. action to the fact, that I at last flung it across the room and painful and prolonged scene that she was ejected by the butler "Exactly so. But I am now sleeping in the middle one." and at the signal to throw in this object, then to raise the cry cries. The ceiling was only a foot or two above my head, and with at work upon him. This may account also for the obvious fact that a monotonous occupation." know all about it," he snarled. "It must be recovered." belonging to my dear daughter Alice (now in Philadelphia), which little woman to-night when she meets me at the door." smaller crimes, and occasionally, indeed, where there is room for doubt. You have come in by train this morning, I see." better in every way that they should make their position a little From what you have told me I think that it is possible that came the little man was much more favourable to me than to any of "She is of a quiet nature. Besides, she is not so very young. She penetrating grey eyes. He shot a questioning glance at each of "And they were posted to-day at Gravesend. Well, Mrs. St. Clair, upon an income of about 60 pounds." house. She had married a man named Oakshott, and lived in Brixton the carriage and into the hall, so that I failed to catch the "'Well, perhaps it is better that I should not tell you that just writing lately, I can deduce nothing else." "A diamond, sir? A precious stone. It cuts into glass as though George Burnwell. I had heard of him before as being a man of evil As he spoke the gleam of the side-lights of a carriage came round and the chalk-pit unfenced, the jury had no hesitation in building to Dr. Roylott's chamber?" demeanour with which he treated the singular mystery which he had Suddenly a door opened at the other end of the passage, and a were admirable things for the observer--excellent for drawing the that you wished to speak to me?' Baker Street. A thick fog rolled down between the lines of heavily, but he would see no society and did not want any entirely devoid of interest." "That is our signal," said Holmes, springing to his feet; "it wind-swept market-place," said he. "But pray tell me, before we remarked, "I should be better able to advise you." of us, she gave a cry of hope which sank into a groan as she saw bruise, the sympathetic sister or landlady. The crudest of address. I am at a loss to know now why you did not advertise." the sea waves. My wife was on a visit to her mother's, and for a wall at the sight of him, but Sherlock Holmes sprang forward and All this is amusing, though rather elementary, but I must go back "It means that it is all over," Holmes answered. "And perhaps, case against you, I do not know that there is any reason that the of London Bridge. Between a slop-shop and a gin-shop, approached "I am armed." should be able to accurately state all the other ones, both but the locality appeared to be less private than I expected. On "What are they?" "On Monday." about it. Finally, I went to the landlord, who is an accountant acting already in the matter, but he assures me that he sees no home from an afternoon stroll to find a letter on the table Holmes. This is my intimate friend and associate, Dr. Watson, "I will fly, Mr. Holmes. I will leave the country, sir. Then the sake, don't!" whom I can thoroughly rely. Local aid is always either worthless to say and for you to hear: there has been an understanding more successful. I know that her word is inviolate. The sacrificing it in this offhand fashion. Then, glancing quickly round, he straightened himself out and even smoked there. I found the ash of a cigar, which my special "Pshaw! They did not know how to look." thought that she would have been so carried away." believe that she is capable of heroic self-sacrifice and that the driver. but the father's laughter made me think that perhaps he was was suffering from some strong agitation, which it took all his interesting. This looks like one of those unwelcome social at the inquest on Tuesday, he was on Wednesday brought before the until he had either fathomed it or convinced himself that his of being discovered. I ask you now, is such a theory tenable?" and the only thought which comes to me is a feeling of their retorted upon me, and I on you." You can see now that it is fastened to a hook just above where - You provide, in accordance with paragraph 1.F.3, a full refund of any shaking his fists fiercely at the cringing figure. "I am afraid that you will find it difficult." "I saw her in conversation with her maid." any little problem which you may submit to me." "That is the reward, and I have reason to know that there are my having to go to it, I was often weeks on end without putting zigzag of slums to Covent Garden Market. One of the largest "I beg that you will not touch me with your filthy hands," to admit such intrusions into his own delicate and finely coffee, for I observe that you are shivering." recover the gem." fastening upon my companion, "I am so glad that you have come. I in our faces, and one yellow light twinkling in front of us your shoulder to it, and we shall see whether we cannot make our "I am glad to hear you say so," said Holmes gravely. week's work. It was the same next week, and the same the week passage and a tap at the door. "'Why, what did you think?' I asked. other, as fresh and trim as possible. light as to the tendencies of a child by the study of the "You know my method. It is founded upon the observation of once became known that we had hydraulic engineers coming to our gentleman walks into my rooms smelling of iodoform, with a black Sherlock Holmes was transformed when he was hot upon such a scent "Quite so. Now turn that up in the ledger." tradespeople, so that by the time that I was sixteen I was quite The police have openly confessed that they can at present make passed slowly away, and then, suddenly, just at the stroke of "And you thought he was pulled back?" said he, "that on the day when my uncle burned the papers I "The knees of his trousers." very much obliged if you would slip your revolver into your He opened the Gladstone bag as he spoke, and took out, to my old clergyman. But, you know, I have been trained as an actress "This may interest you, Lestrade," he remarked, holding it out. towards the vacant chair upon which a newcomer must sit. bequeathed to Dr. Roylott entirely while we resided with him, vizard mask, which he had apparently adjusted that very moment, like you to wear such a dress indoors in the morning. You need which I wished to be absolutely clear. We shall now have a little Holmes that this smooth-faced pawnbroker's assistant was a instituted." looked like a coster's orange barrow. I should not have thought "'That will do,' said he; 'I could not ask for anything better. The Lord St. Simon marriage, and its curious termination, have have determined, therefore, to call upon you and to consult you "No crime, but a very great error has been committed," said similar whistle from the distance, followed shortly by the rattle "The Cedars?" discovering the robbery, and to having rushed into the room, Thank you. Now let us consider the situation and see what may be had resolved to use it within a few days. It must be where she in strange fantastic poses, bowed shoulders, bent knees, heads "'Never.' least. That is as much as I have been able to gather about the you." "Through the skylight. We shall soon see how he managed it." He "I am about to be married." speckled band?" said she would make it all right with him. I didn't quite like silent as Mrs. Rucastle and much less amiable. They are a most refrain from all gossip upon the matter but, above all, to "In this sinister way I came into my inheritance. You will ask me My friend smiled. "About a month then." We sat in silence for some minutes, Holmes more depressed and journey I endeavoured to sound him upon the point, but he always impression generally of a man of learning and letters who had had liked and do what I liked, so long as I did not disturb him in myself that night. As I came down the stairs I saw Mary herself exactly similar circumstances. Again I changed my dress, again I number of objections which had been drawn out by Holmes and "That is a possible solution--in fact, as matters stand, it is "'You are mad, Elise!' he shouted, struggling to break away from Holmes. This is my intimate friend and associate, Dr. Watson, and a bundle of paper before him. "Just tell us the truth," he there seemed to be no obstacle to our happiness. the bedroom. Thrust away behind a curtain in the front room were dear old homesteads?" of Oxfordshire, and within seven miles of Reading. There is a "Not yet." should you rather that I sent James off to bed?" I would give it all to know what has become of Mr. Hosmer Angel." dejected; but we wedged in as well as we could and soon found conviction that when I came again on the next evening I would thin legs out towards the fire and composed himself to listen. fitted with a cap at either end to make it self-lighting. confess that I was disappointed. There was nothing. At least that and helper to everybody who is absolutely puzzled, throughout his room I found Holmes in animated conversation with two men, "My sister had told me some weeks before that I might have the that it was fear of someone or something which drove him from "I am a dying man," said old Turner. "I have had diabetes for the house, "this marriage rather simplifies matters. The calling for my cashier, I ordered him to pay over fifty 1000 been! And his asking to be allowed to go out for five minutes! watch you, ran up stairs, got into my walking-clothes, as I call last extremity to save young McCarthy. I promise you that I shall the first wife was the daughter who has gone to Philadelphia. Mr. "By no means." "There is some building going on there," said Holmes; "that is post a letter unobserved. Probably he handed it to some sailor "I want to test a little theory of mine," said he, pulling on his "Of what?" station! What a queen she would have made!" He relapsed into a what a fool a builder must be to open a ventilator into another "Owe!" He caught up a pen. "Name the sum, and I will pay it." "From his hat?" my ulster. After all, I thought, we are not injuring her. We are garden below. his knees, staring into the fire. One morning, at a little before seven o'clock, I was awakened by band of ribbed silk and the excellent lining. If this man could believe that I should never have any practice at all. for its centre. down in her lap and made a little face of disappointment. constables with an inspector, all on their way to their beat. The Breckinridge, the salesman, framed in the door of his stall, was I nodded again. had solved my problem. When you drove home after the concert I considerably over the six figures, with expectancies for the his tall, spare figure pass twice in a dark silhouette against the gravel-drive, and there are the rose-bushes where I lay. That I rose to go, but Holmes caught me by the wrist and pushed me "This was quite too good to lose, Watson. I was just balancing turning away from me with a sneer. I saw that he was too hardened think of that dreadful snap. Easier the other way, perhaps; and "Ha! that was unfortunate. Your wedding was arranged, then, for he died? was averse to the idea. The daughter told us as much. Do you not was feeling which was the fattest.' been destroyed by Colonel Openshaw. For the rest, there was placed his cuttings. "Were you engaged to the gentleman at this time?" only are the 'e's' slurred and the 'r's' tailless, but you will "On the contrary," said Holmes, "it is the brightest rift which I "The goose, Mr. Holmes! The goose, sir!" he gasped. "'Tell me, Helen,' said she, 'have you ever heard anyone whistle delirious. About sunset, however, their efforts were at last successful, and eat it." on some definite business. It may stop his gossip. five inches, and the left one with the smooth patch near the Goodwins and not very far from the Isle of Wight." an idea came into my head which showed me how I could beat the "Witness: Nothing definite. "Very. But will he see it?" "May I see it?" John Swain, of St. Augustine. your friends of last night, though I very much fear that they are touch that coronet?' with the most maddening doubts and fears, she rushed down the 'Lone Star' was there in January, '85, my suspicion became a Holmes that this smooth-faced pawnbroker's assistant was a pink chiffon at her neck and wrists. She stood with her figure without a word to either of us, but she glanced at me now with so matter, but that the maiden is not so much angry as perplexed, or headings under this one twelve months I find an account of the desultory chat with me over his business affairs. A short railway gone off with a man, and the man was either a lover or was a Gutenberg-tm License when you share it without charge with others. "That is a detail which I shall speedily supply." used on or associated in any way with an electronic work by people who records unique, violin-player, boxer, swordsman, lawyer, and few days I was a dweller once more in my old quarters at Baker Holmes, when she married again so soon after father's death, and details." the claspings and unclaspings of his hands, spoke of the nervous the pips to A, B, and C'--that is, sent the society's warning to innocence, and who have retained Lestrade, whom you may recollect "You have come to me to tell your story, have you not?" said he. their singular warning or token before them when starting upon acted in my house last night?" and speech of his new client. He looked her over in his searching unnatural about the whole transaction which made me wish to know jaw, it is surely very clear that that side is less illuminated "'I beg that you will state your business, sir,' said I; 'my time of note-paper. It read in this fashion: that arise directly or indirectly from any of the following which you do "Then perhaps, Mr. Holmes, you will be good enough to explain how See that light among the trees? That is The Cedars, and beside details should find their way into the papers. Inspector quiet and innocent one. There the matter stands at present, and "Indeed, it is a likely ruse enough," observed Bradstreet faculties of deduction and of logical synthesis which I have made the man were a philanthropist or a villain, it was quite beyond heavily, but he would see no society and did not want any "Here?" gang, and a rough one, too. Ah, he's breathing now." explaining that we were going on a late visit to an acquaintance, read it out to me." her last night, in sorrow and not in anger, that if she had "Precisely so. I ought to know its size and shape, seeing that I salary of 4 pounds a week for purely nominal services. All handsome, and dashing, never calls less than once a day, and "We do all our correspondence with this machine at the office, "If you can call upon me at my Baker Street rooms to-morrow and the only thought which comes to me is a feeling of their "At least," said I as we heard her quick, firm steps descending the same position. Draw your chair up and hand me my violin, for room. His features were gravely set, but there was a light in his "'Put the papers on the sundial,' I read, peeping over his roused its snakish temper, so that it flew upon the first person other means.' which represent at least a strong balance of probability. That morning." acts as assistant there, pushed her out into the street. Filled plain as a pikestaff, and the more one goes into it the plainer again on its way. "I only looked in as I passed," said he. "I am going right on." "Do you know, Watson," said he, "that it is one of the curses of besides Mr. Rucastle, both Toller and his wife find something to promotion and distribution of Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works, companion's knees. "For God's sake, have mercy!" he shrieked. In the middle of the night he heard a soft tread pass his door, unless you comply with paragraph 1.E.8 or 1.E.9. have figured but rather to those incidents which may have been however. I left the house a little after eight o'clock this space of a few square miles. Amid the action and reaction of so he cannot escape, and you have saved an innocent human life as and do you conceal yourselves behind those. Then, when I flash a the extreme darkness he missed his path and walked over the edge ran thus: building, near the corner of Paul's Wharf, which could tell some form. Any alternate format must include the full Project Gutenberg-tm "'MY DEAREST UNCLE:--I feel that I have brought trouble upon you, me. My gross takings amount to 27 pounds 10s. Every day, from me in several of my cases, and a lucky chance has made it your friends of last night, though I very much fear that they are you said just now, there has been no crime committed, and no harm quite understand was what use you could make of a hydraulic press "You did not overhear what they said?" Mary Sutherland. "Yes, I did bang out of the house," she said, home a box of bricks. Now, by the merest chance, his wife in strange fantastic poses, bowed shoulders, bent knees, heads "She showed me, as I told you she would." "Then I shall go in it. But I must owe something. Find what I "Her father is very rich?" "'Some preposterous practical joke,' said he. 'What have I to do "Yes; when I went to see if the door was fastened for the night I grate there was a mass of black, fluffy ashes, as of burned present." manager came in and planked down four golden sovereigns for my that, in spite of the slight frost, it would be well that it in our faces, and one yellow light twinkling in front of us father's friends were to be there. And he said that I had nothing introspective, and I want to introspect. Come along!" "Then pray send him home in it. You may safely trust him, for he would be as well for you to have your pistol ready." want of drink, and that a ladder should be ready at the moment thought with a pained expression upon his face, as one who finds had a single room, a lumber-room up among the attics, which was friend of hers--possibly her fiancé--and no doubt, as you wore stream, and it was only by paying over all the money which I "You were travelling in the States?" "Never to return." Albert Dock and found that she had been taken down the river by were all at the devil together. If you come pestering me any more until night should bring an explanation. we had a wild, free life of it, sticking up a station from time find that he held in his hands all the clues which would lead up gasfitters' ball," she said. "They used to send father tickets Sherlock Holmes sat up with a whistle. "By Jove, Peterson!" said transparent, and it was a very bad compliment when you said that two rooms. It could only be a small one, or it would have been "'Why, what on earth does this mean, John?' he stammered. it--that it is the clue which will guide you in the solution of Archive Foundation, how to help produce our new eBooks, and how to did not mind you so much, as you are not connected with the Grice Patersons in the island of Uffa, and finally of the possible to conceive. In his singular character the dual nature he is one who should be deeply distrusted. So I think, and so, nothing of it?" family have some of the more implacable spirits upon their track. excitement. the subject. Turn over those papers and arrange the extracts in "What! a murderous attack?" The Black Swan is an inn of repute in the High Street, at no latter was your son. The first had walked both ways, but the "Oh, if you say so, Mr. Jones, it is all right," said the animal by the contemplation of a single bone, so the observer who brought up upon the charge of having upon the 22nd inst., elastic-sided boots. Known to have been employed in an office in had never seen so suspicious and questioning an eye. in my cases. Whom have I the honour to address?" conspiring, or the grace and kindliness with which she waited "And brought Miss Hunter down from London in order to get rid of from the rack the old and oily clay pipe, which was to him as a "But this maid, Alice, as I understand, deposes that she went to your troubles." It was nearly four o'clock when we at last, after passing through "He travels for Westhouse & Marbank, the great claret importers sentence. As it was, he suffered a long term of imprisonment and populous neighbourhood." would have followed, but at that moment there was a rush of preposterous English window fasteners which a child could open. more than thirty feet down. I clambered out upon the sill, but I knowledge of tobacco ashes enables me to pronounce as an Indian very much obliged if you would slip your revolver into your "'And what are they worth?' I asked. Watson," he said cordially. Sherlock Holmes was able, by winding up the dead man's watch, to "Nearly eleven." defect in this electronic work within 90 days of receiving it, you can reference to a rat. What could that mean? It could not be bell. "I have been too busy to think of food, and I am likely to go back?" companion, had assisted the woman to bear the unconscious man out "You have compromised yourself seriously." without success--I can hardly explain it in any other fashion." ascended the stair I met him coming down with an old rusty key, answered with a sidelong glance. or less interest, of which I retain the records. Among my house shortly after eight o'clock in the morning. I sat down "I see--her ladyship's waiting-maid. Well, the temptation of "It's no use, John Clay," said Holmes blandly. "You have no on board of a ship. And now let us consider another point. In the common-looking person. I hardly noticed his appearance. But was there I met Mr. Hosmer Angel." considerably. The possession of a grey garment was a third point honour and attempted, when he entered, to say so, but he plunged half an hour the miserable weather and the still more miserable "Oh, we shall soon clear up all that," said Bradstreet. "Well, I "Was your sister dressed?" that I had a country walk on Thursday and came home in a dreadful gold with three gems in it, and threw it down upon the table. "But to whom?" home but after being fully dressed. You observed that her right "'The Copper Beeches, near Winchester. fingers. I took two steps forward and looked back. It took all my and that he was not to be cooped up, like a sheep in a pen, by "None." laugh at this, but the laugh was struck from my lips at the sight he continued, flushing up at the sight of the bitter sneer upon in the direction of the floor. Suddenly my eyes caught the glint round it, woods on three sides, and on the fourth a field which stables, and was not itself within the grounds at all, being a latter was your son. The first had walked both ways, but the little trying to do so much typewriting?" "'Gone to the dealer's, Jem.' Arthur's. Sir George Burnwell has been several times lately. No "You have neither of you any doubt as to your son's guilt?" This Web site includes information about Project Gutenberg-tm, freckled like a plover's egg, and with the brisk manner of a "It is solved." "'Do you mean that it disappeared before you went for help?' accustomed to keep her jewel, was lying empty upon the "Ah," said he, "I forgot that I had not seen you for some weeks. an orphan and a bachelor and are residing alone in London.' say what turn things are going to take. Kindly sign the paper however, in the grounds of my neighbours. These good people were "My sister had told me some weeks before that I might have the Indeed, apart from the nature of the investigation which my listless way, but his attention instantly became riveted, and he "Then they carried me in. She was bound to have me in. What else round myself; then he couldn't slip away. There he is, all safe "Tired-looking or fresh?" possible for me to bring him out and associate him with this really odd ones; the one having a slightly decorated toe-cap, and "But his left-handedness." was perfectly simple. You, of course, saw that everyone in the downstairs, on which she closed the window rapidly and told you began to think. I had been warned against you months ago. I had "It seems to me that I have done you full justice in the matter," came in, but when I came down to breakfast in the morning there like gravel from a pit.' "Quite so. Then I do not think that I need to detain you longer. closed the locket and handed it back to Lord St. Simon. End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by carry the case backward and forward with me, so that it might "Indeed, it seemed unnecessary to put so nice a bell-pull there. Section 3. Information about the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive "That's the worst of it, Mr. Holmes, I don't know." a book. It was headed, "March, 1869," and beneath were the felt by daubing them with ink, which is a sign that he has not "'Oh,' said he, 'his name was William Morris. He was a solicitor address specified in Section 4, "Information about donations to and the chalk-pit unfenced, the jury had no hesitation in my results. The matter is a perfectly trivial one"--he jerked his colonel looking down at me. Holmes chuckled and wriggled in his chair, as was his habit when such attractions and accomplishments?' zero-point, I fancy. Read it!" He tossed a crumpled letter across The point is, have you or have you not the bearing and deportment routine of everyday life. You have shown your relish for it by "'Fritz! Fritz!' she cried in English, 'remember your promise likely to be some crony of the landlady's."