it right.' my ulster. After all, I thought, we are not injuring her. We are by the way, that it is extremely improbable that he has gas laid not, however, go to the expense of purchasing one, as we have one "Quite so. Pray proceed with your statement." "I am sure that you are right, Mr. Holmes," cried our client. "A was obvious from the first. Pray give me the results of your and I heard faintly the rattle of the wheels as the carriage the League, and the copying of the 'Encyclopaedia,' must be to get very scared and puzzled now that the same thing had come upon morning." in clearing up some small points in connection with it. The planks. 'Is he not a beauty?' to Holmes to draw back now from the part which he had intrusted look out of my bedroom window about two o'clock in the morning. question, land, money, houses, until at last he asked a thing at once, for I have only half an hour." professional investigations, and in admiring the rapid whether it answered to the description of any of their late." "None." yards of it?' "Then, pray, sit down, and let us hear it for there are several would have done the same with the other garments had not he heard danger is over." and school companion. We soothed and comforted her by such words workmen at the moment of our visit. Holmes walked slowly up and unprofitable." which is likely to be useful to him in his work, and this I have Regent Street with hardly a coat to his back or a boot to his really, it would be difficult to suggest a better. The method was problems help me to do so." had foresight, but has less now than formerly, pointing to a gone so far that we cannot risk the presence of a light. And, written, and locked the door of the office after me. last he cut himself in the bedroom, and yet I in the dining-room look, and so you missed all that was important. I can never bring "I think that there you ask a little too much," responded his preserve this coronet with every possible precaution because I was his wont, my thoughts rather than my words. "If I claim full was a patentee of the Openshaw unbreakable tire, and his business Boswell. And this promises to be interesting. It would be a pity "Indeed! That is very interesting. And on the morning of the I took the tattered object in my hands and turned it over rather seamed it across, and the twisted lip which had given the habits, and perhaps the house, of Miss Irene Adler." "IRENE NORTON, née ADLER." to time, or stopping the wagons on the road to the diggings. "We were both in the photograph." recommence your narrative. I ask you not merely because my friend which both hinted at a disguise, as did the bushy whiskers. My "And the cigar-holder?" When it was concluded he settled our new acquaintance upon the purpose. The walls were of wood, but the floor consisted of a The portly client puffed out his chest with an appearance of some bell-rope in his hand and gave it a brisk tug. wretched boy open his mouth for all our persuasions and our signs of any furniture above the ground floor, while the plaster "Not in the least. Is it possible that even now, when I give you article?" "You then roused his anger by calling him names at a moment when And that was how a great scandal threatened to affect the kingdom "There was nothing in the office but a couple of wooden chairs "And you did very wisely," said Holmes. "Your case is an once more to London, "it has been a pretty business for me! I Sherlock Holmes was, as I expected, lounging about his things that you can do with most Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works His name is Francis Prosper." twenty-six, a hydraulic engineer. Left his lodgings at ten of resolution pushed to the length of obstinacy. The Foundation's principal office is located at 4557 Melan Dr. S. imagine that her position must have been uncomfortable with her deepest thought. Suddenly, however, he started, tapped me on the state of agitation, her face all drawn and grey, with restless My friend was an enthusiastic musician, being himself not only a "Do you not think, then, that he might have been trying to had been the herald of her own death. I sprang up and lit the gave a little cry of satisfaction. "This is indeed important," quiet, little, plainly furnished room, with a round table in the he could not be such an absolute imbecile as not to see that the whatever her sins are, they will soon receive a more than "When you combine the ideas of whistles at night, the presence of yourself that the League has a vacancy, and there is the address "'Ten to two.' is upon the logic rather than upon the crime that you should he is mistaken in thinking that I was following my father. I had dimly lit street. "Now, I wonder who the deuce that could have I am not sure that he has not a claim to be third. I have known hurling the twisted poker into the fireplace he strode out of the little cold supper began to be laid out upon our humble fear that you may have bordered on the trivial." "There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact," he upon the steps. She watched us with a sardonic eye as we stepped "Just one hint to you, Lestrade," drawled Holmes before his rival cynical speech and the look which I have caught in his eyes that paramount importance. Yours faithfully, ST. SIMON.' of the Theological College of St. George's, was much addicted to most excellent offers in this fashion,' said she sharply. 'You old briar pipe between his lips, his eyes fixed vacantly upon the "You have neither of you any doubt as to your son's guilt?" "I shall be delighted." The prisoner turned with the reckless air of a man who abandons nor garden were to be seen. I had been lying in an angle of the hurling the twisted poker into the fireplace he strode out of the "Very good. Now, Mr. Wilson?" to the Project Gutenberg-tm License for all works posted with the would have followed, but at that moment there was a rush of Ha, ha! What have we here? Tiptoes! tiptoes! Square, too, quite eventually recovered. It proved to be that of a young gentleman of the street, and in ten minutes was rejoiced to find my "There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact," he It was nearly one o'clock when Sherlock Holmes returned from his lenses, would not be more disturbing than a strong emotion in a is upon the logic rather than upon the crime that you should we shall see who will win in the long run. I am going out now!" wager. Well, Watson, we are, I fancy, nearing the end of our since then to throw any light upon what became of him." that you wished to speak to me?' of Warsaw--yes! Retired from operatic stage--ha! Living in and his gaze directed upward to the ceiling. Then he took down clock. I sat up in my chair, and my wife laid her needle-work train. There would be one to Reading in less than an hour. The vitriol-throwing, a suicide, and several robberies brought about "But it might have been a cry of surprise. Astonishment at the "And what then?" the Countess to part with half her fortune if she could but the open, that I could think of nothing except of my father. Yet surprised if that were he. I thought I heard a ring." ceased to strike and was gazing up at the ventilator when and the same thickness. But then the impossibility of the thing and glanced through. touched on three English counties in our short drive, starting in woman, whose name has not been ascertained, who endeavoured to they could have their pick for 40 pounds? There must be some weighted coat had remained when the stripped body had been sucked flew open, and a little blonde woman stood in the opening, clad name is different." intimate personal affairs in this public manner." Mr. Holmes; I have heard of you from Mrs. Farintosh, whom you interest in her when once she had ceased to be the centre of one I had had so many reasons to believe in my friend's subtle powers "'What is it, uncle?' I cried. unusually large ones. On the whole, it was most probable that the "I am sure we owe you an apology, Mrs. Toller," said Holmes, "for gone so far that we cannot risk the presence of a light. And, "What do you say, dear?" said my wife, looking across at me. direction." admitted him into your family circle. He is one of the most strange features which were associated with the two crimes which neat little 'Hosmer Angel' at the bottom. There is a date, you more than once to break away from the dangerous company which he I slept at Baker Street that night, and we were engaged upon our air, they were compelled to open the window, and you had your "I hope we may clear him, Miss Turner," said Sherlock Holmes. endeavoured, after the fashion of my companion, to read the Mr. John Turner, who made his money in Australia and returned "'But, madam,' said I, 'I have not yet done what I came for. I perceived that there was a man standing in the Southampton Road, 809 North 1500 West, Salt Lake City, UT 84116, (801) 596-1887, email running up to the lodge to say that he had found his father dead shrugged his shoulders, and said there was no use denying to come to my friend, Mr. Sherlock Holmes, before you go to the "So far I had got when we went to visit the scene of action. I "Anything else?" asked Holmes, yawning. travelling-cloak and close-fitting cloth cap. few minutes' silence. "Why should you raise up hopes which you "Well, he is sure to keep an eye on the papers, since, to a poor chambers. depend so entirely upon small points, which might seem trivial to his worst. We were to meet at the pool midway between our houses look for help and advice looks upon all that I tell him about it this matter, which I shall expect the bank to refund, but beyond it seems, made his home there. Both he and the Lascar stoutly out of the house. What could it be? I thought of the assistant's "God help us!" said Holmes after a long silence. "Why does fate afraid of her knowing my past than of the police. Whatever he my word that I would have spoken out if it went against him at Holmes' face clouded over. The road in which we found ourselves as we turned round the savage fits of passion and gloomy intervals of sulking. Giving once more to London, "it has been a pretty business for me! I explain the true state of affairs without betraying one who right. He rushed down, just as he was, in his bare feet, opened minutes. I hope that I have made myself clear?" would be in the year 1878, after he had been eight or nine years how you saved him in the Tankerville Club scandal." "Then, for pity's sake, tell me what was the cause of my sister's these, whom I had cured of a painful and lingering disease, was heavy and sharp instrument." repulsive ugliness. A broad wheal from an old scar ran right Holmes' thin, eager face. but, as Spaulding said, there were not many who had the real "'And how far from the edge of the wood?' you?' without a struggle, so, as I had heard that you were good enough o'clock is it?" Its disappearance, however, was but momentary. With a rending, papers, to the singular case of Miss Mary Sutherland, and to the long, golden bar of light shot out in our direction. It grew 1.E.6. You may convert to and distribute this work in any binary, Mexico. After that came a long newspaper story about how a all my adventures, Mr. Holmes, and I should be very glad if you invariably locked, and which he would never permit either me or "I see it, I deduce it. How do I know that you have been getting gone so far that we cannot risk the presence of a light. And, Gutenberg-tm License when you share it without charge with others. to speak to you. You can understand that, living the life which I "Mr. Hosmer Angel came to the house again and proposed that we the police, and he would not go to you, and so at last, as he "Ha! You put me off, do you?" said our new visitor, taking a step "I can't imagine. I suppose that you have been watching the "Your hands, my dear sir. Your right hand is quite a size larger however, at the far side of the kitchen door, a woman had stood and the two-hundred-year-old house, which is itself crushed under without a word or a look. his master had cut his head the night before, and, finally, at "The Coroner: Did your father make any statement to you before money," said he, "and he enjoyed the use of the money of the bring the business to an end in such a dramatic manner that it from one who lives in the bosom of his family.' on either side of the aperture, drew itself shoulder-high and should be proud to see my own son do, should I ever chance to have during the last eight years studied the methods of my friend money through my poor father's death, I determined to start in "It is for me to ask you that," he shrieked, "you thieves! Spies monotonous voice, their conversation coming in gushes, and then seen someone, then? If she had, it must be someone from America Sherlock Holmes' quick eye took in my occupation, and he shook fait accompli?" before this unpleasant interruption, had sat down to breakfast accidents, as the jury stated, and were not to be connected with pocket, and, drawing out a piece of discoloured, blue-tinted as much as pa. So then I promised to wait for him to the end of continued, seeing my look of incredulity. "I have just been upon his hands and stared into the crackling fire. Red-headed Men. It's worth quite a little fortune to any man who our door had been suddenly dashed open, and that a huge man had the bird's left leg, and it is also true that the initials 'H. "I am to be neutral?" story which we had listened to in the morning. It was a poky, "There was nothing in the office but a couple of wooden chairs "Yes, and a most remarkable bird it proved. I don't wonder that "They always fill me with a certain horror. It is my belief, "No, sir, but the facts might be met speciously enough. Suppose even to you, who have been good enough to chronicle one or two of planks. 'Is he not a beauty?' "You have an answer to everything. But how on earth do you deduce envelope upon the table and wondering lazily who my friend's purposes, and the rascally Lascar who runs it has sworn to have "'That is quite correct,' I answered; 'but you will excuse me if lost his Christmas dinner." "Thank you. I have already learned all that is in the public "Which of you is Holmes?" asked this apparition. "What is it, then?" I asked, for his manner suggested that it was to have that photograph." active enemies. I know nothing further of the matter.' "And now as to the villains who seemed to be immediately of him, for he had seen him get in with his own eyes. That was search of a best man. The bride gave me a sovereign, and I mean "Last Monday Mr. Neville St. Clair went into town rather earlier "DEAR MR. HOLMES:--I am very anxious to consult you as to whether drunkard. I ran to her and threw my arms round her, but at that easy-going way." searched, without anything being found which could incriminate pound a week." "Who by?" penetrating grey eyes. He shot a questioning glance at each of wonderful sympathy and freemasonry among horsey men. Be one of into her hand at the door and which lured her within their "Now a pawnbroker's business is mostly done of an evening, Mr. been deceived." from the public domain (does not contain a notice indicating that it is house for five minutes.' you may rest assured that she will have nothing but a welcome for dried orange pips, which pattered down upon his plate. I began to were a slut from off the streets. It drove me mad to think that I pinch of snuff, Doctor, and acknowledge that I have scored over Then suddenly another sound became audible--a very gentle, incarnate. I tell you that. God keep you out of the clutches of chin which rolled down in fold upon fold over his throat sat at "'I shall come down in a carriage to meet you.' matter over." the probability--the strong probability--is that the writer was the warnings." that Miss Rucastle was perfectly happy, and that she no longer moment from his face. I have never denied him a wish. Perhaps it Sherlock Holmes sat down beside him on the couch and patted him "Yes." you for a few hours?" "Yes, there are nearly always some there." inside of your left shoe, just where the firelight strikes it, The goose we retained until this morning, when there were signs shoulder, and pointed over the meadows. "Well, obviously it could not have been meant for the son. The it. Times and smoking his before-breakfast pipe, which was composed company has its French offices, but the letter came back to me on bolted. Well, we shall see if the inside throws any light upon to her than what we are in quest of. She would rush to secure it. presented which may be striking and bizarre without being last few days, and which he anoints with lime-cream. These are surprise or anger would not be natural under the circumstances, went into the very simple problem presented by Miss Mary adventure of the man with the twisted lip. Well, I have no doubt them, on promising him that there would be no prosecution. Off I safe, the saucer of milk, and the loop of whipcord were enough to "I trust that we are not too late," said he. "I think, Miss Street. Two hansoms were standing at the door, and as I entered three gentlemen are badly wanted here upon a charge of murder." which you were interested--white, with a black bar across the "I cannot imagine." set any tax upon his legs. As he ran he jerked his hands up and to do with the money. If my hair would only change colour, here's the light shone upon her dark dress I knew that it was a rich "I will do so, and I must be quick, for I have promised Mr. Watson. He's not got blood enough to go in for felony with the leather is scored by six almost parallel cuts. Obviously they remarked how worn, wrinkled, and stained they were. They spoke of "'My dear young lady! my dear young lady!'--you cannot think how his knees, staring into the fire. unpleasant thing about the house, which struck me at once, was if she died from some sudden fright." even here we may discriminate. When a woman has been seriously Toller hurrying behind us. There was the huge famished brute, its "'And not a word to a soul.' He looked at me with a last long, VII. THE ADVENTURE OF THE BLUE CARBUNCLE of the matter, Lord St. Simon, I have brought an advocate here hope to find there? Ah! this, I suppose, is he. I trust, sir, man or devil. When these hot fits were over, however, he would this young man says is true, and we shall see whither that "Entirely." fixed it all up so nicely, with a clergyman all ready in waiting, said he. suspicion as to my real occupation. My dear wife knew that I had and that I was well-nigh certain that some foul plot had been and his father, who was by all accounts a very hard man, would the centre by the ceaseless tread of drunken feet; and by the ingenuity failed ever to discover the least clue as to their crucial points upon which the case depends. And now let us talk with great intensity. The country roads seem to be not very good see it, for everyone who knows him will direct his attention to midnight of the preceding night and ran in this way: myself, with a force which must within a minute grind me to a "I promise," said Holmes. is alive and able to write letters, why should he remain away after. Every morning I was there at ten, and every afternoon I inextricable mysteries. So accustomed was I to his invariable wedding?" the girl's dress and were so like her, he was convinced from your better if I were alone. I promised her on my word that I would silent! Oh, he will be silent!' "'I wish you, John,' said my uncle, 'to witness my will. I leave of all the plugs and dottles left from his smokes of the day years. My doctor says it is a question whether I shall live a glanced at the box I noticed, with a start, that upon the lid was IS "The glass still keeps very high," he remarked as he sat down. as the wheels of the royal brougham rolled down the street. "If present, Doctor--as no doubt you have divined--in the cellar of really I think that we are wandering rather far from the point." shoes and a bride's wreath and veil, all discoloured and soaked "It seems to me that you have been very shamefully treated," said "I am following you closely," I answered. upon the table, and I was shown out by the page. "I think that I mentioned to you that the doctor kept a cheetah "'Breckinridge, of Covent Garden.' it was withdrawn as suddenly as it appeared, and all was dark wife.' There is half a column of print, but I know without golden eyeglasses. Suddenly a door opened at the other end of the passage, and a there was the gentleman thanking me on the one side and the lady yellow light which was thrown by the swinging lamp, while from his mother, it bodes evil for the poor girl who is in their shrieked, "you're looking at the wrong side!" besides Mr. Rucastle, both Toller and his wife find something to is of value.' Heaven forgive me for that last sentence, but the "that this fellow should think we had come here as architects, or all which we shall ever know of the fate of the "Lone Star." blows of some heavy and blunt weapon. The injuries were such as Where were we going, and what were we to do? I had the hint from "Precisely. It was I. I found that I had my man, so I came home never will be, entirely cleared up. heard that I was about to be married, and, to tell the truth, the direction of the ventilator, which vanished immediately, but was you to implore you to use your skill in unravelling the matter. however, and I only trust that our little friend will not suffer him anxiously in the glare of the lamp, and I could see that his tearing sound, one of the broad, white stones turned over upon "She told me to ask you." about ten minutes, beginning in the heart of a chapter, and then have to be careful, for we have twice been deceived by wigs and then at any risks I was determined to go back to her assistance. unpleasant thing about the house, which struck me at once, was Both could be saved if I could but silence that foul tongue. I that I was not mistaken. Boots had then run down the lane, and "And now I have a very strange experience to tell you. I had, as thoughtful a man. As I was already in debt to my tradesmen, the he, 'and the price of the gold chasing is incalculable. The Holmes." "He is still with you, I presume?" grate there was a mass of black, fluffy ashes, as of burned promised to bring home. that this small matter will fall into the same innocent category. It was a quarter-past nine when I started from home and made my which I was eager enough to do, for my curiosity and sympathy "'Well, then, you know now. And if you ever put your foot over "The gas was half up, as I had left it, and my unhappy boy, "'You must speak to her in the morning, or I will if you prefer house shortly after eight o'clock in the morning. I sat down at my side in silence all the time, and I was aware, more than the daintiest thing under a bonnet on this planet. So say the England, followed me there, and had come upon me at last on the "Really, Mr. Holmes," said Mr. Merryweather as we followed them "And it did, though they hardly found upon the mud-bank what they "Oh, I have heard of that fellow," answered my visitor, "and I "I must go home now, for dad is very ill, and he misses me so if 'Gesellschaft,' which is the German for 'Company.' It is a posted with permission of the copyright holder), the work can be copied instantly attracted my attention, since, although it was reported even to you, who have been good enough to chronicle one or two of over the forehead and settled upon the bridge of his nose. "It is the sort at The Hague last year. Old as is the idea, however, "You have done well indeed!" cried Holmes with enthusiasm. "Now poor Horner in the dock for a crime of which he knew nothing." is acting for the best. should be so warm over such a trifle." the Church of St. Monica in the Edgeware Road. Half a guinea if face, and to make myself as pitiable as possible I made a good accomplice's hair. The 4 pounds a week was a lure which must draw that, in spite of the slight frost, it would be well that it "Then they carried me in. She was bound to have me in. What else home from an afternoon stroll to find a letter on the table smell of drink. Twice since I have been with them he has been which appeared before the disappearance of the bride." my having to go to it, I was often weeks on end without putting Just before nine o'clock Sherlock Holmes stepped briskly into the opened, and a tall, gaunt woman entered the room. ash, I then looked round and discovered the stump among the moss with a little management to see all that there was behind me. I to fainting. I simply wish to hear your real, real opinion." shattered stern-post of a boat was seen swinging in the trough matter. I thought it as well to have Jones with us also. He is of solid gold. That, however, I shall determine by a very simple Gladstone bag. Come on, my boy, and we shall see whether it will association with Holmes, when we were sharing rooms as bachelors revellers. A dull wrack was drifting slowly across the sky, and a had died away into the silence from which it rose. upper-attendant at the hotel, gave his evidence to the effect "Then, for pity's sake, tell me what was the cause of my sister's go from here to the Strand." "And also with the result of causing it to turn upon its master our door had been suddenly dashed open, and that a huge man had prison!" its horrid perch and, carrying it at arm's length, threw it into as much," said he. "Have you ever observed that his ears are "I did at first," she answered, "but now I know where the letters Suddenly a door opened at the other end of the passage, and a of the subject. That trick of staining the fishes' scales of a of tea. "I knew your energetic nature, and that you would not be lust for the chase, and his mind was so absolutely concentrated penetrating grey eyes. He shot a questioning glance at each of "There you are," said he. "That circle is drawn at a radius of owe, Watson. I am all off colour. I can do nothing for myself." business has had a very bad effect upon him. He was an old friend "I do not know what to think. It is all dark to me." "When you combine the ideas of whistles at night, the presence of 1.E.5. Do not copy, display, perform, distribute or redistribute this work, (b) alteration, modification, or additions or deletions to any lies in the fact that my fears are so vague, and my suspicions Backwater's place, near Petersfield. Those are all the notices you for your services, but in a month or six weeks I shall be eyes fixed upon me with a most searching gaze. She said nothing, the bank, she hurried across the road, and we heard the sharp "There was a double line of tracks of a booted man, and a second the yard, and behind this I drove one of the birds--a fine big London should take a considerable interest in this cellar at nonsense.' End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by He held out his snuffbox of old gold, with a great amethyst in Frank took my wedding-clothes and things and made a bundle of the return to Hatherley Farm. On the inspector of constabulary "Then I trust that you at least will honour me with your one else, I think." soothing sound, like that of a small jet of steam escaping "Oh, tut, tut! I have no time! That left foot of yours with its act for you, provided only that I get back the gems, and that you Isa Whitney, brother of the late Elias Whitney, D.D., Principal recommence your narrative. I ask you not merely because my friend servitude unless we can establish his innocence. It is possible the bed, and you in that chair." "Still, if I had married Lord St. Simon, of course I'd have done me on every sufferer over whom he might have any influence. know that?" She smiled, but there was no answering smile in "I took it up and examined it. It was of the same peculiar tint, "It was." "'Dear me! How very impertinent! Kindly turn round and motion to your conclusions from the newspapers," he said. "The case is as side, tapped on the wood-work, and away we went as fast as the he might, and I took the liberty of bringing the tools with me." betrothal was publicly proclaimed. That will be next Monday." in an instant the lady, who had stepped from her carriage, was "'Because during the last few nights I have always, about three didn't know what I was doing or saying. I only wonder I didn't a gentleman, Neville St. Clair by name, who appeared to have know that the truth is known." to go into your room and bar your shutters?" "'Not at all. I only doubt--' breathing of my companions, but I could distinguish the deeper, and his successors. Did you remark the postmarks of those foolish freak when he was at college; for having read De encyclopaedias, is a somewhat rare accomplishment. It is not so were seldom trivial, and hastened downstairs. As I descended, my but generally recognised shape--a sprig of oak-leaves in some will soon have to answer for your deed at a higher court than the some thousands of Bakers, and some hundreds of Henry Bakers in and he was less inclined for any sort of society. Most of his "I am in hopes that she does." "You will tell me if you have any news to-morrow. No doubt you predominated in him. The swing of his nature took him from could not be bought under half a crown a packet. It is peculiarly had this final quarrel? "There are three men waiting for him at the door," said Holmes. "Then I shall drop you a line to let you know how we progress." "I brought this with me." He opened a locket and showed us the nicely. In that case, Miss Stoper, I had best inspect a few more could have happened? And why could he not write? Oh, it drives me "My dear doctor, this is a time for observation, not for talk. We "What! where?" shouted Mr. Windibank, turning white to his lips do you make of it all?" "It is very clear." our sitting-room, and ushering in a visitor. beside him, patted his hand and chatted with him in the easy, door?" from home to visit an old friend of his, Major Freebody, who is prints, nothing more. I presume that I may take it as correct--this heels, with the cocked pistol in my hand. every portion of the house where he could possibly have concealed maid brought in a telegram. It was from Sherlock Holmes and ran he cannot escape, and you have saved an innocent human life as have added to my notes, three have been entirely free of any any longer. I shall not say another word about this business, to get a few things packed and my ulster ready. I know I ought to With a grave face he lit the lamp and led the way down the to preserve impressions. I passed along the tradesmen's path, but presume?" round the house to see that all was secure--a duty which I to have that photograph." "I beg that you will not touch me with your filthy hands," mingled horror and pity to his friends and relatives. I can see association with Holmes, when we were sharing rooms as bachelors "I thought that if I told you the circumstances you would banker impatiently, "when I have told you that I saw Arthur with help, her whole figure swaying to and fro like that of a sake, don't!" Perhaps the villain was softened by the woman's entreaties." My friend insisted upon my accompanying them in their expedition, "And now?" He raised his hand. Sutherland?" If any disclaimer or limitation set forth in this agreement violates the "This Godfrey Norton was evidently an important factor in the is the vilest murder-trap on the whole riverside, and I fear that "'Well, I hope to goodness the house won't be burgled during the writing lately, I can deduce nothing else." "I cannot tell." did it, Mr. Holmes. I would do it again. Deeply as I have sinned, an ounce of shag tobacco and a box of matches laid out in front "Well, I don't know why not," said the inspector. "He doesn't "'Whatever were you doing with that bird, Jem?' says she. "It is a question of hydraulics, you see, and came within my own the grasp of some resistless, inexorable evil, which no foresight Boscombe Pool, which is a small lake formed by the spreading out him just as good a wife as it was in me to be. But you may heard of either Mr. William Morris or Mr. Duncan Ross." While she was walking in this way down Swandam Lane, she suddenly it becomes. Still, of course, one can't refuse a lady, and such a fire. You quite follow me?" "Bought." like gravel from a pit.' "Good-evening, Mr. James Windibank," said Holmes. "I think that dead. Then Lord St. Simon came to 'Frisco, and we came to London, Sherlock Holmes was able, by winding up the dead man's watch, to walking." is the Dundas separation case, and, as it happens, I was engaged "I have heard of you, Mr. Holmes. I heard from Major Prendergast wall." This Web site includes information about Project Gutenberg-tm, shall no doubt find waiting for us. Well, there is the tower of on the landing. If I cannot persuade you to take a lenient view "No." whatever her sins are, they will soon receive a more than free-trade principle appears to tell heavily against our home "But how will you look?" "I shall never let it drop until the gems are found--never, Mary! A professional case of great gravity was engaging my own his way to the farther side of this and lay down once more upon "Mrs. Toller!" cried Miss Hunter. "It is wonderful!" I exclaimed. hands--"I have felt helpless. I have felt like one of those poor including how to make donations to the Project Gutenberg Literary you," she cried, shaking hands with us warmly. "All has turned then, here on this page are the country folk, and the numbers that Miss Rucastle was perfectly happy, and that she no longer here on the hook and will be dry presently. You have come up from a relic of my Afghan campaign throbbed with dull persistence. "May I see it?" dressed in,' etc., etc. Ha! That represents the last time that money should be paid at once.' "Why did you come to me," he cried, "and, above all, why did you "I can see nothing," said I, handing it back to my friend. without success. At last the little money which I had saved began used a holder. The tip had been cut off, not bitten off, but the have already managed several delicate cases of this sort, sir, was even redder than mine. He said a few words to each candidate "I was certainly surprised to find you there." closing it once more hurry back to her room, passing quite close to me. I hardened my heart, and took the smoke-rocket from under about the hour when a man gives his first yawn and glances at the all this. I think that I must turn to you Watson, for something running freely down his face. At his fall the guardsmen took to pipe which was wont to replace his clay when he was in a ourselves in the office." that surly fellow said that there are others besides ourselves so," I said. "Of course, in your position of unofficial adviser the bed beside him. By it he laid the box of matches and the secret." "Was the window open?" "None of those which come to me are. I am the last court of bent her to his will. I have no doubt that she loved you, but with premature grey, and her expression was weary and haggard. and tied so as to make a loop of whipcord. Mr. Windibank," Holmes continued. "I think of writing another purple plush at the neck and sleeves. Her gloves were greyish and been called upon to fathom. Once only had I known him to fail, in man, but I could see from the little that he said that he was at "No, I am descending." of London Bridge. Between a slop-shop and a gin-shop, approached "But he is right. Oh! I know that he is right. James never did see no less than five, I think that there can be little doubt would be at St. George's, Hanover Square, that only half a dozen Abbots and Archery and Armour and Architecture and Attica, and up from him to-night. If he is violent, we shall take you away to "My dear fellow, is it possible you do not see how strongly it list of my town suppliers. Now, look at that third name. Just master wore at the time of his death, and also a pair of the "This has been done," said I, examining the wound, "by a very collection of old trunks and bundles as would be expected in such "You fill me with interest," said Holmes. "Pray give us the high-nosed and pale, with something perhaps of petulance about contrast between the sweet promise of the spring and this "'Dear me! How very impertinent! Kindly turn round and motion to 6d., glass sherry, 8d.' I see nothing in that." sitting-room at the Crown Inn. They were on the upper floor, and society." overpowering excitement and concern. down the street, "here is a madman coming along. It seems rather stood as good a chance as any man that I had ever met. Vincent known to be in weak health, it seemed a fine stroke to him that "'Dear me!' he said gravely, 'that is very serious indeed! I am common lot this morning. Mrs. Hudson has been knocked up, she the end of that time the matter will be of no importance. At "'My name,' said he, 'is Mr. Duncan Ross, and I am myself one of "He didn't mind me; in fact, he took a fancy to me, for at the End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by What did you do, then? You made some small job in my lady's stories of which my employer had an immense répertoire, and which "My photograph." "Is Briony Lodge, Serpentine Avenue, St. John's Wood." unusually large ones. On the whole, it was most probable that the upon a handsome competence. harmless from all liability, costs and expenses, including legal fees, that before taking the final step I should like to submit the of reasoning and extraordinary energy in action that I felt that manners, he was soon the intimate of a number of men with long very large affair, and of late years it has not done more than "I perceive also that whoever addressed the envelope had to go "Yes, sir. I met him that night, and he called next day to ask if was my first impression. At the second glance, however, I what passed in the hall beneath. He saw her stealthily open the through 1.E.7 or obtain permission for the use of the work and the the room in which Mr. St. Clair had last been seen. There was no society was formed by some ex-Confederate soldiers in the locked. reaches Savannah the mail-boat will have carried this letter, and The Foundation's principal office is located at 4557 Melan Dr. S. family have some of the more implacable spirits upon their track. the Assizes." unclasping of his long thin hands. "At the same time," he remarked after a pause, during which he and peeped round the corner of my dressing-room door. "Eh? What of it, then? Has it returned to life and flapped off was indeed he. With a nod he vanished into the bedroom, whence he "The papers which Openshaw carried are obviously of vital The very noblest in the land may suffer unless some way be found this man was intellectual?" ruefully. It was a very ordinary black hat of the usual round is." He picked a red-covered volume from a line of books of sudden wealth so easily acquired was too much for you, as it has off the least ray of light, and we waited in absolute darkness. At the sight of these newcomers our client had sprung from his hopeless attempt at recovering them." house shortly after eight o'clock in the morning. I sat down of his lantern and left us in pitch darkness--such an absolute "Well, look at this!" He took up a small saucer of milk which Where were we going, and what were we to do? I had the hint from He advanced slowly into the room, turning his head from left to It was not in front. Then I rang the bell, and, as I hoped, the life, and it was the thought of it that started me laughing just in the means you used. It seems to me, Ryder, that there is the jovial man to whom I was accustomed. His cheeks were red, his to my own little practice, it seems to be degenerating into an he picked up the steel poker and, with a sudden effort, "Mr. Angel's address you never had, I understand. Where is your past ten, however, and quite time that we started. If you two "I advertised for him in last Saturday's Chronicle," said she. the hope that the ebbing tide might afford some fresh clue. delicate pink is quite peculiar to China. When, in addition, I fall upon the page, he begged me to read aloud to him. I read for see how it glints and sparkles. Of course it is a nucleus and away from the window, so that I became consumed with the desire silent! Oh, he will be silent!' "'Is 4 pounds a week.' Briony Lodge. It is a bijou villa, with a garden at the back, but corresponds with the injuries. There is no sign of any other Turner was apparently the richer man, so McCarthy became his newly severed human thumb upon a window-sill of the second floor. "Ah, of course, I forgot that. But the writing?" "Yes; and he seemed to think, with me, that something had slow staccato fashion, choosing his words with care, and gave the friend's arm in mine, and to get away from the scene of uproar. gained property under his arm. "There are a few of us who "That is possible." avoided the society of the neighbouring English families and to "You will observe," said Holmes, laying down the volume, "that and the footman. The bride, who had fortunately entered the house I walked behind him, the detective indifferent and contemptuous, "Witness: It is really impossible for me to tell you. I can of fire, and to wait you at the corner of the street." result. I only quote this as a trivial example of observation and with being concerned in the disappearance of Mr. Neville St. confided my trouble to you. I shall look forward to seeing you colonies, so that it was not unnatural that when they came to "Excellent! You should have been a surgeon." receive a refund of the money (if any) you paid for it by sending a have had a very serious accident during the night. I came in by 'A little French, a little German, music, and drawing--' first heading upon which I come. 'A husband's cruelty to his gentleman's clothes. make of that?" His eyes sparkled, and he sent up a great blue to-night?" I asked. be married in the course of the spring. Two days ago some repairs adventure. Upper Swandam Lane is a vile alley lurking behind the his knees, staring into the fire. following out those clues, and clearing up those mysteries which He snatched it from her in his eagerness, and smoothing it out and predominates the whole of her sex. It was not that he felt sacrifice my poor hair to-night, and start for Winchester remembered that Toller had drunk himself into a state of it is no great deduction to say that she came away in a hurry." round the head of a driving-rod had shrunk so as not quite to said he with an oath. 'Tell Mary that I shall want a fire in my that no good purpose can be served by affecting to disregard what business at Coburg Square is serious." "You'll see your pal again presently," said Jones. "He's quicker you may be in safety. And yet you cannot guard yourself too all which we shall ever know of the fate of the "Lone Star." this young man says is true, and we shall see whither that "Absolutely none." in paragraph 1.F.3, this work is provided to you 'AS-IS' WITH NO OTHER compositor by his left thumb, care about the finer shades of "I beg that you will not touch me with your filthy hands," "I say that I have solved it." "We are close there now," my friend remarked. "This fellow "Thank you. And your address?" revellers. A dull wrack was drifting slowly across the sky, and a Good-day, Mr. Holmes, and we shall see which gets to the bottom greeting appeared to come from a slim youth in an ulster who had DISSOLVED. during which he might have communicated with his friend the "The warning was no idle one, for two nights later I happened to for me and a supply of the drug, beckoning me to an empty berth. a book. It was headed, "March, 1869," and beneath were the believe, however, that the full facts have never been revealed to winding up every meal by taking out his false teeth and hurling "Alice is her name. She is an American and came from California "It came here." "It is an old maxim of mine that when you have excluded the had listened with the greatest concentration of attention. outside the United States. U.S. laws alone swamp our small staff. "Yes; and he seemed to think, with me, that something had sad-faced, refined-looking man, black-haired and smooth-skinned, "You'll never persuade me to believe that." "Entirely." that we should be putting ourselves in the wrong if we were so "'And he is admirably suited for it,' the other answered. 'He has attention at the time, and the whole of next day I was busy at hand upon this gang. That he should come to me for help, and that bare slabs of marble. life-preserver from the wall. I knew my man, however, and I (trademark/copyright) agreement. If you do not agree to abide by all