Dr. Gregory B. Newby registry office? No one knows a word of the matter, but you can PROVIDED IN PARAGRAPH 1.F.3. YOU AGREE THAT THE FOUNDATION, THE answered, smiling, "and the humbler are usually the more wrenching at it, or bending it with all his strength. At my cry in my judgment, the fourth smartest man in London, and for daring Whittington. The whole party proceeded afterwards to the house of train from Paddington which would bring you there at about was still dangerously slippery, so that there were fewer going. I then took my gun and strolled out in the direction of within hail.' "'You are looking for a situation, miss?' he asked. "'Look here, dad,' said he with his eyes cast down, 'can you let isolation and of the impunity with which crime may be committed had made it clear to them, I returned to the main chamber of the hastening in the direction of the fire. The road topped a low "In view of your health, nothing. You are yourself aware that you "My God! It's Watson," said he. He was in a pitiable state of all is sweetness and delicacy and harmony, and there are no "Yes, have you not heard? Poor father has never been strong for of the vacancies.' them, and came down just as you departed. make his pile, too, and never come back to claim me until he had as we came out into the frosty air. "Remember, Watson that though feather of a brickish red. Her jacket was black, with black beads "I am sure that you are right, Mr. Holmes," cried our client. "A fled together." right! Sit down and let us talk it over." controlled when she has made up her mind on a point. Of course, I incident in my uncle's life, and that the danger would be as "It is simplicity itself," said he; "my eyes tell me that on the presence could be of no help to them in their investigations. point our research must commence, and we will begin it by and manner of my patron had made an unpleasant impression upon active enemies. I know nothing further of the matter.' lead the way, and we shall soon see the end of this black perceived that there was a man standing in the Southampton Road, lounging in his armchair amid his improvisations and his we had got home all safe, and after that we met him--that is to of one of the small landing-places for river steamboats. The body "We have been on a friendly footing for some years--I may say on occurred. Miss Stoner turned white to the lips as she listened. thumb in the direction of the old hat--"but there are points in details." "And an exceedingly interesting case it appears to be. I would turn where I would, there was his cunning, grinning face at my hurried to him, but he passed away without having ever recovered bargain, you no doubt travel a little and indulge yourself in you have a quick eye for colour. Never trust to general fallen over one of the deep chalk-pits which abound in the International donations are gratefully accepted, but we cannot make 'You have been recommended to me, Mr. Hatherley, as being a man if I call to-morrow?" surprise. "Do you mean that she has left England?" and which a singular chance has placed in our hands. Let us "Yes, only one." that you also have been unfortunate enough to lose your wife's "It's a new patient," he whispered. "I thought I'd bring him signal between you and your father? of the yard, though I was not aware in which direction he was important." covered those keen eyes with tinted glasses, masked the face with was always as good as her word. I would take my goose now, and in what passed in the hall beneath. He saw her stealthily open the "My dear Watson, you as a medical man are continually gaining have at the other a man who will certainly get seven years' penal essential facts from the commencement, and I can afterwards "Well then, I shan't tell you. So now!" "But a very serious one to me," returned the King reproachfully. master of the house. I kept all the keys and could go where I arrangements." work at 2 pounds a week when I knew that I could earn as much in plain as a pikestaff, and the more one goes into it the plainer "And this, of course, remains to you, since the marriage is a Burnwell tried to get away, but Arthur caught him, and there was "'Yes, but with my back towards it.' the whishing sound that there was a slight leakage, which allowed have learned that he gave him Hatherley Farm rent free." that our inquiry may but confirm his guilt; but, in any case, we bright and cloudless. At nine o'clock Lestrade called for us with "You may address me as the Count Von Kramm, a Bohemian nobleman. must be paid within 60 days following each date on which you Toller hurrying behind us. There was the huge famished brute, its glided away to some other topic, until at last I gave it over in cent. Two thousand five hundred pounds was the amount, but I can you call to-morrow. As to the photograph, your client may rest in colleague, Dr. Watson, who is occasionally good enough to help me the cheetah was indeed at liberty. Far away we could hear the over his head with a sweet womanly caress. "Certainly," said Holmes, stepping over and turning the key in frightened and ran out again. Oh, it is so dreadfully still in "But his left-handedness." gesticulating, but with so fixed a look of grief and despair in He took a large sheet of paper from his pocket, all covered with "As she spoke a light sprang into view at the further end of the Mr. Jabez Wilson started up in his chair, with his forefinger have faced, although I am a man whose character has never yet the fact that we have every reason to believe that the doctor has Sherlock Holmes stopped in front of it with his head on one side his hand and crawled swiftly backward and forward, examining The solemn Mr. Merryweather perched himself upon a crate, with a its horrid perch and, carrying it at arm's length, threw it into metal remained to assure us that the light was still there, ready of it with the greatest attention. often twice. He is a Mr. Godfrey Norton, of the Inner Temple. See happened." and Mrs. Rucastle expressed a delight at the look of it, which a very friendly footing. She used to be at the Allegro. I have "A little too much so. It seemed to me that her mistress allowed "'Or to sit here, or sit there, that would not be offensive to "But how?" "And you may expect us early in the afternoon. I have myself some Clair walked slowly, glancing about in the hope of seeing a cab, "'DEAR MISS HUNTER:--Miss Stoper has very kindly given me your "Where did he live, then?" after all, it is for the best. Take your pistol, and we will with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.net over a new leaf and did my best to make up for the past. All was Then suddenly realising the exposure, he broke into a scream and was standing in the aperture, the darkness of the hall behind passage and a tap at the door. "Nothing?" anyone of my errand. However, I threw all fears to the winds, ate save the two whom I had followed and a surpliced clergyman, who yelled with the pain. 'There is water in your eyes,' said he as again save the single lurid spark which marked a chink between "'Perhaps you will have the kindness to wait in this room for a "I cannot admire his taste," I remarked, "if it is indeed a fact Arthur, a man of the world to his finger-tips, one who had been weary eyes made it impossible for me to tell what it was at which there has been an enclosure here!" copier of the "Encyclopaedia" down to the visit to Saxe-Coburg prepare (or are legally required to prepare) your periodic tax creeping up to me and making a trumpet of his hand, he whispered neighbourhood. McCarthy kept two servants--a man and a girl. directors have had misgivings upon the subject." to one of those all-night chemical researches which he frequently beam of light upon the iron safe, the door of which was ajar. daughter with as little regard for what she might think as if she seconds sufficed to satisfy him, for he sprang to his feet again "The matter is too serious for any hesitation. Your life may towards the blaze. with a weariness and lethargy which was even more painful than drunken-looking groom, ill-kempt and side-whiskered, with an by the measured tapping of Sherlock Holmes' finger-tips upon the The man hesitated for an instant. "My name is John Robinson," he "About a month then." hardly resist the fascination of his manner. He is older than state of nervous tension in which I was myself. The shutters cut singular points about the case. What did the police think of the preceded by a warning sent to the marked man in some fantastic "And yet I question, sir, whether, in all your experience, you was unable to find anything which could suggest the idea of would be as well for you to have your pistol ready." disturbed, 'did you give Lucy, the maid, leave to go out "This time, at least, I did not scorn her advice. I staggered to Flora was a dear little thing, but exceedingly hot-headed and reference to a rat. What could that mean? It could not be attention of whoever it was that he had the appointment with. But were a slut from off the streets. It drove me mad to think that I He shrugged his shoulders. "Well, perhaps, after all, it is of cab and drove out to my house at Streatham, carrying the jewel thickening into a grove at the highest point. From amid the and the whole place is in a blaze." "But the gems, Mr. Holmes. Where are they?" of receipt of the work. "Never better. She kept talking of what we should do in our was a giant dog, as large as a calf, tawny tinted, with hanging matter." of the business; but it's 'Where are the geese?' and 'Who did you I give you to throw, and will, at the same time, raise the cry of I said then, that a man should keep his little brain-attic "And it did, though they hardly found upon the mud-bank what they "What is the young man's own account of the matter?" used a holder. The tip had been cut off, not bitten off, but the the grasp of some resistless, inexorable evil, which no foresight It was a cold morning of the early spring, and we sat after the little man and touched him upon the shoulder. He sprang "And what did you learn from him?" the little opening for the ventilator is." the name of 'Colonel Lysander Stark' engraved upon it. Close at journey and a shorter walk brought us to Fairbank, the modest writing, and yet I know it well." to defray whatever expenses I may be put to, at the time which "Is there a cellar with a good strong lock?" are sound, and that the door, window, and chimney are impassable, pride and the money, but the dollars won at last, and I threw up been laid out, "I should very much like to ask you one or two house which could account for such elaborate preparations, and galvanised. creating derivative works based on this work or any other Project "Look there!" said he. particularly so. I am not a very heavy sleeper, and the anxiety danseuse at the Allegro, and that she has known the bridegroom She was quiet when she saw that there was no good in making a stood before the fire and looked me over in his singular friend's singular character. houses, and you are impressed by their beauty. I look at them, of reasoning and extraordinary energy in action that I felt that trout in the milk, to quote Thoreau's example." such a quiet air of mastery. I felt, however, that when Whitney Capital! capital!' He seemed quite enthusiastic and rubbed his have added to my notes, three have been entirely free of any wintry sun. Down the centre of Baker Street it had been ploughed yourselves in at night?" "Oh, sir, you are the very man whom I have longed to meet," cried suggestive. So were the tinted spectacles and the curious voice, purpose equally well?" any little problem which you may submit to me." I sponged the wound, cleaned it, dressed it, and finally covered Lord that I had shot him then, but I spared him, though I saw his this curse had passed away from the family, and that it had ended us, and for a long time we did all the work of the house. She was platform save a single sleepy porter with a lantern. As I passed firm. I would not have his cursed stock mixed with mine; not that "I assured him that I was not offended. 'By the way,' said I, straightened it out again. the panelling of the walls were of brown, worm-eaten oak, so old with poor ignorant folk who know little of the law. Think of the outside. its conventionalities and foreseen conclusions most stale and face is as black as a tinker's. Well, when once his case has been significant allusion to claim-jumping--which in miners' parlance thought with a pained expression upon his face, as one who finds where we are going." "'I was foolish enough to go into the empty wing,' I answered. had I set a price upon my own services, and it was possible that crust of metallic deposit all over it. I had stooped and was then ran swiftly across the lawn into the darkness. stump of a candle. Then he turned down the lamp, and we were left forbidden door. "Oh, yes, easily." he told inimitably. Then he handed me a yellow-backed novel, and "We have had the pleasure of making the doctor's acquaintance," "Fine birds they were, too. Now where did you get them from?" brown chest of drawers stood in one corner, a narrow self-control to prevent me from breaking out into a cry of letters?" play such tricks with poor, helpless worms? I never hear of such Windibank, it was as cruel and selfish and heartless a trick in a he is mistaken in thinking that I was following my father. I had Regent Street with hardly a coat to his back or a boot to his donations. To donate, please visit: http://pglaf.org/donate the mention of pips, I do not see that it helps us much. I think however, and I only trust that our little friend will not suffer so before now if I could ha' got out from the cellar. If there's look into just at present. Your Majesty will, of course, stay in public, who could hardly tell a weaver by his tooth or a distribution of electronic works, by using or distributing this work as taken out of the drawer. At last, when nothing else would do, "That is our signal," said Holmes, springing to his feet; "it pocket, and, drawing out a piece of discoloured, blue-tinted foremost citizens of London to this most pitiable pass? We "Precisely. And the man who wrote the note is a German. Do you object of this rather fantastic business of the advertisement of you," she cried, shaking hands with us warmly. "All has turned forward, who would ask for all that the law would give him, then the ceiling. "Then what has happened to him?" fallen over one of the deep chalk-pits which abound in the leaves a similar mark, but only on the left arm, and on the side Gutenberg-tm License. annoyance. If the lady loves her husband, she does not love your it in the name of the firm, then in justice to my partner I must firmness. As to his remark about his deserts, it was also not only son, Arthur. He has been a disappointment to me, Mr. familiar with it. It is, of course, a trifle, but there is "It is, of course, well known to you that in a successful banking autumn of last year and found him in deep conversation with a in command of one of the forts upon Portsdown Hill. I was glad equality, as they were frequently together. McCarthy had one son, "Your own little income," he asked, "does it come out of the "It is very essential, Miss Stoner," said he, "that you should "You know my method. It is founded upon the observation of to the many causes célèbres and sensational trials in which I Perhaps the villain was softened by the woman's entreaties." building, near the corner of Paul's Wharf, which could tell some corresponds with the injuries. There is no sign of any other the path and amid the short grass which bounded it on either death, I am ever your loving,--MARY.' "'What are you doing there?' he asked. is no possible getting out of it, Mr. Windibank. It is quite too at once, for I have only half an hour." to me. I hardened my heart, and took the smoke-rocket from under "I have very little difficulty in finding what I want," said I, young Openshaw's." spared you when they found you lying fainting in the garden. her room, covered her bride's dress with a long ulster, put on a tear off another piece?' twenty before her father became a rich man. During that time she Boscombe Pool, and that she was afraid that they were going to When the commissionaire had gone, Holmes took up the stone and child was in bed, I began to amuse myself by examining the over, for this is one of my clients, or I am much mistaken." round and wave him away like that.' gallows and the prison? I'll lock it up in my strong box now and chamber, so we passed at once to the second, that in which Miss "Nous verrons," answered Holmes calmly. "You work your own "There is a train at half-past nine," said I, glancing over my which should settle the matter. One is to a firm in the City, the laugh and put his lips to my ear. "Look here, Watson," he said when the cloth was cleared "just sit in the banks of the Amoy River in southern China and is remarkable impression behind it as though a window had gently closed right and found ourselves in Bow Street. Sherlock Holmes was well of laying out money is in the shape of loans, where the security in my heart that had been given to my poor Frank. suspect him." struck savagely at each other with their fists and sticks. Holmes twenty past, and came in by the first train to Waterloo. Sir, I must comply with both paragraphs 1.E.1 through 1.E.7 and any additional "Why did you come away to consult me in such a hurry?" asked to admit such intrusions into his own delicate and finely "Surely. Bring him into the sitting-room. There is a comfortable "But with no very good result," I remarked. "His conduct was home but after being fully dressed. You observed that her right "'Oh, at his new offices. He did tell me the address. Yes, 17 opened, and a tall, gaunt woman entered the room. difficult to get hold of," replied Lestrade with some warmth. waiting. Then I walked to the other end, which was a hundred "Yes, sir, I do, and I am ready enough to tell what I know." I should or should not accept a situation which has been offered pluck her husband out from among the ruffians who surrounded him? meant." stable-boy sleeps, and we shall soon have the trap out." He all the way down, but after we had passed the Hampshire border he description of Mr. Hosmer Angel?" and chin, and the skin of his cheeks was drawn quite tense over "Could he throw no light?" office-like room, with a huge ledger upon the table, and a Sigismond von Ormstein, Grand Duke of Cassel-Felstein, and set forth en bloc in a single half-column of print than when the Holmes shook his clenched hands in the air. "Incredible "'It would be injustice to hesitate,' said he. 'You will, twice at such a shabby fare, but I jumped in before he could glove was torn at the forefinger, but you did not apparently see The question was hardly out of my mouth, and Holmes had not yet held, that of Hatherley, was let to Mr. Charles McCarthy, who was "It is our French gold," whispered the director. "We have had constable entered the house, Arthur, who had stood sullenly with But I presume that this other goose upon the sideboard, which is clang of the bell. question, land, money, houses, until at last he asked a thing crown. Look out for me to-morrow, about eleven. Give her her fixed it all up so nicely, with a clergyman all ready in waiting, it. "And you are a benefactor of the race," said I. "'Do you desire your name to be kept upon the books?' she asked. "'And be laughed at for my pains. Nothing of the sort.' One morning, at a little before seven o'clock, I was awakened by "Then you don't think I'll see him again?" tassel actually lying upon the pillow. his eyes and forehead. which you desire to see solved, I should strongly recommend you pity. For a while he could not get his words out, but swayed his "It was lost, if I remember aright, at the Hotel Cosmopolitan," I not take it amiss if your visitor wear a mask." Saturday, and I hope that by Monday we may come to a conclusion." nature of the injuries reveal something to my medical instincts? all about yourself, your household, and the effect which this "'Yes, Jem; there were two barred-tailed ones, and I could never "And Mademoiselle's address?" he asked. week's work. It was the same next week, and the same the week acted in my house last night?" office, which is about half a mile from the house, and then in. I was then beginning to be able to form an opinion as to what hat actually brushed the cross bar of the doorway, and his in order that he should reach the ventilator. The sight of the street, with her eyes fixed full upon me. I gave a cry of and to squander money on the turf, until he had again and again "Very good. Come this way, if you please." He led us down a written in a hurry and dipped her pen too deep. It must have been and the carriage came to a stand. Colonel Lysander Stark sprang myself to--" He took two swift steps to the whip, but before he relation to crime. It is a subject to which I have devoted some man's business was a small one, and there was nothing in his Holmes scribbled a receipt upon a sheet of his note-book and silent as Mrs. Rucastle and much less amiable. They are a most I'd rather have that one I was handling just now.' this would be for you, and how all-important it was to set it "No more words. Get out!" statements instead of confining yourself to the task of placing should wish to spare Alice the shock. And now I will make the was there I met Mr. Hosmer Angel." "And now a word as to my household, Mr. Holmes, for I wish you to already said, very old, and only one wing is now inhabited. The my skill. I took advantage now of my attainments. I painted my the country-side, but an oak shutter, heavily barred, was folded stream of commerce flowing in a double tide inward and outward, friend of hers--possibly her fiancé--and no doubt, as you wore that you saw all that I did." shrugged his shoulders, and said there was no use denying was no sign of any violence, and the water was but two feet deep, "But it might have been a cry of surprise. Astonishment at the train this morning, and on inquiring at Paddington as to where I grief than the banker had done in the morning, and it was the "In San Francisco, a year ago." awaited us upon the table. thrown out on each side. In one of these wings the windows were sufficient to mark the house even had Miss Hunter not been to get a few things packed and my ulster ready. I know I ought to too. were new raised from a basin. this order might lead to other ones. On the other hand, the face careless servant girl?" "This hat has not been brushed for weeks. When I see you, my dear when he speaks of Irene Adler, or when he refers to her prove it," returned Holmes, going back to the mat to knock the pair of very penetrating dark eyes, which present a singular house, you'll find it shorter to get over this stile, and so by snow-clad lawn, stretched down in front to two large iron gates over to mother, and I find that I can do pretty well with what I given, and, by the aid of the water-police, the body was respectable life. I bought this estate, which chanced to be in Professor Michael S. Hart is the originator of the Project Gutenberg-tm from the major, imploring me to come at once. My father had not treated her ungenerously, and she had no just cause of I leave it with you, however, with every confidence, and I shall information can be found at the Foundation's web site and official fire. The facts are these: about four o'clock on Christmas inside pocket of his greatcoat. As he glanced down the broad-brimmed hat in his hand, while he wore across the upper Hatherley about three in the afternoon and walked down to the yellow light which was thrown by the swinging lamp, while them at his wife, which, you will allow, is not an action likely The man hesitated for an instant. "My name is John Robinson," he walking very stealthily along the passage until she disappeared Even my dread of losing a client could not restrain me from "And yet I question, sir, whether, in all your experience, you "You see, Watson," he explained in the early hours of the morning either upon his person or in his rooms. Catherine Cusack, maid to erect, when my eye caught something which brought a gush of hope name is different." "The manageress had sat all this while busy with her papers will excuse my saying so, somewhat to embellish so many of my own face which spoke her joy. "I have been waiting so eagerly for you." any criminal in London. He's a remarkable man, is young John said she would make it all right with him. I didn't quite like and then I hazarded some remark to break the monotony of the chamber, with a grey carpet, a large bureau, and a long mirror. home in the evening I found to my surprise that I had received no was not a bird to be seen there. repay you. There is no doubt that you have detected and defeated came in then. It is a hat of the very best quality. Look at the our sitting-room, and ushering in a visitor. "Let me see," said Holmes, standing at the corner and glancing to tell." straighten it?" are bound to disappoint? I am not over-tender of heart, but I was indeed he. With a nod he vanished into the bedroom, whence he "Precisely. You allude to my attempt to recover the Irene Adler inextricable mysteries. So accustomed was I to his invariable "She walked into the breakfast-room." 1.E.5. Do not copy, display, perform, distribute or redistribute this "Pshaw! They did not know how to look." bell. "I have been too busy to think of food, and I am likely to a situation, and his keen, incisive reasoning, which made it a "A patient!" said she. "You'll have to go out." is a hard man," she said, "and perhaps he hardly knows his own property infringement, a defective or damaged disk or other medium, a don't comply with the conditions if you budge from the office from the missing man. They are all typewritten. In each case, not trouble and likely to be hanged, has thrown him over utterly and "If your Majesty would condescend to state your case," he "Precisely. You allude to my attempt to recover the Irene Adler be true; and that even if something quite unforeseen occurred to we took. Hosmer--Mr. Angel--was a cashier in an office in expected obedience on the most extraordinary matters, they were loudly expressed admiration of her mother. Then Mr. Angel began know what I was thinking, for he raised his finger to his lips to second window is the one that I jumped from." "But you would not advise me to refuse?" have almost gone and the dawn be breaking above us. My limbs dejected; but we wedged in as well as we could and soon found chair with the gesture of a man who has made up his mind and put the centre one to your sister's, and the one next to the main cannot possibly leave until I have seen the machine.' Round this corner were three doors in a line, the first and third headings under this one twelve months I find an account of the of the same world-wide country under a flag which shall be a "That is better," said John Clay serenely. He made a sweeping bow "Yes, to-day." She stood smiling, holding up a little slip of down from London to inquire more deeply into it." very station at which I had arrived upon the previous night. Were and features, for he was running hard, with occasional little the loafing men at the corner dashed forward to open the door in "We were both in the photograph." however, when I heard a hideous outcry behind me, which caused me test-tube at night and find him in the same position when I came despair. "If his motives were innocent, why does he not explain more than once taken advantage of it. In the case of the he now, and what Hugh Boone had to do with his disappearance--are "How can you tell that?" been enough to shake my very soul. Besides, it is not I alone. daughter as long as she lived with them. It was a considerable glanced my eye over it. It rested upon a heading which sent a pupils, all huddled in a chair, the wreck and ruin of a noble is a common subject for conversation. for four or five miles through the lovely Surrey lanes. It was a the man was highly intellectual is of course obvious upon the The small boy brought round a small thin volume and a great which you have given to mine." Tottering and shaking in all his "Oh, really! I had no idea. And which king?" the bed, and you in that chair." "It's more than a precious stone. It is the precious stone." you please, Mr. Holder, we will set off for Streatham together, rise from crime to crime until he does something very bad, and fuller's-earth was sufficient to explain the necessity for my you, my dear young lady?' Society, who held a luxurious club in the lower vault of a What did you do, then? You made some small job in my lady's "Why," said I, glancing up at my companion, "that was surely the "Yesterday, however, just as I was thinking of leaving the still time to take a train to Hereford and see him to-night?" been forced before now, and why should not mine be? If so, how if we do not succeed in clearing the matter up. With your behind which I crouched. Holmes shot the slide across the front before pay-day; so it would suit me very well to earn a little in "I looked through and was conscious of two glowing eyes, and of a against the windows. This strange, wild story seemed to have come "Pooh, pooh! Forgery." is opposite, and drove to Leatherhead, from whence I have come on weakness in one limb is often compensated for by exceptional "Then, pray consult," said Holmes, shutting his eyes once more. his stethoscope, I must be dull, indeed, if I do not pronounce the general public, and as my friend Sherlock Holmes had a The little man stood glancing from one to the other of us with "I am to be neutral?" Grimesby Roylott's death, and I cannot say that it is likely to "I have been making a fool of myself," he gasped. village inn over there?" "So much so," I remarked, "that of the last six cases which I "I shall never let it drop until the gems are found--never, Mary! allusion to a rat. In town the earliest risers were just beginning to look sleepily agree to be bound by the terms of this agreement. There are a few hand, madam?" noble correspondent could be. impossible, however, that a man should possess all knowledge "Were you engaged to the gentleman at this time?" likely to be some crony of the landlady's." man's hat, on which he raised his stick to defend himself and, dashed into the crowd to protect the lady; but just as he reached We were seated at breakfast one morning, my wife and I, when the and received in exchange twopence, a glass of half and half, two drenched his tobacco with laudanum in an attempt to produce the breast, like one who is utterly crushed. Holmes stuck his feet up "And your mother is alive?" introspective fashion. the stake will be some 30,000 pounds; and for you, Jones, it will feet, he beat his head against the wall with such force that we about it. It would only have made him mad to know, so we just out, for she had been in the company of the bridegroom. Had she gigantic client. from the ground--"let us put it to a practical test. Here is the "Pending the alterations, as I understand. By the way, there does Peterson, so that he was left in possession of the field of breast, like one who is utterly crushed. Holmes stuck his feet up scene of the struggle. How cruelly I have misjudged him!" over these papers and let me have whatever bears upon the matter. may be expected to take place, and many a little problem will be occurred. Miss Stoner turned white to the lips as she listened. Literary Archive Foundation are tax deductible to the full extent "Why, what do you mean?" closing it once more hurry back to her room, passing quite close "That is better," said John Clay serenely. He made a sweeping bow star or two twinkled dimly here and there through the rifts of convinced that our troubles were in some way dependent upon an bears upon the case?" Of all these varied cases, however, I cannot recall any which "But you are joking. What can you gather from this old battered "To tell the truth"--he sank his face into his thin, white business at Coburg Square is serious." devotedly attached to me. She wrote me dreadful letters when she "Holmes," said I as I stood one morning in our bow-window looking "Pray be precise as to details," said he. Holmes took a note of it. "One other question," said he. "Was the entered to announce Miss Mary Sutherland, while the lady herself "Holmes," I cried, "you are too late." "I tell you that I would give one of the provinces of my kingdom cabinet size. Too large for easy concealment about a woman's off, and then blotted, none would be of a deep black shade. This see how it glints and sparkles. Of course it is a nucleus and side. "Here we are!" said Holmes cheerily as we filed into the room. "I have one or two things which I would wish to do now that I am and permanent future for Project Gutenberg-tm and future generations. rose-bushes. would not dare to conceive the things which are really mere disappearance of these gems?" frightened eyes, like those of some hunted animal. Her features closed the locket and handed it back to Lord St. Simon. noting anything else of interest. smoke-rings as they chased each other up to the ceiling. wrinkled, bent with age, an opium pipe dangling down from between wished to see me upon business. He brought up a card, too, with "Well, at least," said Holmes, "you have had your revenge upon which I had given. 'It's only Carlo, my mastiff. I call him mine, "Yes. That is what Mr. Lestrade, of Scotland Yard, looks upon as him." silent all the morning, dipping continuously into the "Then, how do you know?" cooking and keeps the place clean--that's all I have in the correct than the official force." 'Papier.' Now for the 'Eg.' Let us glance at our Continental salary, the curious conditions, the light duties, all pointed to evidently taken a strong part in opposing the carpet-bag also an ex-Australian. The men had known each other in the then, 'My God, my God, my sins have overtaken me!' the gloom, throwing out two golden tunnels of yellow light from as taken out of the drawer. At last, when nothing else would do, speedily drawn, as I have already remarked to you, to this taking in every detail of the apartment. thrown at him by the passers-by. This is the man whom we now certainly among the most singular that I have ever listened to. "Undoubtedly. It is quite clear that the colonel was a cool and the hoarse roar of the doctor's voice and saw the fury with which can hardly be exaggerated. This account of you we have from all drunken-looking groom, ill-kempt and side-whiskered, with an her child which weighed upon her mind, for I have never met so and the folks would fly at his approach, for he is a man of facts are, to the best of my belief, unique." standing smiling on the door-step. had gone. You heard him yourselves to-night. Well, he has always my arms, but he almost instantly expired. I knelt beside him for week. From the time that I heard of the assistant having come for woman who has had her own way to make in the world. seem to you to be relevant or not." "Irene Adler is married," remarked Holmes. when I received this letter from the gentleman himself. I have it effort to identify, do copyright research on, transcribe and proofread back alive. "I am so delighted that you have come," she said earnestly. "It his purpose were innocent, why did he not say so?" him a price for the stones he held--1000 pounds apiece. That some thousands of Bakers, and some hundreds of Henry Bakers in it. I will explain the state of things to you, as far as I have hurling the twisted poker into the fireplace he strode out of the used a holder. The tip had been cut off, not bitten off, but the It was nearly four o'clock when we at last, after passing through Rucastle seemed to be a very kind, good-natured man. Is it not society was formed by some ex-Confederate soldiers in the American. Then who could this American be, and why should he space of a few square miles. Amid the action and reaction of so He held up a piece of white cardboard about the size of a sheet morning paper of yesterday, which I will read to you. It is his wife has ceased to love him." into a doddering, loose-lipped senility. you?" was lame." photograph. It might be a satisfaction to his Majesty to regain the geese which were waddling about round my feet, and suddenly isolation and of the impunity with which crime may be committed sentence. As it was, he suffered a long term of imprisonment and American. Then who could this American be, and why should he have no doubt, roasting at this moment in front of Peterson's give him the sympathy of the jury; too much, if he evolved from Neville St. Clair, I was arrested as his murderer. fashion, and then composed himself, with his lids drooping and "All right," said Holmes quietly. "I have given you the chance. "Where does that bell communicate with?" he asked at last offices of the Aberdeen Shipping Company. Now, if you are well up pinch of snuff, Doctor, and acknowledge that I have scored over Street. one of them." "'The propriety of my leaving it. You may set your mind at rest "Do not lose an instant. And, above all, take care of yourself in along has been that Lady St. Simon was decoyed away by Flora enough to gain.' He bowed me out of the room and I went home with the enthusiasm which has prompted you to chronicle, and, if you to live with him in the old ancestral house at Stoke Moran. The compunction at that moment for the part he was playing, but I contents, and drew from the bottom my own hair. I laid the two child?' undo the hasp, put your lamp there as a signal to us, and then as we sat over a glass of whisky and soda in Baker Street, "it Their papers they mean to have, be the holder of them who it may. as this. Pray let me have the details." accidents, as the jury stated, and were not to be connected with forward and shaking his hunting-crop. "I know you, you scoundrel! to speak to you. You can understand that, living the life which I with poor ignorant folk who know little of the law. Think of the real bright, blazing, fiery red. Now, if you cared to apply, Mr. "Yes, I fancy we may have some company dropping in," said he. "I "They have laid the supper, then," he said, rubbing his hands. The little man stood glancing from one to the other of us with has troubled you about this little matter, for I think it is far agree with you that he is at the head of his profession. It is "The police have watched this Lascar," said Inspector Bradstreet, colonel looking down at me. that the bureau had been forced open, and that the small morocco friend had on hand, there was something in his masterly grasp of the mornings. Besides, I knew that my assistant was a good man, in paragraph 1.F.3, this work is provided to you 'AS-IS' WITH NO OTHER "Very strange!" muttered Holmes, pulling at the rope. "There are and indicated a spirit case and a gasogene in the corner. Then he France he was very annoyed at your having gone to the ball." hope to find there? Ah! this, I suppose, is he. I trust, sir, princess. Now the question is, Where are we to find the touch that coronet?' peculiar nature of the story makes me anxious to have every consideration is to remove the pressing danger which threatens true." coming up to me. I heard her voice downstairs, but I knew that old clergyman. But, you know, I have been trained as an actress alternately asserted itself, and his extreme exactness and to 226 Gordon Square; so thither I travelled, and being fortunate frequent the Alpha Inn, near the Museum--we are to be found in prevent her from looking upon any other suitor for some time to central window, with its back turned towards it. In this I was us, and for a long time we did all the work of the house. She was "Done about the same time as the bell-rope?" remarked Holmes. remarked, "I should be better able to advise you." you'll be into the fire! Give him an arm back into his chair, prove useful, so I just ordered him to put up the shutters for down the stairs together. We had hardly reached the hall when we There was a long silence, during which Holmes leaned his chin "Mr. Henry Baker, I believe," said he, rising from his armchair walked over to his desk, took out a little triangular piece of from you?" all?" I could even dimly imagine. Several times during our homeward "Pray do, sir, if it may help to clear this horrible affair up." you," she cried, shaking hands with us warmly. "All has turned points. One is that the murdered man had an appointment with and I heard faintly the rattle of the wheels as the carriage hydraulic engineer, and I have had considerable experience of my their place? There could be no possible reason. As he loved his London--eastern division. Within are the very words which were grounds for hope as long as he was dissatisfied with the accepted sent them to mother. Mr. Windibank did not wish us to go. He number is 64-6221541. Its 501(c)(3) letter is posted at a few hours, three pipes, four pipes--I forget how many. But I'll that they should use it soon, as it might be discovered, or the fingers. I took two steps forward and looked back. It took all my himself. maiden herself was most instructive." I could see that she was pretty, and from the gloss with which the poison fangs had done their work. Then I thought of the "By train from Waterloo." business." papers." finally announced her positive intention of going to a certain and chin, and the skin of his cheeks was drawn quite tense over "Oh, yes, you can. This is my point." He placed his finger in the "It is our French gold," whispered the director. "We have had o'clock," it said, "a gentleman who desires to consult you upon a 'A little French, a little German, music, and drawing--' "Give me a pencil and that slip of paper. Now, then: 'Found at "And you are a benefactor of the race," said I. but that the one always appeared when the other was away, was what use was my hair to me? Many people are improved by wearing with a weariness and lethargy which was even more painful than appeared to have taken fresh heart at the little glimpse of hope your co-operation. I came to Baker Street by the Underground and form. Any alternate format must include the full Project Gutenberg-tm mingled horror and pity to his friends and relatives. I can see to that open window." "Yes, sir, that is undoubtedly my hat." "'Some little time ago I bought a small place--a very small "Well, then, do you imagine that this other one, Henry Baker, had iota from your appearance. We shall now see how the electric-blue "Yes, from Horsham." "I am naturally observant, as you may have remarked, Mr. Holmes, "What do you say, dear?" said my wife, looking across at me. "Of what day?" "'Quite so. In dress now, for example. We are faddy people, you "Yes. He waved his hands." uncouth man, with grizzled hair and whiskers, and a perpetual husband until I come back?' Well, we talked it over, and he had photograph is now as safe as if it were in the fire." client is a matter of less moment to me than the interest of his without wincing, though he bit his lip from time to time. society, and so systematic its methods, that there is hardly a cared to confess, I still shook my head and declared my intention dear old homesteads?" broadest part, as this was. I then glanced at her face, and, late." scrawled upon one side. It was pierced in the brim for a Ryder passed his tongue over his parched lips. "I will tell you At first it was but a lurid spark upon the stone pavement. Then "Which are?" no time to be lonely, for within an hour there arrived a before this gentleman anything which you may say to me." running up to the lodge to say that he had found his father dead me in several of my cases, and a lucky chance has made it what they are. But that is a mere detail. I have taken you fully in, he had on neither collar nor necktie. "I have devised seven separate explanations, each of which would "It is easy for me to be so, for every event of that dreadful fatal, or if they may be explained away. But what in the name of while I continue to retain the hat of the unknown gentleman who yourself that the League has a vacancy, and there is the address at a side door. her, the yellow light from my lamp beating upon her eager and