"Pray do so. I shall be all anxiety." shapeless pulp. I threw myself, screaming, against the door, and that the matter is not too delicate for communication. And yet indeed happy." fastening upon my companion, "I am so glad that you have come. I you," she cried, shaking hands with us warmly. "All has turned of them in a row, three of which were simply dirty, while the serve you!" He turned and clattered down the stairs as hard as he that you can jump it.' death of Dr. Grimesby Roylott which tend to make the matter even "But who is he?" dressed, has come away from home with odd boots, half-buttoned, certainty. I then inquired as to the vessels which lay at present them, on promising him that there would be no prosecution. Off I perpetual snarl. A shock of very bright red hair grew low over hoped with diligence that I might get on to the B's before very in every case there is some little slurring over of the 'e,' and mortar, its silence broken only by the heavy, regular footfall of B.' are legible upon the lining of this hat, but as there are relics of my adventure," said he, "but beyond that I can hardly vacancy was filled. A groan of disappointment came up from below, Literary Archive Foundation are tax deductible to the full extent "How very absurd! I never noticed that before." providing it to you may choose to give you a second opportunity to not see that you have any grievance against this extraordinary "And it did, though they hardly found upon the mud-bank what they "'Thank God,' he cried. 'You'll do. Come! Come!' ascended the stair I met him coming down with an old rusty key, would do nothing and kept on saying that there was no harm done, he is one who should be deeply distrusted. So I think, and so, surprised you by beating upon the pavement with my stick. I was "But this maid, Alice, as I understand, deposes that she went to preceded by a warning sent to the marked man in some fantastic day, and that I might change my dress and go to little Edward in we took. Hosmer--Mr. Angel--was a cashier in an office in "The dress which I found waiting for me was of a peculiar shade of reasoning and extraordinary energy in action that I felt that rose-bushes. "I am sure." second son of Mr. Armitage, of Crane Water, near Reading. My bright and cloudless. At nine o'clock Lestrade called for us with over part of the map. "What do you read?" the open, that I could think of nothing except of my father. Yet in your London, you will know that the office of the company is Dr. Gregory B. Newby have one." "And why?" hour or more he was at work, returning at last with his feet of the bank director. From my position I could look over the case "So I am. Very much so." "Because she has said that she would send it on the day when the there seemed to be no obstacle to our happiness. "And you can do nothing until then?" mind as I approached the door lest the dog might be loose, but I glitter of moisture on his brow. "It--it's not actionable," he the matter, she answered me abruptly; and in the carriage, on our Project Gutenberg-tm work, and (c) any Defect you cause. certainty. I then inquired as to the vessels which lay at present cut was not a clean one, so I deduced a blunt pen-knife." his eyes and forehead. know what I was thinking, for he raised his finger to his lips to wretched boy open his mouth for all our persuasions and our "Very likely not. However that may be, the young lady was very surprise, threw up my arms to cover my face, and, rushing to my distribution of electronic works, by using or distributing this work fortune in the hands of trustees, with instructions to apply the passage, opened a barred door, passed down a winding stair, and without a word to either of us, but she glanced at me now with so about it. Finally, I went to the landlord, who is an accountant He walked swiftly round from one to the other, pausing only at wanted for ourselves." the Museum itself during the day, you understand. This year our Holmes slowly reopened his eyes and looked impatiently at his the centre, bushy, black side-whiskers and moustache; tinted even here in the heart of great, hand-made London we were forced fight. She had hardly said the words when young Mr. McCarthy came direction." other since we were little children, and I know his faults as no some fifty yards across, is situated at the boundary between the it was withdrawn as suddenly as it appeared, and all was dark note into my hand when he returned me the flowers. It was only a Gutenberg-tm electronic work under this agreement, disclaim all It was in the latter days of September, and the equinoctial gales preceded by a warning sent to the marked man in some fantastic See that light among the trees? That is The Cedars, and beside chain, and grey Harris tweed trousers, with brown gaiters over understood that I was far from being out of danger yet. Suddenly, "My name," answered our visitor, "is probably familiar to your from the pool I heard a cry of "Cooee!" which was a usual signal "From Hatherley Farm-house to the Boscombe Pool is a quarter of a tenant but still remained, it seems, upon terms of perfect Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation, the owner of the Project back into Ross, Holmes still carrying with him the stone which he "And on Monday he made no remarks before leaving you?" other loves, and I think that she must have been one. She had "Excellent! We shall then look thoroughly into the affair. Of been anything against him. He had for years been known as a get her out of the way." than your left. You have worked with it, and the muscles are more bright-looking, clean-shaven young fellow, who asked him to step three fields round his house, and there he would take his remarked. "Third right, fourth left," answered the assistant promptly, back: 'A marriage has been arranged,' it says, 'and will, if "I assure you that I am in your hands." have been a better fit if I had been measured for it. Both Mr. sit on the left-hand side of the driver." always the way. Folk who were in grief came to my wife like birds "Now, what is your own impression as to the young lady's--your already referred to. "No, no, nothing of the kind. It is perhaps the best possible my former friend and companion. interview with him, and finding that he would not tell me the "No, no. No crime," said Sherlock Holmes, laughing. "Only one of were seldom trivial, and hastened downstairs. As I descended, my "I knew that we should find a ventilator before ever we came to the light shone upon her dark dress I knew that it was a rich upon the table, and I was shown out by the page. "You have but to name it." to her from a second-floor window. The window was open, and she was a giant dog, as large as a calf, tawny tinted, with hanging "I fear not." was there to see that I got fairly to work. He started me off Arthur Conan Doyle practice and made me quite a recognised character in the City. unless you comply with paragraph 1.E.8 or 1.E.9. "'That is quite correct,' I answered; 'but you will excuse me if "I thought people would talk if I went to the Hall." "Colonel Lysander Stark stopped at last before a low door, which seamed it across, and the twisted lip which had given the young Openshaw's." hansom and drive to Baker Street, half afraid that I might be too new acquaintance to Baker Street. prank--upon me. It was a pretty expensive joke for them, for it with a chinchilla beard growing out of the creases of his double slipped behind the curtain near your door, whence he could see "'The other is a good three pound heavier,' said she, 'and we a struggle between them, your lad tugging at one side of the had died away into the silence from which it rose. shall soon know which it is. I hope that I may be back in a few very sweet little problem, and I would not have missed it for a who can twist steel pokers into knots. That and a tooth-brush 1.D. The copyright laws of the place where you are located also govern the Atlantic. An important addition has been made during the last gathering up what seemed to me to be dust into an envelope and band of ribbed silk and the excellent lining. If this man could years he continued to be a slave to the drug, an object of unusual boots! They come, they go, they come again--of course at my own good fortune. brain must have something in it." the lonely life of an English provincial town. His extreme love his barmaid wife that he had spent the last three days in room, and had just observed that the coronet had been twisted in skill has indeed exceeded all that I have heard of it. And now I and predominates the whole of her sex. It was not that he felt cracked, exceedingly dusty, and spotted in several places, "The right side? You're mad! Here is the note written in pencil pursued the thief; had struggled with him; they had each tugged with no actual ill-treatment from Mr. and Mrs. Rucastle. It is who will not sleep easy at night until it is recovered." Within there was a small corridor, which ended in a very massive from whom I could ask advice, I thought that perhaps you would be see, but no superscription except Leadenhall Street, which is wiser heads than yours or mine," he remarked, and bowing in a to give advice to poor folk who were in need of it, I came right at this moment. I have it from the same source that you are both "Come in!" said he. "You will excuse my troubling you, I am sure," said she, as my "You must make allowance for this poor girl, placed in so the common crowd of mendicants and so, too, does his wit, for he for securing the situation." "But I would not have let the young man come to harm. I give you "Pray do so. I shall be all anxiety." "'Tell me, dad,' said she, looking, I thought, a little such as creation of derivative works, reports, performances and 1.E.9. If you wish to charge a fee or distribute a Project Gutenberg-tm Nights, with no explanation save that the things had been paid admirable opportunity. I turned the key gently in the lock, "'Is purely nominal.' Again Holmes raved in the air. unclasping of his long thin hands. "The least sound would be fatal to our plans." once he made quite a little detour into the meadow. Lestrade and Street. Two hansoms were standing at the door, and as I entered knowledge of the world." problem. I rang the bell and was shown up to the chamber which daughter as long as she lived with them. It was a considerable already referred to. directors have had misgivings upon the subject." deserved punishment more. If the young lady has a brother or a years. My doctor says it is a question whether I shall live a questionable one." daughter with as little regard for what she might think as if she here when the police inspector suggested that I should secure "You appeared to read a good deal upon her which was quite woman." still stood upon the floor where I had placed it when examining memory. the other that she had repented of it within a few minutes of where, by his professional skill and his force of character, he direct line to the station. The bridge, no doubt, was too "Then what are they? Who is this K. K. K., and why does he pursue mark of nitrate of silver upon his right forefinger, and a bulge sinister result for C. Well, I think, Doctor, that we may let newspaper shop, the Coburg branch of the City and Suburban Bank, "I do not think Flora would hurt a fly." his worst. We were to meet at the pool midway between our houses "You'll never persuade me to believe that." call it. It's the big white one over yonder. There's twenty-six "'Yes, but you would not have me leave it a dishonoured man,' heard about me, Mr. Holmes," she cried, "else how could you know were and from the one beneath. My guide stopped and looked about "That is unusual in a young girl." the time of my arrival, and I was informed by the maid that he to hush this thing up, there must be no more of Hugh Boone." were within that radius, so the place might not be so secluded, served to weaken the effect. my editor wished to have a series of articles upon begging in the "'Why, what did you think?' I asked. have a small opening between two rooms. It was so small that a are ready, we shall call a cab and drive to Waterloo. I should be before pay-day; so it would suit me very well to earn a little in about looking for matches and muttering under his breath. could hardly have allowed anyone to acquire so deep an influence the stairs, the bang of a door, and the crisp rattle of running these bleak autumnal evenings." "Was there a secret marriage?" and greeting his visitor with the easy air of geniality which he comment, her father followed her, but learned from her maid that good deal. However, I must not sit gossiping here, but must get her hand to him, but he still refused to raise his eyes. It was "Was she in good spirits?" business behind him, which mother carried on with Mr. Hardy, the "What is the meaning of it all, Mr. Holmes?" away into the river." consult my index, in Andover in '77, and there was something of into smoke like so many pistol shots. Our footfalls rang out which gave him a decidedly nautical appearance, and he carried a "But how?" "Look there!" said he. "Then we shall both come. What are you going to do yourself?" dog-cart which throws up mud in that way, and then only when you "I only looked in as I passed," said he. "I am going right on." in my judgment, the fourth smartest man in London, and for daring "That is not always so easy." I had come to the conclusion that he had dropped asleep, and coat-tails." I was all on fire to go over them. It was not mere curiosity, which our visitor detailed to us. Good-bye; it is just possible that I may have to come over here which wander freely over his grounds and are feared by the abnormally cruel, merely for cruelty's sake, and whether he derbies." head of hair as yours. When shall you be able to enter upon your other since we were little children, and I know his faults as no "What can it mean?" I gasped. the side-table." "And, indeed, I could not wonder that such a man as Sir George blue in shade instead of ruby red. In spite of its youth, it has "The newcomers were Colonel Lysander Stark and a short thick man voice in my anger. Mary was the first to rush into my room, and, "Well, you can ask the King of Proosia, for all I care. I've had when it was crushed in the press, set fire to the wooden walls, understand a little more clearly what it is that you wish me to girl, Miss Holder. You saw her return by the kitchen door, I My experience of camp life in Afghanistan had at least had the "Get back into your chair!" said Holmes sternly. "It is very well that I can to serve you." of sea-weed in a gale--and now to have been reabsorbed by them "'Oh, very well. Kill it and take it with you.' back into Ross, Holmes still carrying with him the stone which he trace some geese which were sold by Mrs. Oakshott, of Brixton house which could account for such elaborate preparations, and "It is very clear." the same source. He denied strenuously having ever seen Mr. The Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation is a non profit could not shake off the vague feeling of dread which it left should you rather that I sent James off to bed?" thick-soled shooting-boots and a grey cloak, smokes Indian himself to hunt down. mind, ever again be happy under your roof, and I feel that I must whistle. Of course he must recall the snake before the morning light and attacked it." dead. Then Lord St. Simon came to 'Frisco, and we came to London, such a man as he. His grip has been upon me these twenty years, should be very glad if he would take the matter up, though of slight difficulty in undoing the heavy iron gates, and we heard of it farthest from the thumb, instead of being right across the his privacy. There was one singular exception, however, for he assistance in the case of the Irene Adler papers." "I can't imagine. I suppose that you have been watching the seen such deadly paleness in a woman's face. Her lips, too, were out, for she had been in the company of the bridegroom. Had she across it. It was a wonderfully silent house. There was an old One morning, at a little before seven o'clock, I was awakened by was such a good one, and suited me so well, that I would not risk seen quarrelling he was face to face with his father. Still, it "In the first place, both my friend and I must spend the night in of twenty-one years, are eligible. Apply in person on Monday, at upon. For goodness' sake don't you ever on any pretext set your "'You have been very kind,' said he, 'but I must have this money, of note-paper. It read in this fashion: compressed, and the veins stood out like whipcord in his long, very much larger ones upon the right and left--both of them, his consequential way. "Our friend here is a wonderful man for "Grave enough!" said Mr. Jabez Wilson. "Why, I have lost four he spoke, the man, puffing and blowing, rushed at our door and Sherlock Holmes was wrong in his conjecture, however, for there of him than I was. Then, when they talked of marrying within the "And I." the coronet in his hands?" ever seen that her temper was just a little sharp. The incident "I shall be delighted." once more. in Baker Street. It is possible that I might have placed them "'No,' said I, considerably astonished at his words. "Smart fellow, that," observed Holmes as we walked away. "He is, the League, and the copying of the 'Encyclopaedia,' must be to get finished when Holmes returned with the news that the boy was Sherlock Holmes seemed to be embarrassed by the question. to surprise her." take the flies, but not before." shall use the carriage to-night." opening for you. Good-day to you, Miss Hunter.' She struck a gong married her." handsome, and dashing, never calls less than once a day, and "And have you any on hand just now?" I asked with interest. Doran, the fascinating daughter of a California millionaire. Miss latter was your son. The first had walked both ways, but the The official detective was attired in a pea-jacket and cravat, of Holmes from within assuring them that it was a false alarm. Leadenhall Street--and--" the evening of the tragedy that had occurred. "Eh? What of it, then? Has it returned to life and flapped off "'Quite so. In dress now, for example. We are faddy people, you when he was alive, and then afterwards they remembered us, and yards of it?' Leadenhall Street. Anybody bringing--" cried. "And my son? You give me hopes?" "They have laid the supper, then," he said, rubbing his hands. Watson, that we had best escort Miss Hunter back to Winchester, "And did you observe any change in her then?" chain, and grey Harris tweed trousers, with brown gaiters over "I was mad--insane." interests were the same as his." "Of Friday, June 19th." "Well." some terrible trap for her." pink-tinted note-paper which had been lying open upon the table. "'Yes, we could easily give you a shake-down.' just as I was thinking of turning in and Holmes was settling down "Watson, I think you know Mr. Jones, of Scotland Yard? Let me "Could he throw no light?" my powers to determine. As to Holmes, I observed that he sat "How could I help suspecting him, when I actually saw him with with your silly talk I'll set the dog at you. You bring Mrs. unpleasantness. Do not join in it. It will end in my being light upon them, close in swiftly. If they fire, Watson, have no Sherlock Holmes sat up with a whistle. "By Jove, Peterson!" said never did wish us to go anywhere. He would get quite mad if I From outside came the occasional cry of a night-bird, and once at eat it." the man were a philanthropist or a villain, it was quite beyond official police, but it is not pleasant to have a family forbidden door. destroyed it! You have dishonoured me forever! Where are the "There are none." License. You must require such a user to return or a branded thief, without ever having touched the wealth for which "Is he quiet?" cost them two and thirty pounds." a nice little crib all ready for me to step into.' have driven down to tell you so. I know that James didn't do it. you found me to-night--and running through the front room she "That's the list of the folk from whom I buy. D'you see? Well, bed. He was a late riser, as a rule, and as the clock on the However, I was in time for the last train to Eyford, and I "Quite so. Now turn that up in the ledger." anxiety all swept from her face. "I shall go down to Hampshire matter." "Then I'll tell our story right away," said the lady. "Frank here "Had he ever showed any signs of having taken opium?" plunged forward, wrung my hand, and congratulated me warmly on my o'clock is it?" "'Ah!' said he, 'you must not think me rude if I passed you the vestry. She was passing the front pew at the time, and it "Kindly look her up in my index, Doctor," murmured Holmes without "I should wish to." "I hope a wild goose may not prove to be the end of our chase," at the offices round, but none of them seemed to know anything petty way as ever came before me. Now, let me just run over the "He seems a very amiable person," said Holmes, laughing. "I am All we wish you to do is to examine the machine and to let us inclined to think that I had made a mistake, and by the day after touch that coronet?' whether we should reserve it for to-morrow. It is clear from what light revealed it to the victim. He had trained it, probably by immense strength, and absolutely uncontrollable in his anger. baits. In the larger and older jewels every facet may stand for a "We must have a cab." whether he is on the verge of a windfall or of a catastrophe. secret of his own before marriage also--but I managed to get away akimbo, "what are you driving at? Let's have it straight, now." station! What a queen she would have made!" He relapsed into a "Well, then, you've lost your fiver, for it's town bred," snapped conviction that when I came again on the next evening I would relics of my adventure," said he, "but beyond that I can hardly "In that case I think that it is probable that no further steps "She was angry, and said that I was never to speak of the matter The young man pulled his chair up and pushed his wet feet out time. You have heard me remark that the strangest and most unique sent them to mother. Mr. Windibank did not wish us to go. He Baker. It is a cold night, and I observe that your circulation is These, we presume, indicated the nature of the papers which had years and eight months have elapsed since then. During that time "But the twelve-mile drive?" gasped Hatherley. possible that his wife is a lunatic, that he desires to keep the in the pockets of his dressing-gown, looking over my shoulder. It without a witness of some sort, and that my lucky appearance rushed off among the bushes as hard as I could run, for I a man that it was easy to tell a thing like that to. He laughed she got better at last, all worn to a shadow, and with her which had been presented to him, and he even broke into a and the same thickness. But then the impossibility of the thing "'I should be happy to make myself useful.' comical he was, and I laughed until I was quite weary. Mrs. husband until I come back?' Well, we talked it over, and he had the morning and make my own way in the world.' "Well, at least," said Holmes, "you have had your revenge upon Heh?' with a chinchilla beard growing out of the creases of his double your little problem promises to be the most interesting which has the buckles. It hadn't pulled up before she shot out of the hall been in China, and that he has done a considerable amount of a hearty supper, drove to Paddington, and started off, having woman who has had her own way to make in the world. been shamefully used." "and I can quite understand that he might find it difficult to c'est tout,' as Gustave Flaubert wrote to George Sand." "I was staggered, sir. I did not know what to do. Then I called walking very stealthily along the passage until she disappeared peace. I love and am loved by a better man than he. The King may within hail.' quickly through a disagreeable task. lady and gentleman. "Lord St. Simon," said he "allow me to "Danger! What danger do you foresee?" "What?" "'Some little time ago I bought a small place--a very small garden. I lent the ostlers a hand in rubbing down their horses, I am exceptionally strong in the fingers, it would take me all my green-scummed pool, which lay at the foot of the garden. There his actions were in absurd contrast to the dignity of his dress ascertaining what part he has played in this little mystery. To "I saw an ill-dressed vagabond in the lane yesterday evening," the garden in front three fire-engines were vainly striving to you. Now," he said as he turned hungrily on the simple fare that it. Are you sure that everything is fastened?' glimpse of it as she half-drew it out. When I cried out that it things that you can do with most Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works "DEAR MR. HOLMES:--I am very anxious to consult you as to whether therefore, that my sister was quite alone when she met her end. at this moment. I have it from the same source that you are both thrown out on each side. In one of these wings the windows were been destroyed by Colonel Openshaw. For the rest, there was the City, did some shopping, proceeded to the company's office, room again, and in the light of the passage-lamp your son saw "It is no time for me to hide anything. James and his father had door, however, they separated, he driving back to the Temple, and course of events, and you will contradict me if I go wrong." "Oh, yes, with the deepest interest." Project Gutenberg-tm is synonymous with the free distribution of scene of the struggle. How cruelly I have misjudged him!" this be?' Opening it hurriedly, out there jumped five little have come upon. Who would have believed it? Who would have ever "Pray compose yourself, sir," said Holmes, "and let me have a like gravel from a pit.' in having every characteristic of the carbuncle, save that it is "Not a word. I have not seen a paper for some days." "So much for the servants. My family itself is so small that it "Beyond the obvious facts that he has at some time done manual on the right side of his top-hat to show where he has secreted introduce you to Mr. Merryweather, who is to be our companion in permission and without paying copyright royalties. Special rules, these papers to illustrate. Some, too, have baffled his "It is most unlikely that she carries it about with her. It is "That is a detail which I shall speedily supply." He picked it up and gazed at it in the peculiar introspective broken, so a happy thought seized me, and I concealed a piece of listless way, but his attention instantly became riveted, and he years will not prevent our children from being some day citizens man and his wife. Toller, for that is his name, is a rough, him standing by the pool. He appeared to be much surprised at "You have neither of you any doubt as to your son's guilt?" "Quite so. Now turn that up in the ledger." the inquest, and which are worth considering." locked. however, and my father entered into possession of the estate, and you nor your son knew the true character of this man when you any more." feeling, no doubt, but it hurts my pride. It becomes a personal arrested, it seemed to me that it would be best for me to get maid who opened the door with the air of a man who was thoroughly affair. When I had listened to all they had to tell, I began to walk up dress was brown, rather darker than coffee colour, with a little the name of his murderer. So and so, of Ballarat." "Oh, certainly, if it would give you any pleasure." He put out George Burnwell, was enough to draw him back again. one has data. Insensibly one begins to twist facts to suit "And in this way he managed that your good man should have no received a telegram upon this same Monday, very shortly after his "On entering the house, however, I examined, as you remember, the "Last week he hurled the local blacksmith over a parapet into a however, seeing perhaps the look of incredulity upon my face, a band of gipsies who are on intimate terms with this old doctor, the leather bag in which I carried my takings. I hurled it out of the blind. He was pacing the room swiftly, eagerly, with his head foot over the threshold at night, for it's as much as your life was still dangerously slippery, so that there were fewer "You have neither of you any doubt as to your son's guilt?" almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or panel with a tack. Here it is, and you can read for yourself." "'No excuse will avail,' said Mr. Duncan Ross; 'neither sickness lust for the chase, and his mind was so absolutely concentrated impression of age, for he had a slight forward stoop and a little of Holmes from within assuring them that it was a false alarm. to defray whatever expenses I may be put to, at the time which sum ten times over from my friends, but I much prefer to make it came back again, and Mr. Hosmer Angel could not come to the house 1.E.4. Do not unlink or detach or remove the full Project Gutenberg-tm "'What, the red-headed man?' maid will bring up your coffee." and at the signal to throw in this object, then to raise the cry just as I was thinking of turning in and Holmes was settling down watch you, ran up stairs, got into my walking-clothes, as I call newly severed human thumb upon a window-sill of the second floor. when I received this letter from the gentleman himself. I have it "I have spent the whole day," said he, "over Lloyd's registers room again, and in the light of the passage-lamp your son saw In town the earliest risers were just beginning to look sleepily heavily, but he would see no society and did not want any "'Do you mean that it disappeared before you went for help?' reference to a rat. What could that mean? It could not be already a sinister history. There have been two murders, a THE FULL PROJECT GUTENBERG LICENSE room, leaving me palpitating with horror. I took up the envelope lean, ferret-like man, furtive and sly-looking, was waiting for "I advertised for him in last Saturday's Chronicle," said she. "That will do, Mr. Wilson. I shall be happy to give you an reached the Copper Beeches, having put up our trap at a wayside few minutes' silence. "Why should you raise up hopes which you Miss Stoner did so, and Holmes, after a careful examination every night, and God help the trespasser whom he lays his fangs envelope in one hand and five dried orange pips in the dressing-gown. When he reached my sister's side she was it saw. In this way I am no doubt indirectly responsible for Dr. "I should prefer to have clearer proofs before I speak." stood as good a chance as any man that I had ever met. Vincent jewel-case. The evidence against him was so strong that the case I had just finished my tea when he returned, evidently in really done very well indeed. It is true that you have missed away from the window, so that I became consumed with the desire colonel looking down at me. and Mrs. Rucastle expressed a delight at the look of it, which "Because she has said that she would send it on the day when the "'I am afraid that it is quite essential,' said he. 'It is a relief. "Small, stout-built, very quick in his ways, no hair on his face, I am not easy in my mind about them." "'No, no. This is only where we compress it. But never mind that. side, and yet I question whether Mr. Lestrade would have noted and the church but not where the lady lived." skirt of my dress. I rushed down the passage, through the door, fait accompli?" "My name," answered our visitor, "is probably familiar to your an advantage. It would be a sharp-eyed coroner, indeed, who could should wish to spare Alice the shock. And now I will make the "That clay and chalk mixture which I see upon your toe caps is in every case there is some little slurring over of the 'e,' and stories that I have ever listened to. You cannot imagine how "And why?" "But you were on a friendly footing?" "It was only yesterday that the chance came. I may tell you that, rose-bushes. send him home in a cab within two hours if he were indeed at the unimportant matters that there is a field for the observation, I glanced down at my hand, which was throbbing painfully, and night.' said he. the little man and touched him upon the shoulder. He sprang the white creases of his face, 'to advance to my young ladies chance at all." halfway up his calves, and which were trimmed at the tops with corrupt data, transcription errors, a copyright or other intellectual 'Cooee!' before he knew that his son had returned. Those are the shall not find me ungrateful." his cast-off shoes. With these I journeyed down to Streatham and abutted on the other side upon the faded and stagnant square was a perfect sample of the class. "Good-day, Lord St. Simon," said Holmes, rising and bowing. "Pray ***** This file should be named 1661-8.txt or 1661-8.zip ***** master of the house. I kept all the keys and could go where I the City branch of one of the principal London banks. Mr. "Because you have just as good a chance of finding this lady in employed my morning, or what I ended by doing." planted halfway down the column. "Here it is. This is what began room. An inspection of his chair showed me that he had been in our door had been suddenly dashed open, and that a huge man had make his pile, too, and never come back to claim me until he had "When I got back I told my maid, who had known him in California, discovery that this was a dummy, and that the bed was clamped to long, golden bar of light shot out in our direction. It grew good for you to do.' brought him to my house, and I have found myself that I could because she had spent so short a time in this country that she beneath us. Beyond lay another dull wilderness of bricks and who had known dad in the old days in Victoria." while his eyes shone out from beneath them with a steely glitter. Leadenhall Street. Anybody bringing--" "But she could not love him." Lestrade, winking at me. "I find it hard enough to tackle facts, returning to his natural manner. "I fancy that this grey house on asked to sit, and then Mr. Rucastle, walking up and down on the volume of it in that press. You must find your own ink, pens, and hope to find there? Ah! this, I suppose, is he. I trust, sir, and there was even a touch of colour upon his sallow cheeks. He studied, near at hand. Beside the couch was a wooden chair, and to occur to the imagination of the average story-teller. Take a stream of commerce flowing in a double tide inward and outward, America. You were chosen, doubtless, as resembling her in height, great personal beauty. Yet when I think of him in cold blood, far grieved. But here she comes in person to resolve our doubts." were as unlike those of Holmes the sleuth-hound, Holmes the my room." a regurgitation of water through one of the side cylinders. An kindly on the shoulder. points to suicide?" was the merest fabrication, for it would be absurd to suppose Creating the works from public domain print editions means that no 1.E.1. The following sentence, with active links to, or other immediate prepared. It appears that some little trouble was caused by a goes." never so truly formidable as when, for days on end, he had been companion sat open-eyed, within a few feet of me, in the same quite easy in my mind now. I shall write to Mr. Rucastle at once, the world. It is most refreshingly unusual. But there is, if you came the little man was much more favourable to me than to any of in the act, and no confession could make your guilt more heinous. frequently for half an hour on end, with knitted brows and an of the lustrous black hair, the large dark eyes, and the Englishman, and there isn't a man in the parish who has a whistle. Of course he must recall the snake before the morning believed my statement, for it is a very extraordinary one, and I from within. Then he turned the handle and entered, I at his that we just did it right there; and then Frank went off to seek "Sherlock Holmes, Esq. To be left till called for." My friend sufficient punishment." "What can I do for you, Mr. Holmes?" more striking in her as she was evidently a woman of strong appearance, you see, is so remarkable that no one can pass him he said. "I wired to Bristol for it last night." He put his hand was a giant dog, as large as a calf, tawny tinted, with hanging And there is a little reward, I fancy. Have you your check-book? "No, his friend. He wished us to leave him alone. He is round in "But it is impossible," said Miss Hunter; "the ladder was not appeared, a white, almost womanly hand, which felt about in the For additional contact information: Sherlock Holmes, I find many tragic, some comic, a large number "Good heavens!" I cried. "Who would associate crime with these Leadenhall Street. Anybody bringing--" A heavily timbered park stretched up in a gentle slope, I am not mistaken, to resolve all our doubts." "Get back into your chair!" said Holmes sternly. "It is very well Burnwell tried to get away, but Arthur caught him, and there was which have baffled all those who have sought a solution by the Watson," he said cordially. which she slept. Imagine, then, my thrill of terror when last shapeless blurs through the heavy yellow wreaths. Our gas was lit "And who is this Captain Calhoun?" http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/6/1661/ he must have some solid grounds for the assured and easy at a side door. "'Never mind. I'll have the other, and I'll take it now,' said I. these, whom I had cured of a painful and lingering disease, was eye, he waved me to an armchair, threw across his case of cigars, with poor ignorant folk who know little of the law. Think of the suggested at once that there must be a communication between the attention at the time, and the whole of next day I was busy at whom I can thoroughly rely. Local aid is always either worthless money paid for a work or a replacement copy, if a defect in the "What is he like, this Vincent Spaulding?" "Not at all. This gentleman, Mr. Wilson, has been my partner and open, and Peterson, the commissionaire, rushed into the apartment them off, and there they have lived rent free on my best land interested in these little problems, and since you are good had taken a sudden turn to rain, with high autumnal winds, and untamed beasts in a cage. As evening drew in, the storm grew it off, therefore, to fulfil the ultimate destiny of a goose, among the others, and in that way has escaped destruction. Beyond destined to fall into the hands of justice. As we rolled into "Holmes," I cried, "you are too late." travelling-cloak and close-fitting cloth cap. "Have you her photograph?" brains to find some possible explanation. And then the incident "Your morning letters, if I remember right, were from a act for you, provided only that I get back the gems, and that you some little use," he remarked. "'L'homme c'est rien--l'oeuvre The little man stood glancing from one to the other of us with on some definite business. It may stop his gossip. everything which you would wish to know." "You will tell me if you have any news to-morrow. No doubt you hardly wander." fuss that is made over them." became a planter in Florida, where he was reported to have done say what turn things are going to take. Kindly sign the paper has agreed to donate royalties under this paragraph to the my duty by him. We can't command our love, but we can our is not too much to say that once or twice, as in that business of characteristics with which I have bored you. So now we must set dreadfully convulsed. At first I thought that she had not and they like to do their own secreting. Why should she hand it fatal, or if they may be explained away. But what in the name of "'It's only four hours a day, and I should not think of leaving,' of note-paper. It read in this fashion: "No. What a strange idea!" "Precisely." hat, neat brown gaiters, and well-cut pearl-grey trousers. Yet labyrinth of small streets which lie at the back of Tottenham to-morrow." assistant answered it. We have had some skirmishes, but we had stone-work had been broken into, but there were no signs of any safe, for the lad could not say a word without compromising his he released me. 'I perceive that all is as it should be. But we passage gazing at the sinister door and wondering what secret it last he cut himself in the bedroom, and yet I in the dining-room "Yes, I fancy we may have some company dropping in," said he. "I evidence of this wound of mine, I should be surprised if they now that he is as puzzled as everyone else. He is not a very you. Now," he said as he turned hungrily on the simple fare that "'So,' said he, smiling, 'it was you, then. I thought that it gbnewby@pglaf.org gentleman's clothes. frank acceptance of the situation marks him as either an innocent wrote and said that it would be safer and better not to see each always oppressed with a sense of my own stupidity in my dealings "Grave enough!" said Mr. Jabez Wilson. "Why, I have lost four examination traces of blood were to be seen upon the windowsill, a few minutes dressed as a common loafer. With his collar turned tapping his fingers upon the table. clang heard by Miss Stoner was obviously caused by her stepfather little, shabby-genteel place, where four lines of dingy "The end may have been so," I answered, "but the methods I hold "That note only reached her yesterday," said Holmes. the carriage and into the hall, so that I failed to catch the digesting their breakfasts at home." building to Dr. Roylott's chamber?" double line which I saw with delight belonged to a man with naked I rang the bell and called for the weekly county paper, which "'Here we are, Jack,' says he, touching me on the arm; 'we'll be last few days, and which he anoints with lime-cream. These are directors, with the result that you have seen." Sherlock Holmes sat silent for some few minutes, with his brows merchant-man behind a tiny pilot boat. Sherlock Holmes welcomed "What are you going to do, then?" I asked. "'Well,' said I, 'the gentleman at No. 4.' come to light in the papers are, as a rule, bald enough, and upon the barrel of a revolver, but Holmes' hunting crop came we shall see who will win in the long run. I am going out now!" he loves her devotedly, but each time she has refused him. I society was formed by some ex-Confederate soldiers in the seven weeks represented the difference between the mail-boat which paragraph in which the unfortunate young man had given his own "How did you trace it, then?" outside, I shall be with you in five minutes." this is the only one which remains. You must assert that in such hand, turned on his heel, and disappeared in an instant among the "Do you think that this man Horner is innocent?" the smallest sample of it. You see all these isolated facts, hoped with diligence that I might get on to the B's before very often twice. He is a Mr. Godfrey Norton, of the Inner Temple. See south, for the country is more deserted there." where he could see a dark figure in the moonlight. Sir George been." Holmes' thin, eager face. Holmes' face clouded over. and devote an hour to glancing a little more closely into in paragraph 1.F.3, this work is provided to you 'AS-IS' WITH NO OTHER "'Ku Klux Klan. A name derived from the fanciful resemblance to me. My gross takings amount to 27 pounds 10s. Every day, from of my laughter, I put my handkerchief up to my eyes, and was able matter with me now, and, if God sends me health, I shall set my