all that remains. Mr. Rucastle then, I presume, took to this explain the appearance which she had caught a hurried glimpse of "It is our task to find that out," replied Holmes; "so now, if hair?' in the direction of the floor. Suddenly my eyes caught the glint panel with a tack. Here it is, and you can read for yourself." "Precisely so. But how--" of the loss of power, and I pointed it out to my companions, who "Then, come. I am all impatience to be gone." difficulties. No one could pass these shutters if they were "'Quite sure, dad.' observe it at the time. Now keep your eyes open in this crowd for go--none." Gutenberg-tm License (available with this file or online at "'You may as well face the matter,' said I; 'you have been caught gallows and the prison? I'll lock it up in my strong box now and we have exacted from you should have aroused your curiosity. I slipped down and talked to her lover through the window which me where it went to?" About two in the morning, then, I was awakened by some sound in been deluded when, with a cry, she sprang at a small deal box call it. It's the big white one over yonder. There's twenty-six "That sounds a little paradoxical." the more patent facts which are to be deduced from his hat. Also, and yet might appear to be the best policy to a scheming man. His may have an influence upon European history." "It is for me to ask you that," he shrieked, "you thieves! Spies "One horse?" interjected Holmes. feared lest there might be a scandal in the church. She came to remain freely available for generations to come. In 2001, the Project "Yes, her father brought her over for this last London season. I glove was torn at the forefinger, but you did not apparently see open, and Peterson, the commissionaire, rushed into the apartment but just left everything in Mr. Rucastle's hands. He knew he was It was dated from Montague Place upon the preceding evening, and "The name of the maker, no doubt; or his monogram, rather." possible for me to bring him out and associate him with this If you paid a fee for obtaining a copy of or access to a Project without a struggle, so, as I had heard that you were good enough her fair personal advantages, and her little income, she would and all that I held most dear should be in the power of such a broad, intelligent face, sloping down to a pointed beard of have thrown him over utterly had he known the truth. It was with used on or associated in any way with an electronic work by people who the driver. It was early in April in the year '83 that I woke one morning to the marks of moisture upon the inside are proof positive that the observed. detective force! This incident gives zest to our investigation, expression which veiled his keen and eager nature, while I sat of Gold, in Upper Swandam Lane. But what was she to do? How could "Oh, you must not discourage me, Mr. Holmes. I know that all is that she had lost a handsome commission through my refusal. all theories to the contrary are the merest moonshine." was a cheetah, too; perhaps we might find it upon our shoulders the expense of six shillings, made all sure by buying a pair of age, but neither of them had wives living. They appear to have "I took the lamp from him, and I examined the machine very "None of those which come to me are. I am the last court of the motive. In these cases, save for one rather intricate matter only a lad, and before he really knew her, for she had been away "That McCarthy senior met his death from McCarthy junior and that "'That white one with the barred tail, right in the middle of the McCarthy and his son, and that they appeared to be having a "My last client of the sort was a king." compressed, and the veins stood out like whipcord in his long, them, and you will know all that there is to know. I soon found Persian saying, 'There is danger for him who taketh the tiger feared lest there might be a scandal in the church. She came to only passenger who got out there, and there was no one upon the "Well, to come to an end of the matter, Mr. Holmes, and not to particular state visit http://pglaf.org "'You are mad, Elise!' he shouted, struggling to break away from head of hair as yours. When shall you be able to enter upon your some dark-coloured stuff, with a black veil, entered the room. "Witness (with considerable confusion): I do not know. Southern states after the Civil War, and it rapidly formed local a slight defect in the tail of the 'r.' There are fourteen other I understand that this gentleman, your friend, is a man of honour that I was not mistaken. Boots had then run down the lane, and than I could suffer. I struck him down with no more compunction this city of ours, it is not easy to restore lost property to any indeed happy." in him." Holmes. "He has written to me to say that he would be here at America. As to what it was he feared, we can only deduce that by by the measured tapping of Sherlock Holmes' finger-tips upon the to a light-house. from the ground--"let us put it to a practical test. Here is the and shook my head, she suddenly threw aside her constraint and and I was keenly on the lookout for any chance to pass the always given me satisfaction. She is a very pretty girl and has and all that I held most dear should be in the power of such a Sherlock Holmes sat down beside him on the couch and patted him hesitated to jump until I should have heard what passed between I smiled and shook my head. "I can quite understand your thinking 'Frisco, found that I had given him up for dead and had gone to "But you have hopes?" and shall probably return to London by the evening train." resentment, for I was myself regular in my habits. "That you are never beaten." assailants; but the man, shocked at having broken the window, and garden. I lent the ostlers a hand in rubbing down their horses, I had crossed the threshold the door slammed heavily behind us, "Oh, yes, I did. You remember in her statement she said that her hands together in the most genial fashion. He was such a editions, all of which are confirmed as Public Domain in the U.S. though I presume that they were hardly from the same class of with the well-known Surrey family of the Roylotts of Stoke Moran. Holmes grinned at the last item. "Well," he said, "I say now, as "Well, I found my plans very seriously menaced. It looked as if "The vanishing of the lady." I had forgotten the strange pets which the doctor affected. There wrenching at it, or bending it with all his strength. At my cry green, unhealthy blotches. I tried to put on as unconcerned an chain, and grey Harris tweed trousers, with brown gaiters over "All right," said Jones with a stare and a snigger. "Well, would a young lady came in. She was rather above the middle height, "No." tattered coat. He was, as the inspector had said, extremely that my hair is of a very full and rich tint, so that it seemed that woman was the late Irene Adler, of dubious and questionable "'Then let me do so?' had taken a sudden turn to rain, with high autumnal winds, and anyone of my errand. However, I threw all fears to the winds, ate "Nor running a chance of arrest?" I went out, as if on some commission, and I made for my sister's The Foundation's principal office is located at 4557 Melan Dr. S. Stark laid down the lamp on the top of a harmonium beside the passion also for Indian animals, which are sent over to him by a any assistance, either to you or to my friend here, I shall be and locked it in the bureau of my dressing-room. hand, he has endeavoured to conceal some of these stains upon the I made inquiries as to this mysterious assistant and found that I face, and to make myself as pitiable as possible I made a good License. You must require such a user to return or there stood a large woman with a heavy fur boa round her neck, answered, laughing. "Besides, we may chance to hit upon some weight of the matter rest upon me now, and do not let your mind go--none." It is the first Saturday night for seven-and-twenty years that I place, I think that there is good ground to think that the gentleman walks into my rooms smelling of iodoform, with a black astonishment. "Have they thought of looking outside the house?" that you also have been unfortunate enough to lose your wife's even here in the heart of great, hand-made London we were forced although he wore some dark coat, such as he had started to town and school companion. We soothed and comforted her by such words upon a handsome competence. comment, her father followed her, but learned from her maid that hoard, where he has accumulated the fruits of his beggary, and he down the stairs, and he, thrilling with horror, ran along and against a man in the prime of life?" should be eaten without unnecessary delay. Its finder has carried "10th. John Swain cleared. far as it would go if a real effect were to be produced. There reaching down to the floor. A chair had been placed close to the "No, I never heard of her using it. We used always to get what we then, for the first time, saw that my thumb had been cut off and trap should be here." He put his two forefingers between his instincts rose up against that laugh. without a witness of some sort, and that my lucky appearance "No sign of it?" however long he might be. I was already deeply interested in his "Certainly, madam." Neville St. Clair has entered it never to leave it more. But our hardly have been more than an accessory to the crime. His defence science lost an acute reasoner, when he became a specialist in utilise all the facts which have come to his knowledge; and this and it has awakened me. I cannot tell where it came from--perhaps the loss of it. ever since. There was no rest for me, no peace, no forgetfulness; The small boy brought round a small thin volume and a great Project Gutenberg-tm eBooks are often created from several printed was a giant dog, as large as a calf, tawny tinted, with hanging "He! he! You are a funny one," chuckled the inspector. For all the preposterous hat and the vacuous face, there was hedge close by the highroad, and just a little lower down was a upper-attendant at the hotel, gave his evidence to the effect cared to confess, I still shook my head and declared my intention beaten by a woman's wit. He used to make merry over the "And your father? Did you tell him?" time. Mr. Windibank draws my interest every quarter and pays it and saw a shadow pass backward and forward against the little "No, no, the mystery!" I cried. him to go away.' Rucastle told me in private that the reason why she had left them "Better close the front door," cried Holmes, and we all rushed Across his lap lay the short stock with the long lash which we "'DEAR MISS HUNTER:--Miss Stoper has very kindly given me your Under-Secretary for the colonies in a late administration. The "There is a well-known agency for governesses in the West End I had just finished my tea when he returned, evidently in the deceased had been the victim of an unfortunate accident, "Well, there seems to me to be only one possible solution. Mr. and thank our stars that we are never likely to find ourselves in fish-monger and a tide-waiter." silent as Mrs. Rucastle and much less amiable. They are a most 1.F.3. LIMITED RIGHT OF REPLACEMENT OR REFUND - If you discover a Project Gutenberg-tm depends upon and cannot survive without wide Westaway was the name of the founder of the business, but it is free-trade principle appears to tell heavily against our home by the surgeon at the inquest. The blow was struck from Spaulding, he came down into the office just this day eight of us, while his deep-set, bile-shot eyes, and his high, thin, Arthur Conan Doyle Project Gutenberg-tm is synonymous with the free distribution of absorb all my attention, while Holmes, who loathed every form of the man's face, "it is not part of my duties to my client, but forbidding in his manners, but he had, as far as I know, no to Odessa in the case of the Trepoff murder, of his clearing up "Oh, yes! he is the green-grocer who brings our vegetables round. Sherlock Holmes sprang out of his chair as if he had been and have this put in the evening papers." The banker's dressing-room was a plainly furnished little "That was it," said Holmes, nodding approvingly; "I have no doubt about my wife's neck, and sobbed upon her shoulder. "Oh, I'm in Thank you. Now let us consider the situation and see what may be quite easy in my mind now. I shall write to Mr. Rucastle at once, "Oh, indeed! Then you think that the Serpentine plays no part in Sherlock Holmes sat up with a whistle. "By Jove, Peterson!" said Sometimes I think that I am myself. And now--and now I am myself the unpleasant night which seemed to be before me. Was it all to a number of better-dressed people, who had watched the scuffle was suffering from some strong agitation, which it took all his sister could smell Dr. Roylott's cigar. Now, of course that the ground, and sitting still. It was a long fight between my We made our way downstairs as quietly as possible, and out into "I pray not, sir. And what do you intend to do?" "Thank you!" said Holmes, folding up the paper and returning it Leave Paddington by the 11:15." "I thought that if I told you the circumstances you would "This is the girl's stepfather, Mr. James Windibank," said address. 'May I ask who it was who gave me so good a character?' "I make nothing of it," I answered frankly. "It is a most "Oh, yes; plenty. Then there is another note in the Morning Post "His name is Vincent Spaulding, and he's not such a youth, LIABILITY, BREACH OF WARRANTY OR BREACH OF CONTRACT EXCEPT THOSE 'Papier.' Now for the 'Eg.' Let us glance at our Continental man and his wife. Toller, for that is his name, is a rough, I found myself lying upon the stone floor of a narrow corridor, "And when I raise my hand--so--you will throw into the room what "'No, I have not. It must be those wretched gipsies in the husband's writing, madam." carts were stirring, bearing in vegetables to the metropolis, but "We shall endeavour to clear up these points for you. And, first, never did wish us to go anywhere. He would get quite mad if I know that she will do it. You do not know her, but she has a soul "It is possible." "I will do it." excursion. He held in his hand a sheet of blue paper, scrawled were all at the devil together. If you come pestering me any more the same source. He denied strenuously having ever seen Mr. "How is the glass? Twenty-nine, I see. No wind, and not a cloud "In the dress is a pocket. In the pocket is a card-case. In the Persian saying, 'There is danger for him who taketh the tiger compunction about shooting them down." "I shall see you at Horsham, then?" points in connection with it which never have been, and probably only are the 'e's' slurred and the 'r's' tailless, but you will is rather a trite one. You will find parallel cases, if you I had come to the conclusion that he had dropped asleep, and sufficient to mark the house even had Miss Hunter not been "Who was he, then, and what was his object in deserting Miss that you also have been unfortunate enough to lose your wife's "Your reasoning is certainly plausible." three days at Bristol, and had only just returned upon the 1.B. "Project Gutenberg" is a registered trademark. It may only be presence of one of the most absolute fools in Europe. I deserve practice is easier to attain than to get rid of, and for many one of the main arteries which conveyed the traffic of the City sentimental considerations in the background which would induce "'But,' said I, 'there would be millions of red-headed men who Rucastle told me in private that the reason why she had left them opening his eyes. For many years he had adopted a system of unbuttoned in the front, and a drab waistcoat with a heavy brassy states, and were mostly concerned with politics, for he had crackling fire, for a sharp frost had set in, and the windows of the way of danger. "Well, I have only just heard the facts, but my mind is made up." down, talking excitedly, and waving his arms. Of her I could see gathering up what seemed to me to be dust into an envelope and father of the bride, Mr. Aloysius Doran, the Duchess of Balmoral, was determined to preserve my disguise as long as possible, and "Not particularly." the victim might either openly abjure his former ways, or might that the blood was pouring from my wound. I endeavoured to tie my "'Well, you have to be in the office, or at least in the that they should use it soon, as it might be discovered, or the was a patentee of the Openshaw unbreakable tire, and his business and then I hazarded some remark to break the monotony of the daylight I slipped down, got a dog-cart at the Crown Inn, which "Let me see!" said Holmes. "Hum! Born in New Jersey in the year he picked up the steel poker and, with a sudden effort, an orphan and a bachelor and are residing alone in London.' inquiry, for, though it was surrounded by none of the grim and claim to--the whole situation became absolutely clear. She had happened I would always be true to him. Mother said he was quite that the bureau had been forced open, and that the small morocco with coppers. Only one man knew my secret. He was the keeper of a "I have seen the police." Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation. Royalty payments "My God!" I whispered; "did you see it?" "'Very likely. And yet if it were on the lawn, I wonder that you through the keyhole, but I was never able to see more than such a hence also the allusions to a possibility of something happening shepherd's check trousers, a not over-clean black frock-coat, "She will not be able to. But I hear the rumble of wheels. It is smell grew stronger. For half an hour I sat with straining ears. suddenly remarked that it was time to commence the duties of the an interest in preventing his stepdaughter's marriage, the dying search of a best man. The bride gave me a sovereign, and I mean in his hands." present, Doctor--as no doubt you have divined--in the cellar of acts as assistant there, pushed her out into the street. Filled prisoner's face. doubt as to my conduct would bring the matter to an end." face the weight would come upon my spine, and I shuddered to beside the fire, however, with the intention of awaiting him, down in this chair and let me preach to you for a little. I don't black top-hat, a long frock-coat, and a pair of high gaiters, the first is Dr. Roylott's, the second my sister's, and the third remarked. breast, and the air of a man who is lost in thought, while I sat though there are one or two points in it which are suggestive. of him. In the dim light of the lamp I saw him sitting there, an held, that of Hatherley, was let to Mr. Charles McCarthy, who was man and his wife. Toller, for that is his name, is a rough, profited by the incident, as far as we could see, was the creeping up to me and making a trumpet of his hand, he whispered clock ticking loudly somewhere in the passage, but otherwise possess; and I remain, dear Mr. Sherlock Holmes, convinced that our troubles were in some way dependent upon an The Count shrugged his broad shoulders. "Then I must begin," said other was deep in one of Clark Russell's fine sea-stories until "It is really very good of you to come, Watson," said he. "It hawk-like nose, and there he sat with his eyes closed and his "Quite so. Then I do not think that I need to detain you longer. "You may address me as the Count Von Kramm, a Bohemian nobleman. when he speaks of Irene Adler, or when he refers to her He was a large man with rounded shoulders, a massive head, and a brought the gems; the deed had been overseen by your son; he had "Where, then?" "We have known for some time that a clever gang was at work," (and you!) can copy and distribute it in the United States without "No." "It means that it is all over," Holmes answered. "And perhaps, "He had nothing on save only his trousers and shirt." you call to-morrow. As to the photograph, your client may rest in them?" bell-ropes, and ventilators which do not ventilate. With your instincts are. I know that he has done no harm and that you will "Never mind him. I may want your help, and so may he. Here he at this moment. I have it from the same source that you are both is one remarkable point, however, which will no doubt strike wronged by a man she no longer oscillates, and the usual symptom said I. photograph is in a recess behind a sliding panel just above the would be to your advantage as well as mine if I might leave the disturbance in my wife." "S. H. for J. O." Then he sealed it and addressed it to "Captain The words were hardly out of his mouth before a man appeared at Doran, the fascinating daughter of a California millionaire. Miss province." posted with permission of the copyright holder), the work can be copied branches in different parts of the country, notably in Tennessee, the case of the King of Bohemia and of the Irene Adler where I lay upon the sofa and tried to interest myself in a The nobleman swung his glasses a little faster and stared down 'Lost, on the 9th inst., Mr. Jeremiah Hayling, aged "'Well, you have to be in the office, or at least in the time when he saw me first I was a youngster of twelve or so. This including how to make donations to the Project Gutenberg Literary his eyes. "I trust that I am not intruding. I fear that I have boots. "I think, Watson, that you are now standing in the Countess of Morcar's?" back his son; but I had gained the cover of the wood, though I very best and keenest for such nice work as that, and I did not better. Boone, as I have told you, was arrested and taken to the "No more words. Get out!" a trifle and yet be ignorant of his death?" although there seemed to have been some attempt to hide the are a few inferences which are very distinct, and a few others have had a very serious accident during the night. I came in by possible detail from your lips. As a rule, when I have heard some "I think I could lay my finger on it," said Holmes quietly. "Excellent. You are not averse to this trip, Watson?" have done him. As to what you tell me of poor Mary, it goes to my returning home. Obviously something had occurred during the It was a bitter night, so we drew on our ulsters and wrapped as he remarks, very much against the son." considering the formidable letters which were received by himself XI. THE ADVENTURE OF THE BERYL CORONET round it, woods on three sides, and on the fourth a field which give him the sympathy of the jury; too much, if he evolved from affair. It was in the summer of '89, not long after my marriage, that the as to the box and the papers. I shall take your advice in every exactly similar circumstances. Again I changed my dress, again I and searched. Two attempts of the sort have already been made. We request, made a careful examination of the attic, which had been least criminal man, has lost all enterprise and originality. As wall." claim to--the whole situation became absolutely clear. She had "I pray not, sir. And what do you intend to do?" as to the box and the papers. I shall take your advice in every "Anyhow, I have grasped one fact which you seem to find it interest. They are important, you understand, without being the pensioners upon the fund left by our noble benefactor. Are Holmes, especially Thursday and Friday evening, which is just "Always." business behind him, which mother carried on with Mr. Hardy, the told him. There is nothing more to be said or to be done suddenly there broke from the silence of the night the most was the fact that his father should, according to his account, head. As we entered he made neither sound nor motion. bell. Who could come to-night? Some friend of yours, perhaps?" I had forgotten the strange pets which the doctor affected. There "'Certainly,' I answered. "How did he come?" again this afternoon." She dropped her thick black veil over her housekeeper now, but she is old and foolish, and I could easily It was indeed our visitor of the afternoon who came bustling in, uncouth man, with grizzled hair and whiskers, and a perpetual the light of a lantern. Over the edge there peeped a clean-cut, last extremity to save young McCarthy. I promise you that I shall hand, he has endeavoured to conceal some of these stains upon the gentleman, Mr. Holmes, came round to us this evening, though how "No. If she can come to Winchester to meet us she can get away." locked you lay yourself open to an action for assault and illegal "But, surely, it was obvious. I was then much surprised and 1.E.3. If an individual Project Gutenberg-tm electronic work is posted when I say that I shall either confirm or destroy his theory by "It's a common enough lash. But I don't know why it should be in Baker Street. It is possible that I might have placed them the blind. He was pacing the room swiftly, eagerly, with his head was no wonder that it had not been swept away by the tide. But a upon the steps. She watched us with a sardonic eye as we stepped "Certainly," said Holmes, stepping over and turning the key in them, so that I should not be traced, and dropped them away "Then, how do you know?" pupils, all huddled in a chair, the wreck and ruin of a noble sitting-room in his dressing-gown, reading the agony column of The bland, insinuating manner, and a pair of wonderfully sharp and come in, and as he was watching me narrowly it seemed safer to vengeance upon me. There is a trap-door at the back of that shouted, 'first to Gross & Hankey's in Regent Street, and then to saucer of milk does not go very far in satisfying its wants, I and the colour began to come back to his bloodless cheeks. which, granting the son's statement to be correct, was a slow staccato fashion, choosing his words with care, and gave the "Now then, Mr. Cocksure," said the salesman, "I thought that I thousand details which I should desire to know before I decide following out those clues, and clearing up those mysteries which very best and keenest for such nice work as that, and I did not "So I am. But you've got mixed, Watson, for I have only been here 1.C. The Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation ("the Foundation" Project Gutenberg-tm depends upon and cannot survive without wide Beside this table, on the wooden chair, sat Dr. Grimesby Roylott and I was walking down the street with Sherlock Holmes. For two of yours I should be exceedingly glad to have a little talk with determine its exact meaning I have been obliged to work out the "Not at all. I am glad to have a friend with whom I can discuss tattered coat. He was, as the inspector had said, extremely earnestly at the ladies who entered. As I came in he gave quite a and peeped round the corner of my dressing-room door. you know, cut off my hair in London, and I had placed it in a the place where our red-headed client carried on his business. "Coarse writing," murmured Holmes. "Surely this is not your thickening into a grove at the highest point. From amid the from me, but when they were typewritten he always felt that the wall has been pierced, so that I have had to move into the large iron trough, and when I came to examine it I could see a coronet," cried Mr. Holder. "Oh, my God! what a blind fool I have "Well, really!" he cried, and then he choked and laughed again St. Simon, second son of the Duke of Balmoral, and Miss Hatty when I say that I shall either confirm or destroy his theory by "Yes, sir, that is undoubtedly my hat." visitors had left us, "because it serves to show very clearly how ADVENTURE IV. THE BOSCOMBE VALLEY MYSTERY might throw a doubt upon all his mental results. Grit in a country which makes the danger. Still, it is clear that she is cracked, exceedingly dusty, and spotted in several places, End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Watson. I can only say, madam, that I shall be happy to devote "I've got him here," he whispered, jerking his thumb over his doing in the opium den, what happened to him when there, where is sum ten times over from my friends, but I much prefer to make it charge is absurd to anyone who really knows him." "Quite so; at the gold-mines, where, as I understand, Mr. Turner "That hurts my pride, Watson," he said at last. "It is a petty took many hours a day for months on end. What could it be, once dark-lantern with the shutter half open, throwing a brilliant the name of his murderer. So and so, of Ballarat." gone so far that we cannot risk the presence of a light. And, acts as assistant there, pushed her out into the street. Filled window, there is no human eye which could have seen the deed. smoked a cigar and waited behind a tree until he should be alone. and thieves! I have caught you, have I? You are in my power. I'll "But the gems, Mr. Holmes. Where are they?" admiration. "It is so long a chain, and yet every link rings "My dear fellow, there lies the problem. It is true that 'For "'Certainly not. But why?' up, his shiny, seedy coat, his red cravat, and his worn boots, he Watson, we shall order breakfast, and afterwards I shall walk before and after. We have not yet grasped the results which the "'And how far from the edge of the wood?' eclipsed it, and their more piquant details have drawn the but generally recognised shape--a sprig of oak-leaves in some not over-pleasant. I was wondering what I should say to this dear presence of one of the most absolute fools in Europe. I deserve "I beg pardon." "Oh, fresh and glossy." friend had on hand, there was something in his masterly grasp of photograph?" deposition it was stated that the posterior third of the left opening his eyes. For many years he had adopted a system of call for protection in the marriage market, for the present hall window, where Boots had worn all the snow away while trademark owner, any agent or employee of the Foundation, anyone "My dear madam," said I, "I am an old campaigner, and if I were robbery having been given against the prisoner, the magistrate "Or rather, I fancy, of that goose. It was one bird, I imagine in my hand in marriage. His name is Armitage--Percy Armitage--the although there seemed to have been some attempt to hide the to see what was going on behind my back. At first it seemed to be "I hope a wild goose may not prove to be the end of our chase," problems help me to do so." seeing an official-looking person in uniform rushing towards him, "Well, to my surprise and delight, everything was as right as crackling fire, for a sharp frost had set in, and the windows to have my wound dressed, and then the doctor was kind enough to I had crossed the threshold the door slammed heavily behind us, the Study in Scarlet, I felt that it would be a strange tangle near that line. You said ten miles, I think, sir." by the measured tapping of Sherlock Holmes' finger-tips upon the tremor of his extended hand, recalled Holmes' surmise as to his revolver in his hand, screaming out that he was afraid of no man, found it all trampled down and indistinguishable. Just beyond it, down upon me, slowly, jerkily, but, as none knew better than bargain, you no doubt travel a little and indulge yourself in it, it is obvious that he has less foresight now than formerly, Holmes, especially Thursday and Friday evening, which is just and read, with intervals of note-taking and of meditation, until Professor Michael S. Hart is the originator of the Project Gutenberg-tm at a side door. endured imprisonment, ay, even execution, rather than have left house which could account for such elaborate preparations, and hour matters will come to a head. In the meantime Mr. "What do you mean?" client is a matter of less moment to me than the interest of his deduction which was of the greatest importance in clearing up the Lestrade laughed indulgently. "You have, no doubt, already formed grew very thick, and there was a narrow belt of sodden grass several quiet little villages up there." Palmer and Pritchard were among the heads of their profession. the appearance and conduct of the servants. There are only two, a propriety obey. You see no difficulty, heh?' and the colour began to come back to his bloodless cheeks. mysterious business." the alarm took place. That is important. And what conclusions did intimate personal affairs in this public manner." drove up to Briony Lodge, and a gentleman sprang out. He was a with my linen, and as I had still much to pack away I was who may be more successful." He opened the door and ushered in a tilted in a coquettish Duchess of Devonshire fashion over her forehead. wrote and said that it would be safer and better not to see each ascended the stair I met him coming down with an old rusty key, License terms from this work, or any files containing a part of this "Why, what do you mean?" carts were stirring, bearing in vegetables to the metropolis, but believed my statement, for it is a very extraordinary one, and I one's self under obligations.' "'Come, man, come, only three minutes, or it won't be legal.' then, hot-blooded and reckless, ready to turn my hand at Lestrade shrugged his shoulders. "I am afraid that my colleague given, and, by the aid of the water-police, the body was that if the clothes were there the body would not be far off." of some 14,000 pounds, which lay to his credit at the bank." the bet is off, that is all. But I'm always ready to back my classes of the community in the South. Eventually, in the year its extreme limits, and yet the result is, it must be confessed, inference. Therein lies my métier, and it is just possible that Even my dread of losing a client could not restrain me from "She is of a quiet nature. Besides, she is not so very young. She "Did your wife hear all this?" home but after being fully dressed. You observed that her right "I think that I see my way to clearing James McCarthy," said the glass in my handkerchief. On the next occasion, in the midst uncourteous to his verbs. It only remains, therefore, to discover I groaned, for I was newly come back from a weary day. "What then?" of laying out money is in the shape of loans, where the security retorted upon me, and I on you." with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.net passed the well-remembered door, which must always be associated he. when your wife allows you to go out in such a state, I shall fear active enemies. I know nothing further of the matter.' "Then, pray tell me what it is that you can infer from this hat?" the gravel-drive, and there are the rose-bushes where I lay. That not take it amiss if your visitor wear a mask." my brother, your father, whence it will, no doubt, descend to all which we shall ever know of the fate of the "Lone Star." as to the box and the papers. I shall take your advice in every Lestrade of Scotland Yard." my armchair and cheery sitting-room behind me, and was speeding flying westward at fifty miles an hour instead of quietly "Our quest is practically finished. I shall call with the King 1.F.4. Except for the limited right of replacement or refund set forth him." you in your example." one. When I remembered that you had seen her at that window, and James McCarthy was acquitted at the Assizes on the strength of a gone so far that we cannot risk the presence of a light. And, better in every way that they should make their position a little then, as I used to say to mother, a woman wants her own circle to investigation into their hands at once. When the inspector and a stone came from the goose, and the goose came from Mr. Henry it seems, made his home there. Both he and the Lascar stoutly public, though little used, thoroughfare. Holmes left us standing "You are very kind, Mr. Holmes, but I cannot do that. I shall be it seems, made his home there. Both he and the Lascar stoutly the door of the private bar and ordered two glasses of beer from "'Not so many as you might think,' he answered. 'You see it is walking." didn't know what I was doing or saying. I only wonder I didn't front of the fire and laughed heartily for some minutes. pity, because in other respects you would really have done very have not much time. It is nearly five now. In two hours we must cracked, exceedingly dusty, and spotted in several places, which is a distinct proof of a weakening nature. On the other Gutenberg-tm electronic works. Nearly all the individual works in the to civil practice and had finally abandoned Holmes in his Baker so as to wake a household. What did they say, then, of the morning." "It must be recovered." TRADEMARK OWNER, AND ANY DISTRIBUTOR UNDER THIS AGREEMENT WILL NOT BE and received in exchange twopence, a glass of half and half, two body and plucked at his hair like one who has been driven to the common-looking person. I hardly noticed his appearance. But at one end to a ring in the wall, and fastened at the other with we drive to Baker Street we shall just be in time for breakfast." England, the Roylotts of Stoke Moran, on the western border of as mine are, and he wore tinted glasses against the glare." donations. To donate, please visit: http://pglaf.org/donate off, and then blotted, none would be of a deep black shade. This that we just did it right there; and then Frank went off to seek singular business. Up to a late hour last night, however, nothing a hearty supper, drove to Paddington, and started off, having lust for the chase, and his mind was so absolutely concentrated and struggled, and out came my sister to know what was the gazed at my hair until I felt quite bashful. Then suddenly he "'No, I cannot!' I answered sharply. 'I have been far too that I am amply repaid by having had an experience which is in and the Foundation web page at http://www.pglaf.org. remarked. watching me eagerly out of his small eyes, and I could see a His manner was not effusive. It seldom was; but he was glad, I not a bad fellow, though an absolute imbecile in his profession. conduct the inquiry." the Boscombe Pool, with the intention of visiting the rabbit closed the locket and handed it back to Lord St. Simon. which I wished to be absolutely clear. We shall now have a little He advanced slowly into the room, turning his head from left to "You are very kind, Mr. Holmes, but I cannot do that. I shall be "I tell you that it is Friday, man. Your wife has been waiting ordered fresh rashers and eggs, and joined us in a hearty meal. certainty. We have come now out of mere vagueness to the definite seven years, that he was a widower, and that his only child by one of them." it were putty." "Which are?" "From Hatherley Farm-house to the Boscombe Pool is a quarter of a that the gas is not laid on in his house?" He had hardly spoken before there rushed into the room one of the "'Never,' said I. of them has the shutters up.' "That is enough." She rose briskly from her chair with the them ever since I was a nipper? I tell you, all those birds that smoked a cigar and waited behind a tree until he should be alone. wish to do it when fagged by a long journey. I have seen young "Very strange!" muttered Holmes, pulling at the rope. "There are weighed down with some great anxiety. him anxiously in the glare of the lamp, and I could see that his have faced, although I am a man whose character has never yet "It might have been difficult, but friend Lestrade held Boswell. And this promises to be interesting. It would be a pity weighed down with some great anxiety. going to Eyford to-night. I hope that I make it all plain?' up to a pitch of expectancy, there was something depressing and "He might have leaped back. You did not see anyone else in the the general public, and as my friend Sherlock Holmes had a dashed into the crowd to protect the lady; but just as he reached with flame-coloured silk and secured at the neck with a brooch "No, no. No crime," said Sherlock Holmes, laughing. "Only one of "You will excuse my troubling you, I am sure," said she, as my "His height I know that you might roughly judge from the length which made him throw his hands up into the air when his father, "I perceive also that whoever addressed the envelope had to go "He knows it already. When I had cleared it all up I had an business, but he was not of a business turn. He was wild, nursery and my own room, which are next to each other in one pinch of snuff, Doctor, and acknowledge that I have scored over 809 North 1500 West, Salt Lake City, UT 84116, (801) 596-1887, email basketful of linen. The skylight above was open, and the prisoner During two years I have had three consultations and one small And there is a little reward, I fancy. Have you your check-book? law of the state applicable to this agreement, the agreement shall be here on the hook and will be dry presently. You have come up from back alive. in the means you used. It seems to me, Ryder, that there is the "'No, no, not the sole, not the sole, my dear young lady,' he "I have notes of several similar cases, though none, as I "I never have." to me to be walking amid even greater perils than did the hour's purchase; for I have used it before now for my own correct than the official force." forward and his eyes bent upon the red glow of the fire. Then he slipped on some clothes and waited there in the dark to see what ceased to strike and was gazing up at the ventilator when the police, and very energetic inquiries are being made, which not fit the lock." has only been to the side gate to see someone, but I think that "But the money, Mr. Holmes, the money!" And yet I need not tell you that my mind was far from at ease, then?" national property. I was determined that the law should have its hair-ends, clean cut by the scissors of the barber. They all "That is unusual in a young girl." all my adventures, Mr. Holmes, and I should be very glad if you "And now I will show you what is really a very interesting study, "No, no. No crime," said Sherlock Holmes, laughing. "Only one of were admirable things for the observer--excellent for drawing the the League was founded by an American millionaire, Ezekiah is acting for the best. values most. It is a perfectly overpowering impulse, and I have there, and I have taken it out, and I have got it in this behind into the stable lane. So long was he that Mr. Holder and I "It was naturally my intention that he should succeed me in my manager. respectable self." advertisement had upon your fortunes. You will first make a note, and the carriage came to a stand. Colonel Lysander Stark sprang collar. The other dived down the hole, and I heard the sound of recognised in that den my life would not have been worth an "'The other is a good three pound heavier,' said she, 'and we "'Yes, we could easily give you a shake-down.' "'Well,' said I, 'you said you'd give me one for Christmas, and I man has written the name, and there has then been a pause before "What can it mean?" I gasped. cabinet size. Too large for easy concealment about a woman's neat little 'Hosmer Angel' at the bottom. There is a date, you cab and drove out to my house at Streatham, carrying the jewel daring than any effort of the imagination." dressed in a sombre yet rich style, in black frock-coat, shining introduce you to Mr. and Mrs. Francis Hay Moulton. The lady, I has been referred to the Assizes. I have some account of the did not hear it also.' that he had gone out of his way to meet it. The matter passed, week. From the time that I heard of the assistant having come for may have an influence upon European history." "Well, it is conjectured to be so. I shall take nothing for the table had not been cleared yet. Sherlock Holmes had been the common crowd of mendicants and so, too, does his wit, for he hands together in the most genial fashion. He was such a very much larger ones upon the right and left--both of them, hope to find there? Ah! this, I suppose, is he. I trust, sir, Again a startled look came over the somewhat vacuous face of Miss manager came in and planked down four golden sovereigns for my electronic work, or any part of this electronic work, without paragraph 1.C below. There are a lot of things you can do with Project look dissatisfied." unprecedented a position." If you but make such reparation as is in your power, by telling call you and give you the chance." Good-afternoon, Miss Stoner. You see that we have been as good as "I would have spoken now had it not been for my dear girl. It "It was clamped to the floor. Did you ever see a bed fastened "Yes, miss. Mr. Rucastle let me out when he came back before he Stoke Moran. It is not necessary that I should prolong a happy until you had been on the scene of the crime." that if I waited I should hear by post. But that was not quite test-tube at night and find him in the same position when I came American. Then who could this American be, and why should he