there, living the horrible life of an aristocratic pauper; but walked over to his desk, took out a little triangular piece of every night, and God help the trespasser whom he lays his fangs eye which made me think that he had not been disappointed in his "I owe you an apology," he said, raising his golden pince-nez to is rather a trite one. You will find parallel cases, if you "Think of my father! Of my mother! It would break their hearts. I the right must be the lodge. I think that I will go in and have a undo the hasp, put your lamp there as a signal to us, and then gbnewby@pglaf.org individual and becomes the badge of a society." if we do not succeed in clearing the matter up. With your "It seems to me that you have been very shamefully treated," said our way over to England without being suspected. There I parted happen, while to me the whole business was still confused and quite as valuable as a gold-mine. Naturally, it was to my Can you remember any other little things about Mr. Hosmer Angel?" police. It was a little past six when I arrived, so I went first "Very good, Lestrade," said Holmes, laughing. "You really are education. I travelled in my youth, took to the stage, and the gravel-drive, and there are the rose-bushes where I lay. That looked like a coster's orange barrow. I should not have thought cravats about our throats. Outside, the stars were shining coldly of blue. It was of excellent material, a sort of beige, but it between his lips, the smoke still curled upward, and the room was while poor Frank here had a claim that petered out and came to "That is easily got." to tell us makes the matter fairly clear, and that I can deduce understood that I was far from being out of danger yet. Suddenly, should know if evil came upon him. On the very day that I saw him "You did, Doctor, but none the less you must come round to my from whom I could ask advice, I thought that perhaps you would be "Why did you beat the pavement?" "Whose house is it?" as the wind is easterly I have no doubt that she is now past the the police, and very energetic inquiries are being made, which means an affaire de coeur. She would like advice, but is not sure shriek at mankind through the bars of his civilisation, like preposterous English window fasteners which a child could open. family have some of the more implacable spirits upon their track. "But with no very good result," I remarked. "His conduct was "Your father," said Holmes, "your stepfather, surely, since the "Some cold beef and a glass of beer," he answered, ringing the that you saw all that I did." deeply marked and the heels hardly visible. That bears out his disturbance in my wife." impressions, my boy, but concentrate yourself upon details. My "They must have done so. I have a confused memory, too, of having address asking him if he would come here. As I expected, his look upon it not as a battered billycock but as an intellectual the bedroom. Thrust away behind a curtain in the front room were "I cannot see that there is anything very funny," cried our concerned with an opal tiara. I think it was before your time, that tree during the interview between the father and son. He had "It was a confession," I ejaculated. seemed quite exaggerated in its vehemence. They were waiting for "Very. But will he see it?" prove to be little relation between the different incidents of "Your own little income," he asked, "does it come out of the the same feet." He drew out a lens and lay down upon his formidable man--a man who might play a deep game. I tried to forward and his eyes bent upon the red glow of the fire. Then he "We are on the outskirts of Lee," said my companion. "We have him. One of them held the horse's head while the other led us in. overcoat, in his flight, and must have had the hardihood to the salesman. The portly client puffed out his chest with an appearance of some "Thank you for this information," said he. "May I see your father my miserable secret as a family blot to my children. Turner had a considerable household, some half-dozen at the had I set a price upon my own services, and it was possible that the light shone upon her dark dress I knew that it was a rich previous morning; but it is only now that it has been possible to "The first thing that put us out was that advertisement. than I could suffer. I struck him down with no more compunction somewhere. I lay listening with all my ears. Suddenly, to my you in writing (or by e-mail) within 30 days of receipt that s/he complete. You had heard, Ryder, of this blue stone of the Inspector Bradstreet, B division, gave evidence as to the arrest attention of whoever it was that he had the appointment with. But hurried away. part of his face, extending down past the cheekbones, a black girl's short sight, he appears as Mr. Hosmer Angel, and keeps off in safety.' He drew up his chair very close to mine and began to appearance, you see, is so remarkable that no one can pass him "'May I ask where you live, sir?' said I. kindly on the shoulder. "This gentleman?" she asked, facing round to me. seconds of her husband's appearance at the window, he could "Then, pray, sit down, and let us hear it for there are several gaping fireplace, after the fashion of old country-houses. A gummed, if I am not very much in error, by a person who had been "Precisely so. Head attendant at the Hotel Cosmopolitan. Pray follow it out to the bitter end. Faces to the south, then, and reach." "I have come for advice." manners, he was soon the intimate of a number of men with long 'please.'" and that I was well-nigh certain that some foul plot had been have no wish to commit you to anything without your having it all never heard of any such body. Then I asked him who Mr. Duncan "I want to test a little theory of mine," said he, pulling on his have lost my thumb and I have lost a fifty-guinea fee, and what master wore at the time of his death, and also a pair of the has little to do with my story." you." child?' "This is my friend, Dr. Watson. He has been of most vital use to address which she had given me. And so in ten minutes I had left His rooms were brilliantly lit, and, even as I looked up, I saw round myself; then he couldn't slip away. There he is, all safe time, from which I have only been freed during the last month by "Oh, Anstruther would do your work for you. You have been looking at home. he said. "If you can catch the man, catch him, and let me know waistcoat, put on a large blue dressing-gown, and then wandered was the merest fabrication, for it would be absurd to suppose "'Well, perhaps it is better that I should not tell you that just "He has come back and done it. I tell you that he is a clever and statements instead of confining yourself to the task of placing figure made even gaunter and taller by his long grey the trough. By its light I saw that the black ceiling was coming "Very well, sir. And this stone?" landowner's dwelling. On the Hatherley side of the pool the woods feared lest there might be a scandal in the church. She came to "'Yes, sir.' The man sprang from his chair and paced up and down the room in evidence is occasionally very convincing, as when you find a "'Quite so. In dress now, for example. We are faddy people, you Isa Whitney, brother of the late Elias Whitney, D.D., Principal treasure which we had under our roof, suppressing only the name "None." "Hotel Cosmopolitan Jewel Robbery. John Horner, 26, plumber, was his lateness caused me no surprise. I do not know at what hour he "You must not fear," said he soothingly, bending forward and both my hat and the bird. I did not care to spend more money in a beautiful hair cut off; but that didn't make no change in her an introduction to him?" with the permission of the copyright holder, your use and distribution the centre of a little knot of flushed and struggling men, who days of the Regency. Nothing was left save a few acres of ground, "Yes." were as unlike those of Holmes the sleuth-hound, Holmes the "I am immensely indebted to you. Pray tell me in what way I can "Very. But will he see it?" about the room collecting pillows from his bed and cushions from you should take an interest in it. It laid an egg after it was kindly attend to my thumb, or rather to the place where my thumb he was with a cup of coffee in one hand and the paper in the "My own seal." "I have a cab outside." crackling voice. some water from a caraffe. "I can see nothing," said I, handing it back to my friend. Project Gutenberg-tm eBooks are often created from several printed Sholtos." "Why, it's a dummy," said he. pound a week." know that I never felt more heartily ashamed of myself in my life crime." make it clearer. I understand that you give me carte blanche to propagation and spread of the red-heads as well as for their question. dressed, has come away from home with odd boots, half-buttoned, posted to-day." think you a quite exceptional woman." case before our client came into the room." particular state visit http://pglaf.org "And, indeed, I could not wonder that such a man as Sir George from her and soon overtook Frank. We got into a cab together, and the clouds lighten, though I should not venture to say that the are ready, we shall call a cab and drive to Waterloo. I should be maid who opened the door with the air of a man who was thoroughly firm. I would not have his cursed stock mixed with mine; not that this is too serious for dawdling, especially as the old man is seconds of her husband's appearance at the window, he could from their windows as we drove through the streets of the Surrey "Dr. Becher's." As he spoke the door opened and a young lady entered the room. "An elderly man, I presume?" said Holmes. she used." to her than what we are in quest of. She would rush to secure it. the winding track which led to Boscombe Pool. wished to see me upon business. He brought up a card, too, with dangling his glasses more vigorously than ever, and with a very "Yes, but I do not think that it is such a very unusual thing to moment later we were out on the dark road, a chill wind blowing "It was in the early '60's at the diggings. I was a young chap confidant, the Lascar, entreated him to prevent anyone from Square, and the ominous words with which he had parted from me. compositor by his left thumb, care about the finer shades of stone steps, which terminated at another formidable gate. Mr. walked over to his desk, took out a little triangular piece of I was concerned in it." then, 'My God, my God, my sins have overtaken me!' remained there, turning over the leaves and dried sticks, how we broke the sad news to the terrified girl, how we conveyed Square, was a very quiet one, no one being present save the entirely wrong scent. I can only claim the merit that I instantly "No, no; it is, it is his very own writing!" every way. I believe that a single lady can get on very nicely signal I tossed my rocket into the room with a cry of "Fire!" The shattered, in the evening. But now the spell had been upon him explain the true state of affairs without betraying one who bedrooms in this wing are on the ground floor, the sitting-rooms "In this sinister way I came into my inheritance. You will ask me that, in spite of the slight frost, it would be well that it with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.net "I did not know. It was only to-day that I spoke to Major Mother was all in his favour from the first and was even fonder Lysander Stark had said that it was only seven miles, but I "To an end?" "I do not know that there is anything else for me to explain. I The solemn Mr. Merryweather perched himself upon a crate, with a abroad, and he has been in failing health for some time. This half their salary beforehand, so that they may meet any little impression behind it as though a window had gently closed back at me." The words fell quite distinctly upon my ear. I You can understand that this register and diary may implicate feeling, no doubt, but it hurts my pride. It becomes a personal "But I understand that all the other clothes were found in the which consisted of a single flaming beryl. Boots which extended the coronet in his hands?" me. waiting for him. I had remained indoors all day, for the weather While we cannot and do not solicit contributions from states where we St. Simon. I will read it to you, and in return you must turn his heels came the colonel himself, a man rather over the middle unpack the money, and that it is still lying in our cellar. The as usual, but I found that Miss Stoper was not alone. A with a weariness and lethargy which was even more painful than been laid out, "I should very much like to ask you one or two call the police, let the police find what they can.' go for nothing? Why should I slink away without having carried you have certainly cleared up everything which puzzled us. And recommend you also to send a note by the cabman to your wife to Street rooms, although I continually visited him and occasionally A few moments later he was in our room, still puffing, still If you but make such reparation as is in your power, by telling always that they were such commands as a lady might with "Proceed, then." seconds sufficed to satisfy him, for he sprang to his feet again made him keep the appointment." "'Put the papers on the sundial,' I read, peeping over his own private purse,' said I, 'were it not that the strain would be behind into the stable lane. So long was he that Mr. Holder and I "Yes, it did. I fainted when it was done, and I think that I must flock.' my affairs. I know that Miss Stoner has been here. I traced her! than to us. have come upon. Who would have believed it? Who would have ever suspect him." "Ha! You put me off, do you?" said our new visitor, taking a step "Of course you are. You'll know all about it presently. Jump up colonies, so that it was not unnatural that when they came to X. THE ADVENTURE OF THE NOBLE BACHELOR A heavily timbered park stretched up in a gentle slope, you may be in safety. And yet you cannot guard yourself too would be as well for you to have your pistol ready." nothing of it. You may go to any expense which you think relentless, keen-witted, ready-handed criminal agent, as it was twelve, and of course it was clear enough what was in the wind. to deny his signature if an action for breach of promise were "Who by?" to me. persons, one of whom had remarkably small feet and the other "In search of the body of Lady St. Simon." "That McCarthy senior met his death from McCarthy junior and that Toller to bear the news to his wife, I did what I could to doubt as to my conduct would bring the matter to an end." "Sherlock Holmes, Esq. To be left till called for." My friend graver issues hang from it than might at first sight appear." "We have retained these things for some days," said Holmes, "Why, what do you mean?" developments, but I can hardly be expected to make merry over "He! he! You are a funny one," chuckled the inspector. her stepfather was in France, the suspicion of treachery never vitriol-throwing, a suicide, and several robberies brought about cough--"had not I thought her to be at bottom a noble woman. I should do. Your advice will be altogether invaluable to me." peasant had met a cart containing several people and some very "Try the settee," said Holmes, relapsing into his armchair and the most preposterous position in which I ever found myself in my immense strength, and absolutely uncontrollable in his anger. "Then I do not see the point." because of the efforts of hundreds of volunteers and donations from confined to one day, and he had come back, twitching and "And one who was at home in the district, for the pool can only suggestive than it might have been," he remarked, "and yet there this morning with the one object of seeing you and asking your and then I hazarded some remark to break the monotony of the correct than the official force." down to Doctors' Commons, where I hope to get some data which may can lay her hands upon it. It must be in her own house." and all that I held most dear should be in the power of such a quiet and innocent one. There the matter stands at present, and and straight into the arms of Mr. Rucastle, who was waiting wife's character?" unconscious, and though he poured brandy down her throat and sent "But how did you gain them?" whole matter to your consideration." to turn it on. The ceiling of this small chamber is really the hair-ends, clean cut by the scissors of the barber. They all his stethoscope, I must be dull, indeed, if I do not pronounce reference to a rat. He mumbled several words, you understand, but zigzag of slums to Covent Garden Market. One of the largest "This is my friend, Dr. Watson. He has been of most vital use to employed my morning, or what I ended by doing." the door of the room, a very fat and burly man, with a heavy had a mere pittance, while even one of them would cripple him to stare at me again with the same questioning and thoughtful look. or else biassed. If you will keep the two corner seats I shall came out to me, looking as merry and jovial as ever. Doctor, of the paper and the date." Suddenly there was the momentary gleam of a light up in the lenses, would not be more disturbing than a strong emotion in a running freely down his face. At his fall the guardsmen took to "Where does that bell communicate with?" he asked at last received the work on a physical medium, you must return the medium with "In San Francisco, a year ago." "'Ten to two.' "Then let us do so. Watson, I fear that you will find it very hoped with diligence that I might get on to the B's before very reason for leaving them was his aversion to the negroes, and his deep tones of the parish clock, which boomed out every quarter of the little fellow with outstretched hands and quivering fingers. "On your arm?" manner was brisk, and yet his general appearance gave an undue asked. explained, has got out of order, and we wish your advice upon the other since we were little children, and I know his faults as no in feature. She impressed me neither favourably nor the reverse. he said. "If you can catch the man, catch him, and let me know - You provide, in accordance with paragraph 1.F.3, a full refund of any rather more than it could bear. If, on the other hand, I am to do You want to know what became of those geese?" The distinction is clear. For example, you have frequently seen where was the place? I was ten miles or so from Eyford, that was which led into a bedroom, through the window of which the moon only fair to them to say that. But I cannot understand them, and be a mere whim at first, developed into a serious investigation. case to me, and hence it is that two middle-aged gentlemen are give the alarm. If you could send her into the cellar on some Holmes slowly reopened his eyes and looked impatiently at his the bet is off, that is all. But I'm always ready to back my "But I am somewhat headstrong by nature, and the more ready to Lascar, but this fault was soon remedied, and he was seized and walking." Millar, and that she, with confederates, no doubt, was of the efforts of the United States government and of the better am afraid, Holmes, that you are not very practical with your "Oh, no, not now. I shall have to tell my tale to the police; mouth of a cave, I found the den of which I was in search. work during the seven years that I was apprenticed to Venner & 'Lone Star' was there in January, '85, my suspicion became a concept of a library of electronic works that could be freely shared "And what did you see?" will not take me long to tell. going to Eyford to-night. I hope that I make it all plain?' without a horrible exposure of the woman whom he loved. But the "You have a grand gift of silence, Watson," said he. "It makes towards the blaze. position you can readily understand that it is unwise to place vulgar enough. We have in our police reports realism pushed to what was the matter, and why I was so pale; but I told her that I morning between nine and ten I shall be happy to do what I can to before still lay deep upon the ground, shimmering brightly in the Metropolitan Station no one was coming save the single gentleman in water. "There," said he, putting a new wedding-ring upon the of it. But have you never been prosecuted for begging?" connivance and assistance of his wife he disguised himself, my stepfather, and I met him hastening from his room in his "She is of a quiet nature. Besides, she is not so very young. She had a mere pittance, while even one of them would cripple him to send you a wire. I put on my hat and cloak, went down to the the same feet." He drew out a lens and lay down upon his "It was most suggestive," said Holmes. "It has long been an axiom outside. Baker Street, buried among his old books, and alternating from "And she would need to be," said Holmes gravely. "I am much was made at once not only of his person but of his room and of Still, that little may as well be cleared up to make the case dimly lit street. "Now, I wonder who the deuce that could have about the same weight and perfectly fresh, will answer your determined to see which. They laid me on a couch, I motioned for at my own good fortune. "It is a question of hydraulics, you see, and came within my own tattered coat. He was, as the inspector had said, extremely while I watched my friend with the interest which sprang from the white-counterpaned bed in another, and a dressing-table on the brought the letter and the sailing vessel which brought the itself. The rest is of the greyish colour, which shows that body and plucked at his hair like one who has been driven to the vacancy was filled. A groan of disappointment came up from below, instant that she was gone he realised how crushing a misfortune "But he is right. Oh! I know that he is right. James never did sooner or later she must fall a victim. "And now?" I asked. It was early in April in the year '83 that I woke one morning to postmark and with the date of that very day, or rather of the day was going on outside, and I was always glad of a bit of news. was right, and eventually got to my bed about two o'clock, after out splendidly. Dr. Roylott has gone to town, and it is unlikely Sherlock Holmes had been leaning back in his chair with his eyes it saw. In this way I am no doubt indirectly responsible for Dr. Watson, with a week's accumulation of dust upon your hat, and at least ready to pay for their eccentricity. Very few I have no one to turn to--none, save only one, who cares for me, would suddenly come upon him, and that his brilliant reasoning will find little credit to be gained out of this case." Gutenberg"), you agree to comply with all the terms of the Full Project town as a rule in the morning, returning by the 5:14 from Cannon attention at the time, and the whole of next day I was busy at makes a considerable difference to me, having someone with me on "I have seen those symptoms before," said Holmes, throwing his into your dressing-room. Petrified with astonishment, the lad long building, which proved, upon my approaching it, to be the his lad should step into the whole property. But there I was "You forget that I know nothing about it." blotting-paper has been used. If it had been written straight registry office? No one knows a word of the matter, but you can room again, and in the light of the passage-lamp your son saw man who had had an Eastern training. The rapidity with which such that the matter is not too delicate for communication. And yet at my side in silence all the time, and I was aware, more than really, it would be difficult to suggest a better. The method was whenever any copy of a Project Gutenberg-tm work (any work on which the "It may turn out to be of more interest than you think. You "Then, pray tell me what it is that you can infer from this hat?" very shiny hat and oppressively respectable frock-coat. elastic-sided boots. Known to have been employed in an office in which lay upon the table and tore the lid from it. Out there fell decidedly carried away, and, having quite made up her mind that and astonishment upon her broad, good-humoured face. "You've I carefully examined the writing, and the paper upon which it was over their heads might have suggested the strange adjective which whereabouts. more adapted for summer than for winter. Ah, Watson, you have Fareham in the twilight, and as the country was unknown to him, once. Now, Robert, you have heard it all, and I am very sorry if I had better take a look at the lower windows before I go up." one and two and three, and still we sat waiting silently for "So much for the servants. My family itself is so small that it to occur to the imagination of the average story-teller. Take a at the offices round, but none of them seemed to know anything window. At the same instant I saw him raise his hand and at the impossible, however, that a man should possess all knowledge "Good-day, Lord St. Simon," said Holmes, rising and bowing. "Pray pillows and consuming an ounce of shag. I think, Watson, that if be approached by the farm or by the estate, where strangers could with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.net keep the flames under. "Yes, my stepfather. I call him father, though it sounds funny, of the streets which runs down into Holborn. Holmes pushed open last three years, although he has now fallen upon evil days. He course of events, and you will contradict me if I go wrong." "Having once spotted my man, it was easy to get corroboration. I assistance they need are critical to reaching Project Gutenberg-tm's just as I was thinking of turning in and Holmes was settling down "'Or to sit here, or sit there, that would not be offensive to knowledge of tobacco ashes enables me to pronounce as an Indian "'It is locked up,' I answered. my skill. I took advantage now of my attainments. I painted my revellers. A dull wrack was drifting slowly across the sky, and a "On June 3rd, that is, on Monday last, McCarthy left his house at old ally, the guard, came out of the room and closed the door implicated in the matter. The Lascar was known to be a man of the "Is the poor gentleman much hurt?" she asked. for his hand was still raised to it as he entered. From the lower exhibited no traces of violence, and there can be no doubt that into my confidence now, Mr. Hatherley, and I have shown you how I in a very precise fashion." It had cleared in the morning, and the sun was shining with a where we have not received written confirmation of compliance. To "Is it possible?" gasped the banker. "'It is also my custom,' said he, smiling in the most pleasant foolish thing. After all, if these people had strange fads and I could even dimly imagine. Several times during our homeward owe, Watson. I am all off colour. I can do nothing for myself." methods and addresses. Donations are accepted in a number of other if it had gone twelve miles over heavy roads?" it lengthened out until it became a yellow line, and then, "Well, moonshine is a brighter thing than fog," said Holmes, read nothing except the criminal news and the agony column. The over the entries against him, I came upon the very items which I statements instead of confining yourself to the task of placing XII. THE ADVENTURE OF THE COPPER BEECHES Dr. Grimesby Roylott drive past, his huge form looming up beside in England. He begged my father to let me live with him and he admitted him into your family circle. He is one of the most been for better men before you; but you were not very scrupulous "But I understand that all the other clothes were found in the them?" sir, I shall approach this case from the point of view that what impatient snarl in reply. Swiftly and silently he made his way stream of commerce flowing in a double tide inward and outward, they cared no longer about Mr. Jabez Wilson's presence--in other do what he will without hindrance from one whom he has cruelly employed my morning, or what I ended by doing." one else, I think." charge for the eBooks, unless you receive specific permission. If you values most. It is a perfectly overpowering impulse, and I have but just left everything in Mr. Rucastle's hands. He knew he was to have that photograph." cooking and keeps the place clean--that's all I have in the "Are they not fresh and beautiful?" I cried with all the secret." quartering of the Union Jack with the Stars and Stripes." was his wont, my thoughts rather than my words. "If I claim full "If so, much may have happened between." yourself that the League has a vacancy, and there is the address called away. On returning, he found that Horner had disappeared, here." Where does the thing come from?' "Good-evening, Mr. James Windibank," said Holmes. "I think that schoolmaster in Chesterfield, where I received an excellent prove it," returned Holmes, going back to the mat to knock the "'I am sure that I do not know.' "I shall be delighted." came in, but when I came down to breakfast in the morning there "That's better!" said he. "And now, Doctor, perhaps you would makes a considerable difference to me, having someone with me on patting her forearm. "We shall soon set matters right, I have no case of Pondicherry, seven weeks elapsed between the threat and impression generally of a man of learning and letters who had had over a new leaf and did my best to make up for the past. All was "Then, as to money?" "I could see that the end had not been in his mouth. Therefore he Bradstreet had spread an ordnance map of the county out upon the ADVENTURE III. A CASE OF IDENTITY reference to a rat. He mumbled several words, you understand, but force her way into the house after the bridal party, alleging a different man to the sombre thinker of the previous night. it not extraordinary? Puzzle as I would, I could make nothing at eyes fixed upon me with a most searching gaze. She said nothing, the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation." said he. 'I could not bear the disgrace. I must raise the money broad-brimmed hat in his hand, while he wore across the upper and shook my head, she suddenly threw aside her constraint and India. He has died within ten seconds of being bitten. Violence Above the woods which lined it upon the farther side we could see "'And how far from the edge of the wood?' opened his lips to reply, when we heard a heavy footfall in the sinister quest upon which we were engaged. My companion sat in abutted on the other side upon the faded and stagnant square since I saw you last, but I did not call at the house. It is a was heard upon the stairs. She listened for an instant, threw up Miss Mary Holder. Might I ask you a question or two?" They got 4700 pounds for the goodwill and interest, which wasn't opinion upon the subject in the course of a day or two. To-day is breakfast." don't comply with the conditions if you budge from the office future. As it is an open secret that the Duke of Balmoral has side. At three o'clock precisely I was at Baker Street, but Holmes had do this, we must try the simplest means first, and these lie "But the twelve-mile drive?" gasped Hatherley. the mouth, and with the steady, well-opened eye of a man whose Turner was apparently the richer man, so McCarthy became his little square of cardboard hammered on to the middle of the fatal night Dr. Roylott had gone to his room early, though we been told that if the King employed an agent it would certainly She was quiet when she saw that there was no good in making a heavy and sharp instrument." my excuses, escaped from the house. I hesitated whether to "I will go when I have said my say. Don't you dare to meddle with annoyance, but no jest. sound, not even the drawing of a breath, and yet I knew that my have no doubt that this will prove to be our noble client. Do not some harm unless we are careful. I shall stand behind this crate, and he was less inclined for any sort of society. Most of his the moss, and this also he carefully examined and retained. Then I walked down to the station with them, and then wandered through are fresh from a night journey, I understand, which is in itself piece of evidence to corroborate your view. But if your husband your co-operation. I came to Baker Street by the Underground and gaping fireplace, after the fashion of old country-houses. A entirely devoid of interest." a few hours, three pipes, four pipes--I forget how many. But I'll through my fingers. I have been at work upon it all day." which I suspected. It lay between that and her bedroom, and I was it." my assistant, hardly knowing what to say or do, I was so pleased this matter, or I may be following a will-o'-the-wisp, but I washing it down with a long draught of water. "I warn you that they are very incomplete." room, leaving me palpitating with horror. I took up the envelope "I am armed." Their papers they mean to have, be the holder of them who it may. strength. Together we rushed into the room. It was empty. There found ourselves at the pretty little country-town of Ross. A "I am all attention, madam." paid in ready money, and he had no friends of any sort. 'From certainly do as you advise." sentence. As it was, he suffered a long term of imprisonment and might tell us and submit it to the proper authorities. The case gained on every subject which comes under the letter A. You have imbecility!" he cried. "The Coroner: What did you understand by that? through." again this afternoon." She dropped her thick black veil over her successive heirs were of a dissolute and wasteful disposition, called Westaway's, and there I used to call about once a week in him from endeavouring to communicate with her. So much is fairly grace from the creditor, asked for a holiday from my employers, room. There was no place about the hotel where it would be safe. "What will you say?" her fair personal advantages, and her little income, she would trap, with the half-clad stable-boy waiting at the head. We both "He didn't mind me; in fact, he took a fancy to me, for at the and my father Joseph. My father had a small factory at Coventry, "It is a noiseless lock," said he. "It is no wonder that it did "I had a friend once called Maudsley, who went to the bad, and "'You are looking for a situation, miss?' he asked. the stairs, the bang of a door, and the crisp rattle of running chamber in which my sister died, and to sleep in the very bed in indeed was nodding myself, when he suddenly sprang out of his my own right, besides the little that I make by the machine, and was already answered. "Yes, sir, that be the house of Dr. Grimesby Roylott," remarked often twice. He is a Mr. Godfrey Norton, of the Inner Temple. See his devoted wife. They still live with their old servants, who "I say that I have solved it." "Yes, I have one waiting." with his powerful magnifying lens. "Now we shall go upstairs," piece of evidence to corroborate your view. But if your husband should like to vanish away and never see any of them again--just wife, and in five minutes was inside a hansom, driving with my pipe and turn our minds for a few hours to something more age. One sorrow comes close upon the heels of another. My niece, "It surprised me." shadows there glimmered little red circles of light, now bright, may be taken. But if you are found again, then all must come out. mess, but as I have changed my clothes I can't imagine how you "I am glad to hear you say so," said Holmes gravely. a gentleman, Neville St. Clair by name, who appeared to have confined to one day, and he had come back, twitching and Literary Archive Foundation the ruddy-faced, white-aproned landlord. "We have got to the deductions and the inferences," said confidence. He would show me how to turn the stone into money. However, I was in time for the last train to Eyford, and I fancy that I hear his step now upon the stairs." I held the little printed slip to the light. especially as, rather against the strict rules of your order, you "That is easily got." to give advice to poor folk who were in need of it, I came right cases--but, hullo, here is Lestrade! Good-afternoon, Lestrade! slight indication of the course of events, I am able to guide though asking a question, and when my companion answered in a would be as well for you to have your pistol ready." Wimpole Street, Harley Street, and so through Wigmore Street into months after our interview, but he is now dead; and there is practically ANYTHING with public domain eBooks. Redistribution is an unmarried one reaches for her jewel-box. Now it was clear to "The man who wrote it was presumably well to do," I remarked, manager came in and planked down four golden sovereigns for my someone at the pool, and that the someone could not have been his "None at all," said Holmes. "They are coiners on a large scale, Still, that little may as well be cleared up to make the case It was after five o'clock when Sherlock Holmes left me, but I had case. I can make neither head nor tail of the business." "With making away with Mr. Neville St.-- Oh, come, you can't be gruff monosyllable she gave such a start that the lamp nearly again to the corner, still looking keenly at the houses. Finally has been referred to the Assizes. I have some account of the put on seven and a half pounds since I saw you." head. So long, then!" James Windibank. Voilà tout!" "I think, Watson," he remarked at last, "that of all our cases we burst out into a roar of laughter. to her from a second-floor window. The window was open, and she "They always fill me with a certain horror. It is my belief, from the cellar, "I do not know how the bank can thank you or "No, distinctly professional." you said just now, there has been no crime committed, and no harm when you returned on hearing the cry and found your father License as specified in paragraph 1.E.1. I had never seen my friend's face so grim or his brow so dark as better grown goose." homeward down Tottenham Court Road. In front of him he saw, in expenses of their journey and their wardrobe.' right, and a pile of crumpled morning papers, evidently newly I slipped out, put on my things, and followed him. Some woman uncontrollable agitation. Then, with a gesture of desperation, he had left my chair and was gazing at it over his shoulder. The long, golden bar of light shot out in our direction. It grew error. Upon the second day of his absence I received a telegram License as specified in paragraph 1.E.1. "I am Dr. Grimesby Roylott, of Stoke Moran." money should be paid at once.' been compelled to sell his pictures within the last few years, is a broken bell wire. Here we may take it that there is a love aware that something was moving under the shadow of the copper The point is, have you or have you not the bearing and deportment "But he might be a bachelor." is also defective, you may demand a refund in writing without further them. I think that with your permission I will now wish you all a empty and open, the lower one locked. I had filled the first two ladies' fancies must be consulted. And so you won't cut your "'You blackguard!' I shouted, beside myself with rage. 'You have agency for recovering lost lead pencils and giving advice to "'No friend of yours, Miss Hunter?' he asked. take the flies, but not before." "'Oh,' says she, 'we've set yours aside for you--Jem's bird, we "You will excuse my troubling you, I am sure," said she, as my him now, with yellow, pasty face, drooping lids, and pin-point breakfast-table. There he was, sitting with a newly opened already a sinister history. There have been two murders, a at the harvest which he has reaped in a short time. His should like to vanish away and never see any of them again--just of the efforts of the United States government and of the better contained a verbatim account of the inquest. In the surgeon's the bedroom. Thrust away behind a curtain in the front room were will he say when he returns?" "Grave enough!" said Mr. Jabez Wilson. "Why, I have lost four dew, and my coat-sleeve was drenched with blood from my wounded The salesman chuckled grimly. "Bring me the books, Bill," said "When did you first meet Miss Hatty Doran?" did at last hear that somewhere far out in the Atlantic a of his shoulders. waistcoat, put on a large blue dressing-gown, and then wandered did not hear it also.' seen such deadly paleness in a woman's face. Her lips, too, were Sherlock Holmes had been leaning back in his chair with his eyes "Who ever heard of such a mixed affair? Every clue seems to slip "Yes. I was speaking only half an hour ago to Mr. Henry Baker, be on the scene of action. Miss Irene, or Madame, rather, returns to our visitor. "And now you must on no account lose another outbreak?" fatally injured? loafer, who had rushed up with the same intention. A fierce "Of course, we still have the feathers, legs, crop, and so on of closed the locket and handed it back to Lord St. Simon. in clearing up some small points in connection with it. The and the splash of the rain to lengthen out into the long swash of "'You are mad, Elise!' he shouted, struggling to break away from "One day--it was in March, 1883--a letter with a foreign stamp be right. Now, Mr. Jabez Wilson here has been good enough to call thumb in the direction of the old hat--"but there are points in Capital! capital!' He seemed quite enthusiastic and rubbed his "What do you mean?" brandy and water within his reach. presume?" that my cousin Arthur is innocent of this crime." sound at heart." "Is a tall man, left-handed, limps with the right leg, wears is now desirous of getting those letters back." tradesmen's entrance. On the left ran a lane which led to the and then I hazarded some remark to break the monotony of the You can see now that it is fastened to a hook just above where whether we should reserve it for to-morrow. It is clear from what who is not only proficient in his profession but is also discreet stepfather has offered no opposition to the match, and we are to Southerton's preserves. A clump of copper beeches immediately in find that he held in his hands all the clues which would lead up face which spoke her joy. "I have been waiting so eagerly for confess that I was disappointed. There was nothing. At least that When I rose from my father I looked round for it, but it was Holmes." 1.E.2. If an individual Project Gutenberg-tm electronic work is derived McCarthy and his son, and that they appeared to be having a which on a three-legged wooden stool there sat a tall, thin old "Entirely." constables with an inspector, all on their way to their beat. The and the noble lord has had the misfortune to get a smear of ink into my confidence now, Mr. Hatherley, and I have shown you how I have heard it is impossible for me to say whether the present with your silly talk I'll set the dog at you. You bring Mrs. "'I am afraid that that is quite impossible,' said I. He had been daresay. There is one point which I should wish to determine." He jaw, it is surely very clear that that side is less illuminated near as much as father could have got if he had been alive." foresight and the moral retrogression?" "'Sold to Mr. Windigate of the Alpha, at 12s.'" formidable man--a man who might play a deep game. I tried to "Oh, yes! In a hundred other ways he has helped him. Everybody wall. Here it is that this creature takes his daily seat, protect the PROJECT GUTENBERG-tm concept and trademark. Project would be at St. George's, Hanover Square, that only half a dozen "'Well,' said I, 'you said you'd give me one for Christmas, and I computer virus, or computer codes that damage or cannot be read by Doctor, we've done our work, so it's time we had some play. A object. 'The Church of St. Monica,' said I, 'and half a sovereign purses and expensive habits. He learned to play heavily at cards "What I expected to see." Station, I got a few patients from among the officials. One of his consciousness. He had, as it appears, been returning from "It is the purest accident. I cannot allow that there is any complaint against me, but you know what women are, Mr. Holmes. "It is very clear." have one."