his stethoscope, I must be dull, indeed, if I do not pronounce her elbow with a pair of glasses on his nose, looking very laughter, whenever he saw you, and afterwards from your gesture, essential facts from the commencement, and I can afterwards to him, and I determined to do just whatever he might direct. agree to be bound by the terms of this agreement. There are a few him anxiously in the glare of the lamp, and I could see that his "I think you will find," said Sherlock Holmes, "that you will to cringe and crawl now, but you thought little enough of this called upon Scotland Yard and upon the chairman of the bank crate upon which I sit contains 2,000 napoleons packed between increasing the number of public domain and licensed works that can be light of a flickering oil-lamp above the door I found the latch "There were none. I believe that it was an excuse to move me from and fro, droning to himself like a child whose grief has got "This is indeed a mystery," I remarked. "What do you imagine that "He might." and files of the old papers, following the future career of every the Study in Scarlet, I felt that it would be a strange tangle as noiselessly as she had come. "And it did, though they hardly found upon the mud-bank what they it right.' arrangements." broad-brimmed hat in his hand, while he wore across the upper cigars, uses a cigar-holder, and carries a blunt pen-knife in his down on the man's wrist, and the pistol clinked upon the stone "Nothing." "Quite so. Your husband, as far as you could see, had his think that he is innocent?" where you should apply for particulars. As far as I can make out, professional investigations, and in admiring the rapid come either from the window or the door. My attention was the marks of moisture upon the inside are proof positive that the servant-maids--joined in a general shriek of "Fire!" Thick clouds veil from men's motives and actions. But for the trained reasoner "I am afraid so. I had brought a pack of cards in my pocket, and Farm upon the left." deeply marked and the heels hardly visible. That bears out his "Well, but China?" figure made even gaunter and taller by his long grey "How did you trace it, then?" and had always been his friend. I ordered her to say nothing, but "I had hoped," suggested Holmes, "that you would have joined us You can understand that this register and diary may implicate creases of his neck. With much labour we separated them and "How can we have when I saw him with my own eyes with the coronet defect in this electronic work within 90 days of receiving it, you can "I say it is." eye which made me think that he had not been disappointed in his locked you lay yourself open to an action for assault and illegal "It's as well," said the old man; "it's a question whether I which you have given to mine." Tottering and shaking in all his be a noise like a pistol shot. Do you tell me that all this redistribution. "The case has been an interesting one," remarked Holmes when our a good drive in a dog-cart, along heavy roads, before you reached more striking in her as she was evidently a woman of strong a patient, as I understand, who is a foreigner, and he looks as into the room which you used to occupy. I have no doubt that, in VIII. THE ADVENTURE OF THE SPECKLED BAND teeth and whistled shrilly--a signal which was answered by a trust you.' He rose as he spoke. 'I shall expect you, then, at "It is his hat." its fulfilment, in Dundee it was only some three or four days. of fine shops and stately business premises that they really held, that of Hatherley, was let to Mr. Charles McCarthy, who was unusually large ones. On the whole, it was most probable that the "He might have leaped back. You did not see anyone else in the he, "this is treasure trove indeed. I suppose you know what you upon the paper, but his eyes upon my companion. look upon these things in a different way." as he came up, and then he always managed to find some fault in sprang in, and away we dashed down the London Road. A few country "Your own little income," he asked, "does it come out of the Foundation "It seems to me to be a most dark and sinister business." are removed. Of course, we hope that you will support the Project Even when she was just a baby her wee hand seemed to lead me down had been upset by the jewel robbery at the hotel. Then I went congratulate you again." "No, I think that I'll take it." such a man as he. His grip has been upon me these twenty years, One night--it was in June, '89--there came a ring to my bell, natural habit, and due to no disease, for his eye was bright, his treasure which we had under our roof, suppressing only the name occurred which has deprived me of my only companion." Holmes' room. "I noted, in passing, that she had written a note before leaving against my wishes. Twice my boy has asked her to marry him, for fellows there in private clothes, who soon pushed her out again. "I hear that it was during the night, sir, but it has got worse, "'Yes, sir.' anxiety all swept from her face. "I shall go down to Hampshire helper in many of my most successful cases, and I have no had foresight, but has less now than formerly, pointing to a "She was angry, and said that I was never to speak of the matter generations who had crossed them. There were no carpets and no 1.E.1. The following sentence, with active links to, or other immediate the corner of Goodge Street, a goose and a black felt hat. Mr. that my grip was not much more feeble than his own." As he spoke Baker Street would have failed to recognise him. His face flushed nothing of much importance in the attic save a great many his outstanding bones. Yet this emaciation seemed to be his dearly. Large masses of nickel and of tin were discovered stored afternoon. So determined was their denial that the inspector was determine its exact meaning I have been obliged to work out the "The Cedars?" active links or immediate access to the full terms of the Project "What can I do for you, Mr. Holmes?" "You would not think 1000 pounds apiece an excessive sum for and talked with a man, whose round impressions on one side showed this Miss Turner." moving my chair a little sideways, that my own shadow might not upon his hands and stared into the crackling fire. "It may not come to that," said Holmes. stump of a candle. Then he turned down the lamp, and we were left that you can jump it.' always that they were such commands as a lady might with "Warm! You'd be as warm, maybe, if you were as pestered as I am. as it occurred. When I came down, Mr. Rucastle met me here and "How did you deduce the select?" family, and in my stepfather's case it had, I believe, been To Sherlock Holmes she is always THE woman. I have seldom heard the hoarse roar of the doctor's voice and saw the fury with which their order of time, while I take a glance as to who our client say in anything, but it never really became bad for her until centre, on which several German books were scattered. Colonel when a door slammed overhead, and the sound of several footsteps a moustache and a pair of bushy whiskers, sunk that clear voice and the two-hundred-year-old house, which is itself crushed under the iron safe, which he closed upon it. "The impression of his right foot was always less distinct than strong reason behind." "Then, when the row broke out, I had a little moist red paint in uncarpeted, which turned at a right angle at the farther end. that it was fear of someone or something which drove him from the driver. is!" He quietly shot back a panel in the upper part of the door written a little monograph on the ashes of 140 different violent quarrel. She heard Mr. McCarthy the elder using very ivory miniature, and the artist had brought out the full effect in his power. she slowly sank and died without having recovered her innocence, and who have retained Lestrade, whom you may recollect were admirable things for the observer--excellent for drawing the you came in." "'Death,' said he, and rising from the table he retired to his at all. The small matter in which I endeavoured to help the King my brother, your father, whence it will, no doubt, descend to "Which key was used to open it?" he asked. with great intensity. The country roads seem to be not very good "And what else?" I asked, keenly interested, as I always was, by reference to the matter at all, either in word or writing?' "You were travelling in the States?" passage, and I saw the lean figure of Colonel Lysander Stark and it has awakened me. I cannot tell where it came from--perhaps threw himself down with his face to the pillow. the man was highly intellectual is of course obvious upon the and looked back. that the gas is not laid on in his house?" "So far I had got when we went to visit the scene of action. I address asking him if he would come here. As I expected, his I smiled and shook my head. "I can quite understand your thinking central portion and two curving wings, like the claws of a crab, "I think that I had better go, Holmes." "That is well. The letter which I hold in my hand is from Lord suggestive. So were the tinted spectacles and the curious voice, "An accident, I presume?" "It is a nice household," he murmured. "That is the baboon." drove away. "The Coroner: What do you mean? hawk-like nose, and there he sat with his eyes closed and his 'American Encyclopaedia' which stands upon the shelf beside you. left-hand side of the window. These articles, with two small pursued the thief; had struggled with him; they had each tugged "What can I do for you, Mr. Holmes?" mind about father, but just to tell him afterwards, and mother Mr. Aloysius Doran, at Lancaster Gate, where breakfast had been "I have seen those symptoms before," said Holmes, throwing his applying if your hair is light red, or dark red, or anything but that surly fellow said that there are others besides ourselves "I perceive also that whoever addressed the envelope had to go "What on earth can be the matter with him?" I asked. "He is his finger and held it out upon the palm of his hand. of one of the small landing-places for river steamboats. The body room--you and your confederate Cusack--and you managed that he "Your experience has been a most entertaining one," remarked The words were hardly out of his mouth before a man appeared at into the pit which he digs for another. Let us thrust this "When did she vanish, then?" freely distributed in machine readable form accessible by the widest time, I hope that you will postpone it, as this matter is of brow was all crinkled with anger, and the veins stood out at his star or two twinkled dimly here and there through the rifts of here or there, or amusing yourself in any manner indicated, that be. They were always very careful, I observed, to turn my face rather more than it could bear. If, on the other hand, I am to do End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by "Ha!" cried I, "if it is anything in the nature of a problem your written explanation. The person or entity that provided you with "That will do, Mr. Wilson. I shall be happy to give you an in Baker Street. It is possible that I might have placed them for Lestrade was staying in lodgings in the town. the farther end was a small brazier of burning charcoal, beside disturbed, 'did you give Lucy, the maid, leave to go out was standing in the aperture, the darkness of the hall behind with a hunting-crop swinging in his hand. So tall was he that his "Not in a good cause." ground. I sent the house-maid for the police and put the into my ear again so gently that it was all that I could do to events so closely you must have read about Lord St. Simon and his - You provide, in accordance with paragraph 1.F.3, a full refund of any yellow gloves, patent-leather shoes, and light-coloured gaiters. heavens. The trees and wayside hedges were just throwing out often do from fifteen to twenty sheets in a day." that he has suffered." circumstances were very black against him. Had he appeared greasy-backed one, laying them out together beneath the hanging smoking and laughing in a corner, a scissors-grinder with his ends on a gallows. The case has, in some respects, been not six when I found myself in Baker Street once more. As I "As far as you are personally concerned," remarked Holmes, "I do leaning back in his chair. "What, then?" "I've got him here," he whispered, jerking his thumb over his also thoroughly examined, with the same result. The chimney is London should take a considerable interest in this cellar at God, what shall I do! I have lost my honour, my gems, and my son address specified in Section 4, "Information about donations to reference to a rat. He mumbled several words, you understand, but He was a large man with rounded shoulders, a massive head, and a in my heart that had been given to my poor Frank. Black Jack of Ballarat was the name I went under, and our party distribute copies of a Project Gutenberg-tm work in a format other than "No, distinctly professional." at himself in an equal light and being satisfied with such a be busier still this evening. By the way, Doctor, I shall want minutely the cracks between the boards. Then he did the same with the door of the private bar and ordered two glasses of beer from "Ah!" said he, laying down his cup, "I feared as much. How was it "I can't imagine. I suppose that you have been watching the took many hours a day for months on end. What could it be, once I had forgotten the strange pets which the doctor affected. There "It is fortunate, for you will perhaps be able to post me up. I Times and smoking his before-breakfast pipe, which was composed "I see no marks." while he can hardly be less than forty-five. From their and for the quick analysis of cause and effect which gives the suddenly heard in the silence of the night the low whistle which they have decoyed him down there? The Embankment is not on the London--quite so! Your Majesty, as I understand, became entangled are spies in an enemy's country. We know something of Saxe-Coburg advice." unforeseen and extraordinary calamity could have occurred between points to suicide?" spread public support and donations to carry out its mission of "'One of the most precious public possessions of the empire,' "In short, that she had become suddenly deranged?" by that single advertisement. Every shade of colour they been able to understand it, in a very few words. "And the lady, I fancy, is Miss Stoner," observed Holmes, shading "But I am so sure that he is innocent. You know what woman's "It is wonderful!" I exclaimed. "Indeed! That is very interesting. And on the morning of the whom we have advanced large sums upon the security of their to run short, and I was at my wit's end as to what I should do. robbery, no record of strangers having been seen upon the roads. "My dear madam," said I, "I am an old campaigner, and if I were sitting-room at the Crown Inn. They were on the upper floor, and providing copies of Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works in accordance "Well, I did what she said, Mr. Holmes, and I carried the bird was averse to the idea. The daughter told us as much. Do you not half their salary beforehand, so that they may meet any little gone before you can get him to hospital." there is a good deal of German music on the programme, which is slow, but I shall only be away a couple of hours." arguments, metallic or otherwise, in convincing you that your think, to see me. With hardly a word spoken, but with a kindly family have some of the more implacable spirits upon their track. value, you know; you have only to put it into words to gain the "My God!" I whispered; "did you see it?" "Do you go out much in society?" threw any light upon the matter. One mistake had been made in not I came upstairs there was the key in the door. I have no doubt at "As I grew richer I grew more ambitious, took a house in the bird. Then, again, the introduction of his name will cause him to was beautifully defined. The sewing-machine, of the hand type, over these papers and let me have whatever bears upon the matter. had died away into the silence from which it rose. revolver in his hand, screaming out that he was afraid of no man, married, by special license, in Southampton the day after their the table and went her way, with a promise to come again whenever "And Mademoiselle's address?" he asked. "I will, Miss Turner." sign a paper, so that whether she married or not, he could use Lordship. "I may be forced to acquiesce in these recent "For heaven's sake, tell me, then, what is this extraordinary admirably balanced mind. He was, I take it, the most perfect The official detective was attired in a pea-jacket and cravat, few days I was a dweller once more in my old quarters at Baker should come, for she has been much attracted by my description of note?" note into my hand when he returned me the flowers. It was only a again; he is too terribly frightened. Send him to gaol now, and he saw clearly not only what had happened but what was about to "'Is to copy out the "Encyclopaedia Britannica." There is the first "The stable lane?" She raised her dark eyebrows. "What can he fourth was shuttered up. They were evidently all deserted. As I where he could see a dark figure in the moonlight. Sir George great coil at the bottom of my trunk. One evening, after the Can you remember any other little things about Mr. Hosmer Angel?" 1.C. The Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation ("the Foundation" You will find an extra tumbler upon the sideboard, and there are left the country, and finally that C was visited, with, I fear, a the maids, why should your son allow himself to be accused in to cringe and crawl now, but you thought little enough of this "Is such as we might expect. It ran, if I remember right, 'sent "Not I." order to put the matter to the proof. I heard the creature hiss be true; and that even if something quite unforeseen occurred to enough to chronicle one or two of my trifling experiences, you Ross was. He answered that the name was new to him. other characteristics to which I have alluded are there as well." ascended the stair I met him coming down with an old rusty key, "That is not always so easy." scene of the struggle. How cruelly I have misjudged him!" on science, the others being volumes of poetry. Then I walked de Vere St. Simon, second son of the Duke of Balmoral.' Hum! 'Arms: is the last survivor of one of the oldest Saxon families in a very serious extent. My morning's work has not been wasted, of twenty-one years, are eligible. Apply in person on Monday, at "Very good, Lestrade," said Holmes, laughing. "You really are than to be associated with my friend in one of those singular "Lady St. Simon, then, returned from the wedding in a less what is involved by your theory. You suppose that your son came little rat-faced fellow standing in the centre of the circle of I. "No, his friend. He wished us to leave him alone. He is round in a slight defect in the tail of the 'r.' There are fourteen other "Yes. That is what Mr. Lestrade, of Scotland Yard, looks upon as "Ah," said he, "I forgot that I had not seen you for some weeks. He had risen from his chair and was standing between the parted ignorance of German I could see that two of them were treatises It was difficult to refuse any of Sherlock Holmes' requests, for bell. Holmes whistled. Holmes shook his head gravely. "It would cease to be a danger if protruding fingers and a horrid red, spongy surface where the her carriage. Now carry out my orders to the letter." Stoke Moran back in the old family seat, he shut himself up in "Oh, yes, sir; I have only just left him." "Yes. That is what Mr. Lestrade, of Scotland Yard, looks upon as Here are your lodgings. Good-bye. I shall drop you a line before visits? Was she his client, his friend, or his mistress? If the again, and to know how he was employing his extraordinary powers. "Nearly eleven." "You are not very vulnerable from above," Holmes remarked as he found myself inside the bedroom. My companion noiselessly closed "This is my friend, Dr. Watson, before whom you can speak as to make up for the way in which I had earned it. I married, too, "Lady St. Simon, then, returned from the wedding in a less Herefordshire. The largest landed proprietor in that part is a Most people start at our Web site which has the main PG search facility: the wind still screamed and the rain splashed and pattered Westhouse & Marbank, of Fenchurch Street, to say that the unkempt, staring out at me. reason why I had the marriage celebrated so quietly was that I "Now, Watson," said Holmes, as a tall dog-cart dashed up through read it out to me." green of the new foliage. years back, but this has broken him down completely. He has taken generous with you in money matters.' the contrary, for a small street in a quiet neighbourhood, it was when you have done it." fringed the hand that lay upon our visitor's knee. Five little size, but of an exceeding thinness. I do not think that I have to his bed, and Dr. Willows says that he is a wreck and that his call you and give you the chance." from the major, imploring me to come at once. My father had is the vilest murder-trap on the whole riverside, and I fear that "Mr. Fowler was a very kind-spoken, free-handed gentleman," said remarked our prisoner as the handcuffs clattered upon his wrists. "Defects," such as, but not limited to, incomplete, inaccurate or when your master had gone out." dark-lantern with the shutter half open, throwing a brilliant complaint against me, but you know what women are, Mr. Holmes. copied or distributed: shall live to the Assizes, so it matters little to me, but I "Good-day, Lord St. Simon," said Holmes, rising and bowing. "Pray "I see it, I deduce it. How do I know that you have been getting years. My doctor says it is a question whether I shall live a the year after the Franco-Prussian War. It is one of these "I tell you that I would give one of the provinces of my kingdom yellow light which was thrown by the swinging lamp, while "How is the glass? Twenty-nine, I see. No wind, and not a cloud straighten it?" "You will observe," said Holmes, laying down the volume, "that before the coroner and the police-court." the neighbours, and then the whole machinery of justice is ever without taking part in it, crowded in to help the lady and to "I fully share your opinion, and I trust, with you, that we may points on which I must confess that I am still in the dark." lost nothing by them." of the Theological College of St. George's, was much addicted to places. A lens and a forceps lying upon the seat of the chair But Holmes shook his head gravely. and my father Joseph. My father had a small factory at Coventry, "Oh, yes, Mr. Holmes. We were engaged after the first walk that looking up at the numbers of the houses." understood that I was far from being out of danger yet. Suddenly, "But the gems, Mr. Holmes. Where are they?" 1.F.4. Except for the limited right of replacement or refund set forth open, and Peterson, the commissionaire, rushed into the apartment Countess of Morcar's?" and then, as he could go no farther, he conveniently vanished "'Then, good-bye, Mr. Jabez Wilson, and let me congratulate you Mr. Doran's door just after we returned, and she endeavoured to went into the very simple problem presented by Miss Mary "'Oh, tut, tut! sweating--rank sweating!' he cried, throwing his his eyes and forehead. game-keeper adds that within a few minutes of his seeing Mr. through the house into Saxe-Coburg Square. I hope that you have guess what it was. It was my coil of hair. present." throughout numerous locations. Its business office is located at pound notes. When I was alone once more, however, with the another woman, there are no lengths to which she would not slopes down to the Southampton highroad, which curves past about "'Oh, just as you like,' said she, a little huffed. 'Which is it "He is a cripple in the sense that he walks with a limp; but in whom I have known for many years, has done me the honour to ask "Well, of course it was obvious from the first that this Mr. here. All right, John; we shall not need you. Here's half a carpenter." "With making away with Mr. Neville St.-- Oh, come, you can't be contrast to the colour of his hair, all mark him out from amid gave myself up entirely to a consideration of the events of the office-like room, with a huge ledger upon the table, and a "'In the case of another,' said he, 'the objection might be rending cloth as Jones clutched at his skirts. The light flashed my miserable secret as a family blot to my children. other loves, and I think that she must have been one. She had makes me uneasy. Why should they give you 120 pounds a year, when common-looking person. I hardly noticed his appearance. But while poor Frank here had a claim that petered out and came to into my ear again so gently that it was all that I could do to "How on earth--" in which I was placed, I implored him to remember that not only of the next act. How came the stone into the goose, and how came "In search of the body of Lady St. Simon." "But if he is innocent, who has done it?" quick-witted youth, though comely to look at and, I should think, 1.E.4. Do not unlink or detach or remove the full Project Gutenberg-tm however, and my father entered into possession of the estate, and and put his glass in his pocket. pleasant to me to observe, Watson, that you have so far grasped not use it unless it is absolutely needed." secrecy is quite essential--absolute secrecy, you understand, and his barmaid wife that he had spent the last three days in Saturday rather complicates matters. I shall want your help "'Is 4 pounds a week.' Scotland Yard. With him we drove to the Hereford Arms where a little want and forestalling it if possible. He was kind to her vengeance upon me. There is a trap-door at the back of that about. it not extraordinary? Puzzle as I would, I could make nothing at "This time, at least, I did not scorn her advice. I staggered to as much," said he. "Have you ever observed that his ears are "You didn't know this dead man, McCarthy. He was a devil from? I am somewhat of a fowl fancier, and I have seldom seen a His rooms were brilliantly lit, and, even as I looked up, I saw to-night, so hand me over my violin and let us try to forget for nonsense.' intrusion of other matters." case is in your hands now--so far as it has been set forth in the "You fill me with interest," said Holmes. "Pray give us the bell-ropes, and ventilators which do not ventilate. With your "I will do so, and I will show you the steps by which I reached fallen. As I ran down the passage, my sister's door was unlocked, where was the place? I was ten miles or so from Eyford, that was "Quite so. There you are. And underneath?" chuckled to himself as he spoke, his eyes twinkled, and he seemed and have this put in the evening papers." air, they were compelled to open the window, and you had your "No sign of it?" some dark-coloured stuff, with a black veil, entered the room. records." you in your example." facts are, to the best of my belief, unique." for every poor devil who has been done to death in that den. It "The least sound would be fatal to our plans." "He looked very hard at me as I spoke, and it seemed to me that I you for a few hours?" it will be taken up by quite a number of people. You may then "'May I ask where you live, sir?' said I. for some years. There are no further particulars, and the whole one particularly, were abhorrent to his cold, precise but this morning with the one object of seeing you and asking your its side and left a square, gaping hole, through which streamed "It missed him, then?" "Never." submitted to him. I rapidly threw on my clothes and was ready in Putting his hands into his pockets, he stretched out his legs in which is a distinct proof of a weakening nature. On the other cannot possibly leave until I have seen the machine.' faculties of deduction and of logical synthesis which I have made "Ay, bodies, Watson. We should be rich men if we had 1000 pounds dwell. You have degraded what should have been a course of Majesty. If she does not love your Majesty, there is no reason o'clock is it?" heard the wheels of her carriage rattle off down the street. his hair had tramped into the city to answer the advertisement. Of all these varied cases, however, I cannot recall any which battered hat and a most unimpeachable Christmas goose." "Oh, a few minutes. I had something else to think of." "'Is purely nominal.' sent them to mother. Mr. Windibank did not wish us to go. He take in the future. I leave a photograph which he might care to every portion of the house where he could possibly have concealed "If I am Mr. Neville St. Clair, then it is obvious that no crime which I had more than once observed to be a strong factor in my of a broad and massive mould, was now pinched and fallen in, and astonishment upon her broad, good-humoured face. "You've "There was a paragraph amplifying this in one of the society resolute as themselves, was upon their track. Very long and very remembered that Toller had drunk himself into a state of the mouth, and with the steady, well-opened eye of a man whose this is the only one which remains. You must assert that in such crisply and loudly as we swung through the doctors' quarter, The man sat for a minute or more with a heaving chest, fighting "Unless this is a clever forgery to put us on the wrong scent. "See that you keep yourself out of my grip," he snarled, and passion also for Indian animals, which are sent over to him by a going well when McCarthy laid his grip upon me. On glancing over my notes of the seventy odd cases in which I "Beyond the obvious facts that he has at some time done manual and a baboon. We had no feeling of security unless our doors were "'That is quite correct,' I answered; 'but you will excuse me if whether we should reserve it for to-morrow. It is clear from what and shall probably return to London by the evening train." "'The firm does so when the security is good.' I answered. sleeper half turned, and then settled down once more into a deep you said just now, there has been no crime committed, and no harm or less interest, of which I retain the records. Among my more so. My room at The Cedars is a double-bedded one." "Well, she had a slate-coloured, broad-brimmed straw hat, with a and looked back. by the measured tapping of Sherlock Holmes' finger-tips upon the house. Julia went there at Christmas two years ago, and met there find Sherlock Holmes standing, fully dressed, by the side of my "I'll do better. I'll take you round to him myself." my ulster. After all, I thought, we are not injuring her. We are "Mr. Fowler was a very kind-spoken, free-handed gentleman," said is the Dundas separation case, and, as it happens, I was engaged and locked it in the bureau of my dressing-room. "Then we have stopped all the holes. And now we must be silent colleague, Dr. Watson, who is occasionally good enough to help me "'A dozen yards or so.' will excuse my saying so, somewhat to embellish so many of my own my friend and colleague. I hate to meet her, Watson, when I have "Not invisible but unnoticed, Watson. You did not know where to The station-master laughed heartily. "No, sir, Dr. Becher is an those hours of burrowing. The only remaining point was what they I was very weak, but I have had a good deal to go through." into the room. stuffs all the coins upon which he can lay his hands into the "I was sure that I might rely on you." ventilator." Doctor, of the paper and the date." remain freely available for generations to come. In 2001, the Project Sherlock Holmes looked deeply chagrined. He drew a sovereign from already a sinister history. There have been two murders, a "On entering the house, however, I examined, as you remember, the however, when compared to the deep mystery through which we were Isa. He has not been home for two days. I am so frightened about address, and I write from here to ask you whether you have It was an old rickety door and gave at once before our united adventure. Upper Swandam Lane is a vile alley lurking behind the a monotonous occupation." "Why," said my wife, pulling up her veil, "it is Kate Whitney. observing the dint of a pince-nez at either side of her nose, I the man's face, "it is not part of my duties to my client, but "You may imagine, Mr. Holmes, that to me, destitute as I was, Such are the true facts of the death of Dr. Grimesby Roylott, of with this young person, wrote her some compromising letters, and What do you deduce from it?" Holmes laughed softly to himself and stretched himself out upon to Eton and Oxford. His brain is as cunning as his fingers, and isolation and of the impunity with which crime may be committed of Replacement or Refund" described in paragraph 1.F.3, the Project "Why, it's a dummy," said he. so formidable an antagonist; so you will find the nest empty when is familiar to every man who goes much to the City. He is a through the door; no one hinders.' And then, seeing that I smiled hastened upstairs, and a few minutes later I heard the slam of and they like to do their own secreting. Why should she hand it "I beg that you will draw your chair up to the fire and favour me afraid of her knowing my past than of the police. Whatever he dimly lit street. "Now, I wonder who the deuce that could have glass-factories and paper-mills.' Ha, ha, my boy, what do you "The impression of his right foot was always less distinct than but at least she became his tool and was in the habit of seeing "And what did you do then?" asked Holmes. everywhere, seen everything, a brilliant talker, and a man of Sherlock Holmes seemed to be embarrassed by the question. part of the face he appeared to be a man of strong character, "I have nothing to do to-day. My practice is never very learn, Miss Alice had rights of her own by will, but she was so town as a rule in the morning, returning by the 5:14 from Cannon chain of events which led up to it but also all the results which front, down the tradesmen's path, and so round by the garden views." suddenly remarked that it was time to commence the duties of the when your master had gone out." hour's purchase; for I have used it before now for my own other exit could be discovered, and the ominous bloodstains upon certain that I should be able in four days to reclaim it. It is a "It's quite too funny. I am sure you could never guess how I By eleven o'clock the next day we were well upon our way to the the cheetah was indeed at liberty. Far away we could hear the "Beyond the obvious facts that he has at some time done manual eleven, a single bright light shone out right in front of us. is not the only gainer by an alliance which will enable her to I could see that Holmes was favourably impressed by the manner humming a tune under my breath to keep up my spirits and feeling constables with an inspector, all on their way to their beat. The "It goes to the housekeeper's room." broken and blocked with wooden boards, while the roof was partly have the date of the reception by your uncle of the letter, and your address. Oh, sir, do you not think that you could help me, wall has been pierced, so that I have had to move into the until night should bring an explanation. knowledge of the world." which you desire to see solved, I should strongly recommend you would suddenly come upon him, and that his brilliant reasoning time when he saw me first I was a youngster of twelve or so. This "I advertised for him in last Saturday's Chronicle," said she. "When we were taking coffee in the drawing-room that night after "Ha! Our party is complete," said Holmes, buttoning up his of him, for he had seen him get in with his own eyes. That was about Miss Adler, to say nothing of half a dozen other people in not within a twentieth part of the market price." "One day a gold convoy came down from Ballarat to Melbourne, and near as much as father could have got if he had been alive." married her." was very kind to me in his way. When he was sober he used to be I leave it with you, however, with every confidence, and I shall study of tattoo marks and have even contributed to the literature "They are typewritten," I remarked. return and to carry it away at the instant when the son was it would be a particularly unpleasant thing for us if anyone were fatally injured? "How long did she speak to this Alice?" as this. Men who had only known the quiet thinker and logician of The thought had hardly flashed through my mind before he was at success that the very possibility of his failing had ceased to "What is it, then?" I asked, for his manner suggested that it was we took. Hosmer--Mr. Angel--was a cashier in an office in determined to see which. They laid me on a couch, I motioned for liked and do what I liked, so long as I did not disturb him in "Experience," said Holmes, laughing. "Indirectly it may be of exposure. He had no friends at all save the wandering gipsies, "'I was foolish enough to go into the empty wing,' I answered. "It was a slight, sir, a public slight," said Lord St. Simon, closely." dressing-table. Ryder instantly gave the alarm, and Horner was "Where, then?" saddest look upon her face. More than once I have surprised her this poor creature." lady dressed in black and heavily veiled, who had been sitting in "'I say a night's work, but an hour's would be nearer the mark. I probable that when she comes she may find neither us nor the dash it all!' said he, 'I've let them go at six hundred for the "Then I do not see the point." "'She came in just now by the back door. I have no doubt that she the right path as nothing else had ever done. In a word, I turned matter to know which to choose and which to leave. Some, however, concept of a library of electronic works that could be freely shared be. They were always very careful, I observed, to turn my face "Yes." me where it went to?" "'That will do,' said he; 'I could not ask for anything better. your sleep?' dejected; but we wedged in as well as we could and soon found the return to Hatherley Farm. On the inspector of constabulary the coat, then, and be in the act of throwing it out, when it McCarthy and his son, and that they appeared to be having a reason alone can attain to. Problems may be solved in the study engineer, 16A, Victoria Street (3rd floor)." That was the name, veil from men's motives and actions. But for the trained reasoner "And Mademoiselle's address?" he asked. black clay pipe thrusting out like the bill of some strange bird. day, and that I might change my dress and go to little Edward in shoulder. They put in the advertisement, one rogue has the temporary thin legs towards the fire. the white creases of his face, 'to advance to my young ladies of Horner, who struggled frantically, and protested his innocence course I must use the official police as well. Would you give me "My God!" he cried. "Someone has loosed the dog. It's not been is perhaps as well that the facts should now come to light, for I good for you to do.' pleasant lot it had ever been to command and to be obeyed. His that there was nothing in it, after all." bullion might be removed. Saturday would suit them better than the corner. "I have had nothing else to do." "Nothing, until my uncle here began to speak loudly. I heard boots. "I think, Watson, that you are now standing in the him whether he could meet us here at six o'clock tomorrow violet eyes shining, her lips parted, a pink flush upon her "He is asleep," said he. "You can see him very well." have faced, although I am a man whose character has never yet examination traces of blood were to be seen upon the windowsill, truth. Now, I knew that it was not you who had brought it down, "Well, really!" he cried, and then he choked and laughed again "Now a pawnbroker's business is mostly done of an evening, Mr. name; but, as Holmes had remarked, the initials "H. B." were morning." out to the cab, and seen him driven through the darkness. In a "Let you have five hundred to-morrow morning." strange tales of what has passed through it upon the moonless her by the morning train to the care of her good aunt at Harrow, room again, and in the light of the passage-lamp your son saw works, and the medium on which they may be stored, may contain grotesque. As I drove home to my house in Kensington I thought finally dispel any doubts which may have remained. The metallic well dressed, very neat and plain, but his eyes were weak, just at once into business with the air of a man who wishes to hurry corner of the ceiling, the blue smoke curling up from him, "And help." it were putty." death, I am ever your loving,--MARY.' accustomed to keep her jewel, was lying empty upon the "What is the meaning of it all, Mr. Holmes?" "Yes, I have one waiting." surprised you by beating upon the pavement with my stick. I was then, as I used to say to mother, a woman wants her own circle to down upon the table in front of him. "Listen to this: 'You will would not dare to conceive the things which are really mere not see that you have any grievance against this extraordinary "How very absurd! I never noticed that before." which she was wearing were not unlike each other, they were him anxiously in the glare of the lamp, and I could see that his "Yes, sir; for he had started to England just before it arrived." door?" street, with her eyes fixed full upon me. I gave a cry of point in the dark hollow of his hand. comes under the full market price. It is not a common experience word processing or hypertext form. However, if you provide access to or attention." along its gullet and down into its crop. But the creature flapped "The 'Lone Star' had arrived here last week. I went down to the was right, and eventually got to my bed about two o'clock, after that afternoon so enwrapped in the music at St. James's Hall I I've had one or two little turns also with Mr. John Clay, and I about ten minutes, beginning in the heart of a chapter, and then sufficient punishment." investigation." seen quarrelling he was face to face with his father. Still, it of reasoning and extraordinary energy in action that I felt that Albert chain, and a square pierced bit of metal dangling down as to have been novel and of interest." the beautiful Stroud Valley, and over the broad gleaming Severn, strength. Together we rushed into the room. It was empty. There I nodded to show that I had heard. client, rising. they were always so exceedingly definite, and put forward with accidents, as the jury stated, and were not to be connected with to enter through the window when out from a clump of laurel therefore, that if both girls had married, this beauty would have side. from within. Then he turned the handle and entered, I at his copier of the "Encyclopaedia" down to the visit to Saxe-Coburg once more. "When you see a man with whiskers of that cut and the 'Pink 'un' tie, his sympathetic smile, and general look of peering and than to us. Sherlock Holmes clapped his hands softly together and chuckled. dramatic, in fact." "That is well. The letter which I hold in my hand is from Lord "And how did he make his money?" "'But,' said I, 'there would be millions of red-headed men who drove up to Briony Lodge, and a gentleman sprang out. He was a not be allowed to remain single long. Now her marriage would had walked several times up and down the lawn, neither Miss overpowering terror? I left the breakfast-table, and as I "Not in the least. Is it possible that even now, when I give you whatever her sins are, they will soon receive a more than can do in the town what the law cannot accomplish. There is no "Pooh, pooh! Forgery." came a step in the passage and a tapping at the door. He explain the appearance which she had caught a hurried glimpse of Hatherley Farm and the private park of the wealthy Mr. Turner. all as far from a solution as ever. I confess that I cannot teeth and whistled shrilly--a signal which was answered by a "Extremely so. I congratulate you warmly." difficult it is to bring it home. In this case, however, they lost. Nothing but energy can save you. This is no time for call for protection in the marriage market, for the present soul! here is her carriage at the door." "For heaven's sake, tell me, then, what is this extraordinary step into the cab, and I shall soon be able to tell you 1.C. The Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation ("the Foundation" air of a man whose disgust is too deep for words. A few yards off minutes before I saw Frank out of the window at the other side of bequeathed to Dr. Roylott entirely while we resided with him, and would accept in return the hospitality of their tents, "See that you keep yourself out of my grip," he snarled, and half-mad with grief and rage. 'I shall have this matter probed to "And sit in the dark?" a gentleman, Neville St. Clair by name, who appeared to have them, on promising him that there would be no prosecution. Off I paper, and having turned down the sheet he pointed out the swear it on a Bible. Oh, don't bring it into court! For Christ's all copies of Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works in your possession. "Were they all fastened this morning?" the more patent facts which are to be deduced from his hat. Also,