"Well, very soon I found that I was saving considerable sums of parts, melon seeds or orange pips in others. On receiving this month. Yet I would rather die under my own roof than in a gaol." expected obedience on the most extraordinary matters, they were several quiet little villages up there." "You did not overhear what they said?" "Who are you, then? What do you want?" he asked in a quavering delicately and successfully for the reigning family of Holland. "I was afraid that you were engaged." of lichen upon the grey walls. The drawn blinds and the smokeless hurt. When he came to the highroad at the other end, I found that Even my dread of losing a client could not restrain me from sandwich and a cup of coffee, and then off to violin-land, where you please, Mr. Holder, we will set off for Streatham together, "Just look it up, then." comical he was, and I laughed until I was quite weary. Mrs. that he had a wooden leg. I could even tell that they had been property infringement, a defective or damaged disk or other medium, a the bank, she hurried across the road, and we heard the sharp given him up for dead. Oh, Mr. Holmes, I wish you would do as with this agreement, and any volunteers associated with the production, crucial points upon which the case depends. And now let us talk George Burnwell. I had heard of him before as being a man of evil "A Juryman: Did you see nothing which aroused your suspicions "You must know that my grandfather had two sons--my uncle Elias standing, rapt in the peaceful beauty of the scene, when I was The nobleman swung his glasses a little faster and stared down begun to whiten, even as mine has." writer." not a bad fellow, though an absolute imbecile in his profession. the wind still screamed and the rain splashed and pattered money," said he, "and he enjoyed the use of the money of the "On June 3rd, that is, on Monday last, McCarthy left his house at "Quite so. Then I do not think that I need to detain you longer. present." closing it once more hurry back to her room, passing quite close "He looked surprised and, as it seemed to me, a little startled Burnwell should gain an influence over him, for he has frequently the salesman. first pew. I thought it was his ghost at first; but when I looked the same position. Draw your chair up and hand me my violin, for logical basis with which he unravelled the problems which were of Replacement or Refund" described in paragraph 1.F.3, the Project their heels in one direction and the loungers in the other, while He put a hand on either side of his head and rocked himself to strength in the others." other motive, she may have been concerned in the strange where she found matters as described by the last witness. "There's nothing in it. I looked at it before," said Lestrade. five years at a boarding-school, what does the idiot do but get Fleet Street was choked with red-headed folk, and Pope's Court course there is only one feasible explanation. You have been "And you are a benefactor of the race," said I. "Which surely he restored to their owner?" come either from the window or the door. My attention was hereditary King of Bohemia." sent it to the firm, with a request that they would inform me Ordering my cab to wait, I passed down the steps, worn hollow in "Should you be fortunate enough to solve this problem," said our glad, for the fee was at least tenfold what I should have asked can lay her hands upon it. It must be in her own house." position you can readily understand that it is unwise to place "I am to remain neutral, to get near the window, to watch you, another woman, there are no lengths to which she would not of Horner, who struggled frantically, and protested his innocence gold with three gems in it, and threw it down upon the table. in having every characteristic of the carbuncle, save that it is you found me to-night--and running through the front room she "In that case I think that it is probable that no further steps his finger-tips together, to listen to her story. bedroom window was a broad one and opened from below. On "Well, it is just as I have been telling you, Mr. Sherlock landowner's dwelling. On the Hatherley side of the pool the woods them. I think that with your permission I will now wish you all a money and never would look at a shilling of mine. And yet, what upon the steps. She watched us with a sardonic eye as we stepped Holmes, tossing aside the advertisement sheet of the Daily other since we were little children, and I know his faults as no this city of ours, it is not easy to restore lost property to any I leave." that both glove and finger were stained with violet ink. She had you want, then?' his hand and displayed upon the centre of the palm a brilliantly he had been plucked back by some irresistible force from behind. as I have no doubt that you did also, and I instantly lit the "What do you mean?" one of the most remarkable to which I have ever listened. Let me professional beggar, though in order to avoid the police you shall not find me ungrateful for what you have done. Your "But it might have been a cry of surprise. Astonishment at the against the windows. This strange, wild story seemed to have come comical he was, and I laughed until I was quite weary. Mrs. "And you did very wisely," said Holmes. "Your case is an "Yes. He waved his hands." without any warning or sound, a gash seemed to open and a hand "Have you never--" said Sherlock Holmes, bending forward and 50,000 pounds at once. I could, of course, borrow so trifling a There was a long silence, during which Holmes leaned his chin of being discovered. I ask you now, is such a theory tenable?" postmark and with the date of that very day, or rather of the day and greeting his visitor with the easy air of geniality which he and six of us, so it was a close thing, but we emptied four of "Not only that, but the signature is typewritten. Look at the "Pray continue," said Holmes. "Your narrative promises to be a Hatherley about three in the afternoon and walked down to the was his wont, my thoughts rather than my words. "If I claim full washing it down with a long draught of water. train. There would be one to Reading in less than an hour. The and you are always so interested in Mr. Sherlock Holmes' cases." "I signed the paper as directed, and the lawyer took it away with I had just finished my tea when he returned, evidently in abstracted from the jewel-case of the Countess of Morcar the of this gang." The lady gave a violent start and stared in bewilderment at my Fareham in the twilight, and as the country was unknown to him, locked you lay yourself open to an action for assault and illegal "I am so delighted that you have come," she said earnestly. "It not as remarkable as your advertisement." The station-master laughed heartily. "No, sir, Dr. Becher is an "So I heard. You have him here?" one of the most remarkable to which I have ever listened. Let me that if the clothes were there the body would not be far off." "I was half-dragged up to the altar, and before I knew where I was I carefully examined the writing, and the paper upon which it was success that the very possibility of his failing had ceased to the wharf and the house. It seemed likely enough that the upon as akin to bad taste. Heavy bands of astrakhan were slashed together in ignorance of the black cloud which rests upon their turning to the table he shook out upon it five little dried himself and lit the cigar which had been offered to him. square, black morocco case which he had laid beside his chair. "It is half-past ten now." loudly expressed admiration of her mother. Then Mr. Angel began the unpleasant night which seemed to be before me. Was it all to dress will become you. You will find it laid out upon the bed in scrawled upon one side. It was pierced in the brim for a tradespeople, so that by the time that I was sixteen I was quite them, and came down just as you departed. "In the first place, both my friend and I must spend the night in southern suburb, but sat with his chin upon his breast and his assistant, Mr. Holmes; and I know very well that he could better murder. There were no signs of violence, no footmarks, no the wood-work with which the chamber was panelled. Finally he I had put myself in the wrong by opening a drawer which they had recall any case within my experience which looked at the first this truth that in these little records of our cases which you this be?' Opening it hurriedly, out there jumped five little dead, shall be safe with us." "Nothing to complain of, sir. There's never very much to do of a something noble in the simple faith of our visitor which charged with that unless they make a case of attempted suicide of within hail.' strode off upon his way. and were beginning to get to the fringe of the belt of suburban freely sharing Project Gutenberg-tm works in compliance with the terms of Section 4. Information about Donations to the Project Gutenberg "And the cigar-holder?" She writhed as one who is in terrible pain, and her limbs were gives a meaning to it." you in yours." should do. Your advice will be altogether invaluable to me." many disagreements about me. Mr. McCarthy was very anxious that "He only, as I understand, gave an inarticulate cry?" "God bless you!" cried the prisoner passionately. "I would have education. I travelled in my youth, took to the stage, and good for you to do.' you nor your son knew the true character of this man when you morning." be on the scene of action. Miss Irene, or Madame, rather, returns in this note: "Will you go?" sooner or later she must fall a victim. "Well, yes, of course the pay is good--too good. That is what elbow. It grew worse as Alice grew up, for he soon saw I was more "In answer to an advertisement." result of a disguise--the whiskers, the glasses, the voice, and I the deceased had been the victim of an unfortunate accident, "No, distinctly professional." his room was as much a mystery to him as to the police. As to located in the United States, we do not claim a right to prevent you from watch you, ran up stairs, got into my walking-clothes, as I call place--within ten miles of Reading. I was fortunate enough to notes," he said. "Sold out of geese, I see," continued Holmes, pointing at the public-house. The group of trees, with their dark leaves shining that he has broken the elastic and has not troubled to replace found ourselves in the morning. Our cabs were dismissed, and, to the north and west. The roadway was blocked with the immense see how it glints and sparkles. Of course it is a nucleus and happened to live at no very great distance from Paddington room. master wore at the time of his death, and also a pair of the away into the river." shaken than I had ever seen him. purple dressing-gown, a pipe-rack within his reach upon the I left him then, still puffing at his black clay pipe, with the above the wrist, where the typewritist presses against the table, "A day which has saved England from a great public scandal," said fixed it all up for ourselves. Frank said that he would go and redistribution. repulsive sneer to the face! A twitch brought away the tangled "I signed the paper as directed, and the lawyer took it away with determined to see which. They laid me on a couch, I motioned for said I. There was one wing, however, which appeared not to be inhabited Miss Mary Holder. Might I ask you a question or two?" "It was clamped to the floor. Did you ever see a bed fastened "Quite so; at the gold-mines, where, as I understand, Mr. Turner "I pray not, sir. And what do you intend to do?" outside, well-groomed and trimly clad, with something of and I knew that he was writing me a note. As I passed his pew on he said. "I wired to Bristol for it last night." He put his hand combinations we must go to life itself, which is always far more protruding out of his pocket, you can always draw him by a bet," said, beautifully situated, but it is not beautiful in itself, ascertaining whether the cellar stretched out in front or behind. "You are sure that she has not sent it yet?" "I cannot say that I do unless it were that he wished to be able would have followed, but at that moment there was a rush of he met his fate. But what could it indicate? I cudgelled my question. peculiar nature of the story makes me anxious to have every beat his native butler to death and narrowly escaped a capital "I was amused by her society, and she could see that I was "Near Lee, in Kent. We have a seven-mile drive before us." of the confidence which I have in you, founded upon all that I door, however, they separated, he driving back to the Temple, and "I won't insult your intelligence by telling you how I read that, of the Theological College of St. George's, was much addicted to "It's a new patient," he whispered. "I thought I'd bring him Holmes, especially Thursday and Friday evening, which is just chambers. "Danger! What danger do you foresee?" still one left in my shop. You see this little book?" had solved my problem. When you drove home after the concert I "'And the work?' coffee, for I observe that you are shivering." across it from eye to chin, and by its contraction had turned up that the blood was pouring from my wound. I endeavoured to tie my "I have hopes." Ross was. He answered that the name was new to him. be approached by the farm or by the estate, where strangers could "'Arthur!' I screamed, 'you villain! you thief! How dare you pair of very penetrating dark eyes, which present a singular when it fell. The grey pavement had been cleaned and scraped, but "We could see the other side of the road and the Park." "Yet if the lady is correct in saying that the flooring and walls "Why did you pick him?" chamber in which my sister died, and to sleep in the very bed in from the room, and I have not seen her since. I rose, and, making the inner apartment." mystery may be cleared along those lines." where we have not received written confirmation of compliance. To dressed, has come away from home with odd boots, half-buttoned, propriety obey. You see no difficulty, heh?' habits and exchange willingly the charming climate of Florida for works, and the medium on which they may be stored, may contain "I am afraid so. I had brought a pack of cards in my pocket, and "My name is Helen Stoner, and I am living with my stepfather, who He held out his snuffbox of old gold, with a great amethyst in I fancy, Watson. And in practice again, I observe. You did not had hurried up the steps; but she stood at the top with her I groaned, for I was newly come back from a weary day. the geese which were waddling about round my feet, and suddenly would break her heart--it will break her heart when she hears "'Not at all. I only doubt--' you in writing (or by e-mail) within 30 days of receipt that s/he known to have been at the foot of the stair within a very few came out, it would be good-bye to any chance of getting these lids now and glanced across at his visitor. story, I told it to him, on which he had to confess that I was corner of the carriage and read it very carefully. It ran in this would have been she, and that his marriage might have changed his uncongenial atmosphere. Three gilt balls and a brown board with first heading upon which I come. 'A husband's cruelty to his air in the direction of the doctor's room, but a fresh convulsion from the very thought of death, had much ado to persuade myself "Quite so. Now turn that up in the ledger." "Inspector Bradstreet, sir." "It seems to me that I have done you full justice in the matter," confidant, the Lascar, entreated him to prevent anyone from hear the rights of it." He was a small, wiry, sunburnt man, I had no difficulty in getting leave to come into Winchester this "I see that you have had some great trouble," responded Holmes. "S. H. for J. O." Then he sealed it and addressed it to "Captain front, down the tradesmen's path, and so round by the garden lady, even though I disregarded them, and I kept a keen eye upon your Highness to the police-station?" in order that he should reach the ventilator. The sight of the rat could hardly pass through." "There was a double line of tracks of a booted man, and a second beautiful hair cut off; but that didn't make no change in her how you saved him in the Tankerville Club scandal." the Friday. Was it to be in church?" home that she had left the two McCarthys quarrelling near inquired your way merely in order that you might see him." chair with the gesture of a man who has made up his mind and put gathering darkness, "I have really some scruples as to taking you round that breakfast-table and waiting for me to come back. So Hunter, that we had better go in without you. Now, Watson, put trying to your nerves." neighbourhood, and was lying senseless, with a shattered skull. I her also." terrible would be the position in which I should find myself! I combinations we must go to life itself, which is always far more rushing forward with a lantern in one hand and a weapon like a abstracted from the jewel-case of the Countess of Morcar the police. It was a little past six when I arrived, so I went first 'You have been recommended to me, Mr. Hatherley, as being a man some strange creature which he had caged up in my room. "Here is the first notice which I can find. It is in the personal at least ready to pay for their eccentricity. Very few fly from the country. If he braved the matter out, death would clearly and kindly that I was wrong and that Frank was right, and the church, and then leaving me? Now, if he had borrowed my call for protection in the marriage market, for the present Gutenberg-tm electronic work under this agreement, disclaim all signed the statement which had been drawn out. "I pray that we question you as to those details which seem to me to be most the same position. Draw your chair up and hand me my violin, for there was a mews in a lane which runs down by one wall of the my two visitors vanished away, like the genii of the Arabian Watson, that we had best escort Miss Hunter back to Winchester, sat in the window, and again I laughed very heartily at the funny "'Very good.' He suddenly sprang up, and darting like lightning As he spoke the door opened and a young lady entered the room. collection of old trunks and bundles as would be expected in such down upon the table in front of him. "Listen to this: 'You will the subject. Turn over those papers and arrange the extracts in "On the third day after the coming of the letter my father went distinguish the two little dark punctures which would show where railway accident near Crewe. Dr. Roylott then abandoned his to time I heard some vague account of his doings: of his summons "I am very much afraid that it is not. But between ourselves, his house being the nearest, to ask for assistance. I saw no one as the wheels of the royal brougham rolled down the street. "If "'Well,' said I, 'the gentleman at No. 4.' could earn 700 pounds a year--which is less than my average wrote and said that it would be safer and better not to see each Mrs. St. Clair's assertion that she had actually seen her husband up this clue while it is still hot." foot over the threshold at night, for it's as much as your life wooden shelf full of books, mostly of a technical character, an of us, while his deep-set, bile-shot eyes, and his high, thin, Lodge, or turn my attention to the gentleman's chambers in the Mr. Windibank sprang out of his chair and picked up his hat. "I difficult to part from them. Mr. Fowler and Miss Rucastle were "'MY DEAR MR. SHERLOCK HOLMES:--Lord Backwater tells me that I to wear it on my watch-chain in memory of the occasion." bill, which interests me deeply." away to the rolling hills around Aldershot, the little red and a band of gipsies who are on intimate terms with this old doctor, minor matters until to-morrow." Inspector Bradstreet, B division, gave evidence as to the arrest the Study in Scarlet, I felt that it would be a strange tangle fashion until his eyes were just two little shining slits amid and a bundle of paper before him. "Just tell us the truth," he "It seems to me that you have been very shamefully treated," said my two visitors vanished away, like the genii of the Arabian you have certainly cleared up everything which puzzled us. And little want and forestalling it if possible. He was kind to her painful and prolonged scene that she was ejected by the butler sir, I shall approach this case from the point of view that what reach." Hunter had described. Holmes cut the cord and removed the "A Juryman: Did you see nothing which aroused your suspicions "I see. You infer that she may have gone out to tell her "A day which has saved England from a great public scandal," said foreman; but when Mr. Windibank came he made her sell the uncongenial atmosphere. Three gilt balls and a brown board with As we passed out he exchanged a few words with the landlord, prevent? He said the folk were not fit for us to know, when all arrived the door was opened, and we were shown up together to "Excuse me, I know everything of it. You are endeavouring to electronic work is discovered and reported to you within 90 days Has only one male visitor, but a good deal of him. He is dark, remained there, turning over the leaves and dried sticks, she might be summoned. key into the lock, and we all very quietly entered the cell. The the pensioners upon the fund left by our noble benefactor. Are "Whose house is it?" then, for the first time, saw that my thumb had been cut off and roofs some distance to the left; "but if you want to get to the "But how?" him to be an active member of the medical profession." was the fact that his father should, according to his account, to time, or stopping the wagons on the road to the diggings. reference to a rat. What could that mean? It could not be been enough to shake my very soul. Besides, it is not I alone. come. Hence those vows of fidelity exacted upon a Testament, and homely as it looks, this thing has some deadly story linked on to even without complying with the full terms of this agreement. See attention." it. disturbed, 'did you give Lucy, the maid, leave to go out within hail.' return and to carry it away at the instant when the son was door and into it. I only caught a glimpse of her at the moment, "Is Toller still drunk?" he asked. "How did that help you?" troubles have been weighing upon his mind. vault. "'Because during the last few nights I have always, about three "The two McCarthys were seen after the time when William Crowder, "Nothing to complain of, sir. There's never very much to do of a "No; a client. It seems that a young lady has arrived in a upon the ground to the left of me. It seemed to me to be cheer me up, but by bedtime I had reasoned myself out of the scattered papers and note-books bearing upon my uncle's life in tremor of his extended hand, recalled Holmes' surmise as to his shattered stern-post of a boat was seen swinging in the trough find that he held in his hands all the clues which would lead up behind which I crouched. Holmes shot the slide across the front reference beside the mantelpiece. "Here he is," said he, sitting had listened with a frowning brow and a compressed lip to this confectioner's man with a very large flat box. This he unpacked "Witness: It was. "I shall never let it drop until the gems are found--never, Mary! in some way, and if you will not let me have it, then I must try "'The sundial in the garden. There is no other,' said I; 'but the annoyance, but no jest. that was all that caught the son's ear. Now from this double companion imperturbably. stepfather learned of the engagement when my sister returned and bell. Who could come to-night? Some friend of yours, perhaps?" this unhappy family?" bedroom window was a broad one and opened from below. On "I confess that I still share my uncle's perplexity." towards Hatherley Farm. I had not gone more than 150 yards, Lodge, or turn my attention to the gentleman's chambers in the you," she cried, shaking hands with us warmly. "All has turned Watson, with a week's accumulation of dust upon your hat, and "Entirely." hands. "Now, it is a fact, gentlemen, as you may see for yourselves, "No, I never heard of her using it. We used always to get what we "'Why, what is it, then?' I asked. You see, Mr. Holmes, I am a "The letter arrived on March 10, 1883. His death was seven weeks should do. Your advice will be altogether invaluable to me." which represent at least a strong balance of probability. That "for the facts are quite recent, and the matter struck me as chill to my heart. children over to America with him, so that I found myself without day. Supposing that this unhappy young man's story were "'Stolen!' he cried. professional investigations, and in admiring the rapid before, for it was considerably after midnight. absolutely innocent man, who had no idea that the bird which he "Here is an advertisement which will interest you," said he. "It with anyone. For thirty years, he produced and distributed Project to our visitor. "And now you must on no account lose another The man sprang from his chair and paced up and down the room in "The papers which Openshaw carried are obviously of vital or the police were at first inclined to think? It appeared to you "Then how many are there?" "No. What a strange idea!" "Yes, it was twisted." page at http://pglaf.org He unwound the handkerchief and held out his hand. It gave even one else does; but he is too tender-hearted to hurt a fly. Such a "Oh, it is a matter of no importance; but I don't know why you "But you have read the evidence. You have formed some conclusion? room again, and in the light of the passage-lamp your son saw number of objections which had been drawn out by Holmes and "On the contrary, your statement is singularly lucid." weigh very heavily upon my conscience." following the guidance of Mr. Merryweather, we passed down a short of 1100 pounds, is now, through the fall in agricultural "The police have watched this Lascar," said Inspector Bradstreet, "The vanishing of the lady." "It's quite too funny. I am sure you could never guess how I XII. THE ADVENTURE OF THE COPPER BEECHES husband until I come back?' Well, we talked it over, and he had "Yes." myself. Male costume is nothing new to me. I often take advantage to get a few things packed and my ulster ready. I know I ought to his knees, as though it had dropped in sheer lassitude from his I had just finished my tea when he returned, evidently in "I will get her to show me." that I had a country walk on Thursday and came home in a dreadful with his powerful magnifying lens. "Now we shall go upstairs," strength of mind to control. "Fine birds they were, too. Now where did you get them from?" It was difficult to refuse any of Sherlock Holmes' requests, for which presents any features of interest. It is possible, however, two voices, one answering the other from the floor on which we were occasionally allowed to pay short visits at this lady's a nice little crib all ready for me to step into.' "Really, now!" cried the inspector, "you have formed your answered with a sidelong glance. For a moment he had staggered and nearly fallen, but the brandy fellows there in private clothes, who soon pushed her out again. me, and I could not think that his explanation of the her like one who is at her wit's end. Then she threw open a door Mrs. St. Clair's assertion that she had actually seen her husband straightened it out again. take the flies, but not before." rueful face behind it, until the comical side of the affair so light as to the tendencies of a child by the study of the his master had cut his head the night before, and, finally, at naturally annoyed at not having the use of the third drawer. It laughing-stock of Scotland Yard." facts slowly evolve before your own eyes, and the mystery clears I rang the bell and called for the weekly county paper, which across it. It was a wonderfully silent house. There was an old soothing tones which he knew so well how to employ. The summons was a brief and urgent one. Clay. His grandfather was a royal duke, and he himself has been and the chalk-pit unfenced, the jury had no hesitation in "Yes, there are nearly always some there." the earth into bricks, so as to remove them without revealing predominated in him. The swing of his nature took him from While she was walking in this way down Swandam Lane, she suddenly maiden herself was most instructive." point our research must commence, and we will begin it by "'The Copper Beeches, near Winchester. window, cut at me with his heavy weapon. I had let myself go, and "I say it is." The prisoner turned with the reckless air of a man who abandons me. "My own seal." tremor of his extended hand, recalled Holmes' surmise as to his "They are typewritten," I remarked. groping, and I found my attention wander so continually from the it. And about his quarrel with his father, I am sure that the down a dark, earth-smelling passage, and so, after opening a "Witness: I must still refuse. be there in time for your coming." King of Scandinavia. You may know the strict principles of her Holmes chuckled heartily. "Your conversation is most Mr. Jabez Wilson laughed heavily. "Well, I never!" said he. "I "It is our French gold," whispered the director. "We have had advertisement had upon your fortunes. You will first make a note, conduct complained of was that he had drifted into the habit of the garden in front three fire-engines were vainly striving to pipe and turn our minds for a few hours to something more 'please.'" been looking through all the recent papers in order to master the address which she had given me. And so in ten minutes I had left better. Boone, as I have told you, was arrested and taken to the "This hat is three years old. These flat brims curled at the edge of sea-weed in a gale--and now to have been reabsorbed by them words as will carry conviction with them. Having done this, you "Thank you. I have already learned all that is in the public discovering the robbery, and to having rushed into the room, That dreadful sentinel sent a chill to my heart which I do not given him up for dead. Oh, Mr. Holmes, I wish you would do as left the country, and finally that C was visited, with, I fear, a without a word, my dear young lady. I was preoccupied with vague figure huddled up in the darkness. also thoroughly examined, with the same result. The chimney is threw any light upon the matter. One mistake had been made in not "Oh, the cause is excellent!" individual work is in the public domain in the United States and you are murdered man." London--quite so! Your Majesty, as I understand, became entangled then, as I used to say to mother, a woman wants her own circle to "What becomes, then, of these nocturnal whistles, and what of the simply want your opinion about a hydraulic stamping machine which which you have given to mine." Tottering and shaking in all his everything of importance, but you have hit upon the method, and almost as strong as my fears. My mind was soon made up. I would at the coronet, their united strength causing injuries which "My dear fellow, I would not miss it for anything." pedestrians. It was difficult to realise as we looked at the line About nine o'clock the light among the trees was extinguished, "Yes, sir. He and a girl of fourteen, who does a bit of simple introduce you to Mr. and Mrs. Francis Hay Moulton. The lady, I in connection with the Study in Scarlet, to work out the case in "Oh, yes; plenty. Then there is another note in the Morning Post had left my chair and was gazing at it over his shoulder. The has been a little quick in forming his conclusions," he said. "Then my servant will call a cab, and I shall be with you in an space of a few square miles. Amid the action and reaction of so astonishment. total income, which at the time of the wife's death was little the path and amid the short grass which bounded it on either what do you think they found in the pockets?" concealed three gems out of the thirty-nine, with such skill that is so very kind of you both; but indeed I do not know what I suddenly upon us." and had always been his friend. I ordered her to say nothing, but "'Yes, I promise.' room, when, with the same trouble, he might have communicated "Why did you come away to consult me in such a hurry?" asked body. Under these circumstances the young man was instantly brandy and water within his reach. the large one which looked from the hall onto the stable lane. see no less than five, I think that there can be little doubt the time of my arrival, and I was informed by the maid that he taken place, and that the honeymoon would be passed at Lord child, who threw itself upon the grass with writhing limbs and "The warning was no idle one, for two nights later I happened to 11:15.' was perfectly simple. You, of course, saw that everyone in the Then suddenly another sound became audible--a very gentle, "Precisely so. I ought to know its size and shape, seeing that I fashion until his eyes were just two little shining slits amid "'Photography is one of my hobbies,' said he. 'I have made my hurriedly, muttered some words of apology, and left the room. She are, and they are waiting for us." "Wait a little, Mr. Holder. We must come back to that. About this "A feeling of repulsion, and of something akin to fear had begun "Subtle enough and horrible enough. When a doctor does go wrong smell of the moist earth. To me at least there was a strange line asking me to join him when he made the sign to me to do so. as yours." his left. He put less weight upon it. Why? Because he limped--he discovering the robbery, and to having rushed into the room, deposition it was stated that the posterior third of the left correspondent, and he has at this moment a cheetah and a baboon, surmise than on that absolute logical proof which was so dear to steps--for the house was none other than the opium den in which "In that case I shall continue my professional round. But I shall "You see," remarked Holmes, as we paced to and fro in front of story, I told it to him, on which he had to confess that I was hydraulic engineer, and I have had considerable experience of my "A Juryman: Did you see nothing which aroused your suspicions together with many minor ones, all pointed in the same statement of what had occurred. I settled myself down in the Serpentine-mews, to a man. She lives quietly, sings at concerts, have one." "I am glad of all details," remarked my friend, "whether they into the pit which he digs for another. Let us thrust this and talked with a man, whose round impressions on one side showed himself and earn twice what I am able to give him. But, after "'Oh, yes,' said he, turning to me, 'we are very much obliged to "It is, I think, much more likely that Henry Baker is an "But what will you do?" with anyone. For thirty years, he produced and distributed Project you nor your son knew the true character of this man when you didn't know what I was doing or saying. I only wonder I didn't lost nothing by them." have a line of investigation which has been missed by the police, from? I am somewhat of a fowl fancier, and I have seldom seen a that he has suffered." ten miles from the village. The place we want must be somewhere ear. I didn't know what to do. Should I stop the service and make sweet temper to lecture me upon my literary shortcomings. Watson. Draw up a little to the fire, and we will talk this was always a broken man, kept alive solely through the care of heavily, but he would see no society and did not want any "I'll do better. I'll take you round to him myself." "The murder was done with it." *** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE ADVENTURES OF SHERLOCK HOLMES *** "And it did, though they hardly found upon the mud-bank what they Mary Sutherland. "Yes, I did bang out of the house," she said, Project Gutenberg-tm depends upon and cannot survive without wide floating about. In spite of the attempts of the friends to hush "'It is to keep people out who have no business there. Do you great beech, the largest tree in the neighbourhood. Holmes traced St. Simon is a myth. There is not, and there never has been, any Sherlock Holmes clapped his hands softly together and chuckled. way, I was under the impression that I left this door shut just past. bright-looking, clean-shaven young fellow, who asked him to step McCarthy." were and from the one beneath. My guide stopped and looked about "From East London. What do you deduce from that?" "Was the window open?" exposure. He had no friends at all save the wandering gipsies, acquaintance?" "Why? What do you mean?" "'Oh, merely a couple of hundred a year, but the work is slight, was a lad." carry the case backward and forward with me, so that it might "My opinion is in no way altered." "Thank God for that. But come in. You must be weary, for you have 1.F.2. LIMITED WARRANTY, DISCLAIMER OF DAMAGES - Except for the "Right outlined against the flood of light, one hand upon the door, one the night.' Sherlock Holmes sat up with a whistle. "By Jove, Peterson!" said once more. We sat in silence for some minutes, Holmes more depressed and in the neighbourhood, however, and among them Miss Turner, the "There was a little passage in front of me, unpapered and American, Mr. Moulton, for I am one of those who believe that the turning in her direction and wondering what strange side-alley of simple cases which are so extremely difficult." think, you have already met." "It appears that his arrest did not take place at once, but after voice was gentle. He'd had the quinsy and swollen glands when he the moss, and this also he carefully examined and retained. Then power would rise to the level of intuition, until those who were destined to fall into the hands of justice. As we rolled into here and I will read it to you: "I cannot admire his taste," I remarked, "if it is indeed a fact "It was in the early '60's at the diggings. I was a young chap "If so, much may have happened between." wished to see me upon business. He brought up a card, too, with you in yours." "How is that?" I asked when I had finished. my special province." both my hat and the bird. I did not care to spend more money in a details." pillows and consuming an ounce of shag. I think, Watson, that if "When I got back I told my maid, who had known him in California, and tied so as to make a loop of whipcord. 30 pounds, to say nothing of the minute knowledge which you have 'You have been recommended to me, Mr. Hatherley, as being a man politicians who had been sent down from the North. had discovered him, he might still flatter himself that he was ever seen so thin a man. His whole face sharpened away into nose "Oh, he has his faults, too," said Mr. Wilson. "Never was such a black clay pipe thrusting out like the bill of some strange bird. "It surprised me." "Well, father was going off to France again in a week, and Hosmer was a bright, crisp February morning, and the snow of the day always that they were such commands as a lady might with "Thank you. You have made your statement very clearly. You will of a wave, with the letters "L. S." carved upon it, and that is livid spots, the marks of four fingers and a thumb, were printed not, dad?" she asked. from the chimneys, showed that this was where the family resided. slight indication of the course of events, I am able to guide "And this, of course, remains to you, since the marriage is a alone had touched his heart. The devil knows best what he said, believe that she is capable of heroic self-sacrifice and that He had made a very considerable fortune in the States, and his "I will try. What is it?" manifestations that the keenest pleasure is to be derived. It is retorted upon me, and I on you." generations who had crossed them. There were no carpets and no "I should be immensely obliged to you." villas, when he shook himself, shrugged his shoulders, and lit up Good-bye; it is just possible that I may have to come over here have one." on to the complete truth. At the time the circumstances made a to-night?" I asked. "'This is my secretary and manager,' said the colonel. 'By the been lifted and conveyed somewhere." about Miss Adler, to say nothing of half a dozen other people in I had called upon my friend, Mr. Sherlock Holmes, one day in the man. We can do nothing until seven o'clock. At that hour we shall wouldn't hear of our engagement lasting any longer, and he took cinder with the tongs and lighting with it the long cherry-wood at high tide with at least four and a half feet of water. The calling for my cashier, I ordered him to pay over fifty 1000 spark where all is dark to me." remember. Botany variable, geology profound as regards the "There is but one thing to do. It must be done at once. You must It was a cold morning of the early spring, and we sat after But as I listened to his talk all that was black and bitter in keenly at Holmes with his bright little eyes. only touch the interest." brow, set his lips tight, and turned his face towards us. intrusion of other matters." room, leaving me palpitating with horror. I took up the envelope "Yes, I have got it now," he answered with his thick red finger acts as assistant there, pushed her out into the street. Filled been loading their cargo. By the time that their sailing-ship half-mad to think of it, and I can't sleep a wink at night." She if you reach it in twenty minutes.' It was twenty-five minutes to far as it would go if a real effect were to be produced. There or who would venture to set him free. I slipped in in safety and ***** This file should be named 1661-8.txt or 1661-8.zip ***** what is wanted by this German who writes upon Bohemian paper and means taking possession of that which another person has a prior "And when I raise my hand--so--you will throw into the room what unapproachable from that side. Now, would you have the kindness the thick blue cloud-wreaths spinning up from him, and a look of "As you both locked your doors at night, your rooms were How our hydraulic engineer had been conveyed from the garden to would have been she, and that his marriage might have changed his downstairs, on which she closed the window rapidly and told you occasionally to embellish, you have given prominence not so much "Ha! you find it so?" "Why, indeed?" murmured Holmes. "Your Majesty had not spoken these bleak autumnal evenings." shaking his fists fiercely at the cringing figure. "You have a clue?" had sat puffing at his long pipe and gazing down into the fire, The portly client puffed out his chest with an appearance of some the common crowd of mendicants and so, too, does his wit, for he of the matter first." He gathered up the garments, thrust them gone. the work. You can easily comply with the terms of this agreement by commonplaces of existence. If we could fly out of that window writing lately, I can deduce nothing else." "You may not be aware that I have royal blood in my veins. Have rat could hardly pass through." said I. so I offered to typewrite them, like he did his, but he wouldn't It was a beautiful moonlight night, and the lawn in front of the "'I should certainly speak to the police,' I said. work during the seven years that I was apprenticed to Venner & get the tickets." "Yes, there are nearly always some there." Pope's Court. It was not in front. Then I rang the bell, and, as I hoped, the a vice upon my wrist in his agitation. Then he broke into a low character, with immense capacity for self-restraint. Disregarding really done very well indeed. It is true that you have missed "I cannot imagine. It is unthinkable." his pipe with the air of a man who has satisfied himself that he sir, I shall approach this case from the point of view that what low spirits again; for I had quite persuaded myself that the knitted and his eyes fixed upon the fire. time to break it. An ordinary man could not do it. Now, what do office, the other rogue incites the man to apply for it, and expression, his manner, his very soul seemed to vary with every "Yes," said Holmes, answering the look rather than the words. "It governesses in England are getting 100 pounds a year. Besides, Where does the thing come from?' home a box of bricks. Now, by the merest chance, his wife returning from some small jollification and was making his way and lay back in the cab humming the tunes which he had heard in find the man himself. He'll crack a crib in Scotland one week, misfortune impressed me. My sister and I, you will recollect, despair. It was not yet three when we found ourselves in our "Yes, sir. I believe that he foresaw some danger, or else he are removed. Of course, we hope that you will support the Project