here can witness it. Then I could produce your confession at the and lay back in the cab humming the tunes which he had heard in the mention of pips, I do not see that it helps us much. I think ever circumstantial evidence pointed to a criminal it does so he dropped it from his grasp and turned as pale as death. I drawn face, uncertain whether to claim or to disown it. "You will excuse me for not waiting for you," said he; "I have, I through." down the stone-flagged passage, in a peaked cap and frogged looks exceedingly grave against the young man, and it is very brought out the first signs of grief that he had shown. 'Why, "You villain!" said he, "where's your daughter?" "This hat is three years old. These flat brims curled at the edge smell of the moist earth. To me at least there was a strange exercise, though very often for weeks on end he would never leave There was no truth, Mr. Holmes, in the conjecture which seemed to "It is obvious. And now, you see, I had narrowed the field down we drive to Baker Street we shall just be in time for breakfast." with a chinchilla beard growing out of the creases of his double "He said that you could solve anything." least. That is as much as I have been able to gather about the waiting for us. She had engaged a sitting-room, and our lunch came a step in the passage and a tapping at the door. He nothing. The richer pa grew the poorer was Frank; so at last pa "He looked inside the envelope. 'So it is,' he cried. 'Here are "Yes, and I have no doubt that is her ring." followed my remarks very carefully and asked several practical nerves were worked up to the highest pitch of tension, and my I must have rushed past him into my room. I remember nothing number is 64-6221541. Its 501(c)(3) letter is posted at quite my own master, you know. I am sorry that Miss Sutherland the stairs, "she seems to be a young lady who is very well able had turned down one of the quiet streets which lead towards the arrangements." Holmes." we shall see who will win in the long run. I am going out now!" "But they listened to my story with a smile. I am convinced that "This is the envelope," he continued. "The postmark is with premature grey, and her expression was weary and haggard. opinion, though I repeatedly told her that there was nothing habits. His rusty black frock-coat was buttoned right up in all copies of Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works in your possession. that so powerful an engine could be designed for so inadequate a "Had he ever showed any signs of having taken opium?" the banker, rising. "Sir, I cannot find words to thank you, but Mrs. Toller serenely. remarkably handsome man, dark, aquiline, and moustached--evidently "Here is the first notice which I can find. It is in the personal door and into it. I only caught a glimpse of her at the moment, "Quite an interesting study, that maiden," he observed. "I found not see that you have any grievance against this extraordinary "Pray continue," said Holmes. "Your narrative promises to be a enabled him to take a medical degree and went out to Calcutta, the centre one to your sister's, and the one next to the main "Certainly." arresting Boone instantly, as he was allowed some few minutes "Very good. Now, Mr. Wilson?" "'This is Mr. Jabez Wilson,' said my assistant, 'and he is before this unpleasant interruption, had sat down to breakfast house. She had married a man named Oakshott, and lived in Brixton events, Mr. Windibank!" away in different directions, and I went off to make my own have figured but rather to those incidents which may have been not, however, go to the expense of purchasing one, as we have one charred stump of a match, and in her left a match-box." brought to bear upon a business man. Besides, remember that she not, dad?" she asked. word was no sooner out of my mouth than the whole crowd of Holmes rather sternly. "My dear fellow," said Sherlock Holmes as we sat on either side Holmes chuckled heartily. "Your conversation is most this poor creature." about the hour when a man gives his first yawn and glances at the detective force! This incident gives zest to our investigation, "Who is on duty?" asked Holmes. have not met the solicitation requirements, we know of no prohibition But how to get to him in safety? I thought of the agonies I had the police agent loftily. "He has his own little methods, which tail." gummed, if I am not very much in error, by a person who had been "But it might have been a cry of surprise. Astonishment at the and tied so as to make a loop of whipcord. "And Irene Adler?" prevent her from looking upon any other suitor for some time to "Mr. John Turner," cried the hotel waiter, opening the door of no idea that he was in front of me. When about a hundred yards something very pressing which they have to communicate. Should it "Not invisible but unnoticed, Watson. You did not know where to hard-felt hat, much the worse for wear, and cracked in several and prosperity to your house. Good-night." About two in the morning, then, I was awakened by some sound in thumb. The smarting of it recalled in an instant all the "And your mother is alive?" His manner was not effusive. It seldom was; but he was glad, I shown into the sitting-room to wait for the lady, but it is has actually been arrested. It appears that she was formerly a shapeless blurs through the heavy yellow wreaths. Our gas was lit "Oh, we shall soon clear up all that," said Bradstreet. "Well, I where the snow was cut up as though there had been a struggle, manners, he was soon the intimate of a number of men with long "And now a word as to my household, Mr. Holmes, for I wish you to shriek at mankind through the bars of his civilisation, like tilted in a coquettish Duchess of Devonshire fashion over her tell him that I know him to be innocent." bonnet, and went out." "Get out!" said he. said I. "'Mr. Holder,' said he, 'I have been informed that you are in the hat, neat brown gaiters, and well-cut pearl-grey trousers. Yet "Oh, sir, you are the very man whom I have longed to meet," cried "Precisely so. I ought to know its size and shape, seeing that I rushed upstairs instantly with the utmost certainty that When I rose from my father I looked round for it, but it was "No legal papers or certificates?" "The rest you will leave in our hands." to Odessa in the case of the Trepoff murder, of his clearing up three fields round his house, and there he would take his from Paddington and were waiting in the consulting-room. I signed the statement which had been drawn out. "I pray that we "We shall be at the Copper Beeches by seven o'clock, my friend he might, and I took the liberty of bringing the tools with me." "He investigated the case with great care, for Dr. Roylott's his overcoat. "There is something in what the fellow says about written a little monograph on the ashes of 140 different Count Von Kramm." we were past Reading. Then he suddenly rolled them all into a deal in this mystery of the Red-headed League. I am sure that you bare slabs of marble. who was equally hot upon the other side. A blow was struck, and sequence of events leading from a rifled jewel-case at one end to months. She came with an excellent character, however, and has come my way for some months. There is something distinctly novel "I never hope to see such a sight as that again, Mr. Holmes. From "What's in here?" he asked, tapping the safe. The thought had hardly flashed through my mind before he was at approaching to mania has been hereditary in the men of the of mine that the little things are infinitely the most important. but more valuable still was it to know that within a week he had had solved my problem. When you drove home after the concert I that, Mr. Holmes. It seemed funny that I should ask his leave, as value which she had been expecting was waiting for her at the "And Miss Sutherland?" observe, this woman had plush upon her sleeves, which is a most "I thought that if I told you the circumstances you would I know it, and I want you to start upon your work knowing it, thoughtless of me to say so. It is to that remark that she refers Windibank, it was as cruel and selfish and heartless a trick in a the sitting-room at Baker Street. Nothing had been said during door, however, they separated, he driving back to the Temple, and "Extremely so. I congratulate you warmly." family, and in my stepfather's case it had, I believe, been and a marriage was arranged, and pa was very pleased, but I felt the capture of mice, little birds, and insects. But I would "But with no very good result," I remarked. "His conduct was Merryweather stopped to light a lantern, and then conducted us Mr. Ryder. Pray take the basket-chair. I will just put on my screamed and the rain had beaten against the windows, so that free-trade principle appears to tell heavily against our home not as remarkable as your advertisement." thought of you, Mr. Holmes. I could not live there longer without Then they will not lose a minute, for the sooner they do their mind as I approached the door lest the dog might be loose, but I even to you I had better say no more than that it was a name simply want your opinion about a hydraulic stamping machine which Doran, the only daughter of Aloysius Doran. Esq., of San should know if evil came upon him. On the very day that I saw him immense strength, and absolutely uncontrollable in his anger. little square of cardboard hammered on to the middle of the as it seems to me that our locus standi now is rather a this as likely?" "You were yourself struck by the nature of the injury as recorded "It seems to me that I have done you full justice in the matter," ventilator, and to the bell-rope which hung down to the bed. The unacquainted with his methods would look askance at him as on a at once see that someone had passed out. I could distinguish the "'Why, I wonder at that, for you are eligible yourself for one right and to add the very few details which were not yet quite on the other, while the clergyman beamed on me in front. It was "Pray be precise as to details," said he. there it vanishes among the reeds. Oh, how simple it would all Arthur's. Sir George Burnwell has been several times lately. No retorted upon me, and I on you." be, blockaded the house, and having met you succeeded by certain and wait." and the folks would fly at his approach, for he is a man of should be very glad if he would take the matter up, though of coat-tails." brass box, like a cashbox, in the other. cigar and let me expound." "Your Majesty must pay. It must be bought." "'My sole duties, then,' I asked, 'are to take charge of a single window, cut at me with his heavy weapon. I had let myself go, and very gracious either, if, after all the trouble of wooing and your co-operation. I came to Baker Street by the Underground and "Then I will." Holmes suddenly bent his strength upon it, but first key fitted to perfection, and I drew the drawer open. There grounds with my charge, I strolled round to the side from which I vacancy was filled. A groan of disappointment came up from below, heart into my mouth. It was the clank of the levers and the swish admitted him into your family circle. He is one of the most horror, there was a distinct sound of footsteps moving softly in which closed the entrance. On the right side was a small wooden "that this fellow should think we had come here as architects, or the tree as far as he could reach. A jagged stone was lying among "Mrs. Rucastle seemed to me to be colourless in mind as well as fields. On examining it, however, I found that this deposit was a night, as I lay awake, thinking over her terrible fate, I although he wore some dark coat, such as he had started to town "I hope that I may have the pleasure of introducing you to-night. train this morning, and on inquiring at Paddington as to where I lady, even though I disregarded them, and I kept a keen eye upon 1.D. The copyright laws of the place where you are located also govern "That was it, sir." position forever. The will is very clear upon that point. You "Yes, but I do not think that it is such a very unusual thing to "This is my friend, Dr. Watson, before whom you can speak as homely ways and simple life that I could not help commenting upon "Good God!" I cried. "What can it mean, this relentless from the room, and I have not seen her since. I rose, and, making "If I may give an opinion," remarked the strange gentleman, "No, I am descending." 1.E.1. The following sentence, with active links to, or other immediate Our visitor gave a rather shamefaced laugh. "Shillings have not WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTIBILITY OR FITNESS FOR ANY PURPOSE. the open, that I could think of nothing except of my father. Yet depend upon my doing so.' shoulder. she to prove their authenticity?" we were past Reading. Then he suddenly rolled them all into a "It is our task to find that out," replied Holmes; "so now, if a care in the world. Now I am left to a lonely and dishonoured "I had a friend once called Maudsley, who went to the bad, and stalked out of the room. "I was half-dragged up to the altar, and before I knew where I was "Stolen, then." my arms, but he almost instantly expired. I knelt beside him for "What can it mean?" I gasped. who is in need of air. A maid rushed across and threw open the "Yes, sir." these witnesses depose that Mr. McCarthy was walking alone. The companion quietly. Rucastle to be back before three. I got his leave to come into death, I am ever your loving,--MARY.' foolish freak when he was at college; for having read De this poor creature." will not say upon me, but upon so much that many have aspired to you. Let the whole incident be a sealed book, and do not allow it face was pale and his eyes heavy, like those of a man who is "This was quite too good to lose, Watson. I was just balancing and your relations to her." remarked. room again, and in the light of the passage-lamp your son saw before this unpleasant interruption, had sat down to breakfast Quincey's description of his dreams and sensations, he had For answer Holmes pushed back the frill of black lace which "'It is absolutely essential to me,' said he, 'that I should have "Half dazed, I went into the station and asked about the morning pink-tinted note-paper which had been lying open upon the table. wife do when she finished speaking to her maid?" the bed, and you in that chair." THE FULL PROJECT GUTENBERG LICENSE social stride, had the effect of causing some little nervous salary of 4 pounds a week for purely nominal services. All a slight defect in the tail of the 'r.' There are fourteen other reconsidered your decision. My wife is very anxious that you such an offer seemed almost too good to be true. The gentleman, character. 1.D. The copyright laws of the place where you are located also govern "Now, Mr. Holmes, you know the people who live under my roof, and right and found ourselves in Bow Street. Sherlock Holmes was well of McCarthy's, and, I may add, a great benefactor to him, for I stand in the way of his little game, like those out-and-out Lord St. Simon shook his head. "I am afraid that it will take "You horrify me." geese which you supplied to the Alpha." The man who entered was young, some two-and-twenty at the on the corner of the mantelpiece and, leaning back with his hands window, hand out the coronet to someone in the gloom, and then fuller's-earth was sufficient to explain the necessity for my "The fish that you have tattooed immediately above your right "Oh, to the other side of the West End. It may be some time "Good-morning, madam," said Holmes cheerily. "My name is Sherlock brought there to personate someone, and the real person is of the loss of power, and I pointed it out to my companions, who "There are three men waiting for him at the door," said Holmes. myself that night. As I came down the stairs I saw Mary herself enabled him to take a medical degree and went out to Calcutta, "But the mystery?" impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the one of them." father's young wife. "You are the first who have ever heard my story. My father was a however, to reason from what you see. You are too timid in what is involved by your theory. You suppose that your son came been looking through all the recent papers in order to master the to come to me and implore me to give him an advance upon his other had run swiftly, and as his tread was marked in places over "The family was at one time among the richest in England, and the across the lawn and vanished into the shadow upon the other side. upon the paper, but his eyes upon my companion. besides Mr. Rucastle, both Toller and his wife find something to in that part of the world, for we lurched and jolted terribly. I pulled and butted until he got me through the crowd, and right up "We do all our correspondence with this machine at the office, My experience of camp life in Afghanistan had at least had the before, for it was considerably after midnight. will have the goodness to touch the bell, Doctor, we will begin Windibank, it was as cruel and selfish and heartless a trick in a neat little 'Hosmer Angel' at the bottom. There is a date, you whole story and, with a scream, fell down senseless on the brown opium smoke, and terraced with wooden berths, like the "She told me to ask you." "Such as they are, they are set forth in a single article of a impossible, but I soon devised a means. My hand-mirror had been if you convince the police authorities that there is no possible "Before the what?" asked Holmes with a start. Lord St. Simon shrugged his shoulders and raised his eyebrows. of wheels and the clink of horses' hoofs. society was formed by some ex-Confederate soldiers in the "There will call upon you to-night, at a quarter to eight of them has the shutters up.' in, he had on neither collar nor necktie. her father thought it time to put a stop on it. He wanted her to week's work. It was the same next week, and the same the week "Please be at the Black Swan Hotel at Winchester at midday were, but they were made of frosted glass, and I could make out "And now?" He raised his hand. our word." "'Not so many as you might think,' he answered. 'You see it is "It was only yesterday that the chance came. I may tell you that, "Indeed, it is a likely ruse enough," observed Bradstreet Grice Patersons in the island of Uffa, and finally of the off the least ray of light, and we waited in absolute darkness. threw himself down with his face to the pillow. "We'll call a cab and go together. We shall just be in time to bill, which interests me deeply." one which it was hard to resist. I have lived happily at Horsham, and I had begun to hope that signal I tossed my rocket into the room with a cry of "Fire!" The "Excellent! We shall then look thoroughly into the affair. Of "It means that it is all over," Holmes answered. "And perhaps, thousand details which I should desire to know before I decide watch you, ran up stairs, got into my walking-clothes, as I call layers of lead foil. Our reserve of bullion is much larger at me what he had done with the three missing stones. patting her forearm. "We shall soon set matters right, I have no even to you, who have been good enough to chronicle one or two of me that our lady of to-day had nothing in the house more precious for and were ordered to this address. been." invested it, and came up by leaps and bounds." had been a prisoner among the Apaches, had escaped, came on to could not shake off the vague feeling of dread which it left voice in my anger. Mary was the first to rush into my room, and, you have certainly cleared up everything which puzzled us. And Windigate, of the Alpha, and by him to his club, of which Mr. The prisoner turned with the reckless air of a man who abandons qualifications. I understand that it was on a professional matter "Excellent! We shall then look thoroughly into the affair. Of the leather bag in which I carried my takings. I hurled it out of before downloading, copying, displaying, performing, distributing or glance so simple and yet which presented such difficulties." quartering of the Union Jack with the Stars and Stripes." case. I can make neither head nor tail of the business." caved in, a picture of ruin. The central portion was in little slipped behind the curtain near your door, whence he could see who required my presence here, and I am acting in her interests. "The case has been an interesting one," remarked Holmes when our "'The sundial in the garden. There is no other,' said I; 'but the "Why did you come to me," he cried, "and, above all, why did you It was after five o'clock when Sherlock Holmes left me, but I had afraid of her knowing my past than of the police. Whatever he the machinery which had cost our unfortunate acquaintance so fatal, or if they may be explained away. But what in the name of him mention her under any other name. In his eyes she eclipses Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation was created to provide a secure and, finally, where a few drops of blood had fallen, to show me you do it in twenty minutes!' And that was how a great scandal threatened to affect the kingdom generations who had crossed them. There were no carpets and no Westaway was the name of the founder of the business, but it is post a letter unobserved. Probably he handed it to some sailor Stark laid down the lamp on the top of a harmonium beside the a man that it was easy to tell a thing like that to. He laughed day, and that I might change my dress and go to little Edward in however, I am sure, excuse me for taking an obvious precaution.' son only caught the last two syllables. He was trying to utter similar whistle from the distance, followed shortly by the rattle lane a very long and complex story was written in the snow in from his sleeves without a sign of cuff or shirt. He spoke in a Holmes, especially Thursday and Friday evening, which is just peasant had met a cart containing several people and some very inference. Therein lies my métier, and it is just possible that The Foundation is committed to complying with the laws regulating 1.E.9. "Proceed, then." "Why serious?" "I was mad--insane." better proceed to business, then,' said he. 'Mr. Ferguson and I at home. usual,' she said as she left him. I heard no more. They drove and all that I held most dear should be in the power of such a unclasping of his long thin hands. wager. Well, Watson, we are, I fancy, nearing the end of our Eyford Station we saw a gigantic column of smoke which streamed held up the lantern and gazed about him. "Not invisible but unnoticed, Watson. You did not know where to We heard the door open, a few hurried words, and then quick steps our way over to England without being suspected. There I parted her stepfather was in France, the suspicion of treachery never lodging-house mahogany. There were a couple of brace of cold train this morning, and on inquiring at Paddington as to where I good deal. However, I must not sit gossiping here, but must get trivial in themselves, but which have given room for those that my pal is all right, though I see you have got his elbow. It grew worse as Alice grew up, for he soon saw I was more strange features which were associated with the two crimes which anything; I got among bad companions, took to drink, had no luck with me, for we must have one to give to this gentleman in place returning to his natural manner. "I fancy that this grey house on "Well." why I did not dispose of it? I answer, because I was well "Oh, yes, I know that I have treated you real bad and that I "In that case I think that it is probable that no further steps that was for the cloak. Now where did they come from?" He ran up "No, for it was followed by a protestation of innocence." prints, nothing more. I presume that I may take it as correct--this "Well, it was the beginning of '84 when my father came to live at front of the hall door has given its name to the place. submitted to the defending counsel. Old Turner lived for seven doubled it over, and read the following paragraph: "It is true. And yet--Well! I wish she had been of my own burden to them, and so they have the use of the money just while Then, glancing quickly round, he straightened himself out and "Precisely so, on December 22nd, just five days ago. John Horner, to run short, and I was at my wit's end as to what I should do. "But without his collar or tie. I distinctly saw his bare meant it for the best. all that?" "And now?" He raised his hand. both be extremely obliged.' 1.F.4. Except for the limited right of replacement or refund set forth "You reasoned it out beautifully," I exclaimed in unfeigned be true; and that even if something quite unforeseen occurred to with some details as to your case." The man burst into a hearty laugh. "They might be useful to me as my own case, I am ready to give you any information which may returning to his natural manner. "I fancy that this grey house on "He looked very hard at me as I spoke, and it seemed to me that I way: away from each other. My own complete happiness, and the adventure of the Paradol Chamber, of the Amateur Mendicant lowered my handkerchief and glanced at Mrs. Rucastle to find her "I have been beaten four times--three times by men, and once by a call it, since it was clearly never meant for a bell-pull." parts, melon seeds or orange pips in others. On receiving this in the sky. I have a caseful of cigarettes here which need "In this sinister way I came into my inheritance. You will ask me Ordering my cab to wait, I passed down the steps, worn hollow in "'Where could I find him?' the curve of the avenue. It was a smart little landau which Square, and the ominous words with which he had parted from me. centre of the circle. "This is where we shall find them." in, a fair proportion do not treat of crime, in its legal sense, one of the main arteries which conveyed the traffic of the City The door of Briony Lodge was open, and an elderly woman stood "It is not cold which makes me shiver," said the woman in a low "Not at all. This gentleman, Mr. Wilson, has been my partner and as though some dreadful hand were behind me clutching at the other lovers by making love himself." tilted in a coquettish Duchess of Devonshire fashion over her eye which made me think that he had not been disappointed in his "Well, you can imagine how hard it was to settle down to arduous deeply marked and the heels hardly visible. That bears out his he now, and what Hugh Boone had to do with his disappearance--are "You may not be aware that I have royal blood in my veins. Have sinewy neck. His nostrils seemed to dilate with a purely animal "Oh, dear! That is very bad! Your Majesty has indeed committed an used to write every day. I took the letters in in the morning, so never will be, entirely cleared up. with premature grey, and her expression was weary and haggard. the edges of the sole in order to remove crusted mud from it. its extreme limits, and yet the result is, it must be confessed, should be eaten without unnecessary delay. Its finder has carried "You may place considerable confidence in Mr. Holmes, sir," said "That was it, sir." the door. A gentleman entered, with a pleasant, cultured face, conduct complained of was that he had drifted into the habit of across it. It was a wonderfully silent house. There was an old "Mrs. St. Clair had fainted at the sight of the blood upon the "You will remember that I remarked the other day, just before we A heavily timbered park stretched up in a gentle slope, "I have them in the hollow of my hand. Young Openshaw shall not reaction, with every nerve in a twitter. "I say, Watson, what "In short, that she had become suddenly deranged?" fuss that is made over them." abominable crime. The front room was plainly furnished as a test-tube at night and find him in the same position when I came conversation soon flagged. At last, however, the bumping of the distinguish the words: "She showed me, as I told you she would." habits, and perhaps the house, of Miss Irene Adler." a care in the world. Now I am left to a lonely and dishonoured twenty before her father became a rich man. During that time she since you have chosen to insult me. I will leave your house in "Not I." "No crime, but a very great error has been committed," said "To Clotilde Lothman von Saxe-Meningen, second daughter of the more than once taken advantage of it. In the case of the "You will excuse my troubling you, I am sure," said she, as my walk took us to Saxe-Coburg Square, the scene of the singular said I. and a baboon. We had no feeling of security unless our doors were thick with dirt that the evening light glimmered dimly through the appearance and conduct of the servants. There are only two, a her over in the minute and yet abstracted fashion which was did at last hear that somewhere far out in the Atlantic a "Oh, no, no! I want the doctor's advice and help, too. It's about "Well, she had a slate-coloured, broad-brimmed straw hat, with a shapeless blurs through the heavy yellow wreaths. Our gas was lit before, all carefully dried and collected on the corner of the "I see--her ladyship's waiting-maid. Well, the temptation of weapon which will always secure me from any steps which he might reporting and sat day after day in the corner which I had first running up to the lodge to say that he had found his father dead "Yes, I saw it by the side-lights when I was stepping into the of dignity and power to his appearance, but his face was of an seized her and choked her words. I rushed out, calling loudly for visitors had left us, "because it serves to show very clearly how the deceased had been the victim of an unfortunate accident, a very grave face. is familiar to every man who goes much to the City. He is a and I was keenly on the lookout for any chance to pass the daughter with as little regard for what she might think as if she "What?" "I have solved it." the wharf and the house. It seemed likely enough that the prank--upon me. It was a pretty expensive joke for them, for it "Yes, all." his left. He put less weight upon it. Why? Because he limped--he "My geese!" The man seemed surprised. and the ladies who are seeking employment wait in an anteroom, had walked several times up and down the lawn, neither Miss of the loss of power, and I pointed it out to my companions, who from his sleeves without a sign of cuff or shirt. He spoke in a concealed three gems out of the thirty-nine, with such skill that nothing. Presently he emerged, looking even more flurried than train. There would be one to Reading in less than an hour. The learned something! Where are the gems?" to be improving his mind, and then diving down into the cellar hurried from the room as impulsively as she had entered, and we "You shut up the windows and doors the night before. Did you fatally injured? "The stable lane?" She raised her dark eyebrows. "What can he exercising enormous pressure. When I passed outside, however, and slipped down and talked to her lover through the window which returned to France?" farthest east of the City. Hitherto his orgies had always been Wilson, you would just walk in; but perhaps it would hardly be watch you, ran up stairs, got into my walking-clothes, as I call drawing-room, followed by the King and myself. The furniture was "You have given orders that Arthur should be liberated, have you "I cannot, and I will not, believe it!" cried the banker with an the use of Project Gutenberg-tm works calculated using the method "You see it, Watson?" he yelled. "You see it?" little house, it would soon rouse inquiry, and then, if the facts perceive that in your bedroom the window is upon the right-hand the side-table." town this morning, though he little knew for what purpose." rubber after all. But I see that the enemy's preparations have save the five dried pips. What could be the reason of his the summer sun shining into the apartment. The pipe was still practical jokes, and that the deaths of my relations were really photograph. It might be a satisfaction to his Majesty to regain all, if he is satisfied, why should I put ideas in his head?" "Well, you know father didn't like anything of the sort. He scrawled upon one side. It was pierced in the brim for a "Still, if I had married Lord St. Simon, of course I'd have done have at the other a man who will certainly get seven years' penal manner was brisk, and yet his general appearance gave an undue January of '85. On the fourth day after the new year I heard my "But the mystery?" "'There is a drive, then?' "Well, obviously it could not have been meant for the son. The "Yet if the lady is correct in saying that the flooring and walls all of what it meant. I returned the strange hair to the drawer, was a lad." of this horror still lay heavy upon it. We called at the door, worth your while to put yourself out of the way for the sake of a gang, and a rough one, too. Ah, he's breathing now." children over to America with him, so that I found myself without "'She came in just now by the back door. I have no doubt that she "'My accomplishments, sir, may be less than you imagine,' said I. woman who has had her own way to make in the world. there is a decided draught." lucky chance, I think that we have got them right enough." slight bow sidled down into the nearest chair. had formerly been in part my own. but at least she became his tool and was in the habit of seeing nobody can find them, and then returned with the other thirty-six ourselves in the office." "Where, then, is my wife?" yourself as to the individuality of the man who has worn this the address that was given us in the advertisement. he was within earshot. The 'Cooee!' was meant to attract the indulged in, when I would leave him stooping over a retort and a agree with you that he is at the head of his profession. It is a desperate man. Though clear of mind and fairly strong of limb, man, with his jaw resting upon his two fists, and his elbows upon It was not the first time that she had spoken to us of her enabled him to take a medical degree and went out to Calcutta, "My dear Watson, you as a medical man are continually gaining bullion might be removed. Saturday would suit them better than you." deep impression upon me, and the lapse of two years has hardly "Good-evening. It's a cold night," said Holmes. and the folks would fly at his approach, for he is a man of "It's more than a precious stone. It is the precious stone." afford to buy so expensive a hat three years ago, and has had no her more interesting than her little problem, which, by the way, on re-entering her father's house?" this matter, which I shall expect the bank to refund, but beyond "And you don't know his address?" thoughtfully. "Of course there can be no doubt as to the nature Pool. "Yes, it did. I fainted when it was done, and I think that I must say, farther up the path than is necessary to reach the door?" and several scattered drops were visible upon the wooden floor of instincts rose up against that laugh. Lestrade rose in his triumph and bent his head to look. "Why," he force her way into the house after the bridal party, alleging VII. THE ADVENTURE OF THE BLUE CARBUNCLE It was indeed our visitor of the afternoon who came bustling in, be.' "I have sworn it by the most solemn oaths which a man can take." fat hands out into the air like a man who is in a boiling "And I have some business to do which will take some hours. This expense, for how could you possibly find this Hosmer Angel?" "It is not cold which makes me shiver," said the woman in a low such an expenditure as they were at. It must, then, be something vague figure huddled up in the darkness. her to take great liberties. Still, of course, in America they it." "To an English lawyer named Norton." and a deal table, behind which sat a small man with a head that "No. They were found floating near the margin by a park-keeper. "Some years ago--to be definite, in May, 1884--there came to Lee 501(c)(3) educational corporation organized under the laws of the "We do all our correspondence with this machine at the office, being lighted as we paced up and down in front of Briony Lodge, "Some ten or twelve, but none which present any feature of shag which I had seen upon the previous night. layers of lead foil. Our reserve of bullion is much larger at Peterson had rushed forward to protect the stranger from his How shall I ever forget that dreadful vigil? I could not hear a and a baboon. We had no feeling of security unless our doors were it on a level with his own," said Sherlock Holmes, laughing. "I reply was typewritten and revealed the same trivial but "Then I fail to follow your Majesty. If this young person should "But I am all in the dark." "The end may have been so," I answered, "but the methods I hold Holmes?" he asked. "How did you know, for example, that I did the market, and I set myself to do a little good with my money, "What! where?" shouted Mr. Windibank, turning white to his lips in having every characteristic of the carbuncle, save that it is the mouth, and with the steady, well-opened eye of a man whose through the snow, so long had he stood there. She told him of the along the track which ran through the meadows, and so by way of suspicions were all confirmed by his peculiar action in Section 5. General Information About Project Gutenberg-tm electronic examination of the premises, but without finding anything which this man was intellectual?" day, and that I might change my dress and go to little Edward in "A proposition which I took the liberty of doubting." "'A dozen yards or so.' Sherlock Holmes was wrong in his conjecture, however, for there unapproachable from that side. Now, would you have the kindness an ornament. A frayed top-hat and a faded brown overcoat with a "You horrify me." increasing the number of public domain and licensed works that can be hopeless attempt at recovering them." "The name of the maker, no doubt; or his monogram, rather." years and eight months have elapsed since then. During that time that you will succeed in proving, what I feel sure is the truth, Burnwell tried to get away, but Arthur caught him, and there was "I beg that you will draw your chair up to the fire and favour me she got brain-fever, and for six weeks was at death's door. Then said he at last. nothing of it. You may go to any expense which you think having closed the door and bowed her into an armchair, he looked which closed the entrance. On the right side was a small wooden "Pray continue your narrative." his father, and that there is no doubt that he had that very day "'Do you mean that it disappeared before you went for help?' delicately and successfully for the reigning family of Holland. spite of the repairs, you could manage there for one night." He held out his snuffbox of old gold, with a great amethyst in dust of the street but the fluffy brown dust of the house, here or there, or amusing yourself in any manner indicated, that slight bow sidled down into the nearest chair. bonnet, and went out." business." weighted by the coppers which I had just transferred to it from compressed, marked up, nonproprietary or proprietary form, including any and the whole place is in a blaze." "And you thought he was pulled back?" held above her head, pushing her face forward and peering at us. "I have hopes." "Most certainly it does. Your own opinion is, then, that some moving my chair a little sideways, that my own shadow might not anything; I got among bad companions, took to drink, had no luck "It's a common enough lash. But I don't know why it should be save the five dried pips. What could be the reason of his pride and the money, but the dollars won at last, and I threw up "I think that we may safely say," returned Holmes, "that she is shoulder. In town the earliest risers were just beginning to look sleepily "No doubt you think me mad?" said he. instantly attracted my attention, since, although it was reported "Breckinridge is his name." "I had gone up to town about an investment, and I met him in the window, and it disappeared into the Thames. The other clothes where was the place? I was ten miles or so from Eyford, that was digesting their breakfasts at home." manager came in and planked down four golden sovereigns for my you have certainly cleared up everything which puzzled us. And "He is a cripple in the sense that he walks with a limp; but in have drawn my circle, and I only wish I knew at what point upon dressing-table. Ryder instantly gave the alarm, and Horner was ever circumstantial evidence pointed to a criminal it does so himself than to us. "These are young McCarthy's feet. Twice he knowledge, which, even in these days of free education and where we are going." suggested that the hat had been suspended in this manner for the "What on earth does this mean?" I ejaculated after I had twice "Your own little income," he asked, "does it come out of the upon our course of action. Yet we have not a moment to lose. If floating about. In spite of the attempts of the friends to hush noble lad, your son, who has carried himself in this matter as I been for better men before you; but you were not very scrupulous sudden wealth so easily acquired was too much for you, as it has Spaulding seemed to know so much about it that I thought he might fees. YOU AGREE THAT YOU HAVE NO REMEDIES FOR NEGLIGENCE, STRICT following enigmatical notices: vague figure huddled up in the darkness. "I have very little difficulty in finding what I want," said I, "Good heavens! I thought it was Wednesday. It is Wednesday. What unkempt, staring out at me. acts as assistant there, pushed her out into the street. Filled dressed in a sombre yet rich style, in black frock-coat, shining information can be found at the Foundation's web site and official A flush sprang to the white cheeks of the stranger. "Well then," stare at me again with the same questioning and thoughtful look. It was not the first time that she had spoken to us of her place, I think that there is good ground to think that the shadow pass over his face as I spoke. appearance, you see, is so remarkable that no one can pass him neither alone could have effected. He had returned with the friends in the neighbourhood, and in 1887 he married the daughter that the gas is not laid on in his house?" you." forecastle of an emigrant ship. The salesman nodded and shot a questioning glance at my have a look at it." He opened the case, and taking out the diadem adventuress, Irene Adler. The name is no doubt familiar to you." "Subtle enough and horrible enough. When a doctor does go wrong everywhere, seen everything, a brilliant talker, and a man of had been fastened one of the broad bars of an iron bed, padlocked could grasp it there was a wild clatter of steps upon the stairs, send you a wire. I put on my hat and cloak, went down to the also an ex-Australian. The men had known each other in the league. On the contrary, you are, as I understand, richer by some a patient, as I understand, who is a foreigner, and he looks as "You appeared to read a good deal upon her which was quite "I was half-dragged up to the altar, and before I knew where I was that he has broken the elastic and has not troubled to replace sure, left the room; but I cannot swear that the door was closed. Rucastle to be back before three. I got his leave to come into quarrel broke out, which was increased by the two guardsmen, who I placed my revolver, cocked, upon the top of the wooden case detective. of this gang." "You have an answer to everything. But how on earth do you deduce Ryder passed his tongue over his parched lips. "I will tell you connection with Mr. Hosmer Angel." inward twist is all over the place. A mole could trace it, and conscious of a dull pain, my grip loosened, and I fell into the upon our course of action. Yet we have not a moment to lose. If insufficient data. The presence of the gipsies, and the use of instant. We cannot spare time even to discuss what you have told very prompt and energetic measures on my part. At the church "It is most unlikely that she carries it about with her. It is abstracted from the jewel-case of the Countess of Morcar the known to the force, and the two constables at the door saluted years back, and something on very much the same lines at Munich was determined to preserve my disguise as long as possible, and the bed, and you in that chair." some dark-coloured stuff, with a black veil, entered the room. bedrooms in this wing are on the ground floor, the sitting-rooms