is also defective, you may demand a refund in writing without further "Do you think that this man Horner is innocent?" "Oh, yes! he is the green-grocer who brings our vegetables round. "She brought, I understand, a considerable dowry?" believe. By the way, in view of recent occurrences, perhaps I "And the ring?" I asked, glancing at a remarkable brilliant which stone steps, which terminated at another formidable gate. Mr. for its centre. before I get back. Don't wait up for me in case I should be chamber." "I was only Crown Prince then. I was young. I am but thirty now." character. "The decline of his fortunes, then?" "I fail to see that anyone is to blame. I can hardly see how the than to us. It was a quarter past six when we left Baker Street, and it still lit his pipe, and leaning back in his chair he watched the blue "But she will refuse." "You must leave that to me. I have already arranged what is to imagine that her position must have been uncomfortable with her He broke the seal and glanced over the contents. though there are one or two points in it which are suggestive. "Never mind," said Holmes, laughing; "it is my business to know established a large practice. In a fit of anger, however, caused told him. There is nothing more to be said or to be done I was very weak, but I have had a good deal to go through." room, leaving me palpitating with horror. I took up the envelope sorry to hear you say that. The fund was, of course, for the "'No, I had a feeling something was there.' subdued brightness through the dim veil which hangs over the him. There were, it is true, some blood-stains upon his right shawl round me, and rushed into the corridor. As I opened my door out of the house, and may be set aside altogether. I have three been deluded when, with a cry, she sprang at a small deal box in my cases. Whom have I the honour to address?" other until he had gone. We could write in the meantime, and he process of exclusion, at the idea that she might have seen an however, and I only trust that our little friend will not suffer left this morning with her husband by the 5:15 train from Charing little pride and pulled a dirty and wrinkled newspaper from the sign of a certain amount of foresight, since he went out of his with sundials and papers? I shall take no notice of such painful and prolonged scene that she was ejected by the butler some strange creature which he had caged up in my room. difficult it is to bring it home. In this case, however, they your bag." his singular account of his father's dying words. They are all, investigation." conceal it?" "My heart had turned to lead. 'It is K. K. K.,' said I. "The warning was no idle one, for two nights later I happened to End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by "That's no good." "I will do nothing of the kind. My stepdaughter has been here. I "Witness: I was so disturbed and excited as I rushed out into 1.F.2. LIMITED WARRANTY, DISCLAIMER OF DAMAGES - Except for the "Right with the help of a youth whom he had brought with him, and himself to tell his story. Dr. Watson has not heard the opening part but also because the owe, Watson. I am all off colour. I can do nothing for myself." must fly to my dear boy to apologise to him for the wrong which I "'It's only four hours a day, and I should not think of leaving,' even to you, who have been good enough to chronicle one or two of hung like an immense ostrich feather over the landscape. points. One is that the murdered man had an appointment with Lee, in the county of Kent." do not charge anything for copies of this eBook, complying with the Sherlock Holmes and I surveyed this curt announcement and the is ever ready with a reply to any piece of chaff which may be building, two-storied, slate-roofed, with great yellow blotches platitudes of the magistrate than upon the details, which to an be the man upon whom you wish to lay your hands." "I suppose that everyone finds his first independent start in discovering the robbery, and to having rushed into the room, have been a better fit if I had been measured for it. Both Mr. master of the house. I kept all the keys and could go where I from my old pals and determined to settle down to a quiet and but then one day father struck a rich pocket and made a pile, good enough, Mr. Holmes. I did not wish to lose such a place housekeeper now, but she is old and foolish, and I could easily "Yes, he did." keeping her at home and forbidding her to seek the company of had hurried up the steps; but she stood at the top with her of the fire in his lodgings at Baker Street, "life is infinitely "Have you heard anything of the case?" he asked. that you saw all that I did." "And why in hopes?" and thieves! I have caught you, have I? You are in my power. I'll an introduction to him?" 1.F.3. LIMITED RIGHT OF REPLACEMENT OR REFUND - If you discover a building, near the corner of Paul's Wharf, which could tell some has been committed, and that, therefore, I am illegally see a Chinese coin hanging from your watch-chain, the matter preserve this coronet with every possible precaution because I 6d., glass sherry, 8d.' I see nothing in that." find Sherlock Holmes standing, fully dressed, by the side of my hollow!" he remarked, looking up in surprise. man has written the name, and there has then been a pause before distance from the station, and there we found the young lady forebodings. wanting in this new investigation. You have been reading the when I say that I shall either confirm or destroy his theory by and locked it in the bureau of my dressing-room. confined to one day, and he had come back, twitching and the maids, why should your son allow himself to be accused in tremor of his extended hand, recalled Holmes' surmise as to his of a lady? There it is in a nutshell. If you have not, you are "ARAT," I read. Society, who held a luxurious club in the lower vault of a "I glanced at the books upon the table, and in spite of my roofs, and peep in at the queer things which are going on, the "Yet if the lady is correct in saying that the flooring and walls there in twenty minutes." ceiling. Round his brow he had a peculiar yellow band, with with the help of a youth whom he had brought with him, and round the garden without seeing anything more than random tracks, her hands with a despairing gesture, and vanished as suddenly and I confess, to my relief, that instead of being identified as Mr. ashen white, while his lips and the corners of his nostrils were depend upon my doing so.' The Boscombe Pool, which is a little reed-girt sheet of water "None." down a dark, earth-smelling passage, and so, after opening a possible. The table was set out ready for me, and Mr. Duncan Ross process of exclusion, at the idea that she might have seen an paragraph in which the unfortunate young man had given his own "That was what the county coroner asked me at the inquiry. It is there. There were no signs of violence upon any of these and warm-hearted in her ways, so that it was evident that with "'Quite sure, dad.' was difficult to name a subject or a person on which he could not "'Arthur!' I screamed, 'you villain! you thief! How dare you down the street, "here is a madman coming along. It seems rather "We must sit without light. He would see it through the closed the locket and handed it back to Lord St. Simon. deduce it. As to Mary Jane, she is incorrigible, and my wife has Ryder passed his tongue over his parched lips. "I will tell you he is mistaken in thinking that I was following my father. I had house which could account for such elaborate preparations, and who can twist steel pokers into knots. That and a tooth-brush probably know so much of Rucastle's past life that he finds it goals and ensuring that the Project Gutenberg-tm collection will breast, and the air of a man who is lost in thought, while I sat "And why?" protruding fingers and a horrid red, spongy surface where the never will be, entirely cleared up. running freely down his face. At his fall the guardsmen took to lens he tested the hinges, but they were of solid iron, built fashion, and then composed himself, with his lids drooping and Miss Mary Holder. Might I ask you a question or two?" "When Dr. Roylott was in India he married my mother, Mrs. Stoner, "Yes, sir. And no later than this morning. I went to my work as "'And my duties, sir? I should be glad to know what they would reaches Savannah the mail-boat will have carried this letter, and knew nothing of such men. When he breathed his vows to her, as he Through the gloom one could dimly catch a glimpse of bodies lying I am exceptionally strong in the fingers, it would take me all my hat actually brushed the cross bar of the doorway, and his from me, but when they were typewritten he always felt that the pound a week." accomplice's hair. The 4 pounds a week was a lure which must draw or cause to occur: (a) distribution of this or any Project Gutenberg-tm "'The other is a good three pound heavier,' said she, 'and we recover the gem." "My dear fellow, I congratulate you." particular." He shook hands with us and took his leave. Outside have to be careful, for we have twice been deceived by wigs and and throwing the noose round the reptile's neck he drew it from lit his pipe, and leaning back in his chair he watched the blue time to time to see that all was right with me. At two o'clock he filled a shelf with my writings. And then suddenly the whole "How did he come?" These, we presume, indicated the nature of the papers which had "What is it, then?" I asked, for his manner suggested that it was believe, however, that the full facts have never been revealed to said I. consented to take charge of it. However, it was too late to alter remained with Horner some little time, but had finally been "That is not quite so common, is it? Ah, me! it's a wicked world, "You are engaged," said I; "perhaps I interrupt you." undo the hasp, put your lamp there as a signal to us, and then away from the window, so that I became consumed with the desire carrying a white goose slung over his shoulder. As he reached the too, for he is only five years and two months older than myself." "And when I raise my hand--so--you will throw into the room what was a cheetah, too; perhaps we might find it upon our shoulders up from behind a small clump of trees in the neighbourhood and "No, it is not even attached to a wire. This is very interesting. "By the same brilliant reasoning, every man's body is to be found Mexico. After that came a long newspaper story about how a coronet, and his opponent at the other. In the scuffle, your son "Oh, that! I thought of the salt that I have been working upon. rearranging his facts, looking at it from every point of view transparent, and it was a very bad compliment when you said that this two days for you. You should be ashamed of yourself!" "My God! It's Watson," said he. He was in a pitiable state of unforeseen and extraordinary calamity could have occurred between to-night?' was something about that suite of rooms which I was not to know, I have heard of you before. You are Holmes, the meddler." father having signalled to him before seeing him, also to his Count Von Kramm." Hunter, that we had better go in without you. Now, Watson, put "'Then let me do so?' you, and before he even knew that you had returned from Bristol? flock.' no time to be lonely, for within an hour there arrived a in his eyes as he looked at me. I read suspicion there and "Well, really, I came to seek a theory, not to propound one. I bright semicircle which was thrown from the fanlight. Just as I hurried from the room as impulsively as she had entered, and we You can see now that it is fastened to a hook just above where "It may give him a sleepless night. He will find it as sure a assistance they need are critical to reaching Project Gutenberg-tm's "How often?" for my father was a man of a very violent temper. Seeing that his he went off to France upon the business of the firm, but we went, "Oh, it is childish. She dropped her bouquet as we went towards "In the dress is a pocket. In the pocket is a card-case. In the decidedly carried away, and, having quite made up her mind that and the number of our depositors. One of our most lucrative means his consciousness. He had, as it appears, been returning from sound at heart." infinite languor in his face. life, and it was the thought of it that started me laughing just hour's purchase; for I have used it before now for my own the window, sprang out into the snow, and ran down the lane, "The best possible." smoke-rings as they chased each other up to the ceiling. swung himself up onto the roof. "Ah, yes," he cried, "here's the "Some cold beef and a glass of beer," he answered, ringing the think, to see me. With hardly a word spoken, but with a kindly "Pray do, sir, if it may help to clear this horrible affair up." you understand?" unacquainted with his methods would look askance at him as on a may be more valuable than the conclusion of an analytical cheer me up, but by bedtime I had reasoned myself out of the whether it answered to the description of any of their is one remarkable point, however, which will no doubt strike For all these reasons I expected them to come to-night." "Not social, then?" to recognise the presence of those great elemental forces which quarrel broke out, which was increased by the two guardsmen, who the whishing sound that there was a slight leakage, which allowed up this clue while it is still hot." - You provide, in accordance with paragraph 1.F.3, a full refund of any up to a pitch of expectancy, there was something depressing and the scene of the death of Wallenstein, and for its numerous money," said he, "and he enjoyed the use of the money of the envelope. opinion, though I repeatedly told her that there was nothing my powers to determine. As to Holmes, I observed that he sat "That also I could fathom." "And on what day did he meet his death?" just as I was thinking of turning in and Holmes was settling down bell. "I have been too busy to think of food, and I am likely to "'That you may get away, or perhaps that you may conceal what you Dr. Watson has not heard the opening part but also because the His smile broadened. 1.E.5. Do not copy, display, perform, distribute or redistribute this Arthur Conan Doyle Mary and Arthur were much interested and wished to see the famous is worth.' very carefully round it to observe if there were any traces in "Irene Adler is married," remarked Holmes. since it has proved that he has the very strongest motives for "I will tell you, then, what occurred in your house last night. nobody can find them, and then returned with the other thirty-six here. I gave the maid a card, but I see that she has left it upon "He was in the house about half an hour, and I could catch and all that I held most dear should be in the power of such a strange and bizarre. But here"--I picked up the morning paper "It is possible." upon the current of his thoughts. We had driven several miles, over to anyone else? She could trust her own guardianship, but "Your cases have indeed been of the greatest interest to me," I "An enemy?" together in ignorance of the black cloud which rests upon their should do. Your advice will be altogether invaluable to me." particulars. It seems, from what I gather, to be one of those bottom at last, however. This note I had this morning marks my unusually large ones. On the whole, it was most probable that the "Your Majesty must pay. It must be bought." to run back again. I found my father expiring upon the ground, sparkled upon his finger. he cannot escape, and you have saved an innocent human life as or else I can never show my face inside the club again.' ADVENTURE IV. THE BOSCOMBE VALLEY MYSTERY has been referred to the Assizes. I have some account of the how she had fainted on seeing the coronet again, my conjecture details should find their way into the papers. Inspector "We shall spend the night in your room, and we shall investigate Mr. Holmes; I have heard of you from Mrs. Farintosh, whom you "I have nothing to do to-day. My practice is never very his barmaid wife that he had spent the last three days in towards the blaze. I had no difficulty in getting leave to come into Winchester this layers of lead foil. Our reserve of bullion is much larger at the Boscombe Pool, with the intention of visiting the rabbit connivance and assistance of his wife he disguised himself, know that the truth is known." stone came from the goose, and the goose came from Mr. Henry to take care of herself." face is as black as a tinker's. Well, when once his case has been ash, I then looked round and discovered the stump among the moss against a man in the prime of life?" himself than to us. "These are young McCarthy's feet. Twice he were--straw, lemon, orange, brick, Irish-setter, liver, clay; young McCarthy's narrative which struck us both instantly, "'No, I have not. It must be those wretched gipsies in the active enemies. I know nothing further of the matter.' that was for the cloak. Now where did they come from?" He ran up stretching from the road to the kitchen door, and forming the American, Mr. Moulton, for I am one of those who believe that the stranger than the result when viewed, for instance, by Mr. demon--'I'll throw you to the mastiff.' knowledge, which, even in these days of free education and marked with every evil passion, was turned from one to the other however. I left the house a little after eight o'clock this subject to the trademark license, especially commercial his huge brown hands. used for political purposes, principally for the terrorising of Hunter had described. Holmes cut the cord and removed the labyrinth of small streets which lie at the back of Tottenham "Well, I got the two dozen from a salesman in Covent Garden." "'The sundial in the garden. There is no other,' said I; 'but the affectionate father, and a man who is popular with all who know my powers to determine. As to Holmes, I observed that he sat fitted with a cap at either end to make it self-lighting. attempted to ascend the stairs which led to the first floor. At you call to-morrow. As to the photograph, your client may rest in "What! You do not mean bodies?" look dissatisfied." as it seems to me that our locus standi now is rather a previous husband--the chances being in favour of the latter." "My stepfather's business papers." light, holding the coronet in his hands. He appeared to be rather more to my taste than Italian or French. It is I seemed to hear a low whistle, such as my sister described, and There is ever a flaw, however, in the best laid of human plans, heard that I was about to be married, and, to tell the truth, the standing, rapt in the peaceful beauty of the scene, when I was "And how have you succeeded?" people, perhaps to these very gipsies in the plantation. I do not of the lustrous black hair, the large dark eyes, and the and figure were those of a woman of thirty, but her hair was shot "But I would not have let the young man come to harm. I give you firm. I would not have his cursed stock mixed with mine; not that One night--it was in June, '89--there came a ring to my bell, results." make me his representative both with the servants and with the conduct complained of was that he had drifted into the habit of three gentlemen are badly wanted here upon a charge of murder." There is as much sense in Hafiz as in Horace, and as much unheeded upon his ears, or, at the most, only provoked a quick, help us in this matter." Capital! capital!' He seemed quite enthusiastic and rubbed his it were putty." I have given you pain, and I hope that you do not think very left-hand side of the window. These articles, with two small he hugged his recovered gems to his bosom. door behind him. "It is quite certain that he knows nothing "Well, it is not for me to judge you," said Holmes as the old man "But you have hopes?" rending cloth as Jones clutched at his skirts. The light flashed he died? little fancy of my wife's, and ladies' fancies, you know, madam, that you wished to speak to me?' meant it for the best. and Hampshire in the west. In the last century, however, four child?' towards the vacant chair upon which a newcomer must sit. "Third right, fourth left," answered the assistant promptly, of amusement, and he shows quite remarkable talent in planning remarked, "the thing always appears to me to be so ridiculously yet, had I the nerve to lie and look up at that deadly black down upon me, slowly, jerkily, but, as none knew better than you give your casting vote to?" about my wife's neck, and sobbed upon her shoulder. "Oh, I'm in "But a cripple!" said I. "What could he have done single-handed "No, I do not think so. I think that there was probably some more "It was all-important. When a woman thinks that her house is on "Oh, you mean the little problem of the Grosvenor Square rattled, and from the time when I saw Frank here again I just scrawled upon one side. It was pierced in the brim for a "Dirty?" http://www.gutenberg.net as mine are, and he wore tinted glasses against the glare." much stronger if I felt that you were at the back of me." for his hand was still raised to it as he entered. From the lower and six of us, so it was a close thing, but we emptied four of you quite invaluable as a companion. 'Pon my word, it is a great discovering the robbery, and to having rushed into the room, "He's gone for the dog!" cried Miss Hunter. without success. At last the little money which I had saved began relative position to the ventilator and to the rope--or so we may cause to be." upon his hands and stared into the crackling fire. met her several times, became engaged to her, and have now impressions, my boy, but concentrate yourself upon details. My description. I eliminated everything from it which could be the "'Ample.' take in the future. I leave a photograph which he might care to number is 64-6221541. Its 501(c)(3) letter is posted at may recompense you for the loss. Your duties, as far as the child I seemed to hear a low whistle, such as my sister described, and "We shall spend the night in your room, and we shall investigate difficult it is to bring it home. In this case, however, they The lady coloured deeply and covered over her injured wrist. "He "'It is to keep people out who have no business there. Do you closely." Most people start at our Web site which has the main PG search facility: man or devil. When these hot fits were over, however, he would article, for example, as to the disappearance of the bride." indeed which he could not unravel. four-wheeler, which happened to be the only other cab in the judicial moods. "I know, my dear Watson, that you share my love came in, but when I came down to breakfast in the morning there "Oh, no, sir. It is quite separate and was left me by my uncle asked. light of a flickering oil-lamp above the door I found the latch saw the name, for it was that of none other than--well, perhaps "My dear Holmes!" I leave it with you, however, with every confidence, and I shall nothing of it. You may go to any expense which you think across it from eye to chin, and by its contraction had turned up "No, it is not even attached to a wire. This is very interesting. man's business was a small one, and there was nothing in his impression upon me, and I pondered over it and turned it every my strong impression that I heard it, and yet, among the crash of has just been serving his time in Pentonville. One day he had met "Her father is very rich?" perhaps better first to take the knee of the trouser. As you relative position to the ventilator and to the rope--or so we may dark-lantern with the shutter half open, throwing a brilliant "The Coroner: That is for the court to decide. I need not point time, I hope that you will postpone it, as this matter is of man, with his jaw resting upon his two fists, and his elbows upon "Excellent. You are not averse to this trip, Watson?" three fields round his house, and there he would take his hands together in the most genial fashion. He was such a veil from men's motives and actions. But for the trained reasoner cry 'Cooee!' before seeing him. The other was his singular dying case. I can make neither head nor tail of the business." to be absolutely impossible. It was sheer frenzy of this sort typewriting his signature, which, of course, inferred that his thick-soled shooting-boots and a grey cloak, smokes Indian Section 1. General Terms of Use and Redistributing Project Gutenberg-tm the last man to see the gentleman of whom we are in quest." skirt, and a low voice whispered, "Walk past me, and then look a scene in the church? I glanced at him again, and he seemed to introspective fashion. the morning he was saying to me that, whatever happened, I was to "'Never,' said I. "What! a murderous attack?" the armchair which I pushed forward for him. "I was certainly surprised to find you there." warren which is upon the other side. On my way I saw William rattled, and from the time when I saw Frank here again I just chewing tobacco. And you have no doubt that it is your husband's halfway up his calves, and which were trimmed at the tops with sofa. This way, please!" attend to the injured man. Irene Adler, as I will still call her, the man was highly intellectual is of course obvious upon the "As she spoke a light sprang into view at the further end of the few minutes I had written my note, paid Whitney's bill, led him "His name is Vincent Spaulding, and he's not such a youth, "A fair dowry. Not more than is usual in my family." father of the bride, Mr. Aloysius Doran, the Duchess of Balmoral, "Precisely. It was I. I found that I had my man, so I came home question, land, money, houses, until at last he asked a thing "It was pitch dark inside the house, and the colonel fumbled called upon Scotland Yard and upon the chairman of the bank Pray what steps did you take when you found the card upon the can stand this strain no longer; I shall go mad if it continues. we lay in wait for it and attacked it. There were six troopers comes from London, and therefore we cannot count upon delay." "'To Eyford, in Berkshire. It is a little place near the borders whose eccentric conduct had drawn my attention. and read, with intervals of note-taking and of meditation, until "I feel that time is of value," said he; "that is why I hastened He had hardly shut the door behind him when Holmes rose to put on suspicion. But then, when I found how I had betrayed myself, I sum which I have asked. I am prepared to leave it with you as my very stout, florid-faced, elderly gentleman with fiery red hair. to do with the money. If my hair would only change colour, here's was very kind to me in his way. When he was sober he used to be "No, sir. But I want to find out about them, and who they are, "Quite an interesting study, that maiden," he observed. "I found manager came in and planked down four golden sovereigns for my The Boscombe Pool, which is a little reed-girt sheet of water and greeting his visitor with the easy air of geniality which he to his chemical studies. thicket, which led into a narrow path between two neat hedges farthest east of the City. Hitherto his orgies had always been "He didn't mind me; in fact, he took a fancy to me, for at the been forced before now, and why should not mine be? If so, how a few minutes he said that it would be all right. "Ah, you look on these things from another standpoint." there are women in whom the love of a lover extinguishes all "Certainly." greasy leather cap which lies upon the pavement beside him. I prominently displaying the sentence set forth in paragraph 1.E.1 with are, if he won't mind my saying so, just a little too theoretical certainty. I then inquired as to the vessels which lay at present have been senseless for a long time. When I came to I found that resolute as themselves, was upon their track. Very long and very "Warm! You'd be as warm, maybe, if you were as pestered as I am. loved each other as brother and sister; but of course he is young before downloading, copying, displaying, performing, distributing or "It seemed to me that I had never met so fascinating and so "We have got to the deductions and the inferences," said success. moment her knees seemed to give way and she fell to the ground. judicial moods. "I know, my dear Watson, that you share my love fixed it all up for ourselves. Frank said that he would go and Gutenberg-tm License (available with this file or online at were a slut from off the streets. It drove me mad to think that I "What will you say?" him. One of them held the horse's head while the other led us in. "Yes. He was brought up and remanded for further inquiries." "Terrible! She is even more affected than I." has been submitted to us to-night, we need certainly to muster "I saw an ill-dressed vagabond in the lane yesterday evening," has agreed to donate royalties under this paragraph to the deduction which was of the greatest importance in clearing up the reconsidered your decision. My wife is very anxious that you believe that I should never have any practice at all. a very long time, for the moon had sunk, and a bright morning was daughter of the neighbouring landowner, who believe in his the Lascar was at the foot of the stairs." believe that I should never have any practice at all. "The stable lane?" She raised her dark eyebrows. "What can he success that the very possibility of his failing had ceased to which set an edge to a man's energy. All over the countryside, "No, no; I call him a gentleman by courtesy, but he was quite a "I am afraid," said I, "that the facts are so obvious that you "Pshaw! They did not know how to look." they were always so exceedingly definite, and put forward with cases between the years '82 and '90, I am faced by so many which "That McCarthy senior met his death from McCarthy junior and that family, and in my stepfather's case it had, I believe, been he is mistaken in thinking that I was following my father. I had "Excellent! You should have been a surgeon." several warnings that an attempt might be made upon it." "I shall glance into the case for you," said Holmes, rising, "and of some 14,000 pounds, which lay to his credit at the bank." "My name," answered our visitor, "is probably familiar to your spare." while his eyes shone out from beneath them with a steely glitter. I sponged the wound, cleaned it, dressed it, and finally covered laid before you. I suppose that we are absolutely safe from leaning back in his chair. sprang in, and away we dashed down the London Road. A few country "It was in vain to argue with him, for he was a very obstinate it lengthened out until it became a yellow line, and then, trust you.' He rose as he spoke. 'I shall expect you, then, at I nodded to show that I had heard. in its details and so startling in its results that I am tempted "You have it!" he gasped. "I am saved! I am saved!" had already made a disturbance at Mr. Doran's house that read nothing except the criminal news and the agony column. The be married in the course of the spring. Two days ago some repairs direction." "Where, then?" "Quite an interesting study, that maiden," he observed. "I found listless way, but his attention instantly became riveted, and he "On Monday." excellent spirits, swinging an old elastic-sided boot in his first heading upon which I come. 'A husband's cruelty to his coming out through this door, his keys in his hand, and a look on devotedly attached to me. She wrote me dreadful letters when she King had stretched out to him, he set off in my company for his one of the states of the Union." is concerned, are very light. Now do try to come, and I shall his worst. We were to meet at the pool midway between our houses come in, and as he was watching me narrowly it seemed safer to precursor of his fate as Openshaw did before him." And Holmes' fears came to be realised, for from that day to this "Indeed! My mistress told me that you were likely to call. She disfigured by a horrible scar, which, by its contraction, has "Good-night, Mister Sherlock Holmes." "That is possible." the colonel needed to have his machine overhauled, I fancy." "Indeed, I should have thought a little more. Just a trifle more, on consideration of some few pence every week, we were each to respectable life. I bought this estate, which chanced to be in "VIOLET HUNTER." "Yes; it struck me as being a little out of the common." money paid for a work or a replacement copy, if a defect in the we have exacted from you should have aroused your curiosity. I stake; and that he threatened to raise a scandal which would that Miss Rucastle was perfectly happy, and that she no longer If you paid a fee for obtaining a copy of or access to a Project In town the earliest risers were just beginning to look sleepily chosen, inspiring pity by my ghastly face and filling my pockets my flight. That is the true story, gentlemen, of all that "Is there a cellar with a good strong lock?" really, it would be difficult to suggest a better. The method was drives out at five every day, and returns at seven sharp for miles off. owe, Watson. I am all off colour. I can do nothing for myself." together, bound from Reading to the little Berkshire village. had been abandoned as hopeless by the official police. From time not treated her ungenerously, and she had no just cause of "The doctor?" your only hope of safety." my armchair and cheery sitting-room behind me, and was speeding "They have but one retreat," whispered Holmes. "That is back my speech. His face set hard, and a baleful light sprang up in as the most incisive reasoner and most energetic agent in Europe. strength of body and of character. His tangled beard, grizzled "Subtle enough and horrible enough. When a doctor does go wrong neighbourhood, and was lying senseless, with a shattered skull. I "No." "No, distinctly professional." "Yes." "And yet," said I, smiling, "I cannot quite hold myself absolved "But he is right. Oh! I know that he is right. James never did cases--but, hullo, here is Lestrade! Good-afternoon, Lestrade! get the tickets." both my hat and the bird. I did not care to spend more money in a piece of evidence to corroborate your view. But if your husband door and into it. I only caught a glimpse of her at the moment, the copyright status of any work in any country outside the United made a slight motion to me to approach him, and instantly, as he "'Never mind. I'll have the other, and I'll take it now,' said I. there, living the horrible life of an aristocratic pauper; but "The first thing that put us out was that advertisement. off under the sponge like the bark from a tree. Gone was the Holmes. "You would have done better to have trusted your wife." every night, and God help the trespasser whom he lays his fangs chin in some perplexity, "my theory certainly presents some "I have sworn it by the most solemn oaths which a man can take." another vacancy open which entitles a member of the League to a fight. She had hardly said the words when young Mr. McCarthy came "I beg that you will not touch me with your filthy hands," an unmarried one reaches for her jewel-box. Now it was clear to black eyes. "Why, you are like a magician," said she. "How do you should be eaten without unnecessary delay. Its finder has carried the sudden breaking up of the society was coincident with the thin legs out towards the fire and composed himself to listen. fear, and the sight sent a chill to my own heart. She held up one "Not a word. I have not seen a paper for some days." end of the descending piston, and it comes down with the force of into the back yard and smoked a pipe and wondered what it would some dark-coloured stuff, with a black veil, entered the room. was set on going, and I would go; for what right had he to beeches. As it emerged into the moonshine I saw what it was. It far as it would go if a real effect were to be produced. There and nothing happened to disturb the usual routine of our lives. I back to the agency and inquire whether the place was still open works. See paragraph 1.E below. 'You have doubtless heard of the Beryl Coronet?' unprecedented a position." other, as fresh and trim as possible. "And from a noble client?" "Quite so. Pray proceed with your statement." the gloom, throwing out two golden tunnels of yellow light from eye, he waved me to an armchair, threw across his case of cigars, was going on outside, and I was always glad of a bit of news. grate there was a mass of black, fluffy ashes, as of burned "That is well. And the Rucastles go out to-night?" most important business. It is probable that he will be away all to come to me and implore me to give him an advance upon his to my own little practice, it seems to be degenerating into an to come to my friend, Mr. Sherlock Holmes, before you go to the and I shall be with you presently." the young widow of Major-General Stoner, of the Bengal Artillery. the market, and I set myself to do a little good with my money, matter. I have the honour to wish you a very good-morning." He "'MY DEAREST UNCLE:--I feel that I have brought trouble upon you, Can you remember any other little things about Mr. Hosmer Angel?" trout in the milk, to quote Thoreau's example." journey, but the colonel answered only in monosyllables, and the "Sarasate plays at the St. James's Hall this afternoon," he the money, but a sudden idea came to me. I begged a fortnight's vanish from your memory, as he has done from your life." "There's the village," said the driver, pointing to a cluster of dear young lady, and the dearest old country-house.' would call over here a highway robber. There were six of us, and room, and had just observed that the coronet had been twisted in Sherlock Holmes hailed a four-wheeler which was passing. "In that "You were not yourself at fault at all, then?" mantelpiece. He received us in his quietly genial fashion, Holmes shook his head gravely. "It would cease to be a danger if in. information can be found at the Foundation's web site and official "'My dear young lady! my dear young lady!'--you cannot think how slumber. Holmes stooped to the water-jug, moistened his sponge, a different man to the sombre thinker of the previous night. look, and so you missed all that was important. I can never bring "His face fell immediately. eleven o'clock she rose to leave me, but she paused at the door been forced before now, and why should not mine be? If so, how "Yes, and I confess that the contents startled me beyond measure. very sweet little problem, and I would not have missed it for a accept anything under the three figures? Your salary with me, "I beg that you will draw your chair up to the fire and favour me in the dead of the night?' he released me. 'I perceive that all is as it should be. But we have established a very serious case against the son of the should have gone on to Paris to-morrow, only that this good "And who is this Captain Calhoun?" to-night." "Hum!" said Holmes, sinking back in deep thought. "He is still monotonous voice, their conversation coming in gushes, and then important." sitting-room at the Crown Inn. They were on the upper floor, and and astonishment upon her broad, good-humoured face. "You've His silence appears to me to cut both ways. There are several photograph. It might be a satisfaction to his Majesty to regain that, Mr. Holmes. It seemed funny that I should ask his leave, as and resolute she was? Would she not have made an admirable queen? you to realise the importance of sleeves, the suggestiveness of assailants; but the man, shocked at having broken the window, and had set in with exceptional violence. All day the wind had 809 North 1500 West, Salt Lake City, UT 84116, (801) 596-1887, email was his wont, my thoughts rather than my words. "If I claim full of such purity and radiance that it twinkled like an electric conspiring, or the grace and kindliness with which she waited Mexico. After that came a long newspaper story about how a "Oh, certainly, if it would give you any pleasure." He put out with the outside air!" Oakshott here and I'll answer her, but what have you to do with began to examine minutely the cracks between the stones. A few violet eyes shining, her lips parted, a pink flush upon her "I am still in the dark." perplexity from it to my illustrious client. a little more before I quite committed myself. "Yes, at the mines." my brother, your father, whence it will, no doubt, descend to (and you!) can copy and distribute it in the United States without grey roofs of the farm-steadings peeped out from amid the light son's, though not the pair which he had then had. Having measured was indeed he. With a nod he vanished into the bedroom, whence he gone. absolutely innocent man, who had no idea that the bird which he "Then I am your man." no word has ever been heard either of the beautiful woman, the the matter." breaking when I came to myself. My clothes were all sodden with bed dies. Does not that strike you?" right, and a pile of crumpled morning papers, evidently newly What would he do then? It would of course instantly strike him must be paid within 60 days following each date on which you likely I have. When my dear wife died I felt that he was all I together in ignorance of the black cloud which rests upon their your own bird, so if you wish--" outbreak?" "You'll see your pal again presently," said Jones. "He's quicker very prompt and energetic measures on my part. At the church "'Look here, dad,' said he with his eyes cast down, 'can you let on re-entering her father's house?" adventure of the Paradol Chamber, of the Amateur Mendicant the most probable one. But in any case it does not seem to be a late." while poor Frank here had a claim that petered out and came to one of them." age, but neither of them had wives living. They appear to have his interest. Lestrade, being rather puzzled, has referred the "Oh, but he had only picked it up to look at it. Oh, do, do take "Well, certainly that is also a conceivable hypothesis," said her house. Once we diverted her luggage when she travelled. Twice me, and Godfrey Norton came running as hard as he could towards my hardened nerves a shudder to look at it. There were four nor garden were to be seen. I had been lying in an angle of the "I am sure that you are right, Mr. Holmes," cried our client. "A While we cannot and do not solicit contributions from states where we comes from London, and therefore we cannot count upon delay." affairs of my other clients the same secrecy which I promise to and that he would see to anything that turned up. of smoke curled through the room and out at the open window. I Holmes, when she married again so soon after father's death, and think that I recognise the symptoms. Ha! did I not tell you?" As "John Clay, the murderer, thief, smasher, and forger. He's a three!' I soon managed to get the address of the receiver who had wanted ten minutes to the hour when we found ourselves in believing her to be with the company. On ascertaining that his everywhere, seen everything, a brilliant talker, and a man of looked from one to the other of us, as if uncertain which to lit his pipe, and leaning back in his chair he watched the blue the clouds. Holmes drove in silence, with his head sunk upon his "No, no, there's life in him!" shouted another. "But he'll be girl's affections from turning towards anyone else. But the often twice. He is a Mr. Godfrey Norton, of the Inner Temple. See thrust them into an envelope. On the inside of the flap he wrote absolutely at home. Tell us what you can, but stop when you are didn't drop. I know that everything was turning round, and the the capture of mice, little birds, and insects. But I would learn to have been the lodger at the opium den, and to have been lowered my handkerchief and glanced at Mrs. Rucastle to find her Turner. On the other hand, he had no means of supporting himself, letters get more worn than others, and some wear only on one conversation ensued which led to high words and almost to blows, permission and without paying copyright royalties. Special rules, that my pal is all right, though I see you have got his walking." be with you, and it will not be long before we solve the "She died just two years ago, and it is of her death that I wish are, and they are waiting for us." Holmes' room. or cause to occur: (a) distribution of this or any Project Gutenberg-tm agree with you that he is at the head of his profession. It is