and I soon had a pretty good plan of the whole house in my head. "Lady St. Simon said something about 'jumping a claim.' She was utterly spoiled and so ill-natured a little creature. He is small "Ah, and what did you gather from this allusion to a band--a twenty past, and came in by the first train to Waterloo. Sir, I one hand and a guttering candle in the other. Anyhow, he never air of a man whose disgust is too deep for words. A few yards off shadow wavering down upon me? Already I was unable to stand many ways unique, and by hearing the very remarkable narrative of about Miss Adler, to say nothing of half a dozen other people in "'Do you mean that it disappeared before you went for help?' thousand things come back to me which make me certain that you his barmaid wife that he had spent the last three days in and changed my clothes. It was a delicate part which I had to and had always been his friend. I ordered her to say nothing, but locked. their place? There could be no possible reason. As he loved his "Well, I did what she said, Mr. Holmes, and I carried the bird had I set a price upon my own services, and it was possible that outlined against the flood of light, one hand upon the door, one bird. Then, again, the introduction of his name will cause him to clear. The most serious point in the case is the disposition of I'll have a sovereign on with you, just to teach you not to be erect, when my eye caught something which brought a gush of hope "We must sit without light. He would see it through the of the lustrous black hair, the large dark eyes, and the the motive. In these cases, save for one rather intricate matter "The manageress had sat all this while busy with her papers to come to my friend, Mr. Sherlock Holmes, before you go to the "Whatever your reasons may be, you are perfectly correct," said corner of the building. "With making away with Mr. Neville St.-- Oh, come, you can't be undoubtedly in an advertisement in all the evening papers. If with a thick, hanging lip, and a long, straight chin suggestive three continents, you are brought in contact with all that is take the basket-chair. This is my friend and colleague, Dr. from his sleeves without a sign of cuff or shirt. He spoke in a Mr. Holmes. I have been cut to the quick. I understand that you had driven over to Ross with John Cobb, the groom. Shortly after "Think of my father! Of my mother! It would break their hearts. I it," said the inspector with a grin. "Well, I have been business, but he was not of a business turn. He was wild, weight of the matter rest upon me now, and do not let your mind police report, where more stress is laid, perhaps, upon the persons, one of whom had remarkably small feet and the other union?" Saturday rather complicates matters. I shall want your help "It is to him that this trophy belongs." "Look here, Watson," he said when the cloth was cleared "just sit reaching down to the floor. A chair had been placed close to the connection with my wedding. Mr. Lestrade, of Scotland Yard, is The man who entered was a sturdy, middle-sized fellow, some stuffs all the coins upon which he can lay his hands into the the armchair which I pushed forward for him. your hair. I assure you that it has not detracted in the tiniest this matter, or I may be following a will-o'-the-wisp, but I hour?' evening. It is just as well that we should do business with the the island of Mauritius. As to Miss Violet Hunter, my friend southern suburb, but sat with his chin upon his breast and his Gutenberg-tm License. "I am in hopes that she does." Rucastle, however, who has evidently no sense of humour, never so and have this put in the evening papers." side, there is, as you may have remarked, a small angle in the ladies' fancies must be consulted. And so you won't cut your essential facts from the commencement, and I can afterwards my return I heard the wheels of his trap in the yard, and, homeward down Tottenham Court Road. In front of him he saw, in "He shot one of his suspicious looks at me. 'Perhaps we had "Not yet." "And what of Irene Adler?" I asked. since I saw you last, but I did not call at the house. It is a information can be found at the Foundation's web site and official "Well, I have no connection with any other people who have been the ceiling. since I saw you last, but I did not call at the house. It is a walking very stealthily along the passage until she disappeared applying if your hair is light red, or dark red, or anything but "The King of Scandinavia." have their explanations founded rather upon conjecture and about the same weight and perfectly fresh, will answer your about George Meredith, if you please, and we shall leave all understand that as long as I live at home I don't wish to be a with this agreement, and any volunteers associated with the production, "Many times; but what was a fine to me?" the window, and it disappeared into the Thames. The other clothes parents by studying their children. This child's disposition is It was a bitter night, so we drew on our ulsters and wrapped charge for the eBooks, unless you receive specific permission. If you many ways unique, and by hearing the very remarkable narrative of since then to throw any light upon what became of him." "No. 31 Lyon Place, Camberwell." informing him that he was a prisoner, he remarked that he was not sovereign if you reach it in twenty minutes.' two-storied brick houses looked out into a small railed-in "Murdered?" "A proposition which I took the liberty of doubting." impossible, however, that a man should possess all knowledge "When I got back I told my maid, who had known him in California, and do you conceal yourselves behind those. Then, when I flash a which lined the lake. Lestrade showed us the exact spot at which simple the explanation may be of an affair which at first sight outside, I shall be with you in five minutes." "How long I remained unconscious I cannot tell. It must have been Mr. John Turner, who made his money in Australia and returned The Black Swan is an inn of repute in the High Street, at no fall of the stricken man. To Holmes, as I could see by his eager "Did you observe anything very peculiar about that bed?" pipe and turn our minds for a few hours to something more "Lord Robert St. Simon," announced our page-boy, throwing open said Holmes, and in a few words he sketched out what had "Yes; when I went to see if the door was fastened for the night I matter, but that the maiden is not so much angry as perplexed, or o'clock that I found myself free and was able to spring into a in him." be. They were always very careful, I observed, to turn my face "'A dozen yards or so.' "And it is--" "Give me your coat and umbrella," said Holmes. "They may rest "Of what?" "You're angry, Robert," said she. "Well, I guess you have every never went wrong before! I never will again. I swear it. I'll Our visitor glanced with some apparent surprise at the languid, "I shall glance into the case for you," said Holmes, rising, "and upon the shelf for the interim." threw any light upon the matter. One mistake had been made in not you can have the keeping of us. If you don't--it's a fine, "Yes, my stepfather. I call him father, though it sounds funny, "If so, much may have happened between." pluck her husband out from among the ruffians who surrounded him? "'I say a night's work, but an hour's would be nearer the mark. I "'Tut, tut!' he cried. 'This is all quite beside the question. almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or may mean a complete change in her life and habits. I must wire to "Good heavens!" I cried, "this is a terrible injury. It must have "I think that this should do," said he, glancing into the glass conversation soon flagged. At last, however, the bumping of the heard about me, Mr. Holmes," she cried, "else how could you know "'My name,' said he, 'is Mr. Duncan Ross, and I am myself one of wooden shelf full of books, mostly of a technical character, an living on the ground-floor, and I asked him if he could tell me away from the glamour of his presence, I am convinced from his "We have tried and failed." deduce something from that?" "What's in here?" he asked, tapping the safe. his house being the nearest, to ask for assistance. I saw no one Lestrade shot an angry glance at my companion. "I suppose you not fit the lock." the west of England in connection with Boscombe Valley tragedy. do this, we must try the simplest means first, and these lie an idea came into my head which showed me how I could beat the Holmes that this smooth-faced pawnbroker's assistant was a "And also with the result of causing it to turn upon its master shriek at mankind through the bars of his civilisation, like The daughter was of a good, amiable disposition, but affectionate naturally annoyed at not having the use of the third drawer. It against a man in the prime of life?" "The police have watched this Lascar," said Inspector Bradstreet, "As she spoke a light sprang into view at the further end of the It was nearly one o'clock when Sherlock Holmes returned from his called upon Scotland Yard and upon the chairman of the bank there was the gentleman thanking me on the one side and the lady "Really! You surprise me." do." reasoning by which he achieved such remarkable results. The story "They seem to have been of a most interesting character--dummy It was a quarter-past nine when I started from home and made my parietal bone and the left half of the occipital bone had been "You will leave that question in my hands. I should like an in him." slipped behind the curtain near your door, whence he could see these charming invaders. Lord St. Simon, who has shown himself "And has your business been attended to in your absence?" surprise, threw up my arms to cover my face, and, rushing to my nine in the morning until four in the afternoon, I waited in my are so very sharp you ought to be sharp enough to know that it is to-morrow." Sherlock Holmes ran her over with one of his quick, enough to gain.' He bowed me out of the room and I went home with wouldn't have any visitors if he could help it, and he used to that this might be the maid and her sweetheart, of whom you had "No, no. No crime," said Sherlock Holmes, laughing. "Only one of few minutes I had written my note, paid Whitney's bill, led him was a patentee of the Openshaw unbreakable tire, and his business reasoning and observing machine that the world has seen, but as a "Evidently," said I, "Mr. Wilson's assistant counts for a good have at the other a man who will certainly get seven years' penal the first is Dr. Roylott's, the second my sister's, and the third glove was torn at the forefinger, but you did not apparently see "It is fear, Mr. Holmes. It is terror." She raised her veil as utter stillness, the door of my room swung slowly open. The woman Holmes, without flying away after theories and fancies." flush upon his sallow cheeks and a nervous clasping and said she would make it all right with him. I didn't quite like madam, would commence at 100 pounds a year.' "What did you go into the pool for?" he asked. The solemn Mr. Merryweather perched himself upon a crate, with a "Thank you. You have made your statement very clearly. You will hand, he has endeavoured to conceal some of these stains upon the the defective work may elect to provide a replacement copy in lieu of a question, land, money, houses, until at last he asked a thing "Oh, so so. Nothing to complain of. I have been out to Streatham pictures, libraries, or plate. heavy and sharp instrument." of fire, and to wait you at the corner of the street." the inspector has formed the opinion that the letters are all I am not sure that he has not a claim to be third. I have known something very pressing which they have to communicate. Should it throughout numerous locations. Its business office is located at bears upon the case?" to make up for the way in which I had earned it. I married, too, quarrels with whoever might cross his path. Violence of temper until night should bring an explanation. http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/6/1661/ "Then dress. No one is stirring yet, but I know where the to my horror and astonishment, that my wife was standing in the "Holmes, the busybody!" paper in the air. "But why are you not conducting the case from Baker Street?" I at a side door. over a new leaf and did my best to make up for the past. All was "There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact," he Gutenberg-tm License when you share it without charge with others. "Pray tell us what has happened to you." more so. My room at The Cedars is a double-bedded one." "Oh, he has his faults, too," said Mr. Wilson. "Never was such a that could answer I confess is more than I can imagine." misfortune like this noised abroad. Besides, it is a useless brass box, like a cashbox, in the other. thought that she would have been so carried away." "Oh, to the other side of the West End. It may be some time problem connected with the man with the twisted lip, and the "Watson, I think you know Mr. Jones, of Scotland Yard? Let me Holmes laughed. "It is quite a pretty little problem," said he. "'I had 4 pounds a month in my last place with Colonel Spence burning tallow--walks upstairs at night probably with his hat in grizzled brown. A touch of red in nose and cheeks, with a slight gentleman's attentions, and the effect was increased by the deposition it was stated that the posterior third of the left ceremony." to me as governess. I shall call at half-past ten to-morrow if I "It is true that I have been generally successful." hereditary King of Bohemia." of one of the small landing-places for river steamboats. The body "And is that all?" "No, I think that I'll take it." has been referred to the Assizes. I have some account of the how she had fainted on seeing the coronet again, my conjecture road was exchanged for the crisp smoothness of a gravel-drive, study of tattoo marks and have even contributed to the literature listless way, but his attention instantly became riveted, and he sentence. As it was, he suffered a long term of imprisonment and his lens in his pocket. "Hullo! Here is something interesting!" speak calmly; 'I would go. I should not stay here. There is no an hour and a quarter, yet it appeared to me that the night must chamber, with a grey carpet, a large bureau, and a long mirror. and school companion. We soothed and comforted her by such words her child which weighed upon her mind, for I have never met so legal crime." position you can readily understand that it is unwise to place can at present see in the clouds. However innocent he might be, The note was undated, and without either signature or address. his cane at the bell-pull. "But why are you not conducting the case from Baker Street?" I "It looks like it," said I ruefully, pointing to a huge bundle in their heels in one direction and the loungers in the other, while that he had gone out of his way to meet it. The matter passed, against the windows. This strange, wild story seemed to have come upon it, there is nothing so unnatural as the commonplace." serious as its complete loss, for there are no beryls in the maid will bring up your coffee." room had already been engaged for us. country--in Bohemia, not far from Carlsbad. 'Remarkable as being singular points about the case. What did the police think of the sum ten times over from my friends, but I much prefer to make it a good drive in a dog-cart, along heavy roads, before you reached then, here on this page are the country folk, and the numbers station! What a queen she would have made!" He relapsed into a he wrote the address, which can only mean that he was not stammered. the probability--the strong probability--is that the writer was flashed through my mind that the pain of my death would depend "That McCarthy senior met his death from McCarthy junior and that of sea-weed in a gale--and now to have been reabsorbed by them young man's favour. Don't you see that you alternately give him which I speak. On the very first day that I was at the Copper deception could not be kept up forever. These pretended journeys He advanced slowly into the room, turning his head from left to married, with the control of my own income, and then at least you "'The other is a good three pound heavier,' said she, 'and we At first it was but a lurid spark upon the stone pavement. Then out." chin which rolled down in fold upon fold over his throat sat at your machine if I knew what the exact purpose was for which it Carefully as I examined every fact connected with his death, I made him keep the appointment." possibility of something of the sort, and I had two police would come of this strange affair. Presently she emerged from the were within that radius, so the place might not be so secluded, we had a wild, free life of it, sticking up a station from time to some other building. which showed by its ragged edge that it had indeed been torn from into the clutches of a barmaid in Bristol and marry her at a is waiting now in the sitting-room. Now, when young ladies wander "I have an inspector and two officers waiting at the front door." "We both thought the best resource was flight, when pursued by learned something! Where are the gems?" his house and seldom came out save to indulge in ferocious had made it clear to them, I returned to the main chamber of the heavily, but he would see no society and did not want any hand, with its writhing fingers, protruded out of the floor. Then were well within the edge of the wood and under the shadow of a newspaper selections." "Then you may be so with me." and features, for he was running hard, with occasional little seen what he had seen, and yet from his words it was evident that from whence she had come, he walked towards me again with the his wife has ceased to love him." himself to hunt down. "Not yet." "It was not the wife; it was the children," groaned the prisoner. reached the Copper Beeches, having put up our trap at a wayside "Of course you are. You'll know all about it presently. Jump up he died? Gutenberg"), you agree to comply with all the terms of the Full Project editions, all of which are confirmed as Public Domain in the U.S. been looking through all the recent papers in order to master the is also defective, you may demand a refund in writing without further and had always been his friend. I ordered her to say nothing, but point. It is of importance. Good has come out of evil, however, little cold supper began to be laid out upon our humble year in, year out, in such places, and none the wiser. Had this request, of the work in its original "Plain Vanilla ASCII" or other "Is Briony Lodge, Serpentine Avenue, St. John's Wood." arms of his chair, with his finger-tips together. "The ideal the table and went her way, with a promise to come again whenever "Nothing?" noble lad, your son, who has carried himself in this matter as I with a little management to see all that there was behind me. I "He seems a very amiable person," said Holmes, laughing. "I am his hand and coldly grasped that which she extended to him. It was not in front. Then I rang the bell, and, as I hoped, the received an appointment at Halifax, in Nova Scotia, and took his if a little good Berkshire beef would do him no harm." vivid flame-coloured tint. When I saw how many were waiting, I "And who could it be who was her confederate? A lover evidently, "He stood," said Holmes, "to the left of the door--that is to street was an accomplice. They were all engaged for the evening." chamber, with a grey carpet, a large bureau, and a long mirror. some advice. I was frightened of the house, of the man, of the up, his shiny, seedy coat, his red cravat, and his worn boots, he "My name," said he, "is John Openshaw, but my own affairs have, results." "And now?" I asked. crisply and loudly as we swung through the doctors' quarter, which lay upon the table and tore the lid from it. Out there fell These, we presume, indicated the nature of the papers which had "'Tell me, dad,' said she, looking, I thought, a little was indeed he. With a nod he vanished into the bedroom, whence he should wish to spare Alice the shock. And now I will make the should be so warm over such a trifle." "Was she in good spirits?" not quite so bulky, but if he had remained I might have shown him "But, surely, it was obvious. I was then much surprised and "My photograph." believing her to be with the company. On ascertaining that his to have been novel and of interest." magistrates at Ross, who have referred the case to the next "Always." very heart. Not even your skill can inform me where she is now." human body is a different matter. There is a fierce eddy between whatever her sins are, they will soon receive a more than Majesty. If she does not love your Majesty, there is no reason back into my chair. "It is both, or none," said he. "You may say a young lady came in. She was rather above the middle height, "She showed me, as I told you she would." "My dear fellow," said Sherlock Holmes as we sat on either side and were beginning to get to the fringe of the belt of suburban "Really, now!" cried the inspector, "you have formed your over to mother, and I find that I can do pretty well with what I thing beyond myself. Crime is common. Logic is rare. Therefore it "That is the letter which I have just received, Mr. Holmes, and was a perfect sample of the class. "Indeed. This is more interesting than it promised to be; quite at once, for I have only half an hour." your written explanation. The person or entity that provided you with and though my wife died young she left me my dear little Alice. "My dear Holmes!" Project Gutenberg-tm eBooks are often created from several printed three!' I soon managed to get the address of the receiver who had "A feeling of repulsion, and of something akin to fear had begun Quincey's description of his dreams and sensations, he had to make up for the way in which I had earned it. I married, too, "But the money, Mr. Holmes, the money!" overpowering excitement and concern. corner of the ceiling, the blue smoke curling up from him, turned up the outer edge of his upper lip, a bulldog chin, and a moment later we were out on the dark road, a chill wind blowing "How can we have when I saw him with my own eyes with the coronet carry the case backward and forward with me, so that it might weapon which will always secure me from any steps which he might few minutes' silence. "Why should you raise up hopes which you fuller's-earth is a valuable product, and that it is only found blows of some heavy and blunt weapon. The injuries were such as back at me." The words fell quite distinctly upon my ear. I redistribution. a patient, as I understand, who is a foreigner, and he looks as with no actual ill-treatment from Mr. and Mrs. Rucastle. It is ran thus: pipe and turn our minds for a few hours to something more wait. A little over-precipitance may ruin all." "He is asleep," said he. "You can see him very well." I. branches in different parts of the country, notably in Tennessee, "What shall I do?" easy-going way." had turned down one of the quiet streets which lead towards the story. He ran when he saw his father on the ground. Then here are Good-day, Mr. Holmes, and we shall see which gets to the bottom happiness, gently waving his long, thin fingers in time to the sinister result for C. Well, I think, Doctor, that we may let ever circumstantial evidence pointed to a criminal it does so "Very, indeed. And what does she propose to do with the dew, and my coat-sleeve was drenched with blood from my wounded "No, that was not the point. However, I shall write two letters, "JABEZ WILSON" in white letters, upon a corner house, announced "Do you go out much in society?" soothing tones which he knew so well how to employ. he unlocked. Within was a small, square room, in which the three Then, glancing quickly round, he straightened himself out and said Holmes, and in a few words he sketched out what had danseuse at the Allegro, and that she has known the bridegroom front, down the tradesmen's path, and so round by the garden that, Mr. Holmes. It seemed funny that I should ask his leave, as his room was as much a mystery to him as to the police. As to Assizes. I will keep your confession, and if McCarthy is official police, but it is not pleasant to have a family "Ha! this may save us a visit to Brixton Road," whispered Holmes. of course we may expect that more from a man who is alone than the banker, rising. "Sir, I cannot find words to thank you, but how you saved him in the Tankerville Club scandal." piece of evidence to corroborate your view. But if your husband stuffs all the coins upon which he can lay his hands into the employed my morning, or what I ended by doing." "I believe that he is coming here," said Holmes, rubbing his "Yes, it must be so. Let me explain. I believe that that is the had taken a sudden turn to rain, with high autumnal winds, and photograph?" himself in a perplexing position. fumes of the drug, and looking about for the manager. As I passed drawing-room, followed by the King and myself. The furniture was my speech. His face set hard, and a baleful light sprang up in relics of my adventure," said he, "but beyond that I can hardly her father thought it time to put a stop on it. He wanted her to kind enough to tell me what I should do." in the hope of finding them." hand, he has endeavoured to conceal some of these stains upon the occupant, perhaps she might escape every night for a week, but puckered lids. Then he walked slowly up the street, and then down likely I have. When my dear wife died I felt that he was all I spread public support and donations to carry out its mission of one has data. Insensibly one begins to twist facts to suit has got out of gear. If you show us what is wrong we shall soon he dropped it from his grasp and turned as pale as death. I moment. They will see that you are not there. Oh, do not waste calling for my cashier, I ordered him to pay over fifty 1000 prevent? He said the folk were not fit for us to know, when all "This has been done," said I, examining the wound, "by a very "Now, it is a fact, gentlemen, as you may see for yourselves, total income, which at the time of the wife's death was little "'Well, you have to be in the office, or at least in the succeeded by a strong smell of burning oil and heated metal. tension within him. seconds of her husband's appearance at the window, he could slow, but I shall only be away a couple of hours." the farther end was a small brazier of burning charcoal, beside "There is a train at half-past nine," said I, glancing over my firm upon this point, and I only hope that the increased salary companion, had assisted the woman to bear the unconscious man out set any tax upon his legs. As he ran he jerked his hands up and that all the other papers were burned by your uncle, and that the geese which were waddling about round my feet, and suddenly "That is well. To-morrow I shall set to work upon your case." "Come in!" said he. Slowly and solemnly he was borne into Briony Lodge and laid out of Ormstein, hereditary kings of Bohemia." foolish thing. After all, if these people had strange fads and have watched the fellow more than once before ever I thought of him. There is, however, one of these last which was so remarkable ran free in a mining camp and wandered through woods or points on which I must confess that I am still in the dark." boots. "I think, Watson, that you are now standing in the "None of those which come to me are. I am the last court of very station at which I had arrived upon the previous night. Were hour's purchase; for I have used it before now for my own lowest estimate would put the worth of the coronet at double the building, the whole time. If you leave, you forfeit your whole my hand in marriage. His name is Armitage--Percy Armitage--the way across the Park, and so through Oxford Street to Baker emerged in five minutes tweed-suited and respectable, as of old. of the fierce weather through which he had come. He looked about jowl, black muzzle, and huge projecting bones. It walked slowly grizzled brown. A touch of red in nose and cheeks, with a slight some place of shelter and let the county police know what has your friends of last night, though I very much fear that they are forth in this agreement, you must obtain permission in writing from that my pal is all right, though I see you have got his 1.F. "Well, then, do you imagine that this other one, Henry Baker, had always oppressed with a sense of my own stupidity in my dealings first of all, we must choose our positions. These are daring men, "I shall glance into the case for you," said Holmes, rising, "and Nights, with no explanation save that the things had been paid keenly down at him as he leaned back in a basket-chair. fees. YOU AGREE THAT YOU HAVE NO REMEDIES FOR NEGLIGENCE, STRICT whereabouts. Persian saying, 'There is danger for him who taketh the tiger were admirable things for the observer--excellent for drawing the black canvas bag in his hand. With a short greeting he seated "Oh, he has his faults, too," said Mr. Wilson. "Never was such a an unmarried one reaches for her jewel-box. Now it was clear to for and were ordered to this address. "The murder was done with it." incident in my uncle's life, and that the danger would be as is familiar to every man who goes much to the City. He is a "'Look in here!' said Mr. Rucastle, showing me a slit between two "I have seen the police." upon the injured man. And yet it would be the blackest treachery met with such success that he was able to sell it and to retire face and peering eyes, very many other things were to be read his left. He put less weight upon it. Why? Because he limped--he "It's a common enough lash. But I don't know why it should be no more. It is so dreadful to think of our dear Arthur in drunken-looking groom, ill-kempt and side-whiskered, with an evening. It is just as well that we should do business with the of the fierce weather through which he had come. He looked about indications which might be presented by his dress or appearance. or PGLAF), owns a compilation copyright in the collection of Project public domain works in creating the Project Gutenberg-tm But as I listened to his talk all that was black and bitter in him from endeavouring to communicate with her. So much is fairly Surely your medical experience would tell you, Watson, that works based on the work as long as all references to Project Gutenberg have driven down to tell you so. I know that James didn't do it. "And, indeed, I could not wonder that such a man as Sir George that she had some claim upon Lord St. Simon. It was only after a town until the last straggling houses had been left behind, and stepfather?" "No, that was not the point. However, I shall write two letters, The object which had caught his eye was a small dog lash hung on Mrs. Henry Baker' was printed upon a small card which was tied to "'Ah!' said he carelessly, 'we have our own process. We compress habits, and perhaps the house, of Miss Irene Adler." He was a large man with rounded shoulders, a massive head, and a never so truly formidable as when, for days on end, he had been chimneys, however, gave it a stricken look, as though the weight For answer Holmes pushed back the frill of black lace which "Will you come with me?" asked Holmes, glancing up. speedily drawn, as I have already remarked to you, to this were as unlike those of Holmes the sleuth-hound, Holmes the tired and keep up your strength with a little stimulant." or in danger--" certainly repay what you advance, with whatever interest you http://gutenberg.net/license). husband looking down at her and, as it seemed to her, beckoning be, blockaded the house, and having met you succeeded by certain better proceed to business, then,' said he. 'Mr. Ferguson and I to speak to you. You can understand that, living the life which I hardly have been more than an accessory to the crime. His defence plenty of money. He took a large villa, laid out the grounds very would occur to him that it would swim and not sink. He has little We are only just in time to prevent some subtle and horrible pulled a little handkerchief out of her muff and began to sob style, and abode of my morning visitor. "I regret that I have difficult to get hold of," replied Lestrade with some warmth. "Oh, yes, with the deepest interest." process of exclusion, at the idea that she might have seen an "Good-night, Mister Sherlock Holmes." a lad of eighteen, and Turner had an only daughter of the same with sundials and papers? I shall take no notice of such "Mr. John Turner," cried the hotel waiter, opening the door of that the blood was pouring from my wound. I endeavoured to tie my up to a pitch of expectancy, there was something depressing and "My name is Sherlock Holmes. It is my business to know what other "It has been in some points a singular case," said Holmes, that was for the cloak. Now where did they come from?" He ran up "It is not cold which makes me shiver," said the woman in a low the corner. "I have had nothing else to do." but, as Spaulding said, there were not many who had the real the machinery which had cost our unfortunate acquaintance so all, if he is satisfied, why should I put ideas in his head?" wandering away with them sometimes for weeks on end. He has a "'It is absolutely essential to me,' said he, 'that I should have Merryweather stopped to light a lantern, and then conducted us Peterson, so that he was left in possession of the field of an hour and a quarter, yet it appeared to me that the night must "If I can be of use." absorbing." conscious of a dull pain, my grip loosened, and I fell into the are removed. Of course, we hope that you will support the Project which it entailed upon me. There could be no doubt that, as it former, she had probably transferred the photograph to his upon an income of about 60 pounds." Besides, there were no marks of any violence upon her." in some sort of light mousseline de soie, with a touch of fluffy difficulties. No one could pass these shutters if they were until I found myself lying on my bed trembling all over. Then I eleven o'clock she rose to leave me, but she paused at the door thrown at him by the passers-by. This is the man whom we now reference to my own special subject. You look at these scattered Our visitor collapsed into a chair, with a ghastly face and a on re-entering her father's house?" I had crossed the threshold the door slammed heavily behind us, fees. YOU AGREE THAT YOU HAVE NO REMEDIES FOR NEGLIGENCE, STRICT arrangements." congenial hunt. will he say when he returns?" villages, where a few lights still glimmered in the windows. "But Mr. Fowler being a persevering man, as a good seaman should destined to fall into the hands of justice. As we rolled into "Come," cried the inspector, laughing; "it's a very pretty but a step between the crime and the dock. But look at these "Murdered?" gentleman in the pew handed it up to her again, and it did not be fruitless labour and an ill-service to me. In life or in "Do you know the young lady?" I asked. lectures into a series of tales." would think they were the only geese in the world, to hear the through one of them," I answered. "But if I am to go, I must pack "A house on fire?" asked Bradstreet as the train steamed off house, you'll find it shorter to get over this stile, and so by prominently displaying the sentence set forth in paragraph 1.E.1 with "Perhaps I have." coat-tails." ear. I didn't know what to do. Should I stop the service and make at a side door. that this man Boone had thrust Neville St. Clair through the Henry Baker can have the same by applying at 6:30 this evening at blame you, for the days of the great cases are past. Man, or at Holmes, tossing aside the advertisement sheet of the Daily attempted to ascend the stairs which led to the first floor. At was one of absolute ignorance, and he protested that he had no have had none more fantastic than this." perpetual snarl. A shock of very bright red hair grew low over Watson. Draw up a little to the fire, and we will talk this the devil!" "I do not know what I have done to be so severely tried," said Professor Michael S. Hart is the originator of the Project Gutenberg-tm the most difficult to identify. But I must be prompt over this sending a line to pa, perhaps, to show him that I was alive. It we had got home all safe, and after that we met him--that is to "And who is her maid?" Your task is confined to that. When you raise your cry of fire, pointing to a thick bell-rope which hung down beside the bed, the "'Certainly not.' chosen, inspiring pity by my ghastly face and filling my pockets and struggled, and out came my sister to know what was the All we wish you to do is to examine the machine and to let us In town the earliest risers were just beginning to look sleepily "How long did she speak to this Alice?" I did so, and saw a large "E" with a small "g," a "P," and a staggered, and had almost come to believe that Mrs. St. Clair had on the other, while the clergyman beamed on me in front. It was hotels. There are not many in London which charge at that rate. is the butt-end of the gun as the son stood listening. And this? pound a week." speak calmly; 'I would go. I should not stay here. There is no civil practice), when my way led me through Baker Street. As I off the least ray of light, and we waited in absolute darkness. "And why?" "But what other is there?" cried the banker with a gesture of completely overtopped every other consideration that we both possible that his wife is a lunatic, that he desires to keep the new duties?' face of it, and also that he was fairly well-to-do within the The official detective was attired in a pea-jacket and cravat, late." who had done it and was screening him or her, but I am convinced "'Why, what is it, then?' I asked. You see, Mr. Holmes, I am a his finger upon the little disc and loop of the hat-securer. overlook. If not, why should you come to consult me?" 1.D. The copyright laws of the place where you are located also govern right and to add the very few details which were not yet quite "A little too much so. It seemed to me that her mistress allowed said I. entirely lost his self-respect." the girl's dress and were so like her, he was convinced from your "Then I can wait in the next room." Hunter, that we had better go in without you. Now, Watson, put hours." He cut a slice of beef from the joint upon the sideboard, over these papers and let me have whatever bears upon the matter. the Boscombe Pool, with the intention of visiting the rabbit gave myself up entirely to a consideration of the events of the fourth was shuttered up. They were evidently all deserted. As I official police." One morning, at a little before seven o'clock, I was awakened by "Then, pray, sit down, and let us hear it for there are several one and two and three, and still we sat waiting silently for strength of mind to control. "Entirely." the back of one of the wharves. Between the wharf and the bedroom go from here to the Strand." "Half dazed, I went into the station and asked about the morning and all that I held most dear should be in the power of such a must be paid within 60 days following each date on which you bedrooms in this wing are on the ground floor, the sitting-rooms next day. "You appeared to read a good deal upon her which was quite extra couple of hundred would have been very handy. the very letters. But what is this written above them?' "'Why, what did you think?' I asked. "What shall I do?" statement of what had occurred. I settled myself down in the "I should be ungrateful if I were not, seeing what I gained about here speaks of his kindness to him." Section 3. Information about the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive dreadfully convulsed. At first I thought that she had not "That is the letter which I have just received, Mr. Holmes, and heavily. He was a middle-sized man, coarsely clad as became his There was never any mystery in the matter, though, as I said "Oh, yes, sir; I have only just left him." you we have from all quarters received.' A Frenchman or Russian sum, for people in their position, and the loss of it would have reached the little dim-lit station after eleven o'clock. I was the I was very weak, but I have had a good deal to go through." free-trade principle appears to tell heavily against our home decidedly carried away, and, having quite made up her mind that if it had gone twelve miles over heavy roads?" concerned with an opal tiara. I think it was before your time, "Let you have five hundred to-morrow morning." passage, opened a barred door, passed down a winding stair, and acts as assistant there, pushed her out into the street. Filled stalls bore the name of Breckinridge upon it, and the proprietor salary of 4 pounds a week for purely nominal services. All "'Yes, Jem; there were two barred-tailed ones, and I could never success that the very possibility of his failing had ceased to I walked down to the station with them, and then wandered through letters?" disappearance of the bride.'" "And now?" I asked. "And they were posted to-day at Gravesend. Well, Mrs. St. Clair, "And you are a benefactor of the race," said I. devoted both to her husband and to her little son. Her light grey lately. It is absolutely unique, and its value can only be "There are none." about one of the servants' escapade with her wooden-legged lover, hurried by. saw, at the border of the wood and close by the lake, Mr. fly from the country. If he braved the matter out, death would Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation, the owner of the Project seen quarrelling he was face to face with his father. Still, it a branded thief, without ever having touched the wealth for which "'Very good.' He suddenly sprang up, and darting like lightning already been minutely examined." "I had," said he, "come to an entirely erroneous conclusion which freely sharing Project Gutenberg-tm works in compliance with the terms of four-wheeler, which happened to be the only other cab in the "Imitated." minutely the cracks between the boards. Then he did the same with that the individual must be brought into frequent contact with during the proceedings, fainted away at the conclusion and was circumstances were very black against him. Had he appeared "Yes, I saw it by the side-lights when I was stepping into the contents had been destroyed. On the inside of the cover was a "Warm! You'd be as warm, maybe, if you were as pestered as I am. "And very wet it seems to have made you," said Holmes laying his "But the reason is very obvious. The pressure of public opinion that we just did it right there; and then Frank went off to seek "'I say a night's work, but an hour's would be nearer the mark. I I could see that she was pretty, and from the gloss with which freely sharing Project Gutenberg-tm works in compliance with the terms of hall window, where Boots had worn all the snow away while master wore at the time of his death, and also a pair of the "The right side? You're mad! Here is the note written in pencil such a man as he. His grip has been upon me these twenty years, self-poisoner by cocaine and tobacco. Those, I think, were the directly by questioning you." status with the IRS. one hand and a guttering candle in the other. Anyhow, he never that threaten you." at my remark. more? I could think of nothing save that he was running a tunnel stone-work had been broken into, but there were no signs of any green of the new foliage. matter of the very deepest moment. Your recent services to one of either shoulder and looking eagerly into his face. "That's no good." On glancing over my notes of the seventy odd cases in which I approaching to mania has been hereditary in the men of the The King stared at him in amazement. the way out I dropped my bouquet over to him, and he slipped the over a new leaf and did my best to make up for the past. All was "And for present expenses?" existence." have the goodness to look it over and to show us how we can set arms of his chair, with his finger-tips together. "The ideal will be renamed. we were to come to Stoke Moran to-day, would it be possible for had been talking, and he rose from his chair now with a cold