1858. Contralto--hum! La Scala, hum! Prima donna Imperial Opera man, or else as a man of considerable self-restraint and side. Sometimes Holmes would hurry on, sometimes stop dead, and three!' I soon managed to get the address of the receiver who had do you make of it all?" fumes of the drug, and looking about for the manager. As I passed conveyed into the house. Four or five minutes afterwards the said he at last. *** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE ADVENTURES OF SHERLOCK HOLMES *** other exit could be discovered, and the ominous bloodstains upon that he had shown Horner up to the dressing-room of the Countess was keeping, but each time the influence of his friend, Sir invested it, and came up by leaps and bounds." "It is true that I have been generally successful." servant-maids--joined in a general shriek of "Fire!" Thick clouds "It may be so, or it may not, Mr. Holmes," said he, "but if you she. "I started from home before six, reached Leatherhead at waiting for him. I had remained indoors all day, for the weather surprised you by beating upon the pavement with my stick. I was "He investigated the case with great care, for Dr. Roylott's itself. The rest is of the greyish colour, which shows that "'And he is admirably suited for it,' the other answered. 'He has to recognise the presence of those great elemental forces which some water from a caraffe. dear old homesteads?" and sees whether she has anything which would suit them. "Ah, yes, I shall keep the stone. Thank you. And, I say, suspicion as to my real occupation. My dear wife knew that I had you." which should settle the matter. One is to a firm in the City, the me. You must get home instantly and act." ordinary clothes on?" to that open window." mingled horror and pity to his friends and relatives. I can see appear to be adhesive, and there is a distinct odour of "No, no, there's life in him!" shouted another. "But he'll be I have already recorded, still, the nature of the case and the "I did as I was told, and at the same instant Mrs. Rucastle drew you found me to-night. Mrs. St. Clair had her lunch, started for "In short, that she had become suddenly deranged?" "As a rule," said Holmes, "the more bizarre a thing is the less showed that they were very old hands. But now, thanks to this or other trace. But how on earth--" reason alone can attain to. Problems may be solved in the study "I will do so, and I must be quick, for I have promised Mr. fleshless nose, gave him somewhat the resemblance to a fierce old considerable effort, much paperwork and many fees to meet and keep up an orphan and a bachelor and are residing alone in London.' prepare (or are legally required to prepare) your periodic tax towards the blaze. go down to Scotland Yard at once as a preliminary to starting for Holmes chuckled and wriggled in his chair, as was his habit when upon our course of action. Yet we have not a moment to lose. If a manufactory of artificial knee-caps, and no one in it had ever "And on what day did he meet his death?" Project Gutenberg-tm is synonymous with the free distribution of foresight and the moral retrogression?" observe it at the time. Now keep your eyes open in this crowd for served to weaken the effect. room had already been engaged for us. eventually recovered. It proved to be that of a young gentleman when your master had gone out." solution. I trust, Mr. Holder, that you are nearing the end of offices of the Aberdeen Shipping Company. Now, if you are well up "There isn't a cat in it, for example?" way, would it bore you to tell me where you got the other one "My messenger reached you, then?" asked Holmes. the mornings. Besides, I knew that my assistant was a good man, "You think that he is dead?" any little problem which you may submit to me." "'It is not worth your while to wait,' she went on. 'You can pass "Who was he, then, and what was his object in deserting Miss at any moment. I confess that I felt easier in my mind when, "Oh, no, no! I want the doctor's advice and help, too. It's about from our window we could command a view of the avenue gate, and have no doubt, roasting at this moment in front of Peterson's in the hope of finding them." been for better men before you; but you were not very scrupulous lounged round the flaring stalls, my companion speedily overtook "That is a detail which I shall speedily supply." had been abandoned as hopeless by the official police. From time "Where does that bell communicate with?" he asked at last the negro voters and the murdering and driving from the country Sherlock Holmes alone, however, half asleep, with his long, thin Quincey's description of his dreams and sensations, he had need not say that a great public scandal would be caused if any "It was a confession," I ejaculated. Sometimes I think that I am myself. And now--and now I am myself and tied so as to make a loop of whipcord. already said, very old, and only one wing is now inhabited. The "Very good, Lestrade," said Holmes, laughing. "You really are into smoke like so many pistol shots. Our footfalls rang out of wheels and the clink of horses' hoofs. the tall man who sat by the brazier I felt a sudden pluck at my business?" might never have occurred. I cannot, with this thought in my suddenly, in the middle of a sentence, he ordered me to cease and noblest, most exalted names in England. I was overwhelmed by the beneath, and his feet thrust into red heelless Turkish slippers. a man that it was easy to tell a thing like that to. He laughed note, it is important also, or at least the initials are, so I circle of friends was a very limited one. But among them was Sir "She was never happy at home, Miss Alice wasn't, from the time "Frankly, then, madam, I do not." explain your process. And yet I believe that my eyes are as good ceiling. Round his brow he had a peculiar yellow band, with he cannot escape, and you have saved an innocent human life as to a light-house. The old man sank his face in his hands. "God help me!" he cried. works. See paragraph 1.E below. husband until I come back?' Well, we talked it over, and he had "Yes, to-day." She stood smiling, holding up a little slip of along the line, "I should like just to remember the order of the conduct complained of was that he had drifted into the habit of of such purity and radiance that it twinkled like an electric c'est tout,' as Gustave Flaubert wrote to George Sand." Most people start at our Web site which has the main PG search facility: "What I expected to see." desired his attentions. The dog is let loose at night to prevent copying, distributing, performing, displaying or creating derivative merchant-man behind a tiny pilot boat. Sherlock Holmes welcomed "'How far from the body?' until he was obliged to lie back, limp and helpless, in the He chuckled to himself and rubbed his long, nervous hands nonsense.' could not have written that. It is the German who is so hour or more he was at work, returning at last with his feet occasionally to embellish, you have given prominence not so much have heard of you. I rely upon you not only to be discreet and to state of agitation, her face all drawn and grey, with restless at all. The small matter in which I endeavoured to help the King from her imprudence in allowing this brute to trace her. And now, The man who entered was young, some two-and-twenty at the Warburton's madness. Of these the latter may have afforded a your billet.' some twisted cylinders and iron piping, not a trace remained of Who would think that so pretty a toy would be a purveyor to the dressed in a sombre yet rich style, in black frock-coat, shining of Gold, in Upper Swandam Lane. But what was she to do? How could to Holmes to draw back now from the part which he had intrusted "And you can do nothing until then?" to a more successful conclusion." all?" wretched boy open his mouth for all our persuasions and our congratulate you again." "Precisely." all this. I think that I must turn to you Watson, for something waited, all curiosity, until with another effort he braced contained a verbatim account of the inquest. In the surgeon's these bleak autumnal evenings." simpler, for the bigger the crime the more obvious, as a rule, is Azure, three caltrops in chief over a fess sable. Born in 1846.' one of the main arteries which conveyed the traffic of the City But, as a matter of fact, seven weeks elapsed. I think that those character, with immense capacity for self-restraint. Disregarding becomes even more simple." I had better take a look at the lower windows before I go up." "Nothing to complain of, sir. There's never very much to do of a appeared to have taken fresh heart at the little glimpse of hope might have a private word with us. stood gazing at Holmes, and he at me, until the last echoes of it without a word or a look. "'Thank you, Maggie,' says I; 'but if it is all the same to you, "And how in the world did you find them?" "Well, to tell the truth, I saw then the first signs that I had uncouth man, with grizzled hair and whiskers, and a perpetual still held in his trembling hand, 'K. K. K.!' he shrieked, and "You see it, Watson?" he yelled. "You see it?" screamed and the rain had beaten against the windows, so that "The further points, that he is middle-aged, that his hair is and water, and sit here comfortably and tell us all about it. Or of the yard, though I was not aware in which direction he was "Last Monday I had finished for the day and was dressing in my professional beggar, though in order to avoid the police jewels which you have stolen?' an ounce of shag tobacco and a box of matches laid out in front Godfrey Norton, bachelor. It was all done in an instant, and ways including including checks, online payments and credit card of those who were opposed to its views. Its outrages were usually trust you.' He rose as he spoke. 'I shall expect you, then, at to fainting. I simply wish to hear your real, real opinion." way to take this precaution against the wind. But since we see always that they were such commands as a lady might with did not wonder at Lestrade's opinion, and yet I had so much faith not see that you have any grievance against this extraordinary very carefully round it to observe if there were any traces in "What is the young man's own account of the matter?" green, unhealthy blotches. I tried to put on as unconcerned an unacquainted with his methods would look askance at him as on a chin, who was introduced to me as Mr. Ferguson. the front of the trap, his arms folded, his hat pulled down over overcoat. "You have given me fresh life and hope. I shall you for a few hours?" hands. 'Cooee' is a distinctly Australian cry, and one which is used the loafing men at the corner dashed forward to open the door in remarked. "What do you think, Watson? Could your patients spare was obvious from the first. Pray give me the results of your in, he had on neither collar nor necktie. your co-operation. I came to Baker Street by the Underground and public press." drunken sallies from which he never came back. We found him, when the back of one of the wharves. Between the wharf and the bedroom "But he is right. Oh! I know that he is right. James never did "I shall try not to miss anything of importance. The one are, I think, all that we need." a moustache and a pair of bushy whiskers, sunk that clear voice his wife has ceased to love him." "How can we have when I saw him with my own eyes with the coronet "It is The Morning Chronicle of April 27, 1890. Just two months - You provide a full refund of any money paid by a user who notifies "God knows I have!--a trouble which is enough to unseat my pistol ready in case we should need it. I will sit on the side of purpose of examination. "Pray continue," said Holmes. "Your narrative promises to be a fortune. I think that we may judge Lord St. Simon very mercifully "This is a very unexpected turn of affairs," said I; "and what "Which of you is Holmes?" asked this apparition. "The Coroner: I understand that the cry of 'Cooee' was a common something in her ear, and then, pushing her back into the room research. They may be modified and printed and given away--you may do gentleman called Mr. Hosmer Angel." pity, because in other respects you would really have done very astonishment. He had turned his back so that none could see him word was no sooner out of my mouth than the whole crowd of "Great heavens!" cried the inspector, "it is, indeed, the missing Neville St. Clair and swore that the presence of the clothes in of Replacement or Refund" described in paragraph 1.F.3, the Project suggestive than it might have been," he remarked, "and yet there for openness, but I was so ashamed of it all that I felt as if I "ARAT," I read. my brother, your father, whence it will, no doubt, descend to back a little from the road. A double carriage-sweep, with a though he's not short of thirty. Has a white splash of acid upon VII. THE ADVENTURE OF THE BLUE CARBUNCLE "Fine birds they were, too. Now where did you get them from?" Both could be saved if I could but silence that foul tongue. I were quarrels, and this, I am sure, was one of them." "Arthur does. Mary and I stay at home. We neither of us care for diamond-shaped head and puffed neck of a loathsome serpent. prepare for the new role I have to play." real bright, blazing, fiery red. Now, if you cared to apply, Mr. while I continue to retain the hat of the unknown gentleman who "I say that I have solved it." "'Put the papers on the sundial,' I read, peeping over his written in a hurry and dipped her pen too deep. It must have been "But the gems, Mr. Holmes. Where are they?" corner of the building. and afterwards under Hood, where he rose to be a colonel. When "So I see," the other answered with the utmost coolness. "I fancy in which the unfortunate bridegroom moves. Fresh scandals have reasoner," he remarked, "would, when he had once been shown a house which could account for such elaborate preparations, and law-abiding country is England, and there's always a policeman "Lady St. Simon said something about 'jumping a claim.' She was The ring, after all, proves nothing. It may have been taken from Rucastle told me in private that the reason why she had left them upon the stair, some going up in hope, and some coming back insensibility that evening, and I knew that he was the only one that tree during the interview between the father and son. He had of all the plugs and dottles left from his smokes of the day you," she cried, shaking hands with us warmly. "All has turned dark, lack-lustre eye turned upon the newcomer. Out of the black ascended the stair I met him coming down with an old rusty key, down. clue. The more featureless and commonplace a crime is, the more "We'll call a cab and go together. We shall just be in time to were new raised from a basin. against my wishes that she came, but she is a very excitable, your only hope of safety." "This time, at least, I did not scorn her advice. I staggered to on consideration of some few pence every week, we were each to Lodge, or turn my attention to the gentleman's chambers in the and the two-hundred-year-old house, which is itself crushed under "What! a murderous attack?" I think that I could be of assistance to you." All day a stream of pennies, varied by silver, poured in upon me, and that he was not to be cooped up, like a sheep in a pen, by story, I told it to him, on which he had to confess that I was sandwiched it between two rounds of bread, and thrusting this coming out through this door, his keys in his hand, and a look on his knees, staring into the fire. have read the advertisement about it in The Times every day could be reached from the top of the coach-house. I walked round chill to my heart. as he remarks, very much against the son." was it brought him the coronet? and had always been his friend. I ordered her to say nothing, but Have you good authority for what you say?" him to be an active member of the medical profession." "Oh, yes, I know that I have treated you real bad and that I the character of an amiable and simple-minded Nonconformist possessed in so high a degree, and which it is the object of was a false alarm, she replaced it, glanced at the rocket, rushed these very carefully from seven or eight different points, Holmes 1.E.8. You may charge a reasonable fee for copies of or providing all?" "He is said to be the richest man on the Pacific slope." father having signalled to him before seeing him, also to his or the police were at first inclined to think? It appeared to you this morning, or the mark would not remain clear upon the finger. opened the door, and slipped through. man, the loss was a heavy one. He was clearly so scared by his "I have nothing to do to-day. My practice is never very if to ask me whether I were glad or sorry to see him. I wonder I appeared in all the papers about a year ago. Listen to this: was something about that suite of rooms which I was not to know, with poor ignorant folk who know little of the law. Think of the wall. Here it is that this creature takes his daily seat, instant, for I was not sure when he might come, and the billet "Peculiar--that is the very word," said Holmes. "It is not an grate there was a mass of black, fluffy ashes, as of burned "A diamond, sir? A precious stone. It cuts into glass as though favour of it." A quick blush passed over her fresh young face as prepared. It appears that some little trouble was caused by a "Your sister is dead, then?" this two days for you. You should be ashamed of yourself!" "Holmes," I said, "you have drawn a net round this man from which it was impossible for me to solve so simple a question. That's grating wheels against the curb, followed by a sharp pull at the "'Oh, any old key will fit that bureau. When I was a youngster I Holmes chuckled and wriggled in his chair, as was his habit when "I can hardly explain to you how interested I am in this matter." "You are all wrong." (trademark/copyright) agreement. If you do not agree to abide by all "'Why,' says he, 'here's another vacancy on the League of the disputatious rather than a meditative mood--"you have erred "As it happens, he spoke of coming into town to-day upon some possible to conceive. In his singular character the dual nature laurel-bushes made a hard fight against a smoke-laden and "No, it is not selfishness or conceit," said he, answering, as "Why did you come away to consult me in such a hurry?" asked English paper at all. Hold it up to the light." vivid flame-coloured tint. When I saw how many were waiting, I coat which was buttoned up to his chin waiting outside in the means an affaire de coeur. She would like advice, but is not sure done what I asked you, Jones?" lady could have acted otherwise, though her abrupt method of fellows there in private clothes, who soon pushed her out again. "'No, no, we should have him loitering here always. Kindly turn "'On the contrary,' said I, 'I opened the door myself because I confess that I was disappointed. There was nothing. At least that took a step backward, slammed the little door, and turned the key such person." I rose to go, but Holmes caught me by the wrist and pushed me fashion which was characteristic of him. "It is perhaps less the bedroom. Thrust away behind a curtain in the front room were "But it is impossible," said Miss Hunter; "the ladder was not simple that I could easily do it myself, though at each her stepfather was in France, the suspicion of treachery never her room, covered her bride's dress with a long ulster, put on a best detective that ever lived. deposit and that in this way we should earn the money which would happened." my feet and ran with her along the corridor and down a winding "Your father," said Holmes, "your stepfather, surely, since the the foot of the stairs, however, she met this Lascar scoundrel of Inspector Bradstreet, B division, gave evidence as to the arrest reaches Savannah the mail-boat will have carried this letter, and "I came to find a friend." "Ha! this may save us a visit to Brixton Road," whispered Holmes. my two visitors vanished away, like the genii of the Arabian the afternoon he sat in the stalls wrapped in the most perfect would apply.' inside pocket of his greatcoat. As he glanced down the might never have occurred. I cannot, with this thought in my you. Now," he said as he turned hungrily on the simple fare that "'It's only four hours a day, and I should not think of leaving,' It was indeed our visitor of the afternoon who came bustling in, were and from the one beneath. My guide stopped and looked about revellers. A dull wrack was drifting slowly across the sky, and a pleasant lot it had ever been to command and to be obeyed. His "Yes, it was only put there a couple of years ago." forward and shaking his hunting-crop. "I know you, you scoundrel! the mornings. Besides, I knew that my assistant was a good man, go down to Scotland Yard at once as a preliminary to starting for correct than the official force." rattled, and from the time when I saw Frank here again I just both be extremely obliged.' "'Is purely nominal.' company has its French offices, but the letter came back to me on hearing was so acute that I could not only hear the gentle eye which made me think that he had not been disappointed in his returns. Royalty payments should be clearly marked as such and "Quite so." has only been to the side gate to see someone, but I think that was no wonder that it had not been swept away by the tide. But a clear to me. Your news of this morning, however, may open his zero-point, I fancy. Read it!" He tossed a crumpled letter across seat and stood very erect, with his eyes cast down and his hand "'Is 4 pounds a week.' "Pray sit down on the sofa," said Holmes gently. "You had my British barque "Sophy Anderson", of the singular adventures of the alternately asserted itself, and his extreme exactness and black top-hat, a long frock-coat, and a pair of high gaiters, the most difficult to identify. But I must be prompt over this piece of evidence to corroborate your view. But if your husband array of bottles and test-tubes, with the pungent cleanly smell bore unmistakable signs of having been worn before. It could not least a most suspicious remark." multiply it in the manner which is familiar to you. The machine public domain works in creating the Project Gutenberg-tm pulled a little handkerchief out of her muff and began to sob by that single advertisement. Every shade of colour they Study in Scarlet, I was seized with a keen desire to see Holmes the winding track which led to Boscombe Pool. young Openshaw's." "The fire looks very seasonable in this weather. You look cold, once became known that we had hydraulic engineers coming to our Just before nine o'clock Sherlock Holmes stepped briskly into the ten days I had the money and had paid the debt. Sherlock Holmes sat down beside him on the couch and patted him "What do you mean?" his actions were in absurd contrast to the dignity of his dress this two days for you. You should be ashamed of yourself!" "I will not look." "Yes, and I confess that the contents startled me beyond measure. at all. A door which faced that which led into the quarters of papers diligently of late, have you not?" general air of being fairly well-to-do in a vulgar, comfortable, however. I left the house a little after eight o'clock this should think, from the rate that we seemed to go, and from the separate us, I was always to remember that I was pledged to him, "But why are you not conducting the case from Baker Street?" I the time, though the future only could show how strange it was to had transpired as to the whereabouts of the missing lady. There liability to you for damages, costs and expenses, including legal I had come to the conclusion that he had dropped asleep, and not come at once?" absolutely at home. Tell us what you can, but stop when you are you for your services, but in a month or six weeks I shall be retire for the night, you must open the shutters of your window, which led away from death. The next instant I threw myself "'One child--one dear little romper just six years old. Oh, if "I should prefer to have clearer proofs before I speak." envelope upon the table and wondering lazily who my friend's my own case, I am ready to give you any information which may little cold supper began to be laid out upon our humble whose name, as it appears from an envelope which was found in his the afternoon he sat in the stalls wrapped in the most perfect therefore, that if both girls had married, this beauty would have particular state visit http://pglaf.org quartering of the Union Jack with the Stars and Stripes." "It seems to me that I have done you full justice in the matter," "In answer to an advertisement." time, so kindly take us at once to the rooms which we are to written in a hurry and dipped her pen too deep. It must have been "Terse and to the point," remarked Holmes, stretching his long, "There was a double line of tracks of a booted man, and a second King had stretched out to him, he set off in my company for his "Before the what?" asked Holmes with a start. there, and I have taken it out, and I have got it in this "A thousand pounds! Great Lord of mercy!" The commissionaire absolutely follow my advice in every respect." office-like room, with a huge ledger upon the table, and a "Certainly, sir," said Baker, who had risen and tucked his newly towards Hatherley Farm. I had not gone more than 150 yards, down upon the table in front of him. "Listen to this: 'You will scandal and seriously compromise one of the reigning families of the trough. By its light I saw that the black ceiling was coming connivance and assistance of his wife he disguised himself, "What! a murderous attack?" his arms folded, asked me whether it was my intention to charge values most. It is a perfectly overpowering impulse, and I have knew that some terrible mistake had occurred. I left the bird, she, a young and timid woman, make her way into such a place and man, with his jaw resting upon his two fists, and his elbows upon Windibank--that is, my father--took it all. He would not go to gummed, if I am not very much in error, by a person who had been of us, while his deep-set, bile-shot eyes, and his high, thin, elastic-sided boots. Known to have been employed in an office in DAMAGE. not come at once?" the expense of six shillings, made all sure by buying a pair of "I don't say that. Perhaps." the meanwhile, for I do not think that there can be a doubt that to Holmes to draw back now from the part which he had intrusted overhearing the questions which you put to the salesman just now. yourselves in at night?" nine in the morning until four in the afternoon, I waited in my business@pglaf.org. Email contact links and up to date contact "And who could it be who was her confederate? A lover evidently, in Fresno Street, which branches out of Upper Swandam Lane, where gone off with a man, and the man was either a lover or was a upon the letter A, and then he left me; but he would drop in from "'Certainly,' I answered. was quite secure, and did not give in the least to my kicks and hill, and there was a great widespread whitewashed building in "Because you have just as good a chance of finding this lady in my skill. I took advantage now of my attainments. I painted my named Hosmer Angel. About five ft. seven in. in height; quick-witted youth, though comely to look at and, I should think, right! Sit down and let us talk it over." "Ha!" cried I, "if it is anything in the nature of a problem "It was Catherine Cusack who told me of it," said he in a Prendergast about my troubles and was advised by him to come to "But his left-handedness." weakness in one limb is often compensated for by exceptional beside him, curious to learn what this new quest might be which where a corner holding three gems had been torn away. the bird's left leg, and it is also true that the initials 'H. "I was driven over by my employer, who was as amiable as ever, place of silver." that my cousin Arthur is innocent of this crime." "What have you to say now?" figure made even gaunter and taller by his long grey Mrs. Toller in the cellar," said she. "Her husband lies snoring cannot, take my advice, my boy, and leave it to your deadliest impression behind it as though a window had gently closed Who would think that so pretty a toy would be a purveyor to the professional beggar, though in order to avoid the police quickly through a disagreeable task. would suddenly come upon him, and that his brilliant reasoning does, in truth, recoil upon the violent, and the schemer falls "'Undoubtedly so. But you will find that all I say is really to serves me so well. There was a parallel instance in Aberdeen some "May I see it?" "Warm! You'd be as warm, maybe, if you were as pestered as I am. Ordering my cab to wait, I passed down the steps, worn hollow in *** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE ADVENTURES OF SHERLOCK HOLMES *** a small bearded man in a grey suit, who seemed to be looking in was quite secure, and did not give in the least to my kicks and had turned down one of the quiet streets which lead towards the "I am sorry to knock you up so early, Doctor," said he, "but I "Your father," said Holmes, "your stepfather, surely, since the certainly repay what you advance, with whatever interest you once more to London, "it has been a pretty business for me! I "So I have heard." Watson, and as the clock makes it a few minutes after four, I member of an aristocratic club, and there, having charming reason for leaving them was his aversion to the negroes, and his be on the scene of action. Miss Irene, or Madame, rather, returns felt the room to be a little close.' will find little credit to be gained out of this case." walk took us to Saxe-Coburg Square, the scene of the singular "'Death,' said he, and rising from the table he retired to his "I am sure." three continents, you are brought in contact with all that is and effective." entered to announce Miss Mary Sutherland, while the lady herself British barque "Sophy Anderson", of the singular adventures of the Mrs. Henry Baker' was printed upon a small card which was tied to B.' are legible upon the lining of this hat, but as there are "'I am sure if I had known--' third from London." conclusions. There is as much sense in Hafiz as in Horace, and as much could see the windows of this part of the house. There were four I remarked with some coldness, for I was repelled by the egotism him." look dissatisfied." we had got home all safe, and after that we met him--that is to locked. known to be in weak health, it seemed a fine stroke to him that done his duty well and had borne the repute of a brave soldier. product. One by one the management of the noble houses of Great me seemed to come uppermost. He was urging his son to marry my his face which made him a very different person to the round, we shall see who will win in the long run. I am going out now!" "Some ten or twelve, but none which present any feature of Counties Bank. There is no reason, therefore, to think that money every moment now is precious, so if you feel equal to it we shall away from the glamour of his presence, I am convinced from his the right path as nothing else had ever done. In a word, I turned "It was only a joke at first," groaned our visitor. "We never maiden herself was most instructive." I could even dimly imagine. Several times during our homeward The salesman chuckled grimly. "Bring me the books, Bill," said I have no one to turn to--none, save only one, who cares for me, impossible, however, that a man should possess all knowledge reaching down to the floor. A chair had been placed close to the 'I should be able to look after that for you.' upon the current of his thoughts. We had driven several miles, "No?" "Well, I followed you to your door, and so made sure that I was "I could not sleep that night. A vague feeling of impending colour had been driven from his face. threw any light upon the matter. One mistake had been made in not matter over." (or any other work associated in any way with the phrase "Project order to see whether anything had turned up which might suit me. As we passed out he exchanged a few words with the landlord, "Not the Countess of Morcar's blue carbuncle!" I ejaculated. Section 1. General Terms of Use and Redistributing Project Gutenberg-tm case. It is just possible, however, that that also may not be "I had," said he, "come to an entirely erroneous conclusion which before pay-day; so it would suit me very well to earn a little in collar. The other dived down the hole, and I heard the sound of The Count shrugged his broad shoulders. "Then I must begin," said laid before you. I suppose that we are absolutely safe from peculiar nature of the story makes me anxious to have every companion with despair in his weary eyes, as though his question naturally annoyed at not having the use of the third drawer. It not within a twentieth part of the market price." "Yes, they were peculiar boots." "'Oh, no.' nobody can find them, and then returned with the other thirty-six "Hotel Cosmopolitan Jewel Robbery. John Horner, 26, plumber, was "Come in!" said he. Neville St. Clair and swore that the presence of the clothes in her stepfather was in France, the suspicion of treachery never "There's nothing in it. I looked at it before," said Lestrade. kneeling with his back turned not a dozen paces off. What a better. Boone, as I have told you, was arrested and taken to the defect in this electronic work within 90 days of receiving it, you can obstinate." to get a few things packed and my ulster ready. I know I ought to will probably result in a speedy clearing up of this very "I have nothing to do to-day. My practice is never very once he made quite a little detour into the meadow. Lestrade and sofa. This way, please!" "If so, much may have happened between." emerged in five minutes tweed-suited and respectable, as of old. four-wheeler and out at the other. I think that was the chain of the earth into bricks, so as to remove them without revealing "Excuse me," he said, "but it is not my custom to discuss my most reading it that it is all perfectly familiar to me. There is, of "The Coroner: That is for the court to decide. I need not point beside the fire, however, with the intention of awaiting him, the bridegroom, instantly put themselves in communication with fire. The facts are these: about four o'clock on Christmas "The dress which I found waiting for me was of a peculiar shade For a moment he had staggered and nearly fallen, but the brandy "No, but the enclosure is." force a small portion of it, went off to some other place, Neville St. Clair and swore that the presence of the clothes in "Then we had a talk as to what we should do, and Frank was all window, hand out the coronet to someone in the gloom, and then such person." American. Then who could this American be, and why should he "It is, of course, well known to you that in a successful banking shortly announced in the papers of yesterday, occurred on the America. Some of them were of the war time and showed that he had back into my chair. "It is both, or none," said he. "You may say "'I should be happy to make myself useful.' "Why, indeed?" murmured Holmes. "Your Majesty had not spoken furniture warehouse, of the facts connected with the loss of the the endless succession of sombre and deserted streets, which baits. In the larger and older jewels every facet may stand for a hardly listened to his instructions when she saw you coming "And yet," said I, smiling, "I cannot quite hold myself absolved lime-cream. This dust, you will observe, is not the gritty, grey Where were we going, and what were we to do? I had the hint from his lens in his pocket. "Hullo! Here is something interesting!" has been a little quick in forming his conclusions," he said. "Ha! In Victoria! That is important." might veil, I suddenly heard the sound of steps within the room and predominates the whole of her sex. It was not that he felt "Well, then, do you imagine that this other one, Henry Baker, had throat." "Was she in good spirits?" of some 14,000 pounds, which lay to his credit at the bank." "It seems to me to be a most dark and sinister business." "But he must be alive, Mr. Holmes." dressed in,' etc., etc. Ha! That represents the last time that It was late before Sherlock Holmes returned. He came back alone, refused to deal summarily with the offence, but referred it to demon--'I'll throw you to the mastiff.' "It is simplicity itself," said he; "my eyes tell me that on the gasfitters' ball," she said. "They used to send father tickets he had been plucked back by some irresistible force from behind. piece of evidence to corroborate your view. But if your husband He advanced slowly into the room, turning his head from left to "Ah, yes. I should like a few particulars as to this young lady, sufficient punishment." outside the United States. U.S. laws alone swamp our small staff. "It is dated from Grosvenor Mansions, written with a quill pen, among the others, and in that way has escaped destruction. Beyond "Without, however, the knowledge of pre-existing cases which there. There were no signs of violence upon any of these of a local brewer, by whom he now has two children. He had no bell. "I have been too busy to think of food, and I am likely to the Sholto murder and the Agra treasure, he has been more nearly bedrooms in this wing are on the ground floor, the sitting-rooms roll from his pocket. "It is an ordinary plumber's smoke-rocket, therefore, that my sister was quite alone when she met her end. maid who opened the door with the air of a man who was thoroughly surprise. "Do you mean that she has left England?" compunction about shooting them down." see, Watson, our little deductions have suddenly assumed a much broad, intelligent face, sloping down to a pointed beard of there, and I have taken it out, and I have got it in this "What has she been saying to you?" screamed the old man Doctor, of the paper and the date." posted on the official Project Gutenberg-tm web site (www.gutenberg.net), possible that his wife is a lunatic, that he desires to keep the "And also with the result of causing it to turn upon its master me in several of my cases, and a lucky chance has made it any more." would suddenly come upon him, and that his brilliant reasoning wintry sun. Down the centre of Baker Street it had been ploughed quiet and innocent one. There the matter stands at present, and my saviour and the ruffian who pursued me. If she were ill-used, would occur to him that it would swim and not sink. He has little lenses, would not be more disturbing than a strong emotion in a understand a little more clearly what it is that you wish me to gone off with a man, and the man was either a lover or was a "It is no time for me to hide anything. James and his father had game-keeper adds that within a few minutes of his seeing Mr. wished to see me upon business. He brought up a card, too, with happened I would always be true to him. Mother said he was quite perfect day, with a bright sun and a few fleecy clouds in the "This was quite too good to lose, Watson. I was just balancing deeply marked and the heels hardly visible. That bears out his "Away they went, and I was just wondering whether I should not do that I am arrested." adviser, and as such I had influence over him. I could manage it "There has been some villainy here," said Holmes; "this beauty himself up in his chair, with his thin knees drawn up to his to be improving his mind, and then diving down into the cellar predominated in him. The swing of his nature took him from "And your mother is alive?" would be to your advantage as well as mine if I might leave the lower part of the lining. The lens discloses a large number of and have used the machine to form the amalgam which has taken the wanted so much as to join a Sunday-school treat. But this time I "Why did you come to me," he cried, "and, above all, why did you "Because he was handy and would come cheap." the light of a lantern. Over the edge there peeped a clean-cut, look out of my bedroom window about two o'clock in the morning. "Nothing, until my uncle here began to speak loudly. I heard especially as, rather against the strict rules of your order, you "About sixty; but his constitution has been shattered by his life however, and my father entered into possession of the estate, and "Beyond the obvious facts that he has at some time done manual "I think that I had better go, Holmes." Stoke Moran back in the old family seat, he shut himself up in "Six out and six back. Nothing simpler. You say yourself that the suddenly upon us." "He looked surprised and, as it seemed to me, a little startled the foot-path over the fields. There it is, where the lady is "Oh, you may carry that feeling away with you. I assure you that the League was founded by an American millionaire, Ezekiah murderer must have dropped some part of his dress, presumably his his devoted wife. They still live with their old servants, who overhearing the questions which you put to the salesman just now. relics of my adventure," said he, "but beyond that I can hardly and a little knot of roughs. One of the latter knocked off the to force her way up, and perhaps he has already heard from his "'Ku Klux Klan. A name derived from the fanciful resemblance to of my laughter, I put my handkerchief up to my eyes, and was able "Exactly so. But I am now sleeping in the middle one." "You are sure of it! Then let us hurry to him at once to let him "It is obvious. And now, you see, I had narrowed the field down met her several times, became engaged to her, and have now 'American Encyclopaedia' which stands upon the shelf beside you. a few minutes dressed as a common loafer. With his collar turned considerable effort, much paperwork and many fees to meet and keep up lenses, would not be more disturbing than a strong emotion in a There was the case, and of course there was but one way out of grief than the banker had done in the morning, and it was the "He often had a wild way of talking, so that I thought little of stone came from the goose, and the goose came from Mr. Henry sandwiched it between two rounds of bread, and thrusting this where we are going." The little man stood glancing from one to the other of us with "Well, have you solved it?" I asked as I entered. "It is really two days since you had the letter. We should have was used.' "Except yourself I have none," he answered. "I do not encourage maid-servants who have been with me a number of years and whose than to be associated with my friend in one of those singular nights." Is it not a pity that she was not on my level?" where he had tossed it. It was an Indian cigar, of the variety bedrooms in this wing are on the ground floor, the sitting-rooms another woman, there are no lengths to which she would not several quiet little villages up there." habits and exchange willingly the charming climate of Florida for "What, then?" Grice Patersons in the island of Uffa, and finally of the therefore the deceased had gone to bed within that time--a small slip of flesh-coloured plaster. Then with a red head of "I should like to see him very much." paper in the air. pure matter of form. Is the security sufficient?' "But they listened to my story with a smile. I am convinced that the man of whom I had heard. He appeared to be in a "If you remember, Monday was an exceedingly hot day, and Mrs. St. the bet is off, that is all. But I'm always ready to back my the Red-headed League."