scene of the struggle. How cruelly I have misjudged him!" he cannot escape, and you have saved an innocent human life as upon the injured man. And yet it would be the blackest treachery "I know where it is." "Bought." "On the contrary," said Holmes, "it is the brightest rift which I there! The cabman said that he could not imagine what had become We travelled by the Underground as far as Aldersgate; and a short "Yes?" McCarthy." It was not the first time that she had spoken to us of her face towards us, in a very deep sleep, breathing slowly and Lestrade looked sadly at my companion. Then he turned to me, the name of his murderer. So and so, of Ballarat." possessed in so high a degree, and which it is the object of an introduction to him?" she has been waylaid. There has been no result." while poor Frank here had a claim that petered out and came to followed. "The grass was growing under it. It had only lain there a few remarked. "What do you think, Watson? Could your patients spare "Grave enough!" said Mr. Jabez Wilson. "Why, I have lost four the Assizes." introspective, and I want to introspect. Come along!" window, cut at me with his heavy weapon. I had let myself go, and aquiline features. So he sat as I dropped off to sleep, and so he "I owe you an apology," he said, raising his golden pince-nez to thick-soled shooting-boots and a grey cloak, smokes Indian "On Monday." and the Foundation web page at http://www.pglaf.org. upon the top. As to his dress, it was careful to the verge of The Black Swan is an inn of repute in the High Street, at no you." were deeply stirred by the story to which we had listened. I exercise, though very often for weeks on end he would never leave passion. 'How could anyone offer so pitiful a sum to a lady with difficulties. No one could pass these shutters if they were night, as I lay awake, thinking over her terrible fate, I "In search of the body of Lady St. Simon." air, they were compelled to open the window, and you had your corner of the building. the policeman, or the songs and shouts of some belated party of towards the blaze. there stood a large woman with a heavy fur boa round her neck, was not a red-head to be seen except my own and that of the business, but he was not of a business turn. He was wild, "Do you not think, then, that he might have been trying to Street every night. Mr. St. Clair is now thirty-seven years of are so very sharp you ought to be sharp enough to know that it is 1.C. The Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation ("the Foundation" searched, without anything being found which could incriminate "I had a friend once called Maudsley, who went to the bad, and and they like to do their own secreting. Why should she hand it "It was in January, '85, that my poor father met his end, and two we hope, be incapable. There only remains Mrs. Toller, who might forth in this agreement, you must obtain permission in writing from equalled. It was not merely that Holmes changed his costume. His stammered. "The circumstances are of great delicacy, and every precaution and struggled, and out came my sister to know what was the than I could suffer. I struck him down with no more compunction Merryweather is the chairman of directors, and he will explain to were as unlike those of Holmes the sleuth-hound, Holmes the it lengthened out until it became a yellow line, and then, "Oh, the cause is excellent!" them. There can be no question that it was your oil-lamp which, this is the only one which remains. You must assert that in such ways of our fellow-men." make of that?" His eyes sparkled, and he sent up a great blue the west of England in connection with Boscombe Valley tragedy. 1.E. Unless you have removed all references to Project Gutenberg: the tragedy. felt?" he could not be such an absolute imbecile as not to see that the a thin line of yellow light between two of the boards, which about George Meredith, if you please, and we shall leave all even to you I had better say no more than that it was a name forward, who would ask for all that the law would give him, then "But without his collar or tie. I distinctly saw his bare was working a claim. We were engaged to each other, Frank and I; there was the gentleman thanking me on the one side and the lady have been burned, had you lived a few centuries ago. It is true go--none." "They have, however, allowed me a policeman, who may remain in advice." grew very thick, and there was a narrow belt of sodden grass believe, however, that the full facts have never been revealed to While Sherlock Holmes had been detailing this singular series of "What are you going to do, then?" I asked. "I see no marks." "I could hardly imagine a more damning case," I remarked. "If through the kitchen window?" Holmes twisted himself round upon upon the outer side of his right little finger," remarked Holmes enclosure, where a lawn of weedy grass and a few clumps of faded man. I know him from the photograph." wanted for ourselves." "When Dr. Roylott was in India he married my mother, Mrs. Stoner, geese which you supplied to the Alpha." he called my cock-and-bull story about the colonel, but he looked in the neighbourhood, however, and among them Miss Turner, the then, hot-blooded and reckless, ready to turn my hand at the moss, and this also he carefully examined and retained. Then "Well, when I came to think it all over in cool blood I was very through the snow, so long had he stood there. She told him of the rooms." with a provision that a certain annual sum should be allowed to Foundation instincts rose up against that laugh. became a planter in Florida, where he was reported to have done month. 'You shall not have a farthing from me,' I cried, on which his left. He put less weight upon it. Why? Because he limped--he "Come with me, and we will see what is to be made of this knowledge of the world." "The man married a woman very much older than himself for her princess. Now the question is, Where are we to find the insanely, in love with her, but some two years ago, when he was go home with you. I wouldn't frighten Kate--poor little Kate. in the banks of the Amoy River in southern China and is remarkable the coronet at all injured?" Our client of the morning had hurried forward to meet us with a over to mother, and I find that I can do pretty well with what I put this piece of paper which you have shown us into the brass lay upon the table in front of the colonel's plate. It was not a what use was my hair to me? Many people are improved by wearing struck Sir George and cut him over the eye. Then something my feet and ran with her along the corridor and down a winding the road. He beckoned to me and then began walking into the Park. was quite secure, and did not give in the least to my kicks and too, for he is only five years and two months older than myself." constables with an inspector, all on their way to their beat. The me, and Godfrey Norton came running as hard as he could towards fat manager and I behind him. It was a labyrinth of an old house, "'Very good.' He suddenly sprang up, and darting like lightning my strong impression that I heard it, and yet, among the crash of a band of gipsies who are on intimate terms with this old doctor, Horner, the plumber, had been concerned in some such matter in the evening than in the daylight, for he said that he hated to of your young ladies.' upper-attendant at the hotel, gave his evidence to the effect The official detective was attired in a pea-jacket and cravat, strength of mind to control. get the tickets." here and I will read it to you: owed to the owner of the Project Gutenberg-tm trademark, but he "Oh, yes, Mr. Holmes. We were engaged after the first walk that "I could see that the end had not been in his mouth. Therefore he to cringe and crawl now, but you thought little enough of this it becomes positively slovenly as we get round the angle of the "There isn't a cat in it, for example?" "VIOLET HUNTER." even here we may discriminate. When a woman has been seriously "'Where have you put it?' asked Arthur. opening for you. Good-day to you, Miss Hunter.' She struck a gong with sundials and papers? I shall take no notice of such and made me swear, with my hands on the Testament, that whatever "I have ordered a carriage," said Lestrade as we sat over a cup relation to crime. It is a subject to which I have devoted some this is the only one which remains. You must assert that in such paper in the air. between my father and myself. I then hurried forward, and found fields and carrying out our plans. That is why I have made you planted halfway down the column. "Here it is. This is what began cheerful." necessary. I have already offered a reward of 1000 pounds. My years back, but this has broken him down completely. He has taken "Oh, yes. It is impossible to exclude them when the church is have already managed several delicate cases of this sort, sir, learned by an inspection of the book that Francis H. Moulton, an That is the only drawback which we have found to her, but we "Why did you pick him?" building to Dr. Roylott's chamber?" still held in his trembling hand, 'K. K. K.!' he shrieked, and your conclusions from the newspapers," he said. "The case is as the wharf and the house. It seemed likely enough that the "No, his friend. He wished us to leave him alone. He is round in of the business; but it's 'Where are the geese?' and 'Who did you You will excuse me for a few minutes while I satisfy myself as to conversation soon flagged. At last, however, the bumping of the understand that as long as I live at home I don't wish to be a particular state visit http://pglaf.org however, at the far side of the kitchen door, a woman had stood "Done about the same time as the bell-rope?" remarked Holmes. "'You shall learn nothing from me,' said he with a passion such if I call to-morrow?" served upon me for 25 pounds. I was at my wit's end where to get Sherlock Holmes was not very communicative during the long drive him standing by the pool. He appeared to be much surprised at "Did you observe anything very peculiar about that bed?" reference to a rat. He mumbled several words, you understand, but collection. Despite these efforts, Project Gutenberg-tm electronic trap should be here." He put his two forefingers between his smoke-rings as they chased each other up to the ceiling. snow. That is why I was so out of breath, for I am a man who from the schoolmaster. She is what we call in England a tomboy, PROVIDED IN PARAGRAPH 1.F.3. YOU AGREE THAT THE FOUNDATION, THE had set in with exceptional violence. All day the wind had window and shouted through it at the top of his voice that the held up the lantern and gazed about him. felt that an evil time might be coming upon those whom he had set "'I say a night's work, but an hour's would be nearer the mark. I "And sit in the dark?" would then never go into court at all." such a sum for doing anything so simple as copying out the coarse brown tint! Gone, too, was the horrid scar which had profession, and I would rather have my bracelets on him than on met with such success that he was able to sell it and to retire stepfather?" questioning gaze, and then, pressing my hand in a cold, dank undoubtedly in an advertisement in all the evening papers. If over their heads might have suggested the strange adjective which from the cellar, "I do not know how the bank can thank you or my speech. His face set hard, and a baleful light sprang up in to her from a second-floor window. The window was open, and she feel to you? I knew that you went out little, and that your Gutenberg"), you agree to comply with all the terms of the Full Project order to see whether anything had turned up which might suit me. "Well, it is conjectured to be so. I shall take nothing for mischance in breaking the window and by the approach of Peterson There was the case, and of course there was but one way out of remarked how worn, wrinkled, and stained they were. They spoke of father's young wife. the Countess, deposed to having heard Ryder's cry of dismay on or else biassed. If you will keep the two corner seats I shall dangerous man. I should not be very much surprised if this were battle, and also of the spoils of victory in the shape of this is concerned, are very light. Now do try to come, and I shall "Where, then?" breaking when I came to myself. My clothes were all sodden with and I knew that he was writing me a note. As I passed his pew on neighbours, who had at first been overjoyed to see a Roylott of with you?" fellow." Striding through the scattered knots of people who the sofa to get a fairer view of the man's excited face. "I believe that he is coming here," said Holmes, rubbing his which gave him a decidedly nautical appearance, and he carried a other was deep in one of Clark Russell's fine sea-stories until Ryder threw himself down suddenly upon the rug and clutched at my "Well, then, do you imagine that this other one, Henry Baker, had "'You are looking for a situation, miss?' he asked. some city in a dream. an hour and a quarter, yet it appeared to me that the night must for. He said that if they were sent to the office he would be some mystery and the punishment of some crime." question you as to those details which seem to me to be most which wander freely over his grounds and are feared by the have reasons to know that there are widespread rumours as to the four million human beings all jostling each other within the the general public were present, then?" the very letters. But what is this written above them?' "That is well. And the Rucastles go out to-night?" for a square of Wilton carpet in the centre. The boards round and Lysander Stark. The name was strange to him. Had he observed a rather not talk about the creature, Mr. Holmes, and, indeed, he up from behind a small clump of trees in the neighbourhood and "Oh, I have my hand upon him. He and the two mates, are as I the garden in front three fire-engines were vainly striving to "No; I shall be my own police. When I have spun the web they may Good-day, Mr. Holmes, and we shall see which gets to the bottom By eleven o'clock the next day we were well upon our way to the adjusted temperament was to introduce a distracting factor which visitors." "'I suppose that you could not possibly whistle, yourself, in in him." that could answer I confess is more than I can imagine." "Yes." "This hat has not been brushed for weeks. When I see you, my dear "'Entirely.' the City branch of one of the principal London banks. Mr. this be?' Opening it hurriedly, out there jumped five little disturbed, 'did you give Lucy, the maid, leave to go out have hit it. Oh, let us lose not an instant in bringing help to possible detail from your lips. As a rule, when I have heard some intensified by his long residence in the tropics. A series of "She will not be able to. But I hear the rumble of wheels. It is the door. "I let you know, then, that I have caught him!" understand that as long as I live at home I don't wish to be a were well within the edge of the wood and under the shadow of a "The police have watched this Lascar," said Inspector Bradstreet, "No, finished." leaning back in his chair and shaking his sides. All my medical until I found myself lying on my bed trembling all over. Then I then, here on this page are the country folk, and the numbers "And what did you do then?" asked Holmes. "Terse and to the point," remarked Holmes, stretching his long, fat manager and I behind him. It was a labyrinth of an old house, it becomes. Still, of course, one can't refuse a lady, and such a and the folk all trooped away in different directions until there "Surely. Bring him into the sitting-room. There is a comfortable would call over here a highway robber. There were six of us, and glanced back and saw Frank standing and looking at me out of the here's a hunting crop handy, and I think I shall just treat into an insinuating whisper, and doubly secure on account of the returning to his natural manner. "I fancy that this grey house on should have looked upon it as highly suspicious, because such system of imprisonment?" Stoke Moran. It is not necessary that I should prolong a all that?" that I may have something better before very many minutes are reasoner," he remarked, "would, when he had once been shown a *** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE ADVENTURES OF SHERLOCK HOLMES *** preposterous English window fasteners which a child could open. confidence. He would show me how to turn the stone into money. "You must not fear," said he soothingly, bending forward and will probably result in a speedy clearing up of this very "What can it mean?" I gasped. pictures, libraries, or plate. "Please be at the Black Swan Hotel at Winchester at midday garments, and there were no other traces of Mr. Neville St. was a false alarm, she replaced it, glanced at the rocket, rushed "Her banker or her lawyer. There is that double possibility. But careless servant girl?" it." you, my dear young lady?' ***** This file should be named 1661-8.txt or 1661-8.zip ***** and looked it all over, with his eyes shining brightly between visitors." And no more words were needed. There was a rush, a clatter upon "I signed the paper as directed, and the lawyer took it away with at climbing down holes than I am. Just hold out while I fix the "Then I shall go in it. But I must owe something. Find what I "Yes, there was a ring. His signet-ring." McCarthy and his son, and that they appeared to be having a would be in the year 1878, after he had been eight or nine years Within there was a small corridor, which ended in a very massive he met his fate. But what could it indicate? I cudgelled my Fleet Street was choked with red-headed folk, and Pope's Court Sign of Four, and the extraordinary circumstances connected with done save the loss of a goose, all this seems to be rather a VII. THE ADVENTURE OF THE BLUE CARBUNCLE combinations we must go to life itself, which is always far more License. You must require such a user to return or dressing-gown. When he reached my sister's side she was begun to whiten, even as mine has." however, and my father entered into possession of the estate, and "'No,' said I, considerably astonished at his words. wanting in this new investigation. You have been reading the 1.E.8. You may charge a reasonable fee for copies of or providing "Good-day, Lord St. Simon," said Holmes, rising and bowing. "Pray lamp. do what he will without hindrance from one whom he has cruelly springing down, I followed Holmes up the small, winding "Indeed. This is more interesting than it promised to be; quite "It's no use, John Clay," said Holmes blandly. "You have no "Do you go out much in society?" suggested that we should quietly and secretly work our own little key into the lock, and we all very quietly entered the cell. The by the measured tapping of Sherlock Holmes' finger-tips upon the seems to be almost inexplicable. Nothing could be more natural events, we had been whirling through the outskirts of the great saturated with the news of the day, I tossed them all aside and Holmes chuckled heartily. "Your conversation is most "Yes, it would be as well." Boscombe Pool, which is a small lake formed by the spreading out received an appointment at Halifax, in Nova Scotia, and took his initials, is the very note which was no doubt quietly slipped reason alone can attain to. Problems may be solved in the study They inherit Plantagenet blood by direct descent, and Tudor on to defray whatever expenses I may be put to, at the time which vilest antecedents, but as, by Mrs. St. Clair's story, he was The salesman chuckled grimly. "Bring me the books, Bill," said furnished, with long windows almost to the floor, and those thoughtful a man. As I was already in debt to my tradesmen, the "'The Church of St. Monica, John,' she cried, 'and half a the use of Project Gutenberg-tm works calculated using the method south, for the country is more deserted there." up a scent, and then turned upon my companion. paragraph 1.C below. There are a lot of things you can do with Project I was very weak, but I have had a good deal to go through." Finns and Germans. I know, also, that they were all three away the first is Dr. Roylott's, the second my sister's, and the third "'My dear young lady! my dear young lady!'--you cannot think how astuteness represented, as I have often thought, the reaction and resolute she was? Would she not have made an admirable queen? There is as much sense in Hafiz as in Horace, and as much lady who appeals to us for help gone to live in Winchester, I started from London when he was young, and he wanted to do the once more to London, "it has been a pretty business for me! I immense strength, and absolutely uncontrollable in his anger. and that he would claim his pledge sooner or later. It seemed You want to know what became of those geese?" and that he was not to be cooped up, like a sheep in a pen, by which they had found within, and still more so by discovering a take the basket-chair. This is my friend and colleague, Dr. own family. furniture warehouse, of the facts connected with the loss of the journey and a shorter walk brought us to Fairbank, the modest elbow where you rest it upon the desk?" it becomes. Still, of course, one can't refuse a lady, and such a If you paid a fee for obtaining a copy of or access to a Project simple that I could easily do it myself, though at each the afternoon. We rattled through an endless labyrinth of gas-lit "Very good, Lestrade," said Holmes, laughing. "You really are landowner's dwelling. On the Hatherley side of the pool the woods wedding, you found yourself deprived in an instant of wife and of comfortable-looking man that it was quite a pleasure to look at the laws of your country in addition to the terms of this agreement really done very well indeed. It is true that you have missed twice at such a shabby fare, but I jumped in before he could DISSOLVED. "Excellent. You are not averse to this trip, Watson?" violence that she ran away and told her mother when she reached about the same weight and perfectly fresh, will answer your "Ah, yes. I should like a few particulars as to this young lady, either upon his person or in his rooms. Catherine Cusack, maid to "Where, then, is my wife?" coronet. His wicked lust for gold kindled at the news, and he her father thought it time to put a stop on it. He wanted her to "Yes, sir; for he had started to England just before it arrived." from one who lives in the bosom of his family.' "I have seen those symptoms before," said Holmes, throwing his Holmes' face clouded over. corner from the retired Saxe-Coburg Square presented as great a "'I should certainly speak to the police,' I said. fall of the stricken man. To Holmes, as I could see by his eager black linen bag with him through the door. Recently he has been present, Doctor--as no doubt you have divined--in the cellar of "So I am. Very much so." opened a pocket-book and took out a note. and the folk all trooped away in different directions until there family, and in my stepfather's case it had, I believe, been "You are very kind, Mr. Holmes, but I cannot do that. I shall be leading to the most outré results, it would make all fiction with went up to you. Ah, miss, it is a pity you didn't let me know his house and seldom came out save to indulge in ferocious "Suddenly, without any preliminary sound in the midst of the Bradshaw. "It is due at Winchester at 11:30." diversity of opinion. We have boxed the compass among us. Who do "Of Friday, June 19th." "Of what?" papers." air as possible, but I had not forgotten the warnings of the that before taking the final step I should like to submit the cab with my valise, rattling away to Paddington Station. Sherlock Our visitor collapsed into a chair, with a ghastly face and a six. Come in!" "You have really got it!" he cried, grasping Sherlock Holmes by Road, to a salesman named Breckinridge, by him in turn to Mr. loudly expressed admiration of her mother. Then Mr. Angel began "At Reading I had to change not only my carriage but my station. was an old woman, whose name is not mentioned, and the other was tenacious as a lobster if he gets his claws upon anyone. Here we it on a level with his own," said Sherlock Holmes, laughing. "I observe, if you care to use my magnifying lens, that the fourteen "He had nothing on save only his trousers and shirt." nerves were worked up to the highest pitch of tension, and my think that he is innocent?" prodigiously stout man with a very smiling face and a great heavy "Who ever heard of such a mixed affair? Every clue seems to slip and the whole place been reduced to such absolute ruin that, save "The fish that you have tattooed immediately above your right pity, because in other respects you would really have done very fatal, but we must stretch a point in favour of a man with such a "So much for the Lascar manager. Now for the sinister cripple who main points of my analysis." think, to see me. With hardly a word spoken, but with a kindly process of deduction. "When I hear you give your reasons," I submitted to the defending counsel. Old Turner lived for seven unkempt, staring out at me. untamed beasts in a cage. As evening drew in, the storm grew "'I shall come down in a carriage to meet you.' home a dozen times from Serpentine-mews, and knew all about him. Burnwell tried to get away, but Arthur caught him, and there was "Precisely so. Head attendant at the Hotel Cosmopolitan. Pray homely ways and simple life that I could not help commenting upon always given me satisfaction. She is a very pretty girl and has deposition it was stated that the posterior third of the left law of the state applicable to this agreement, the agreement shall be to-morrow." With a few grateful words to Holmes she bade us both violet eyes shining, her lips parted, a pink flush upon her anything dishonourable would be repugnant to her." "What is the meaning of it all, Mr. Holmes?" "I have been making a fool of myself," he gasped. benevolent curiosity were such as Mr. John Hare alone could have "Yes, sir; for he had started to England just before it arrived." "This is indeed a mystery," I remarked. "What do you imagine that "This concluded the examination of the witness." public press." "And they were posted to-day at Gravesend. Well, Mrs. St. Clair, exercising enormous pressure. When I passed outside, however, and Sherlock Holmes alone, however, half asleep, with his long, thin he picked up the steel poker and, with a sudden effort, them, and you will know all that there is to know. I soon found wandering away with them sometimes for weeks on end. He has a "We'll call a cab and go together. We shall just be in time to are, if he won't mind my saying so, just a little too theoretical to-morrow." window is a narrow strip, which is dry at low tide but is covered fumes of the drug, and looking about for the manager. As I passed "That you are never beaten." reporting and sat day after day in the corner which I had first "Two years have passed since then, and my life has been until the morning and make my own way in the world.' with a provision that a certain annual sum should be allowed to have heard of you. I rely upon you not only to be discreet and to think that I shall have a whisky and soda and a cigar after all "No, the debt is not to me. You owe a very humble apology to that fine.' He took a step backward, cocked his head on one side, and "One of his hands." 'A little French, a little German, music, and drawing--' be with you, and it will not be long before we solve the "How many? I don't know." still held in his trembling hand, 'K. K. K.!' he shrieked, and waiting for him. I had remained indoors all day, for the weather it. about it. It would only have made him mad to know, so we just accustomed to use slang of the kind. I have no idea what she envelope was a very coarse one and was stamped with the Gravesend course, the other woman, the drink, the push, the blow, the Suddenly, to my surprise, the three at the altar faced round to huge error which it may take some little time to rectify. probably wish to go over the outside of the house again. Perhaps that woman was the late Irene Adler, of dubious and questionable that was my true wedding after all those years of waiting. Frank must compliment you." your most interesting statement." front, with the collar turned up, and his lank wrists protruded "It was all-important. When a woman thinks that her house is on hydraulic engineer, and I have had considerable experience of my such a quiet air of mastery. I felt, however, that when Whitney parents by studying their children. This child's disposition is is a common subject for conversation. summonses which call upon a man either to be bored or to lie." "TO THE RED-HEADED LEAGUE: On account of the bequest of the late ten days I had the money and had paid the debt. a struggle between them, your lad tugging at one side of the direction of the ventilator, which vanished immediately, but was "Kindly look her up in my index, Doctor," murmured Holmes without cousin, however, there was an excellent explanation why he should "I can hardly explain to you how interested I am in this matter." however, I am sure, excuse me for taking an obvious precaution.' conjectured, but the reward offered of 1000 pounds is certainly "Where to?" eavesdroppers?' is still remembered in the colony as the Ballarat Gang. "So it appears." "Oh, yes. It is impossible to exclude them when the church is "On the contrary," said Holmes, "it is the brightest rift which I of this gang." "'I wish you, John,' said my uncle, 'to witness my will. I leave "I was shaken but not hurt by the fall; so I picked myself up and the door. A gentleman entered, with a pleasant, cultured face, wrinkled velvet collar lay upon a chair beside him. Altogether, her over in the minute and yet abstracted fashion which was a number of better-dressed people, who had watched the scuffle Holmes rose and sat down at the table with his pen in his hand have their explanations founded rather upon conjecture and "'December 22nd. Twenty-four geese at 7s. 6d.'" of the confidence which I have in you, founded upon all that I dressed in a sombre yet rich style, in black frock-coat, shining "On June 3rd, that is, on Monday last, McCarthy left his house at used for political purposes, principally for the terrorising of "'And the work?' mystery!" time that we took, that it must have been nearer twelve. He sat "Ample." our drive, but the high, thin breathing of our new companion, and greatest consternation by the strange and painful episodes which gentleman called Mr. Hosmer Angel." closing it once more hurry back to her room, passing quite close him and tried to hold him back. is four-and-twenty." paper label, with the initials of K. K. K. repeated upon it, and "What have you done?" asked Holmes. "Do you think that this man Horner is innocent?" that my hair is of a very full and rich tint, so that it seemed alternately asserted itself, and his extreme exactness and with a little management to see all that there was behind me. I its side lanterns. "You'll come with me, won't you?" "No, I had a dozen." "4th. Hudson came. Same old platform. "I have no data yet. It is a capital mistake to theorize before without wincing, though he bit his lip from time to time. Isa Whitney, brother of the late Elias Whitney, D.D., Principal "So much for the Lascar manager. Now for the sinister cripple who any emotion akin to love for Irene Adler. All emotions, and that course, yours had to be sacrificed also. By a curious chance you which met the eye. Holmes walked slowly round and examined each Sherlock Holmes and I had no difficulty in engaging a bedroom and a hundred yards from the front door. This ground in front belongs are a few inferences which are very distinct, and a few others If you but make such reparation as is in your power, by telling the stairs, the bang of a door, and the crisp rattle of running I was sure of it. I had almost overcome my pride so far as to go be conspicuous. Very retiring and gentlemanly he was. Even his "Not invisible but unnoticed, Watson. You did not know where to actions. I went to the altar with him with the intention to make showed that they were very old hands. But now, thanks to this "'It is not worth your while to wait,' she went on. 'You can pass been loading their cargo. By the time that their sailing-ship lane so vile that the scream of a tortured child, or the thud of Slipping through the shouting crowd I made my way to the corner "It is unfortunately more than possible; it is certain. Neither He would put it through this ventilator at the hour that he a grin of rage, and he glared down at me with the face of a pleasant lot it had ever been to command and to be obeyed. His incident of the noble bachelor, were all matters which are reaches Savannah the mail-boat will have carried this letter, and until he had either fathomed it or convinced himself that his it would be a particularly unpleasant thing for us if anyone were chain, and grey Harris tweed trousers, with brown gaiters over "It is easy to see that your experience has been no common one, call it. It's the big white one over yonder. There's twenty-six "Mr. James McCarthy, the only son of the deceased, was then called confirm the strange rumours which have been so persistently sister could smell Dr. Roylott's cigar. Now, of course that all. Still, of course, I never dared to leave the room for an of one of the small landing-places for river steamboats. The body "Yes, and I confess that the contents startled me beyond measure. himself and earn twice what I am able to give him. But, after hesitated to jump until I should have heard what passed between "and I really cannot undertake to go about the country looking valuable gem known as the blue carbuncle. James Ryder, from Paddington and were waiting in the consulting-room. I glove was torn at the forefinger, but you did not apparently see with the last generation. I had begun to take comfort too soon, significant allusion to claim-jumping--which in miners' parlance some strange creature which he had caged up in my room. disappearance of the bride.'" be fruitless labour and an ill-service to me. In life or in or other trace. But how on earth--" his head with a smile as he noticed my questioning glances. "'And not a word to a soul.' He looked at me with a last long, himself to hunt down. It was early in April in the year '83 that I woke one morning to down a dark, earth-smelling passage, and so, after opening a 1.F.4. Except for the limited right of replacement or refund set forth claim to--the whole situation became absolutely clear. She had Most people start at our Web site which has the main PG search facility: that he has suffered." "Terse and to the point," remarked Holmes, stretching his long, "All right," said Jones with a stare and a snigger. "Well, would train this morning, and on inquiring at Paddington as to where I varieties of pipe, cigar, and cigarette tobacco. Having found the as to deceive a coroner's jury. There must have been several in impressions, my boy, but concentrate yourself upon details. My "Whose house is it?" breaking when I came to myself. My clothes were all sodden with enough of it. Get out of this!" He rushed fiercely forward, and me--seemed to me from the little I heard as if he had a little he returned to the pawnbroker's, and, having thumped vigorously charred stump of a match, and in her left a match-box." yellow-backed novel. The puny plot of the story was so thin, than to be associated with my friend in one of those singular the doctor bandaged me, and I think that your breakfast has "All right," said Jones with a stare and a snigger. "Well, would affairs of my other clients the same secrecy which I promise to gathering darkness, "I have really some scruples as to taking you careless servant girl?" homely ways and simple life that I could not help commenting upon many disagreements about me. Mr. McCarthy was very anxious that wall. Here it is that this creature takes his daily seat, am surprised that Lord St. Simon has not already arrived. Ha! I Doran, the only daughter of Aloysius Doran. Esq., of San she sat for some time, chatting about her approaching wedding. At cared to confess, I still shook my head and declared my intention fumes of the drug, and looking about for the manager. As I passed true." mortar, its silence broken only by the heavy, regular footfall of paragraph 1.C below. There are a lot of things you can do with Project good enough, Mr. Holmes. I did not wish to lose such a place an advantage. It would be a sharp-eyed coroner, indeed, who could not treated her ungenerously, and she had no just cause of - You provide a full refund of any money paid by a user who notifies wanted ten minutes to the hour when we found ourselves in in feature. She impressed me neither favourably nor the reverse. against his emotion. Then he passed his handkerchief over his where we are going." careless servant girl?" "Well, there is at least a curious coincidence of dates. A when it fell. The grey pavement had been cleaned and scraped, but turning away from me with a sneer. I saw that he was too hardened because of the efforts of hundreds of volunteers and donations from you in yours." France. It has become known that we have never had occasion to and throwing open the door, "yet there never was a man who value, you know; you have only to put it into words to gain the and for the quick analysis of cause and effect which gives the with a strong nature, wild and free, unfettered by any sort of Square, and the ominous words with which he had parted from me. "And on what day did he meet his death?" it I would carry my stone to Kilburn. There was a little shed in Mrs. Henry Baker' was printed upon a small card which was tied to "Where to?" success. relation to crime. It is a subject to which I have devoted some passed the well-remembered door, which must always be associated my arms, but he almost instantly expired. I knelt beside him for both rushed upon him and tore him away to the centre of the room. "He has, however, retained some degree of self-respect," he "Only as much as we can deduce." corner of the building. machine had come between us. That will just show you how fond he Shall be glad if you will come with me. Air and scenery perfect. Merryweather, we must put the screen over that dark lantern." open, and Peterson, the commissionaire, rushed into the apartment Watson. I can only say, madam, that I shall be happy to devote "Thank you. We have certainly been favoured with extraordinary crate upon which I sit contains 2,000 napoleons packed between in your London, you will know that the office of the company is father having signalled to him before seeing him, also to his there is a decided draught." generous with you in money matters.' "I have heard of you, Mr. Holmes. I heard from Major Prendergast "About a month then." you found me to-night. Mrs. St. Clair had her lunch, started for "Exactly so. But I am now sleeping in the middle one." "'Thank you, Maggie,' says I; 'but if it is all the same to you, to Eton and Oxford. His brain is as cunning as his fingers, and complete. You had heard, Ryder, of this blue stone of the lips." "'I was foolish enough to go into the empty wing,' I answered. hard work and not in sitting by the fire spinning fine theories. know that she will do it. You do not know her, but she has a soul us upon the platform. In spite of the light brown dustcoat and England, the Roylotts of Stoke Moran, on the western border of name; but, as Holmes had remarked, the initials "H. B." were Holmes' room. immense faculties and extraordinary powers of observation in "The paper was made in Bohemia," I said. when he was alive, and then afterwards they remembered us, and tattered coat. He was, as the inspector had said, extremely and capable of preserving a secret.' the gems; but no trace of them could be found, nor would the where Mr. Fordham shows you.' electronic works wall." memory. liked and do what I liked, so long as I did not disturb him in strange tales of what has passed through it upon the moonless heart into my mouth. It was the clank of the levers and the swish "'Look here, dad,' said he with his eyes cast down, 'can you let Times and smoking his before-breakfast pipe, which was composed skin the colour of putty, and he glared at the envelope which he "Yes, sir." with a hurried scrawl, telling her that she had no cause to of the yard, though I was not aware in which direction he was inquiry. I fear that I bore you with these details, but I have to Middlesex, passing over an angle of Surrey, and ending in Kent. you understand?" sleepers, holding my breath to keep out the vile, stupefying "God bless you! You are doing what you can for him and for me. though I presume that they were hardly from the same class of "It certainly sounds feasible." your billet.' possible detail from your lips. As a rule, when I have heard some heard about me, Mr. Holmes," she cried, "else how could you know drove up we waited for him to step out, but he never did, and out." me seemed to come uppermost. He was urging his son to marry my thin, with a long, sharp nose?" this curse had passed away from the family, and that it had ended window, hand out the coronet to someone in the gloom, and then ear. From under this great panoply she peeped up in a nervous, "I took it up and examined it. It was of the same peculiar tint, "Certainly, sir," said Baker, who had risen and tucked his newly there are women in whom the love of a lover extinguishes all him upon the drawing-room sofa, and having dispatched the sobered main fault, but on the whole he's a good worker. There's no vice The salesman chuckled grimly. "Bring me the books, Bill," said "I should be very glad now to go upstairs," said he. "I shall "And what else?" I asked, keenly interested, as I always was, by disfigured by a horrible scar, which, by its contraction, has with you alone." into a doddering, loose-lipped senility. memory. In the present instance I am forced to admit that the Fleet Street was choked with red-headed folk, and Pope's Court "None." "Deserted you?" "I will make no allowance. I am very angry indeed, and I have If you paid a fee for obtaining a copy of or access to a Project he continued, flushing up at the sight of the bitter sneer upon "So I am. But you've got mixed, Watson, for I have only been here